Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion Berlin, Germany
Dates	2 August 1936 (heats, quarterfinals) 3 August 1936 (semifinals, final)
Competitors	63 from 30 nations
Winning time	10.3
Medalists
Jesse Owens  United States Ralph Metcalfe  United States Tinus Osendarp  Netherlands

The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, were held at Olympiastadion on 2 and 3 August. The final was won by American Jesse Owens, and teammate Ralph Metcalfe repeated as silver medalist.

Results

Final

Wind: +2.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jesse Owens	United States	10.3
	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.4
	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.5
4	Frank Wykoff	United States	10.6
5	Erich Borchmeyer	Germany	10.7
6	Lennart Strandberg	Sweden	10.9

Key: WR = World record; =OR = Olympic record

Preliminaries

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

  Advance on placement

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lennart Strandberg	Sweden	10.7
2	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.8
3	Manfred Kersch	Germany	10.8
4	Maurice Carlton	France
5	Aristidis Sakellariou	Greece

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chris Berger	Netherlands	10.8
2	Pat Dannaher	South Africa	11.0
3	Bernard Marchand	Switzerland	11.2
4	Antonio Sande	Argentina	11.2
5	Julije Bauer	Yugoslavia	11.5

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	10.8
2	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	10.9
3	Ruudi Toomsalu	Estonia	11.0
4	Antonio Salcedo	Philippines
5	José Domingo Sánchez	Colombia
6	Mohammad Khan	Afghanistan

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary	10.7
2	Monta Suzuki	Japan	10.7
3	Palle Virtanen	Finland	10.9
4	Paul Bronner	France	11.1
5	Antonio Cuba	Peru
6	Elias Gutiérrez	Colombia

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Howard McPhee	Canada	10.8
2	Lennart Lindgren	Sweden	10.8
3	Robert Paul	France	11.0
4	George Fahoum	Egypt
5	Poh Kimseng	Republic of China

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	10.7
2	Gerd Hornberger	Germany	10.7
3	Tomás Beswick	Argentina	10.9
4	Toivo Sariola	Finland
5	Sveinn Ingvarsson	Iceland
6	Oskar Ospelt	Liechtenstein

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.8
2	József Sir	Hungary	10.8
3	Nemesio de Guzman	Philippines	11.1
4	Fritz Seeger	Switzerland

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Erich Borchmeyer	Germany	10.7
2	Bruce Humber	Canada	10.8
3	Gábor Gerő	Hungary	11.3
4	Chen Kingkwan	Republic of China
5	Alfred Bencini	Malta

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Frank Wykoff	United States	10.6
2	Arthur Sweeney	Great Britain	10.7
3	Antonio Fondevilla	Argentina	11.0
4	Toivo Ahjopalo	Finland
5	Oswaldo Domingues	Brazil
6	Xaver Frick	Liechtenstein

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.5
2	Alan Pennington	Great Britain	10.6
3	Lee Orr	Canada	10.6
4	Robert Struckl	Austria
5	Eric Whiteside	India

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	10.7
2	Cyril Holmes	Great Britain	10.8
3	Renos Frangoudis	Greece	10.8
4	François Mersch	Luxembourg	10.9
5	Liu Changchun	Republic of China

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	10.3	=OR
2	Kichizo Sasaki	Japan	11.0
3	José de Almeida	Brazil	11.1
4	Dieudonné Devrindt	Belgium
5	Austin Cassar-Torreggiani	Malta

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lennart Strandberg	Sweden	10.5
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.6
3	Frank Wykoff	United States	10.6
4	Gerd Hornberger	Germany	10.7
5	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary
6	Cyril Holmes	Great Britain

Heat two *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	10.2
2	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	10.6
3	József Sir	Hungary	10.7
4	Takayoshi Yoshioka	Japan	10.8
5	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	10.9
6	Lennart Lindgren	Sweden	11.0

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.5
2	Alan Pennington	Great Britain	10.6
3	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	10.7
4	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa
5	Bruce Humber	Canada
6	Kichizo Sasaki	Japan

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Erich Borchmeyer	Germany	10.5
2	Arthur Sweeney	Great Britain	10.6
3	Howard McPhee	Canada	10.6
4	Monta Suzuki	Japan	10.8
5	Chris Berger	Netherlands	11.0
6	Pat Dannaher	South Africa

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	10.4
2	Frank Wykoff	United States	10.5
3	Lennart Strandberg	Sweden	10.5
4	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	10.7
5	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	10.8
6	Alan Pennington	Great Britain

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ralph Metcalfe	United States	10.5
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	10.6
3	Erich Borchmeyer	Germany	10.7
4	Howard McPhee	Canada	10.7
5	Arthur Sweeney	Great Britain	10.7
6	József Sir	Hungary	10.9

Key: WR = World record; =OR = Olympic record
* Wind assisted, time did not count toward a world or Olympic record.