| Final | time | L | React. | | 1. Donovan Bailey |  Canada | 9.84s | 6 | 0.174 | | 2. Frank Fredericks |  Namibia | 9.89s | 5 | 0.143 | | 3. Ato Boldon |  Trinidad Tobago | 9.90s | 3 | 0.164 | | 4. Dennis Mitchell |  United States | 9.99s | 4 | 0.145 | | 5. Michael Marsh | United States | 10.00s | 1 | 0.147 | | 6. Davidson Ezinwa |  Nigeria | 10.14s | 7 | 0.157 | | 7. Michael Green |  Jamaica | 10.16s | 8 | 0.169 | | -. Linford Christie |  Great Britain | DQ 162.7 | 2 | 0.089 |
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Reigning Champion Christie, together with World Champion Bailey,
US Champion and three-time Olympian Dennis Mitchell, NCAA
champion Boldon and Fredericks (twice under 9.90 in the month prior
to the Games) were all gold medal contenders. Davidson Ezinwa was
the fastest heat winner with 10.03, and Boldon ran the fastest quarter-
final ever (9.95) which lasted until Fredericks ran 9.93. Fredericks won
the first semi in 9.94, and Boldon won the second, also in 9.94, with
Bailey and Mitchell the runners-up, both in 10.00.
Christie and Boldon false-started in the final, before another false
start was called – with Christie the ejected culprit. Finally, the depleted
field got away at the fourth time of asking, with Fredericks quickest
(0.143) and Bailey last (0.174). Mitchell was the early leader, but
Boldon took over at 25m and held the lead until 15m from the finish.
At that point Bailey, who had started an astounding mid-race surge
measured at 42.85 kilometres per hour, swept by and won by half a
metre from Fredericks who just got by Boldon in the last 5m.
| Semi 1 | time | L | | 1. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 9.94s | 5 | | 2. Donovan Bailey | CAN | 10.00s | 3 | | 3. Michael Marsh | USA | 10.08s | 6 | | 4. Michael Green | JAM | 10.11s | 4 | | 5. Nobuharu Asahara |  JPN | 10.16s | 1 | | 6. Obadele Thompson |  BAR | 10.16s | 8 | | 7. Emmanuel Tuffuor |  GHA | 10.22s | 2 | | 8. Anninos Markoullides |  CYP | 10.36s | 7 |
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| Semi 2 | time | L | | 1. Ato Boldon | TRI | 9.93s | 3 | | 2. Dennis Mitchell | USA | 10.00s | 5 | | 3. Linford Christie | GBR | 10.04s | 6 | | 4. Davidson Ezinwa | NGR | 10.04s | 4 | | 5. Bruny Surin | CAN | 10.13s | 1 | | 6. Jon Drummond | USA | 10.16s | 2 | | 7. Eric Nkansah | GHA | 10.26s | 8 | | -. Ian Mackie | GBR | DNS | 7 |
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| Quarter 1 | time | L | | 1. Ato Boldon | TRI | 9.95s | 5 | | 2. Nobuharu Asahara | JPN | 10.19s | 3 | | 3. Eric Nkansah | GHA | 10.24s | 6 | | 4. Deji Aliu | NGR | 10.26s | 4 | | 5. Glenroy Gilbert | CAN | 10.28s | 7 | | 6. Marc Blume |  GER | 10.33s | 8 | | 7. Andrey Fedoriv |  RUS | 10.34s | 1 | | 8. Gus Nketia |  NZL | 10.35s | 2 |
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| Quarter 2 | time | L | | 1. Linford Christie | GBR | 10.03s | 6 | | 2. Donovan Bailey | CAN | 10.05s | 5 | | 3. Jon Drummond | USA | 10.17s | 3 | | 4. Emmanuel Tuffour | GHA | 10.18s | 4 | | 5. Erik Wymeersch |  BEL | 10.37s | 2 | | 6. Olapade Adeniken | NGR | 10.38s | 7 | | 7. Needy Guims |  FRA | 10.43s | 8 | | 8. Ezio Madonia |  ITA | 10.43s | 1 |
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| Quarter 3 | time | L | | 1. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 9.93s | 5 | | 2. Davidson Ezinwa | NGR | 10.08s | 3 | | 3. Obadele Thompson | BAR | 10.14s | 4 | | 4. Raymond Stewart | JAM | 10.18s | 8 | | 5. Peter Karlsson |  SWE | 10.24s | 7 | | 6. Darren Braithwaite | GBR | 10.27s | 6 | | 7. Wenzhong Chen |  CHN | 10.29s | 2 | | 8. Ousmane Diarra |  MLI | 10.38s | 1 |
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| Quarter 4 | time | L | | 1. Dennis Mitchell | USA | 10.09s | 6 | | 2. Michael Green | JAM | 10.11s | 3 | | 3. Anninos Markoullides | CYP | 10.23s | 4 | | 4. Patrick Stevens | BEL | 10.31s | 5 | | 5. Kim Collins |  SKN | 10.34s | 2 | | 6. Pascal Theophile | FRA | 10.38s | 1 | | 7. Serhiy Osovych |  UKR | 10.38s | 7 | | 8. Kirk Cummins | BAR | 10.45s | 8 |
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| Quarter 5 | time | L | | 1. Michael Marsh | USA | 10.04s | 6 | | 2. Bruny Surin | CAN | 10.13s | 4 | | 3. Ian Mackie | GBR | 10.25s | 5 | | 4. Andre Silva |  BRA | 10.26s | 3 | | 5. Alexandros Yenovelis |  GRE | 10.31s | 2 | | 6. Venancio Jose |  ESP | 10.46s | 1 | | 7. Kostya Rurak | UKR | 10.47s | 7 | | 8. Yiannis Zisimides | CYP | 10.47s | 8 |
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| Heat 1 | time | L | | 1. Emmanuel Tuffour | GHA | 10.15s | 6 | | 2. Bruny Surin | CAN | 10.18s | 5 | | 3. Andrey Fedoriv | RUS | 10.39s | 2 | | 4. Renward Wells |  BAH | 10.48s | 1 | | 5. Chinthaka De Soyza |  SRI | 10.55s | 3 | | 6. Luis Cunha |  POR | 10.65s | 7 | | 7. Patrick Mocci Raoumbe |  GAB | 10.87s | 9 | | 8. Nordine Ould Menira |  MTN | 10.95s | 8 | | 9. Bonifacio Edu |  GEQ | 11.87 | 4 |
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| Heat 2 | time | L | | 1. Davidson Ezinwa | NGR | 10.03s | 1 | | 2. Jon Drummond | USA | 10.08s | 2 | | 3. Erik Wymeersch | BEL | 10.24s | 9 | | 4. Leon Gordon | JAM | 10.48s | 5 | | 5. Stefan Burkart |  SUI | 10.49s | 6 | | 6. Barnabe Jolicoeur |  MRI | 10.57s | 7 | | 7. Bimal Tarafdar |  BAN | 10.98s | 4 | | 8. Abdul Ghafoor |  AFG | 12.20s | 3 | | -. Andrew Tynes | BAH | DNS | 8 |
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| Heat 3 | time | L | | 1. Ato Boldon | TRI | 10.06s | 5 | | 2. Anninos Markoullides | CYP | 10.26s | 7 | | 3. Kim Collins | SKN | 10.27s | 2 | | 4. Gus Nketia | NZL | 10.34s | 8 | | 5. Raymond Stewart | JAM | 10.38s | 4 | | 6. Stefano Tilli | ITA | 10.38s | 9 | | 7. Jamal Al-saffar |  KSA | 10.44s | 6 | | 8. Amarildo Almeida |  GBS | 10.85s | 3 | | 9. Mohamed Bacar |  COM | 11.02s | 1 |
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| Heat 4 | time | L | | 1. Michael Green | JAM | 10.16s | 7 | | 2. Patrick Stevens | BEL | 10.21s | 9 | | 3. Serhiy Osovych | UKR | 10.29s | 8 | | 4. Ezio Madonia | ITA | 10.33s | 1 | | 5. Edson Ribeiro | BRA | 10.39s | 2 | | 6. Chris Donaldson | NZL | 10.39s | 3 | | 7. Patrik Strenius | SWE | 10.48s | 5 | | 8. Tolutau Koula |  TGA | 10.71s | 4 | | 9. Vladislav Chernobay |  KGZ | 10.88s | 6 |
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| Heat 5 | time | L | | 1. Deji Aliu | NGR | 10.34s | 2 | | 2. Ousmane Diarra | MLI | 10.34s | 8 | | 3. Wenzhong Chen | CHN | 10.37s | 3 | | 4. Manuel Borrega | ESP | 10.52s | 6 | | 5. Hiroyasu Tsuchie | JPN | 10.58s | 7 | | 6. Ruben Benitez |  ESA | 10.74s | 9 | | 7. Vitaliy Medvedev |  KAZ | 10.90s | 1 | | 8. Mitchell Peters |  ISV | 11.12s | 4 | | 9. Boureima Kimba |  NIG | 11.24s | 5 |
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| Heat 6 | time | L | | 1. Dennis Mitchell | USA | 10.24s | 4 | | 2. Ian Mackie | GBR | 10.27s | 7 | | 3. Marc Blume | GER | 10.33s | 3 | | 4. Alexandros Terzian | GRE | 10.48s | 9 | | 5. Franck Amegnigan |  TOG | 10.51s | 1 | | 6. Rod Mapstone |  AUS | 10.56s | 6 | | 7. Sayon Cooper |  LBR | 10.58s | 8 | | 8. Pa Modou GAI |  GAM | 10.72s | 2 | | 9. Jorge Castellon |  BOL | 10.74s | 5 |
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| Heat 7 | time | L | | 1. Obadele Thompson | BAR | 10.33s | 1 | | 2. Kostya Rurak | UKR | 10.37s | 5 | | 3. Pascal Theophile | FRA | 10.41s | 9 | | 4. Carlos Gats |  ARG | 10.57s | 2 | | 5. Joel Mascoll |  VIN | 10.64s | 3 | | 6. Anvar Kuchmuradov |  UZB | 10.71s | 6 | | 7. Arif Akhundov |  AZE | 11.11s | 4 | | 8. Khaled Othman |  LBA | 11.65s | 8 | | 9. Jean-olivier Zirignon |  CIV | 22.69s | 7 |
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| Heat 8 | time | L | | 1. Michael Marsh | USA | 10.14s | 7 | | 2. Darren Braithwaite | GBR | 10.29s | 8 | | 3. Kirk Cummins | BAR | 10.47s | 9 | | 4. Torbjorn Eriksson | SWE | 10.49s | 5 | | 5. Paul Henderson | AUS | 10.52s | 6 | | 6. Alberto Mendez |  DOM | 10.60s | 3 | | 7. Arnaldo Silva | BRA | 10.62s | 2 | | 8. Mario Bonello |  MLT | 10.89s | 1 | | 9. Odair da Costa |  STP | 11.05s | 4 |
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| Heat 9 | time | L | | 1. Andre Silva | BRA | 10.25s | 8 | | 2. Linford Christie | GBR | 10.26s | 5 | | 3. Yiannis Zisimides | CYP | 10.32s | 6 | | 4. Venancio Jose | ESP | 10.34s | 1 | | 5. Hamed Douhou | CIV | 10.53s | 9 | | 6. Robert Dennis | LBR | 10.65s | 7 | | 7. Donald Onchiri |  KEN | 10.66s | 2 | | 8. Sun-kuk Jin |  KOR | 10.73s | 3 | | 9. Peter Pulu |  PNG | 10.76s | 4 |
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| Heat 10 | time | L | | 1. Eric Nkansah | GHA | 10.26s | 5 | | 2. Needy Guims | FRA | 10.39s | 2 | | 3. Olapade Adeniken | NGR | 10.41s | 1 | | 4. Jone Delai |  FIJ | 10.42s | 7 | | 5. Vitaliy Savin | KAZ | 10.52s | 8 | | 6. Watson Nyambek |  MAS | 10.55s | 9 | | 7. Neil Ryan |  IRL | 10.78s | 6 | | 8. Javier Verne |  PER | 10.91s | 3 | | 9. Van Lam Hai |  VIE | 11.14s | 4 |
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| Heat 11 | time | L | | 1. Donovan Bailey | CAN | 10.24s | 3 | | 2. Nobuharu Asahara | JPN | 10.28s | 1 | | 3. Peter Karlsson | SWE | 10.35s | 2 | | 4. Sanusi Turay |  SLE | 10.39s | 6 | | 5. Sergejs Insakovs |  LAT | 10.42s | 9 | | 6. Haralambos Papadias | GRE | 10.46s | 8 | | 7. Hsin-ping Huang |  TPE | 10.70s | 7 | | 8. Eric Agueh |  BEN | 10.98s | 4 | | -. Alfayaya Embalo |  CPV | DNS | 5 |
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| Heat 12 | time | L | | 1. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 10.32s | 4 | | 2. Glenroy Gilbert | CAN | 10.34s | 1 | | 3. Alexandros Yenovelis | GRE | 10.39s | 3 | | 4. Frutos Feo | ESP | 10.56s | 6 | | 5. Benjamin Sirimou |  CMR | 10.58s | 8 | | 6. Hamed Sadeq |  KUW | 10.81s | 7 | | 7. Devon Bean |  BER | 10.89s | 9 | | 8. Robert Loua |  GUI | 11.21s | 5 | | 9. Mark Sherwin |  COK | 11.41s | 2 |
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