Men's 100 metres European record progression explained

The following table shows the European record progression in the men's 100 metres, as ratified by the European Athletic Association.^{[1] [2]}

Hand timing

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
10.3	Arthur Jonath		Bochum, Germany	5 June 1932
10.3	Chris Berger		Amsterdam, Netherlands	26 August 1934
10.3	Lennart Strandberg		Malmö, Sweden	26 September 1936
10.3	Karl Neckermann	Germany	Berlin, Germany	8 July 1939
10.2	McDonald Bailey		Belgrade, Yugoslavia	25 August 1951
10.2	Heinz Futterer		Yokohama, Japan	31 October 1954
10.2	Manfred Germar		Cologne, West Germany	31 July 1957
10.2	Livio Berruti		Verona, Italy	26 May 1960
10.0	Armin Hary		Zürich, Switzerland	21 June 1960
10.0	Roger Bambuck		Sacramento, United States	20 June 1968
10.0	Vladislav Sapeya		Leninakan, Soviet Union	15 August 1968
10.0	Valeriy Borzov		Kyiv, Soviet Union	18 August 1969
10.0	Gert Metz		Burg-Gretesch, West Germany	6 September 1970
10.0	Manfred Kokot		Erfurt, East Germany	15 May 1971
10.0	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos		Bratislava, Czechoslovakia	3 June 1972
10.0	Pietro Mennea		Milan, Italy	16 June 1972
10.0	Raimo Vilén		Vuosaari, Finland	27 July 1972
10.0	Aleksandr Kornelyuk		Moscow, Soviet Union	10 July 1973
10.0	Michael Droese		Dresden, East Germany	11 July 1973
10.0	Hans-Jurgen Bombach		Dresden, East Germany	20 July 1973
10.0	Siegfried Schenke		Berlin, Germany	29 August 1973
10.0	Manfred Ommer		Leverkusen, West Germany	22 July 1974

Automatic timing

Time	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
10.07	Valeriy Borzov		Munich, West Germany	31 August 1972
10.01	Pietro Mennea		Mexico City, Mexico	14 September 1979
10.00	Marian Woronin		Warsaw, Poland	9 June 1984
9.97	Linford Christie		Seoul, South Korea	24 September 1988
9.92	Linford Christie		Tokyo, Japan	25 August 1991
9.87	Linford Christie		Stuttgart, Germany	15 August 1993
9.86	Francis Obikwelu		Athens, Greece	22 August 2004
	Jimmy Vicaut		Paris, France	4 July 2015
	Jimmy Vicaut		Montreuil, France	7 June 2016
9.84	Marcell Jacobs		Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021
9.80	Marcell Jacobs		Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021

Notes and References

1. https://archive.today/20130226015829/http://athletix.org/?p=1822 Athletix
2. http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=64 European Athletics