Men's 100 metres at the Games of the V Olympiad
The finish of the final.
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 6–7
Competitors	70 from 22 nations
Medalists
Ralph Craig   United States   Alvah Meyer   United States   Don Lippincott   United States
«1908	1920»

Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
4×100 m relay		men
4×400 m relay		men
3000 m team race		men
10 km walk		men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men
2-hand shot put	men
2-hand discus	men
2-hand javelin	men
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
Decathlon	men
Cross-country events
Individual	men
Team	men

The men's 100 metres was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 6, 1912 and on July 7, 1912.

Seventy runners from 22 nations competed.

Contents 1 Records 2 Results 2.1 Heats 2.2 Semifinals 2.3 Final 3 References

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.5(*)	Emil Ketterer	Karlsruhe (GER)	July 9, 1911
	10.5(*)	Richard Rau	Braunschweig (GER)	August 13, 1911
	10.5(*)	Richard Rau	Munich (GER)	May 12, 1912
	10.5(*)	Erwin Kern	Munich (GER)	May 26, 1912
Olympic Record	10.8	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8	John Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8	James Rector	London (GBR)	July 20, 1908
	10.8(**)	Reggie Walker	London (GBR)	July 21, 1908
	10.8	James Rector	London (GBR)	July 21, 1908
	10.8	Reggie Walker	London (GBR)	July 22, 1908

(*) unofficial

(**) Actual time was 10.7, rounded up to the nearest fifth, in accordance with rules in force at the time. So his time was only given as 10⁴⁄₅.

The Olympic record for the 100 metres coming into 1912 was 10.8 seconds. It was matched by David Jacobs of Great Britain in the 10th heat before being broken by American Don Lippincott's 10.6 second time in the 16th heat. This was also the first official world record in 100 metres. Three semifinalists, including Lippincott, ran the race in 10.7 seconds, but the new record of 10.6 seconds stood for the rest of the event.

[edit] Results

[edit] Heats

All heats were held on Saturday, July 6, 1912.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Charles Luther (SWE)	12.4	QS

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ivan Möller (SWE)	11.5	QS
2	Pál Szalay (HUN)		QS
3	Rudolf Rauch (AUT)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ira Courtney (USA)	11.2	QS
2	István Jankovich (HUN)		QS
3	Pierre Failliot (FRA)
4	Henry Blakeney (GBR)
5	Ladislav Jiránek (BOH)
6	Pablo Eitel (CHI)

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Richard Rice (GBR)	11.4	QS
2	Rolf Smedmark (SWE)		QS

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Victor d'Arcy (GBR)	11.2	QS
2	Reuben Povey (RSA)		QS
3	António Stromp (POR)

Heat 6

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Richard Rau (GER)	11.5	QS
2	Vilmos Rácz (HUN)		QS
3	Ture Person (SWE)
4	Robert Schurrer (FRA)
5	Dimitrios Triantafyllakos (GRE)
6	Leopolds Lēvenšteins (RUS)

Heat 7

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	William Stewart (ANZ)	11.0	QS
2	Léon Aelter (BEL)		QS
3	Charles Lelong (FRA)
4	Jan Grijseels (NED)
5	Richard Schwarz (RUS)

Heat 8

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Knut Lindberg (SWE)	11.6	QS
2	Bedřich Vygoda (BOH)	11.6	QS
3	Dušan Milošević (SRB)	11.6
4	Jón Halldórsson (ISL)	12.1

Heat 9

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Alvah Meyer (USA)	11.6	QS
2	Franco Giongo (ITA)		QS
3	Robert C. Duncan (GBR)
4	Georges Rolot (FRA)

Heat 10

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	David Jacobs (GBR)	10.8 =OR	QS
2	Clement Wilson (USA)		QS
3	Marius Delaby (FRA)
4	Herman Sotaaen (NOR)
5	Václav Lavík (BOH)

Heat 11

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Frank Belote (USA)	11.0	QS
2	René Mourlon (FRA)		QS
3	Henry Macintosh (GBR)
4	Harry Beasley (CAN)

Heat 12

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Peter Gerhardt (USA)	11.2	QS
2	Frank Lukeman (CAN)		QS
3	Fritz Weinzinger (AUT)
4	Alexander Pedersen (NOR)
5	Duncan Macmillan (GBR)

Heat 13

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	John Howard (CAN)	11.0	QS
2	George Patching (RSA)		QS
3	Harold Heiland (USA)
4	Pavel Shtiglits (RUS)
—	Emil Ketterer (GER)	Did not finish

Heat 14

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Arthur Anderson (GBR)	11.0	QS
2	Rupert Thomas (USA)		QS
3	Frank McConnell (CAN)
4	Skotte Jacobsson (SWE)

Heat 15

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Howard Drew (USA)	11.0	QS
2	Erwin Kern (GER)		QS
3	Julien Boullery (FRA)
—	James Barker (GBR)	Did not finish

Heat 16

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Don Lippincott (USA)	10.6 WR	QS
2	William Applegarth (GBR)		QS
3	Max Herrmann (GER)
4	Ervin Szerelemhegyi (HUN)
5	Yahiko Mishima (JPN)

Heat 17

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	11.2	QS
2	Ferenc Szobota (HUN)		QS
3	Ragnar Ekberg (SWE)
4	Fritz Fleischer (AUT)

[edit] Semifinals

All semi-finals were held on Saturday, July 6, 1912.

Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Howard Drew (USA)	11.0	QF
2	Ira Courtney (USA)
3	Peter Gerhardt (USA)
4	Charles Luther (SWE)
5	Erwin Kern (GER)
6	Vilmos Rácz (HUN)

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	George Patching (RSA)	10.9	QF
2	Knut Lindberg (SWE)
3	Richard Rice (GBR)
4	Franco Giongo (ITA)
5	Léon Aelter (BEL)

Semifinal 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Alvah Meyer (USA)	10.7	QF
2	David Jacobs (GBR)
3	Frank Lukeman (CAN)
4	Pál Szalay (HUN)
—	Rolf Smedmark (SWE)	Did not finish

Semifinal 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	10.7	QF
2	Richard Rau (GER)	10.9
3	William Stewart (ANZ)
4	István Jankovich (HUN)
5	René Mourlon (FRA)
6	Ferenc Szobota (HUN)

Semifinal 5

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Don Lippincott (USA)	10.7	QF
2	William Applegarth (GBR)
3	Bedřich Vygoda (BOH)
4	Clement Wilson (USA)
5	Victor d'Arcy (GBR)
6	John Howard (CAN)

Semifinal 6

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Frank Belote (USA)	11.1	QF
2	Reuben Povey (RSA)
3	Rupert Thomas (USA)
4	Ivan Möller (SWE)
5	Arthur Anderson (GBR)

[edit] Final

The final was held on Sunday, July 7, 1912.

The official report gives the result as Ralph Craig 10⁴⁄₅, Alvah Meyer 60 cms behind winner, and Don Lippincott 15 cms behind second man.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	10.8
2	Alvah Meyer (USA)	10.9
3	Don Lippincott (USA)	10.9
4.	George Patching (RSA)	11.0
5.	Frank Belote (USA)	11.0
—	Howard Drew (USA)	Did not start

[edit] References

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.).. ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. 
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich". http://olympic.w.interia.pl/. Retrieved 24 August 2006.  (Polish)

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