Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metres explained

Event:	Men's 100 metres
Games:	2010
Dates:	6-7 October
Win Value:	10.12
Gold:	Lerone Clarke
Goldcga:	JAM
Silver:	Mark Lewis-Francis
Silvercga:	ENG
Bronze:	Aaron Armstrong
Bronzecga:	TRI
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

The Men's 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday 6 October and Thursday 7 October 2010.

The top three runners in each of the initial eight heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next eight fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. Those 32 runners competed in 4 heats in the second round, with the top four runners from each heat qualifying for the semifinals. There were two semifinals, and only the top three from each heat advanced to the final and the two fastest runners.

Records

World Record	9.58	Usain Bolt	JAM	Berlin, Germany	16 August 2009
Games Record	9.88	Ato Boldon	TRI	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	17 September 1998

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	5	0.150	10.15	,
2	2	0.123	10.19	,
3	6	0.172	10.37
4	4	0.187	10.55	, =
5	7	0.172	10.63
6	8	0.163	10.69
7	9	0.222	10.71
8	3	0.180	10.88

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result
1	9	0.173	10.40
2	2	0.163	10.42
3	3	0.185	10.45
4	5	0.167	10.59
5	6	0.188	10.73
6	4	0.198	10.82
7	8	0.219	11.20
8	7	0.263	11.58

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result
1	4	0.162	10.29
2	6	0.156	10.45
3	3	0.178	10.56
4	2	0.177	10.87
5	8	0.211	11.01
6	7	0.234	11.30
7	9	0.174	11.48
	5	–

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	9	0.192	10.36
2	5	0.189	10.48
3	4	0.210	10.71	,
4	6	0.147	10.80
5	3	0.190	10.87
6	7	0.207	10.92
7	2	0.198	11.91
8	8	0.204	11.98

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	9		10.30
2	7		10.66	,
3	3		10.66
4	6		10.99
5	5		11.06
6	2		11.43
7	8		11.70
	4	–

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	5	0.170	10.28
2	6	0.178	10.46
3	8	0.203	10.60
4	4	0.178	10.65	,
5	7	0.166	10.99
6	2	0.188	11.05
7	3	0.178	11.28
8	9	0.179	11.44

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	9	0.184	10.21	,
2	2	0.183	10.28
3	6	0.170	10.41	,
4	4	0.164	10.69
5	7	0.165	10.81
6	3	0.187	10.87
7	5	0.160	11.22
	8	0.215

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	7	0.189	10.35
2	8	0.169	10.42	,
3	3	0.162	10.45
4	2	0.156	10.58	,
5	4	0.152	10.61
6	5	0.232	10.70
7	6	0.189	10.95
8	9	0.193	11.19

Round 2

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	7	0.156	10.20
2	9	0.202	10.27
3	5	0.161	10.30
4	6	0.180	10.30	, =
5	3	0.158	10.59
6	8	0.196	10.68
7	4	0.167	10.75
	2

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	4	0.166	10.12
2	5	0.190	10.15
3	6	0.201	10.21	, =
4	7	0.181	10.31	,
5	2	0.136	10.45
6	9	0.200	10.47
7	3	0.122	10.65
8	8	0.203	11.88

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result
1	7	0.159	10.13
2	4	0.177	10.18
3	6	0.187	10.40
4	8	0.162	10.40
5	5	0.162	10.47
6	9	0.159	10.50
7	2	0.157	10.55
8	3	0.195	10.64

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	7	0.156	10.19
2	5	0.164	10.23
3	4	0.151	10.29
4	6	0.172	10.39	,
5	9	0.196	10.56
6	8	0.175	10.62
7	3	0.178	10.63
8	2	0.174	10.63

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	7	0.169	10.14	,
2	6	0.176	10.14
3	9	0.165	10.29
4	4	0.149	10.31
5	5	0.212	10.32
6	8	0.148	10.35
7	3	0.182	10.40
8	2	0.257	10.48

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result	Notes
1	5	0.140	10.14	, =
2	4	0.168	10.16
3	7	0.151	10.17
4	6	0.159	10.20
5	9	0.182	10.22
6	2	0.182	10.53
7	3	0.169	10.67
–	8	–	–

Final

Rank	Lane	Reaction Time	Result
	7	0.165	10.12
	8	0.148	10.20
	5	0.158	10.24
4	4	0.196	10.25
5	9	0.180	10.30
6	3	0.182	10.31
7	6	0.171	10.37
–	2	–	–

External links

2010 Commonwealth Games - Athletics