2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 20 August 2023.^[1]

Men's 100 metres at the 2023 World Championships
Semi-final of the event
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	19 August (preliminary round & heats) 20 August (semi-final & final)
Competitors	75 from 57 nations
Winning time	9.83
Medalists
Noah Lyles    United States   Letsile Tebogo    Botswana   Zharnel Hughes    Great Britain
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Summary

With 13 athletes under 9.90 for the season, the field was crowded and fast. NCAA Champion Cravont Charleston didn't get out of the heats. Olympic Champion Marcell Jacobs and defending champion Fred Kerley didn't make the final. Meanwhile, 200 metre defending champion Noah Lyles claimed to be in pursuit of three gold medals, even though he had only finished third at the US Championships. Oblique Seville produced the fastest time through the rounds with his 9.86 in the heats.

In the final, fast starting 2019 champion Christian Coleman lived up to his reputation, getting out fastest, slightly ahead of U20 Champion Letsile Tebogo and Ryiem Forde. By the halfway point, Coleman had a metre and a half on the next group of Seville, Lyles and Zharnel Hughes, but the three were closing. Over the next 30 metres, Lyles gained a slight edge on Hughes and Seville, pulling even with Coleman and Tebogo. Over the final 20 metres, Lyles continued to increase the narrow gap while Coleman drifted out the back. Lyles crossed the finish as a clear winner, with Tebogo, Hughes and Seville hitting the line together. The photo finish revealed Tebogo in second, one one thousandth ahead of Hughes for bronze with Seville only three thousandths behind him. Tebogo's version of 9.88 improved on his own Botswana national record for the seventh time; his silver medal was the first won by an African man in the 100m at the world championships.^[2]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[3]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	9.58	Berlin, Germany	16 August 2009
Championship record
World Leading	Zharnel Hughes (GBR)	9.83	New York, United States	24 June 2023
African Record	Ferdinand Omanyala (KEN)	9.77	Nairobi, Kenya	18 September 2021
Asian Record	Su Bingtian (CHN)	9.83	Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	9.58	Berlin, Germany	16 August 2009
South American Record	Issamade Asinga (SUR)	9.89	São Paulo, Brazil	28 July 2023
European Record	Marcell Jacobs (ITA)	9.80	Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021
Oceanian record	Patrick Johnson (AUS)	9.93	Mito, Japan	5 May 2003

The following records were set at the competition:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
World Leading	9.83	Noah Lyles	USA	20 Aug 2023

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 10.00 seconds.^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), is as follows:^[1]

Date	Time	Round
19 August	13:35	Preliminary round
	19:43	Heats
20 August	16:35	Semi-finals
	19:10	Final

Results

Preliminary round

The preliminary round took place on 19 August, with the 33 athletes involved being split into three heats of eight athletes each, and one of nine athletes. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for round 1.^[5]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Emanuel Archibald	Guyana (GUY)	10.27	Q
2	7	Bence Boros [de]	Hungary (HUN)	10.70	Q
3	5	Kin Wa Chan	Macau (MAC)	10.79	q
4	2	Terrone Webster	Anguilla (AIA)	11.03
5	8	Timur Isakov	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	11.22	PB
6	3	Karalo Hepoiteloto Maibuca	Tuvalu (TUV)	11.55	SB
7	6	Tauro Tiaon	Kiribati (KIR)	12.00	PB
[6]				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Muhd Azeem Fahmi	Malaysia (MAS)	10.24	Q
2	2	Brandon Jones	Belize (BIZ)	10.94	Q
3	7	Seco Camara	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	11.04
4	4	Aayush Kunwar	Nepal (NEP)	11.07
5	5	Winzar Kakiouea	Nauru (NRU)	11.23	PB
6	8	Kylian Vatrican	Monaco (MON)	11.44	SB
—	6	Dylan Sicobo	Seychelles (SEY)	DNS
[6]				Wind: +0.2 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Imranur Rahman	Bangladesh (BAN)	10.50	Q
2	7	Onisio Pereia	Mozambique (MOZ)	10.89	Q
3	2	Alisher Sadulayev	Turkmenistan (TKM)	10.90
4	9	Melique Garcia	Honduras (HON)	10.96
5	8	Melino Tafuna	Tonga (TGA)	11.14	PB
6	6	Manuihei Teaha	French Polynesia (PYF)	11.66	PB
7	3	Ty'ree Langidrik	Marshall Islands (MHL)	11.78	PB
—	5	Said Gilani	Afghanistan (AFG)	DNF
[6]				Wind: -0.8 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Ebrahima Camara	Gambia (GAM)	10.32	Q
2	5	Joseph Green [de]	Guam (GUM)	10.84	Q, PB
3	4	Favoris Muzrapov	Tajikistan (TJK)	10.86	q
4	3	Nujoom Hassan	Maldives (MDV)	11.30	PB
5	7	Nathan Crumpton	American Samoa (ASA)	11.32	SB
6	6	Scott James Fiti	Micronesia (FSM)	11.69
—	8	Olivier Mwimba	DR Congo (COD)	DNS
[6]				Wind: -0.3 m/s

Round 1 (heats)

Round 1 took place on 19 August, with the 56 athletes involved being split into 7 heats of 8 athletes each. The first 3 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 3 fastest ( q ) qualified for the semi-finals.^[7]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.00	Q
2	5	Ryiem Forde	Jamaica (JAM)	10.01	Q
3	8	Seye Ogunlewe	Nigeria (NGR)	10.07	Q
4	2	Dominik Kopeć	Poland (POL)	10.12	q
5	6	Hassan Taftian	Iran (IRI)	10.17
6	9	Tiaan Whelpton	New Zealand (NZL)	10.26
7	3	Favoris Muzrapov	Tajikistan (TJK)	10.99
8	7	Arthur Cissé	Ivory Coast (CIV)	11.58
[8]				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	9.95	Q
2	4	Ferdinand Omanyala	Kenya (KEN)	9.97	Q
3	8	Usheoritse Itsekiri	Nigeria (NGR)	10.17	Q
4	3	Samuele Ceccarelli	Italy (ITA)	10.26
5	5	Jerome Blake	Canada (CAN)	10.29
6	6	Emmanuel Eseme	Cameroon (CMR)	10.41
7	7	Jake Doran	Australia (AUS)	10.48
8	2	Kin Wa Chan	Macau (MAC)	10.83
[8]				Wind: -0.6 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands (NED)	10.09	Q
2	2	Eugene Amo-Dadzie	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.10	Q
3	9	Emmanuel Matadi	Liberia (LBR)	10.13	Q
4	4	Benjamin Richardson	South Africa (RSA)	10.17
5	7	Cravont Charleston	United States (USA)	10.18
6	3	Felipe Bardi	Brazil (BRA)	10.25 [.243]
7	5	Ján Volko	Slovakia (SVK)	10.25 [.250]
8	6	Onisio Pereia	Mozambique (MOZ)	11.09
[8]				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	9	Letsile Tebogo	Botswana (BOT)	10.11 [.102]	Q
2	4	Rohan Browning	Australia (AUS)	10.11 [.103]	Q
3	8	Reece Prescod	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.14	Q
4	5	Shaun Maswanganyi	South Africa (RSA)	10.21
5	2	Ryuichiro Sakai	Japan (JPN)	10.22
6	6	Cejhae Greene	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.23
7	3	Muhd Azeem Fahmi	Malaysia (MAS)	10.26
8	7	Bence Boros [de]	Hungary (HUN)	10.70
[8]				Wind: -0.4 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Oblique Seville	Jamaica (JAM)	9.86	Q, PB
2	4	Fred Kerley	United States (USA)	9.99	Q
3	5	Henrik Larsson	Sweden (SWE)	10.16	Q
4	3	Mouhamadou Fall	France (FRA)	10.19
5	2	Ebrahima Camara	Gambia (GAM)	10.20
6	9	Paulo André de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	10.25
7	8	Brandon Jones	Belize (BIZ)	10.95
—	6	Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe	Nigeria (NGR)	DQ	TR 16.8
[8]				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	10.07	Q, SB
2	2	Rohan Watson	Jamaica (JAM)	10.11	Q
3	8	Marcell Jacobs	Italy (ITA)	10.15	Q, SB
4	5	Brendon Rodney	Canada (CAN)	10.16	q
5	6	Rikkoi Brathwaite	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	10.18
6	9	Terrence Jones	Bahamas (BAH)	10.32
7	7	Imranur Rahman	Bangladesh (BAN)	10.41
8	3	Ronal Longa	Colombia (COL)	11.31
[8]				Wind: -0.4 m/s

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Akani Simbine	South Africa (RSA)	9.97	Q
2	2	Christian Coleman	United States (USA)	9.98	Q
3	7	Emanuel Archibald	Guyana (GUY)	10.20 [.193]	Q
3	6	Hiroki Yanagita	Japan (JPN)	10.20 [.193]	Q
5	3	Julian Wagner [es]	Germany (GER)	10.31
6	9	Erik Cardoso	Brazil (BRA)	10.36
7	8	Markus Fuchs	Austria (AUT)	10.43
8	5	Joseph Green [de]	Guam (GUM)	10.91
[8]				Wind: -0.1 m/s

Semi-finals

The semi-final took place on 20 August, with the 24 athletes involved being split into 3 heats of 8 athletes each. The first 2 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 2 fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.^[9]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	9.87	Q, SB
2	6	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	9.97	Q, =PB
3	5	Ferdinand Omanyala	Kenya (KEN)	10.01	q
4	7	Eugene Amo-Dadzie	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.03
5	3	Marcell Jacobs	Italy (ITA)	10.05	SB
6	8	Rohan Watson	Jamaica (JAM)	10.07
7	2	Dominik Kopeć	Poland (POL)	10.15
8	9	Usheoritse Itsekiri	Nigeria (NGR)	10.19
[10]				Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Christian Coleman	United States (USA)	9.88	Q, SB
2	7	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9.93	Q
3	6	Ryiem Forde	Jamaica (JAM)	9.95	q, PB
4	8	Emmanuel Matadi	Liberia (LBR)	10.04
5	3	Seye Ogunlewe	Nigeria (NGR)	10.12
6	9	Emanuel Archibald	Guyana (GUY)	10.13	PB
7	2	Hiroki Yanagita	Japan (JPN)	10.14
—	4	Akani Simbine	South Africa (RSA)	DQ	TR 16.8
[10]				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Oblique Seville	Jamaica (JAM)	9.90	Q
2	6	Letsile Tebogo	Botswana (BOT)	9.98	Q
3	4	Fred Kerley	United States (USA)	10.02
4	3	Rohan Browning	Australia (AUS)	10.11
5	5	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands (NED)	10.20
6	9	Henrik Larsson	Sweden (SWE)	10.20
7	2	Brendon Rodney	Canada (CAN)	10.25
8	8	Reece Prescod	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.26
[10]				Wind: -0.3 m/s

Final

The final started at 19:10 on 20 August.^[11]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	6	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	9.83	=WL, PB
	3	Letsile Tebogo	Botswana (BOT)	9.88 [.873]	NR
	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9.88 [.874]
4	7	Oblique Seville	Jamaica (JAM)	9.88 [.877]
5	4	Christian Coleman	United States (USA)	9.92
6	8	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	10.04
7	9	Ferdinand Omanyala	Kenya (KEN)	10.07
8	2	Ryiem Forde	Jamaica (JAM)	10.08
[12]				Wind: 0.0 m/s