2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the 2007 World Championships
Tyson Gay after winning the 100 m
Venue	Osaka Nagai Stadium
Dates	25 August (heats and quarter-finals) 26 August (semi-finals and final)
Competitors	44
Winning time	9.85
Medalists
Tyson Gay    United States   Derrick Atkins    Bahamas   Asafa Powell    Jamaica
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Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The 100 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on August 25 and August 26.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tyson Gay  United States (USA)	Derrick Atkins  Bahamas (BAH)	Asafa Powell  Jamaica (JAM)

Records

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the quarterfinals.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.13	Q
2	1	1	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan (JPN)	10.14	Q, SB
3	2	3	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.16	Q, SB
3	8	6	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	10.16	Q
5	7	1	Nesta Carter	Jamaica (JAM)	10.17	Q
6	1	8	Tyson Gay	United States (USA)	10.19	Q
7	7	3	Naoki Tsukahara	Japan (JPN)	10.20	Q, PB
8	8	7	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.21	Q
8	3	6	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia (SLO)	10.21	Q
8	5	2	Henry Vizcaíno	Cuba (CUB)	10.21	Q
11	8	5	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.22	Q
11	3	2	Simone Collio	Italy (ITA)	10.22	Q
13	2	6	Craig Pickering	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.24	Q
14	2	5	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas (BAH)	10.25	Q
14	7	2	Patrick Johnson	Australia (AUS)	10.25	Q
16	2	9	Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria (NGR)	10.27	q
16	7	6	Rosario La Mastra	Italy (ITA)	10.27	q, PB
18	6	4	Keston Bledman	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.29	Q
18	4	2	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.29	Q
20	1	6	Sherwin Vries	South Africa (RSA)	10.30	Q
21	5	6	Clement Campbell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.31	Q
21	4	3	Anson Henry	Canada (CAN)	10.31	Q
23	1	4	Ken Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	10.34	q
23	5	5	Vicente de Lima	Brazil (BRA)	10.34	Q
23	6	3	Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.34	Q
23	8	4	Josh Ross	Australia (AUS)	10.34	q
27	6	7	Martial Mbandjock	France (FRA)	10.36	Q
28	4	9	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain (ESP)	10.37	Q
29	6	1	Florin Suciu	Romania (ROM)	10.38	q
30	5	9	J-Mee Samuels	United States (USA)	10.39	q
31	8	2	Dariusz Kuć	Poland (POL)	10.42	q
32	8	8	Jan Žumer	Slovenia (SLO)	10.45	q
33	1	2	José Carlos Moreira	Brazil (BRA)	10.46
34	2	2	Sandro Viana	Brazil (BRA)	10.46
35	3	5	Gibrilla Pato Bangura	Sierra Leone (SLE)	10.50
36	5	8	Wilfried Bingangoye	Gabon (GAB)	10.53
37	7	4	Sébastien Gattuso	Monaco (MON)	10.55	NR
38	3	8	Béranger Bosse	Central African Republic (CAF)	10.59
39	4	4	Idrissa Sanou	Burkina Faso (BUR)	10.61
40	5	7	Yahya Hassan I. Habeeb	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	10.65
41	6	2	Holder da Silva	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	10.68
42	6	9	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan (AZE)	10.72
43	4	8	Franklin Nazareno	Ecuador (ECU)	10.73
44	6	5	Boris Savic	Montenegro (MNE)	10.88

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
6	7	Muammed Patoniah	Indonesia (INA)	10.92	PB
7	4	Tyrone Omar	Northern Mariana Islands (NMI)	11.00
8	5	Iowane Dovumatua	Fiji (FIJ)	11.09
9	3	Tim Natua	Kiribati (KIR)	11.51	PB

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
6	4	Darren Gilford	Malta (MLT)	10.92
7	1	Keiron Rogers	Anguilla (AIA)	11.05
8	8	Reginaldo Micha Ndong	Equatorial Guinea (GEQ)	11.59	SB
9	7	Tika Ram Tharu	Nepal (NEP)	11.83	PB

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
6	9	JJ Capelle	Nauru (NRU)	11.02	PB
7	7	Hin Fong Pao	Macau (MAC)	11.21	PB
–	3	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal (POR)	DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
6	6	Chris Walasi	Solomon Islands (SOL)	11.07	SB
7	7	Sloane Sanitoa	American Samoa (ASA)	12.64	PB
8	5	Mark Jelks	United States (USA)	13.64	SB

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
7	4	Aisea Tohi	Tonga (TGA)	11.10	PB
8	3	Muhammad Haziq Haji Awang	Brunei (BRU)	11.22	PB

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
8	8	Moussa Camara	Guinea (GUI)	11.49	PB
9	6	Odingo Gordon	Montserrat (MNT)	11.58	SB

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
6	9	Jurgen Themen	Suriname (SUR)	10.96	PB
7	7	Jack Howard	Micronesia (FSM)	11.03	SB
8	8	Dayne O'Hara	Norfolk Island (NFI)	11.86	PB
–	5	Samuel Francis	Qatar (QAT)	DNF

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
7	3	Mounir Mahadi	Chad (CHA)	11.24
8	9	Waleed Anwari	Afghanistan (AFG)	11.75	SB

Quarterfinals

First 4 of each Heat directly qualified (Q) for the Semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	7	Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.01	Q
2	8	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas (BAH)	10.02	Q
3	6	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia (SLO)	10.13	Q, NR
4	4	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan (JPN)	10.16	Q
5	2	Rosario La Mastra	Italy (ITA)	10.32
6	3	Dariusz Kuć	Poland (POL)	10.37
7	9	Martial Mbandjock	France (FRA)	10.39
8	5	Richard Thompson	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.44

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	4	Tyson Gay	United States (USA)	10.06	Q
2	7	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.13	Q
3	9	Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria (NGR)	10.24	Q
4	5	Clement Campbell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.28	Q
5	8	Simone Collio	Italy (ITA)	10.31
6	6	Keston Bledman	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.33
7	3	Ángel David Rodríguez	Spain (ESP)	10.39
8	2	Jan Žumer	Slovenia (SLO)	10.44

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	4	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	10.10	Q
2	7	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.17	Q, SB
3	5	Anson Henry	Canada (CAN)	10.20	Q, SB
4	6	Nesta Carter	Jamaica (JAM)	10.23	Q
5	9	J-Mee Samuels	United States (USA)	10.29
6	8	Patrick Johnson	Australia (AUS)	10.29
7	2	Sherwin Vries	South Africa (RSA)	10.36
8	3	Florin Suciu	Romania (ROM)	10.41

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	4	Craig Pickering	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.21	Q
2	9	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.21	Q
3	5	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.26	Q
4	3	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	10.30	Q
5	7	Naoki Tsukahara	Japan (JPN)	10.31
6	2	Vicente de Lima	Brazil (BRA)	10.38
7	6	Henry Vizcaíno	Cuba (CUB)	10.40
8	8	Josh Ross	Australia (AUS)	10.42

Semifinals

First 4 of each Heat directly qualified (Q) for the Final.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	6	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas (BAH)	10.04	Q
2	4	Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.08	Q
3	9	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia (SLO)	10.17	Q
4	5	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.21	Q
5	2	Kim Collins	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	10.21	SB
6	7	Craig Pickering	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.29
7	8	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.29
8	3	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan (JPN)	10.36

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time (sec)	Notes
1	4	Tyson Gay	United States (USA)	10.00	Q
2	7	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.12	Q
3	6	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	10.15	Q
4	9	Olusoji A. Fasuba	Nigeria (NGR)	10.18	Q
5	5	Mark Lewis-Francis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.19
6	2	Anson Henry	Canada (CAN)	10.20	SB
7	3	Nesta Carter	Jamaica (JAM)	10.28
8	8	Clement Campbell	Jamaica (JAM)	10.28

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Tyson Gay	United States (USA)	9.85
	Derrick Atkins	Bahamas (BAH)	9.91	NR
	Asafa Powell	Jamaica (JAM)	9.96
4	Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria (NGR)	10.07	SB
5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	10.08
6	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.14
7	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia (SLO)	10.23
8	Marc Burns	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.29

References

• "Osaka 2007 - Timetable - By Event: 100 metres". IAAF. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2009-08-17.

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