Winning time 10.14 seconds | ||
Venue Olympiastadion
Munich, West Germany Dates 31 August (heats, quarterfinals)
1 September 1972 (semifinals, final) | ||
The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, was held at Olympiastadion on 31 August and 1 September.
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This event is notable for the absence of Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson for their quarterfinal heats. American sprint coach Stan Wright, apparently working from an outdated schedule and did not have the athletes at the stadium at the correct time. All three qualified American athletes were at the ABC television headquarters known as "Barnathan's Bungalow" watching what they thought were replays of their morning preliminary races. In fact, they were watching live coverage of the races they should have been in. Hart and Robinson, scheduled in the first two races, missed their heats. The athletes rushed to the stadium, Robert Taylor just taking off his warm up uniform before running his later heat.
"These sprinters missed the start-line in their heats! We've handed the 100 to the Russian!"
Final
Heats
The top three runners in each of the nine heats and the next fastest four, advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Heat one
Heat two
Heat three
Heat four *
Heat five
Heat six
Heat seven
Heat eight *
Heat nine
Heat ten
Heat eleven
Heat twelve
Quarterfinals
The top three runners in each of the five heats and the next fastest one, advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
Hart failed to appear due to a scheduling error.
Heat two
Robinson failed to appear due to a scheduling error.
Heat three
Heat four*
Heat five
Semifinals
The top four runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Papageorgopoulos was forced to scratch after he pulled a groin muscle in the quarter-finals.
Heat two
Key: DNF = Did not finish
* Wind assisted