| Final 17:00 | time | L | | 1. Jesse Owens |  United States | 10.3s | 1 | | 2. Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 10.4s | 6 | | 3. Tinus Osendarp |  Netherlands | 10.5s | 4 | | 4. Frank Wykoff | United States | 10.6s | 5 | | 5. Erich Borchmeyer |  Germany | 10.7s | 3 | | 6. Lennart Strandberg |  Sweden | 10.9s | 2 |
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| | | Venue: Olympiastadion, Charlottenburg 100,000. 63 competitors from 30 nations. |
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| | | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final |
| Semi 1 | time | | L | | 1. Jesse Owens | United States | 10.4s | Q | 6 | | 2. Frank Wykoff | United States | 10.5s | Q | 3 | | 3. Lennart Strandberg | Sweden | 10.5s | Q | 2 | | 4. Paul Hänni |  Switzerland | 10.7s | | 4 | | 5. Wil van Beveren | Netherlands | 10.8s | | 1 | | 6. Alan Pennington |  Great Britain | | | 5 |
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| Semi 2 | time | | L | | 1. Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 10.5s | Q | 6 | | 2. Tinus Osendarp | Netherlands | 10.6s | Q | 1 | | 3. Erich Borchmeyer | Germany | 10.7s | Q | 3 | | 4. Howard McPhee |  Canada | 10.7s | | 4 | | 5. Arthur Sweeney | Great Britain | 10.7s | | 5 | | 6. József Sir |  Hungary | 10.9s | | 2 |
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After six world records in one afternoon in 1935, and an undefeated
season in 1936, Jesse Owens was the athlete the Berlin crowd most
wanted to see. In the 12th and final heat, Owens equalled the Olympic
record, and then ran a barely windy 10.2 (2.3) in round 2. All the other
qualifiers had runs of 10.5 prior to the final, with Metcalfe winning the
second semi-final in 10.5 after Owens had run 10.4 in the first race.
In the final Owens started fastest and flowed effortlessly to a 2m
margin by halfway. Metcalfe closed to just over a metre by the finish,
but no final had ever been so dominated against such quality opposi-
tion. Wykoff repeated his fourth place from Amsterdam.
| Quarter 1 | time | | L | | 1. Lennart Strandberg | Sweden | 10.5s | Q | 3 | | 2. Tinus Osendarp | Netherlands | 10.6s | Q | 6 | | 3. Frank Wykoff | United States | 10.6s | Q | 5 | | 4. Gerd Hornberger | Germany | 10.7s | | 1 | | 5. Gyula Gyenes | Hungary | | | 2 | | 6. Cyril Holmes | Great Britain | | | 4 |
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| Quarter 2 | time | | L | | 1. Jesse Owens | United States | 10.2s | Q | 2 | | 2. Paul Hänni | Switzerland | 10.6s | Q | 3 | | 3. József Sir | Hungary | 10.7s | Q | 6 | | 4. Takayoshi Yoshioka |  Japan | 10.8s | | 5 | | 5. Eric Grimbeek |  South Africa | 10.9s | | 1 | | 6. Lennart Lindgren | Sweden | 11.0s | | 4 |
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| Quarter 3 | time | | L | | 1. Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 10.5s | Q | 6 | | 2. Alan Pennington | Great Britain | 10.6s | Q | 1 | | 3. Wil van Beveren | Netherlands | 10.7s | Q | 2 | | 4. Marthinus Theunissen | South Africa | | | 3 | | 5. Bruce Humber | Canada | | | 5 | | 6. Kichizo Sasaki | Japan | | | 4 |
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| Quarter 4 | time | | L | | 1. Erich Borchmeyer | Germany | 10.5s | Q | 4 | | 2. Arthur Sweeney | Great Britain | 10.6s | Q | 5 | | 3. Howard McPhee | Canada | 10.6s | Q | 1 | | 4. Monta Suzuki | Japan | 10.8s | | 2 | | 5. Chris Berger | Netherlands | 11.0s | | 3 | | 6. Pat Dannaher | South Africa | | | 6 |
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Heats - Sunday 02.08 10:30 |
| Heat 1 | time | | | 1. Lennart Strandberg | Sweden | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Takayoshi Yoshioka | Japan | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Manfred Kersch | Germany | 10.8s | | | 4. Maurice Carlton |  France | | | | 5. Aristidis Sakellariou |  Greece | | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Chris Berger | Netherlands | 10.8s | Q | | 2. Pat Dannaher | South Africa | 11.0s | Q | | 3. Bernard Marchand | Switzerland | 11.2s | | | 4. Antonio Sande |  Argentina | 11.2s | | | 5. Julije Bauer |  Yugoslavia | 11.5s | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Wil van Beveren | Netherlands | 10.8s | Q | | 2. Eric Grimbeek | South Africa | 10.9s | Q | | 3. Ruudi Toomsalu |  Estonia | 11.0s | | | 4. Antonio Salcedo |  Philippines | | | | 5. José Domingo Sánchez |  Colombia | | | | 6. Mohammad Khan |  Afghanistan | | |
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| Heat 4 | time | | | 1. Gyula Gyenes | Hungary | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Monta Suzuki | Japan | 10.7s | Q | | 3. Palle Virtanen |  Finland | 10.9s | | | 4. Paul Bronner | France | 11.1s | | | 5. Antonio Cuba |  Peru | | | | 6. Elias Gutiérrez | Colombia | | |
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| Heat 5 | time | | | 1. Howard McPhee | Canada | 10.8s | Q | | 2. Lennart Lindgren | Sweden | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Robert Paul | France | 11.0s | | | 4. George Fahoum |  Egypt | | | | 5. Poh Kimseng |  Rep. China | | |
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| Heat 6 | time | | | 1. Marthinus Theunissen | South Africa | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Gerd Hornberger | Germany | 10.7s | Q | | 3. Tomás Beswick | Argentina | 10.9s | | | 4. Toivo Sariola | Finland | | | | 5. Sveinn Ingvarsson |  Iceland | | | | 6. Oskar Ospelt |  Liechtenstein | | |
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| Heat 7 | time | | | 1. Ralph Metcalfe | United States | 10.8s | Q | | 2. József Sir | Hungary | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Nemesio de Guzman | Philippines | 11.1s | | | 4. Fritz Seeger | Switzerland | | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Erich Borchmeyer | Germany | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Bruce Humber | Canada | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Gerő Gábor | Hungary | 11.3s | | | 4. Chen Kingkwan | Rep. China | | | | 5. Alfred Bencini |  Malta | | |
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| Heat 9 | time | | | 1. Frank Wykoff | United States | 10.6s | Q | | 2. Arthur Sweeney | Great Britain | 10.7s | Q | | 3. Antonio Fondevilla | Argentina | 11.0s | | | 4. Toivo Ahjopalo | Finland | | | | 5. Oswaldo Domingues |  Brazil | | | | 6. Xaver Frick | Liechtenstein | | |
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| Heat 10 | time | | | 1. Tinus Osendarp | Netherlands | 10.5s | Q | | 2. Alan Pennington | Great Britain | 10.6s | Q | | 3. Lee Orr | Canada | 10.6s | | | 4. Robert Struckl |  Austria | | | | 5. Eric Whiteside |  India | | |
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| Heat 11 | time | | | 1. Paul Hänni | Switzerland | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Cyril Holmes | Great Britain | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Renos Frangoudis | Greece | 10.8s | | | 4. François Mersch |  Luxembourg | 10.9s | | | 5. Liu Changchun | Rep. China | | |
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| Heat 12 | time | | | 1. Jesse Owens | United States | 10.3s | Q, OR | | 2. Kichizo Sasaki | Japan | 11.0s | Q | | 3. José de Almeida | Brazil | 11.1s | | | 4. Dieudonné Devrindt |  Belgium | | | | 5. Austin Cassar-Torreggiani | Malta | | |
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