Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 8 and 9 September 1979.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mike Roberson United States	Leszek Dunecki Poland	Ainsley Bennett Great Britain

Results

Heats

Held on 8 September^[3]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.7 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s, Heat 5: +0.1 m/s, Heat 6: 0.0 m/s, Heat 7: +0.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mike Roberson	United States	10.08	Q, =UR
2	7	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	10.22	Q
3	7	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.23	Q
4	1	Mel Lattany	United States	10.25	Q
5	3	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.28	Q
6	3	Pascal Barré	France	10.32	Q
6	4	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.32	Q^[4]
8	7	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.33	Q
9	1	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	10.34	Q
10	7	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	10.34	q
11	6	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.35	Q
12	5	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.40	Q^[5]
13	5	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.41	Q
13	7	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	10.41	q, NR
15	5	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.42	Q
16	1	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	10.45	Q
17	4	Gabriel Brothier	France	10.47	Q
18	4	Milton de Castro	Brazil	10.48	Q
19	2	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	10.50	Q
19	6	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	10.50	Q
21	2	Jerzy Brunner	Poland	10.52	Q
22	6	István Nagy	Hungary	10.55	Q
23	1	Frank van Doorn	Canada	10.56	q
24	5	Urs Gisler	Switzerland	10.57
25	6	Tomás González	Cuba	10.58
26	1	Akira Harada	Japan	10.59
27	7	Alfredo Melão	Angola	10.63
28	4	Sory Sangare	Senegal	10.67
28	6	Jean-Pierre Bassegela	Congo	10.67
30	6	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	10.69
31	1	Adille Sumariwalla	India	10.72
31	7	Daniel Biocchi	Canada	10.72
33	7	Víctor Velasco	Mexico	10.78
34	2	Nicos Hadjinicolau	Cyprus	10.80
35	3	Sabidou Touré	Senegal	10.83	Q
35	4	Lucien Ralaivita	Madagascar	10.83
37	3	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	10.84
38	2	Jean-Jacques Randrianasolo	Madagascar	10.89
39	4	Emilio Eva Moss	Guatemala	10.98
40	4	Jesús Aguilasocho	Mexico	10.98
41	3	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia	11.05
41	5	Marco Mautinho	Peru	11.05
43	2	Emmanuel Wiredu	Ghana	11.18
44	3	Cheung Lai Chi	Hong Kong	11.20
45	1	Konlan Martelot	Togo	11.24
46	2	Suleiman Fye	Gambia	11.28
46	3	George Enchill	Ghana	11.28
48	3	Ehsan Salih	Saudi Arabia	11.31
49	6	Marco Luque	Bolivia	11.35
50	1	José Flores	Honduras	11.42
51	4	José Luis Elias	Peru	11.63
52	5	Clifford Maseko	Swaziland	11.75
53	2	Oscar Muñoz	Honduras	11.87
54	5	Mohamed Saleh Al-Balkheer	Saudi Arabia	11.93

Semifinals

Held on 9 September

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s^[3]^[6]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mike Roberson	United States	10.07	Q, UR
2	3	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.21	Q
3	3	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.23	Q
4	1	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.28	Q
4	2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.28	Q
4	3	Mel Lattany	United States	10.28	q
7	1	Pascal Barré	France	10.29	q
8	2	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	10.33	Q
9	3	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.34
10	3	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	10.35
11	2	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.40
12	1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.41	^[4]
13	1	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	10.43
13	3	Milton de Castro	Brazil	10.43	PB
15	1	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	10.44
16	2	Amadou Meïté	Ivory Coast	10.44
17	2	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	10.45
18	1	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	10.46
19	1	István Nagy	Hungary	10.53
20	2	Frank van Doorn	Canada	10.56
21	2	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	10.59
22	2	Gabriel Brothier	France	10.62
23	3	Sabidou Touré	Senegal	10.79
	3	Jerzy Brunner	Poland	?

Final

Held on 9 September^[7]^[8]

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Mike Roberson	United States	10.19
	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.30
	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	10.38
4	Pascal Barré	France	10.40
5	Théophile Nkounkou	Congo	10.41
6	Luciano Caravani	Italy	10.46
7	Mel Lattany	United States	10.50
	Nelson Rocha dos Santos	Brazil	DNS

References

↑ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
↑ Results at Tilastopaja
1 2 [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]
1 2 Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p29)
↑ "Guarducci è in finale" (in Italian). La Stampa. 9 September 1979. p. 21.
↑ "Semifinals results" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 10 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 10 September 1979. p. 20. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ "Final results". The Tampa Tribune. 11 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[1] Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.

[2] Results at Tilastopaja

[Year-3] 1 2 [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]

[URS-4] 1 2 Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p29)

[5] "Guarducci è in finale" (in Italian). La Stampa. 9 September 1979. p. 21.

[6] "Semifinals results" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 10 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[7] "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 10 September 1979. p. 20. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[8] "Final results". The Tampa Tribune. 11 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

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