2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 100 metres explained

The Boys' 100 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Nord Lille Métropole on 6 and 7 July.^[1] The event was won by Odail Todd of Jamaica,^[2] who was only drafted into the event after World Youth leader Jazeel Murphy was forced to withdraw due to injury.^[3] Odean Skeen, the 2010 Youth Olympic 100 m champion, also had to withdraw prior to the event.^[4]

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Odail Todd	Kazuma Oseto	Mickaël Zézé

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best		10.23		23 March 2002
				21 June 2007
Championship Record		10.31	Debrecen, Hungary	13 July 2001
World Youth Leading		10.27	Montego Bay, Jamaica	23 April 2011

No new records were set during the competition.

Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 4 fastest times (q) qualified.^[5]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8			10.70	Q
2	3			10.79	Q, PB
3	5			10.90
4	7			10.96
5	4			11.04
6	6			11.05	PB
7	1			11.35
8	2			11.83	PB

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			10.66	Q, PB
2	6			10.77	Q
3	5			10.88	SB
4	8			10.95
5	4			11.06	PB
6	7			11.13
7	3			11.50
8	1			11.54	PB

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			10.79	Q
2	2			11.00	Q
3	6			11.00
4	4			11.04
5	5			11.36
6	1			11.57
7	8			12.23	PB
	7			DNS

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			10.95	Q
2	6			10.96	Q
3	7			10.99
4	3			11.07
5	5			11.42
6	1			11.54
7	8			12.31	PB
8	4			14.19

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			10.73	Q
2	8			10.91	Q
3	4			11.04
4	6			11.13
5	3			11.15
6	2			11.28
7	1			11.44	PB
8	5			12.66	PB

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			10.67	Q
2	5			10.84	Q
3	1			10.92
4	6			11.05
5	8			11.14
6	7			11.24
7	3			11.25
	4			DQ

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			10.78	Q
2	8			10.98	Q
3	6			10.99
4	7			11.08	PB
5	1			11.08	PB
6	3			11.31
7	5			11.32
8	2	Juan Carlos López		11.62

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			10.81	Q
2	2			10.87	Q
3	6			11.01	SB
3	7			11.01
5	4			11.07
6	3			11.31	PB
7	8			11.40
8	5			11.60

Heat 9

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			10.70	Q
2	7			10.89	Q, PB
3	2			10.93
4	3			11.00
5	8			11.22
6	1			11.49
7	5			11.67	PB
8	4			12.03

Heat 10

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			10.60	Q, PB
2	1			10.83	Q
3	2			10.96
4	3			10.98
5	4			10.99	PB
6	7			10.99
7	8			11.45	PB
8	6			11.65

Heat 11

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			10.79	Q
2	3			10.87	Q
3	5			10.94	PB
4	7			11.09
5	8			11.42
6	6			11.60
7	4			11.80	PB
8	2			12.87	PB

Heat 12

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			10.65	Q
2	6			11.03	Q
3	8			11.10
4	2			11.24
5	4			11.35	PB
6	3			11.38
7	5			11.84
	7			DNF

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[6]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			10.83	Q
2	7			10.88	Q
3	3			10.88
4	4			10.94
5	2			11.09
6	8			11.14
7	5			11.15
8	1			11.30

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			10.76	Q
2	4			10.81	Q, PB
3	5			10.84
4	3			10.92
5	7			11.00
6	8			11.00
7	2			11.01
	1			DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			10.67	Q, PB
2	4			10.69	Q
3	6			10.75	q
4	8			10.78	q, PB
5	7			10.89
6	5			10.97
7	2			11.06
8	1			11.15

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5			10.51	PB
	1			10.52
	4			10.57
	8			10.61	PB
	6			10.62
	3			10.63	PB
	2			10.63	PB
	7			10.69

Notes and References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-06-2011/bydate.html iaaf.org - International Association of Athletics Federations
2. Web site: Video: Boy's 100 Final - IAAF World Youth Championships 2011 . RunnerSpace.com . 8 July 2011 .
3. News: Another gold! - Todd lands 100m title at WYC . Paul A. . Reid . Jamaica Observer . 8 July 2011 . 2011-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120805121720/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/Another-gold-Todd-lands-100m-title-at-WYC_9163471 . 2012-08-05 . dead .
4. News: Golden Run! Todd Wins 100m At WYC . Jamaica Gleaner . 8 July 2011 .
5. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-06-2011/sex=M/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=h/results.html#detM_100_hash_h iaaf.org - International Association of Athletics Federations
6. http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-07-2011/sex=M/discCode=100/combCode=hash/roundCode=sf/startlist.html#detM_100_hash_sf iaaf.org - International Association of Athletics Federations