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.

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.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record9.58Berlin, Germany16 August 2009Championship recordWorld Leading9.83New York City, United States24 June 2023African Record9.77Nairobi, Kenya18 September 2021Asian Record9.83Tokyo, Japan1 August 2021European Record9.80North, Central American and Caribbean record9.58Berlin, Germany16 August 2009Oceanian record9.93 Mito, Japan5 May 2003South American Record9.89São Paulo, Brazil28 July 2023

The following records were set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date World Leading9.83Noah Lyles20 Aug 2023

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 10.00 seconds.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date Time Round19 August 13:35 Preliminary round19:43 Heats20 August 16:35 Semi-finals19:10 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.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Emanuel Archibald 10.27 2 7 10.70 3 5 Kin Wa Chan 10.79 4 2 Terrone Webster 11.03 5 8 Timur Isakov 11.22 6 3 Karalo Hepoiteloto Maibuca 11.55 7 6 Tauro Tiaon 12.00 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 3 Muhd Azeem Fahmi 10.24 2 2 Brandon Jones 10.94 3 7 Seco Camara 11.04 4 4 Aayush Kunwar 11.07 5 5 Winzar Kakiouea 11.23 6 8 Kylian Vatrican 11.44 6 Dylan Sicobo Wind: +0.2 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Imranur Rahman 10.50 2 7 Onisio Pereia 10.89 3 2 Alisher Sadulayev 10.90 4 9 Melique Garcia 10.96 5 8 Melino Tafuna 11.14 6 6 Manuihei Teaha 11.66 7 3 Ty'ree Langidrik 11.78 5 Said Gilani Wind: -0.8 m/s

Heat 4 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 2 Ebrahima Camara 10.32 2 5 10.84 , 3 4 Favoris Muzrapov 10.86 4 3 Nujoom Hassan 11.30 5 7 Nathan Crumpton 11.32 6 6 Scott James Fiti 11.69 8 Olivier Mwimba 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.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Zharnel Hughes 10.00 2 5 Ryiem Forde 10.01 3 8 Seye Ogunlewe 10.07 4 2 Dominik Kopeć 10.12 5 6 Hassan Taftian 10.17 6 9 Tiaan Whelpton 10.26 7 3 Favoris Muzrapov 10.99 8 7 Arthur Cissé 11.58 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 9 Noah Lyles 9.95 2 4 Ferdinand Omanyala 9.97 3 8 Usheoritse Itsekiri 10.17 4 3 Samuele Ceccarelli 10.26 5 5 Jerome Blake 10.29 6 6 Emmanuel Eseme 10.41 7 7 Jake Doran 10.48 8 2 Kin Wa Chan 10.83 Wind: -0.6 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 8 Raphael Bouju 10.09 2 2 Eugene Amo-Dadzie 10.10 3 9 Emmanuel Matadi 10.13 4 4 Benjamin Richardson 10.17 5 7 Cravont Charleston 10.18 6 3 Felipe Bardi 10.25 7 5 Ján Volko 10.25 8 6 Onisio Pereia 11.09 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 4 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 9 Letsile Tebogo 10.11 2 4 Rohan Browning 10.11 3 8 Reece Prescod 10.14 4 5 Shaun Maswanganyi 10.21 5 2 Ryuichiro Sakai 10.22 6 6 Cejhae Greene 10.23 7 3 Muhd Azeem Fahmi 10.26 8 7 10.70 Wind: -0.4 m/s

Heat 5 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 7 Oblique Seville 9.86 , 2 4 Fred Kerley 9.99 3 5 Henrik Larsson 10.16 4 3 Mouhamadou Fall 10.19 5 2 Ebrahima Camara 10.20 6 9 Paulo André de Oliveira 10.25 7 8 Brandon Jones 10.95 6 Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 6 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 10.07 , 2 2 Rohan Watson 10.11 3 8 Marcell Jacobs 10.15 , 4 5 Brendon Rodney 10.16 5 6 Rikkoi Brathwaite 10.18 6 9 Terrence Jones 10.32 7 7 Imranur Rahman 10.41 8 3 Ronal Longa 11.31 Wind: -0.4 m/s

Heat 7 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Akani Simbine 9.97 2 2 Christian Coleman 9.98 3 7 Emanuel Archibald 10.20 3 6 Hiroki Yanagita 10.20 5 3 10.31 6 9 Erik Cardoso 10.36 7 8 Markus Fuchs 10.43 8 5 10.91 Wind: -0.1 m/s

Semi-finals The semi-finals 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.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Noah Lyles 9.87 , 2 6 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 9.97 , = 3 5 Ferdinand Omanyala 10.01 4 7 Eugene Amo-Dadzie 10.03 5 3 Marcell Jacobs 10.05 6 8 Rohan Watson 10.07 7 2 Dominik Kopeć 10.15 8 9 Usheoritse Itsekiri 10.19 Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Christian Coleman 9.88 , 2 7 Zharnel Hughes 9.93 3 6 Ryiem Forde 9.95 , 4 8 Emmanuel Matadi 10.04 5 3 Seye Ogunlewe 10.12 6 9 Emanuel Archibald 10.13 7 2 Hiroki Yanagita 10.14 4 Akani Simbine Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 7 Oblique Seville 9.90 2 6 Letsile Tebogo 9.98 3 4 Fred Kerley 10.02 4 3 Rohan Browning 10.11 5 5 Raphael Bouju 10.20 6 9 Henrik Larsson 10.20 7 2 Brendon Rodney 10.25 8 8 Reece Prescod 10.26 Wind: -0.3 m/s

Final The final started at 19:10 on 20 August.

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 6 Noah Lyles 9.83 =, 3 Letsile Tebogo 9.88 5 Zharnel Hughes 9.88 4 7 Oblique Seville 9.88 5 4 Christian Coleman 9.92 6 8 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 10.04 7 9 Ferdinand Omanyala 10.07 8 2 Ryiem Forde 10.08 Wind: 0.0 m/s

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