2018 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 August. Churandy Martina of the Netherlands was the defending champion, Jak Ali Harvey of Turkey was the defending silver medalist, and Jimmy Vicaut of France was the defending bronze medalist.

Men's 100 metres
at the 2018 European Athletics Championships
VenueOlympic Stadium
LocationBerlin
Dates
  • August 6 (round 1)
  • August 7 (semifinals & final)
Competitors48 from 20 nations
Winning time9.95
Medalists
gold medal    Great Britain
silver medal    Great Britain
bronze medal    Turkey
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Records edit

Standing records prior to the 2018 European Athletics Championships
World record   Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58 Berlin, Germany 16 August 2009
European record   Francis Obikwelu (POR) 9.86 Athens, Greece 22 August 2004
Championship record   Francis Obikwelu (POR) 9.99 Gothenburg, Sweden 8 August 2006
World Leading   Noah Lyles (USA) 9.88 Des Moines, Iowa, United States 22 June 2018
European Leading   Zharnel Hughes (GBR) 9.91 Kingston, Jamaica 9 June 2018
Broken records during the 2018 European Athletics Championships
Championship record   Jimmy Vicaut (FRA) 9.97 Berlin, Germany 7 August 2018
Championship record   Zharnel Hughes (GBR) 9.95 Berlin, Germany 7 August 2018

Schedule edit

Date Time Round
6 August 2018 18:30 Round 1
7 August 2018 21:30 Semifinals
7 August 2018 23:50 Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Competition format edit

The top eight ranked athletes by time during the season who entered the championships were given a BYE into the Semi-Finals. The first round was held on Monday, August 6. The Semi-Finals were held the day after, and the Final just over two hours after that.

Results edit

Round 1 edit

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 5 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 7 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.[2]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -0.3 m/s, Heat 5: +0.4 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Note
1 1 2 Churandy Martina   Netherlands 10.24 Q
2 5 4 Silvan Wicki    Switzerland 10.28 Q
3 3 1 Alex Wilson    Switzerland 10.32 Q
4 1 8 Ján Volko   Slovakia 10.32 Q
5 2 5 Yazaldes Nascimento   Portugal 10.33 Q
6 5 8 Carlos Nascimento   Portugal 10.33 Q
7 5 6 Hensley Paulina   Netherlands 10.34 q
8 3 3 Christopher Garia   Netherlands 10.35 Q
9 4 7 Jonathan Quarcoo   Norway 10.37 Q
10 1 6 Dominik Kopeć   Poland 10.37 q
11 2 6 Julian Reus   Germany 10.37 Q
12 3 4 José Lopes   Portugal 10.38 q
13 5 7 Federico Cattaneo   Italy 10.39 q
14 3 8 Zdeněk Stromšík   Czech Republic 10.39 q
15 5 2 Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu   Turkey 10.40
16 3 6 Kevin Kranz   Germany 10.41
17 4 4 Lucas Jakubczyk   Germany 10.41 Q
18 5 5 Oleksandr Sokolov   Ukraine 10.43
19 2 8 Ioánnis Nifadópoulos   Greece 10.44
19 3 7 Remigiusz Olszewski   Poland 10.44
21 1 4 Denis Dimitrov   Bulgaria 10.45
22 4 6 Marvin René   France 10.47
23 4 8 Dennis Leal   Sweden 10.51
24 2 1 Aitor Same Ekobo   Spain 10.51
25 2 7 Jan Veleba   Czech Republic 10.52
26 4 5 Joris van Gool   Netherlands 10.52
27 3 2 Šimon Bujna   Slovakia 10.53
28 2 2 Przemysław Słowikowski   Poland 10.54
29 4 1 Patrick Chinedu Ike   Spain 10.54
30 1 7 Ángel David Rodríguez   Spain 10.55
31 4 3 Dominik Záleský   Czech Republic 10.55
32 4 2 Ionuț Andrei Neagoe   Romania 10.56
33 2 3 Florian Clivaz    Switzerland 10.57
34 1 1 Markus Fuchs   Austria 10.57
35 2 4 Henrik Larsson   Sweden 10.62
36 5 3 Dániel Szabó   Hungary 10.64
37 1 5 Erik Hagberg   Sweden 10.69
38 3 5 Petar Peev   Bulgaria 10.75
39 1 3 Ioan Andrei Melnicescu   Romania 10.88

Semifinals edit

First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.[3]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Note
1 1 4 Jimmy Vicaut*   France 9.97 Q, CR
2 2 5 Zharnel Hughes*   Great Britain 10.01 Q
3 2 3 Jak Ali Harvey*   Turkey 10.09 Q
4 1 6 Reece Prescod*   Great Britain 10.10 Q
5 3 4 Filippo Tortu*   Italy 10.12 Q
6 3 5 Chijindu Ujah*   Great Britain 10.14 Q
7 1 8 Churandy Martina   Netherlands 10.18 q, SB
8 1 5 Emre Zafer Barnes*   Turkey 10.21 q
9 2 2 Yazaldes Nascimento   Portugal 10.22 SB
10 3 3 Alex Wilson    Switzerland 10.22 SB
11 2 4 Marcell Jacobs*   Italy 10.28
12 1 1 Dominik Kopeć   Poland 10.29
13 2 6 Ján Volko   Slovakia 10.31
14 1 3 Carlos Nascimento   Portugal 10.31
15 3 1 Christopher Garia   Netherlands 10.31
16 2 8 Lucas Jakubczyk   Germany 10.32
17 2 7 Zdeněk Stromšík   Czech Republic 10.37
18 3 7 Julian Reus   Germany 10.37
19 2 1 Hensley Paulina   Netherlands 10.38
20 1 2 Federico Cattaneo   Italy 10.39
21 3 2 José Lopes   Portugal 10.40
22 3 8 Jonathan Quarcoo   Norway 10.45
23 1 7 Silvan Wicki    Switzerland 10.49
24 3 6 Amaury Golitin*   France 10.55

*Athletes who received a bye to the semifinals[4]

Final edit

Wind: 0.0 m/s[5]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Note
  5 Zharnel Hughes   Great Britain 9.95 CR
  7 Reece Prescod   Great Britain 9.96 =NU23R
  3 Jak Ali Harvey   Turkey 10.01
4 8 Chijindu Ujah   Great Britain 10.06 SB
5 6 Filippo Tortu   Italy 10.08
6 2 Churandy Martina   Netherlands 10.16 SB
7 1 Emre Zafer Barnes   Turkey 10.29
4 Jimmy Vicaut   France DNS

References edit

  1. ^ cancelled due to COVID-19
  2. ^ "Round 1 results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  3. ^ "Semifinals results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  4. ^ List of directly qualified athletes in Semi-Finals
  5. ^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2018-08-08.