Men 100m World Championship 2003 Paris, France - Monday 25.08 - Gold Medal: Kim Collins, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Men 100m World Championship 2003 Paris, France - Monday 25.08 - Gold Medal: Kim Collins, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Final 22:10		time	L
1. Kim Collins	SKN	10.07s	1
2. Darrel Brown	TRI	10.08s	4
3. Darren Campbell	GBR	10.08s	7
4. Tim Montgomery	USA	10.11s	6
5. Bernard Williams	USA	10.13s	3
6. Deji Aliu	NGR	10.21s	2
7. Uchenna Emedolu	NGR	10.22s	8
DQ Dwain Chambers	GBR	10.08s	5

Round	H	Athl.	date
Semi-Finals	2	16	25.08
Quarter-Finals	5	40	24.08
Heats	10	79	24.08

Kim Collins was a popular albeit narrow winner from the inside lane. It was the closest finish yet to a major 100m, with just 11 thousandths covering the first three. Yet the three US Edmonton medallists were not factors. Maurice Greene placed eighth in his semi, injured, while Montgomery and Williams placed fourth and fifth in the final. Silver medallist Brown had broken the world junior record in the third heat of the second round, but that stage of the contest was overshadowed by the antics of Jon Drummond.
At the 2001 IAAF Congress, a rule change was approved which meant that any athlete causing a second false start would be automatically disqualified. The new rule was applied from January 1, 2003 with the desired effect of generally reducing the number of false starts. Paris was the first World Championships with the new ruling, and it was followed smoothly in the first round. One by one, three men were disqualified and each was escorted from the track to sympathetic applause.
In the second of the quarter-finals, there was an initial false start by Dwight Thomas of Jamaica. A yellow card was then shown to all eight starters as a warning that a further false start would result in disqualification. The recall gun went off again and this time a red card was shown to both Drummond (reaction 0.052 compared with the allowable threshold of 0.1) and Asafa Powell (0.086). Replays did appear to show that Drummond’s foot twitched in the blocks, but he did not accept his fate. While Powell waited in hope behind the start, the 34 year-old American – a relay gold medallist in 1993 and 1999 – remonstrated with judges, strirred up the crowd and lay down on the track. Even when he did leave the arena, it proved impossible to start the race because of crowd noise in reaction to the affair. The heat was eventually staged after the third and fourth quarter-finals, around 55 minutes late. Later, Drummond was disqualified from the entire championships “for behaviour likely to bring the sport into disrepute”.
There was a further unwanted footnote. Dwain Chambers – the Seville bronze medallist – was disqualified in retrospect after it was found that he had committed a doping violation on August 1. He had originally been part of the blanket finish, placing fourth, just three thousandths behind Campbell. Two years later, Tim Mongomery’s disqualification was also confirmed (see report of the 2001 100m). He had originally placed fifth.

Semi-Finals - Monday 25.08

Semi 1 19.35h		time	L
1. Bernard Williams	USA	10.11s	6
2. Tim Montgomery	USA	10.14s	4
3. Uchenna Emedolu	NGR	10.15s	5
4. Kim Collins	SKN	10.16s	3
5. Nicolas Macrozonaris	CAN	10.27s	1
6. Eric Nkansah	GHA	10.39s	2
7. Nobuharu Asahara	JPN	10.42s	7
8. Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR	10.44s	8

Semi 2 19.40h		time	L
1. Darrel Brown	TRI	10.11s	5
2. Darren Campbell	GBR	10.12s	6
3. Deji Aliu	NGR	10.14s	8
4. Dwight Thomas	JAM	10.19s	1
5. Ato Boldon	TRI	10.22s	3
6. Ronald Pognon	FRA	10.25s	2
7. Maurice Greene	USA	10.37s	7
8. Sherwin Vries	RSA	10.41s	9
-. Dwain Chambers	GBR	DQ	4

Quarter-Finals - Sunday 24.08

Quarter 1 18.00h		time	L
1. Tim Montgomery	USA	10.04s	4
2. Bernard Williams	USA	10.12s	6
3. Sherwin Vries	RSA	10.18s	5
4. Nobuharu Asahara	JPN	10.23s	8
5. Issa-Aime Nthepe	FRA	10.25s	1
6. Leonard Myles-Mills	GHA	10.25s	7
7. Matthew Shirvington	AUS	10.28s	3
8. Gabor Dobos	HUN	10.34s	2

Quarter 2 18.07h		time	L
1. Ato Boldon	TRI	10.09s	8
2. Uchenna Emedolu	NGR	10.13s	1
3. Nicolas Macrozonaris	CAN	10.16s	7
4. Ronald Pognon	FRA	10.23s	2
4. Dwight Thomas	JAM	10.23s	3
6. Patrick Johnson	AUS	10.27s	6
-. Jon Drummond	USA	DQ	4
-. Asafa Powell	JAM	DQ	5

Quarter 3 18.14h		time	L
1. Darrel Brown	TRI	10.01s	6
2. Darren Campbell	GBR	10.14s	5
3. Eric Nkansah	GHA	10.15s	3
4. Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR	10.18s	2
5. Yeoryios Theodoridis	GRE	10.25s	4
6. Michael Frater	JAM	10.25s	7
7. Matic Osovnikar	SLO	10.35s	8
8. Gennadiy Chernovol	KAZ	10.42s	1

Quarter 4 18.21h		time	L
1. Kim Collins	SKN	10.02s	3
2. Maurice Greene	USA	10.04s	5
3. Deji Aliu	NGR	10.04s	6
4. Obadele Thompson	BAR	10.14s	4
5. EdsonLuciano Ribeiro	BRA	10.28s	8
6. Haijian Chen	CHN	10.32s	1
7. Roland Nemeth	HUN	10.40s	2
-. Dwain Chambers	GBR	DQ	7

Heats - Sunday 24.08

Heat 1 15.30h		time	L
1. Obadele Thompson	BAR	10.15s	7
2. Yeoryios Theodoridis	GRE	10.17s	4
3. Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR	10.17s	2
4. Jarbas Mascarenhas	BRA	10.36s	5
5. Darren Gilford	MLT	10.60s	3
6. Abubaker El Tawerghi	LBA	10.96s	8
7. Hadhari Djaffar	COM	11.05s	6
-. Roman Cress	MSH	DNS	1

Heat 2 15.37h		time	L
1. Bernard Williams	USA	10.19s	4
2. Sherwin Vries	RSA	10.20s	3
3. Gabor Dobos	HUN	10.22s	5
4. Nobuharu Asahara	JPN	10.23s	2
5. Souhalia Alamou	BEN	10.46s	1
6. Khalil Al-Hanahneh	JOR	10.81s	8
7. Patrick Mocci Raoumbe	GAB	11.03s	6
-. Vahagn Javakhyan	ARM	DQ	7

Heat 3 15.44h		time	L
1. Patrick Johnson	AUS	10.29s	8
2. Michael Frater	JAM	10.32s	5
3. Gennadiy Chernovol	KAZ	10.33s	6
4. Alexander Kosenkow	GER	10.36s	2
5. Idrissa Sanou	BUR	10.42s	7
-. Mohamad Tamim	LIB	DQ	4
-. Machave Maseko	SWZ	DQ	3

Heat 4 15.51h		time	L
1. Darren Campbell	GBR	10.18s	6
2. Nicolas Macrozonaris	CAN	10.23s	4
3. Haijian Chen	CHN	10.31s	5
4. Kostyantyn Rurak	UKR	10.46s	7
5. Markus Poyhonen	FIN	10.63s	8
6. Gian Nicola Berardi	SMR	10.84s	3
7. Reginaldo Micha Ndong	GEQ	11.47s	1
8. Bahadur Basnet Devi	NEP	11.47s	2

Heat 5 15.58h		time	L
1. Tim Montgomery	USA	10.07s	2
2. Darrel Brown	TRI	10.10s	7
3. Edson Luciano Ribeiro	BRA	10.20s	4
4. Suryo Agung Wibowo	INA	10.64s	8
5. Sayon Cooper	LBR	10.67s	1
6. JJ Capelle	NRU	11.49s	5
7. Kaewanteiti Mwatiera	KIR	11.86s	6
-. Jamal Abd. Al-Saffar	KSA	DNS	3

Heat 6 16.05h		time	L
1. Jon Drummond	USA	10.22s	6
2. Issa-Aime Nthepe	FRA	10.30s	2
3. Matic Osovnikar	SLO	10.31s	1
4. Aziz Zakari	GHA	10.48s	8
5. Hung ChiangWai	HKG	10.70s	5
6. Arben Makaj	ALB	10.87s	7
7. Djikoloum Mobele	CHA	11.38s	4
8. Assad Ahmadi	AFG	11.99s	3

Heat 7 16.12h		time	L
1. Matthew Shirvington	AUS	10.30s	6
2. Roland Nemeth	HUN	10.37s	1
3. Prodromos Katsantonis	CYP	10.46s	3
4. Salem Mubarak Al-Yami	KSA	10.51s	2
5. Serge Bengono	CMR	10.56s	5
6. John Howard	FSM	11.08s	4
7. Nay Aung	MYA	11.37s	8
-. Dwain Chambers	GBR	DQ	7

Heat 8 16.19h		time	L
1. Eric Nkansah	GHA	10.18s	2
2. Maurice Greene	USA	10.18s	3
3. Uchenna Emedolu	NGR	10.22s	7
4. Marc Burns	TRI	10.28s	4
5. Churandy Martina	AHO	10.35s	1
6. Xuan Tran Van	VIE	10.78s	5
7. Yusof Alias Mohd	SIN	11.02s	6
8. Mohammad Shamsuddin	BAN	11.18s	8

Heat 9 16.26h		time	L
1. Asafa Powell	JAM	10.05s	3
2. Kim Collins	SKN	10.09s	5
3. Leonard Myles-Mills	GHA	10.25s	2
4. Anson Henry	CAN	10.33s	1
5. EricPacome N'Dri	CIV	10.38s	7
6. Aaron Egbele	NGR	10.43s	8
7. Andre Blackman	GUY	10.86s	4
8. Zoran Josifovski	MKD	11.63s	6

Heat 10 16.33h		time	L
1. Deji Aliu	NGR	10.19s	4
2. Dwight Thomas	JAM	10.22s	8
3. Ato Boldon	TRI	10.23s	3
4. Ronald Pognon	FRA	10.26s	1
5. Roger Angouono-Moke	CGO	10.50s	5
6. Sebastien Gattuso	MON	10.94s	2
7. Jason Molisingi	VAN	11.20s	7
8. Somphavanh Somchanmavong	LAO	11.43s	6