Athletics at the 2016 summer olympics mens 100 metres

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Athletics at the 2016 summer olympics mens 100 metres

Jamaica entered as the reigning World Champions and the defending Olympic champions, having set new world and Olympic records at the London Olympics. The United States were the next strongest team. The world leading time prior to the event was held by Great Britain, at Other strong entrants were Olympic silver medallists Trinidad and Tobago and France, who earned bronze, and the world runners-up, China. For the third Olympics in a row Usain Bolt had won the metres and metres. In the previous two Olympics the Jamaican team with Bolt had won the gold in the relay. Jamaica with Bolt; his predecessor as world record holder Asafa Powell ; and the equal second fastest man in history, Yohan Blake , were favourites. Powell had been on the winning team, Blake had been on the winning team. The record before the Olympics was In the first semi final, with a new lead off leg, China improved the record to Japan improved the record twice, to USA had the fastest qualifying time winning heat 1 ahead of China, Japan the second best time winning heat 2. Jamaica squeaked through to second place in their heat giving those four teams the preferred center lanes on the track, while Canada's third place relegated them to an outer lane.

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The men's metres event at the Summer Olympics took place between 13—14 August at the Olympic Stadium. Billed as one of the most anticipated races in history, Usain Bolt of Jamaica entered as the world record holder, defending Olympic champion and the reigning world champion. However, with recurring injury problems affecting his early season, he was ranked 4th in the year with 9. Meanwhile, his biggest rival was Justin Gatlin of the United States, the world leader for three consecutive years who had threatened Bolt's world titles in and more prominently in Despite also having injuries in the early season, the year old Gatlin also went unbeaten in the season, going on to win the American Trials in a world-leading 9. Trayvon Bromell , joint-bronze medalist at the World Championship and the world junior record holder , finished second to Gatlin at the American Trials with the second-fastest time of the year.

Controversy enveloped the Olympic athletics competition as far back as late At that time a German television network released a documentary alleging systematic doping in Russia. After investigations by the IAAF, the entire Russian athletic team was suspended from international competition early in Then, only a few weeks before the Rio Olympics began, an independent report commissioned by WADA, the McLaren Report, corroborated these findings, and many Russian athletes in other sports, notably rowing, were also suspended. The IOC had to quickly rule on this report, and supported it, but allowed some individual Russian athletes to compete after they had been cleared by their federations. With this negative background the biggest positive story of Rio athletics was Jamaican wunder-sprinter Usain Bolt , who was trying to win his third consecutive sprint triple with golds in the metres, metres, and 4x metre relay. It was a quest at which he would be successful in Rio, giving him nine Olympic gold medals, equaling the Olympic record for athletics held by Paavo Nurmi and Carl Lewis trailing the 10 of Ray Ewry if one includes the Olympics.

Athletics at the 2016 summer olympics mens 100 metres

The men's metres event at the Summer Olympics took place between 13—14 August at the Olympic Stadium. Billed as one of the most anticipated races in history, Usain Bolt of Jamaica entered as the world record holder, defending Olympic champion and the reigning world champion. However, with recurring injury problems affecting his early season, he was ranked 4th in the year with 9. Meanwhile, his biggest rival was Justin Gatlin of the United States, the world leader for three consecutive years who had threatened Bolt's world titles in and more prominently in Despite also having injuries in the early season, the year old Gatlin also went unbeaten in the season, going on to win the American Trials in a world-leading 9. Trayvon Bromell , joint-bronze medalist at the World Championship and the world junior record holder , finished second to Gatlin at the American Trials with the second-fastest time of the year.

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The men's metres event at the Summer Olympics took place between 13—14 August at the Olympic Stadium.

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