WCH Tokyo 25 brushstroke (© World Athletics)
Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists
2022: 1 Fred Kerley (USA) – 9.86 (-0.1), 2 Marvin Bracy-Williams (USA) – 9.88, 3 Trayvon Bromell (USA) – 9.88
2019: 1 Christian Coleman (USA) – 9.76 (+0.6), 2 Justin Gatlin (USA) – 9.89, 3 Andre De Grasse (CAN) – 9.90
Last two sets of Olympic medallists
2020: 1 Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) – 9.80 (+0.1), 2 Fred Kerley (USA) – 9.84, 3 Andre de Grasse (CAN) – 9.89
Fastest winning times in World Athletics Championships history
9.58 (+0.9) – Usain Bolt (JAM), 2009
9.76 (+0.6) – Christian Coleman (USA), 9.76 2019
9.77 (-0.3)– Usain Bolt (JAM) – 9.77 2013
Slowest winning time in World Athletics Championships history
10.07 (-0.3) – Carl Lewis (USA), 1983
10.07 (0.0) – Kim Collins (SKN), 2003
Best marks on Japanese soil
9.80 (+0.1) 1 Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) - Tokyo 01.08.2021
9.83 (+0.9) 1SF Su Bingtian (CHN) - Tokyo 01.08.2021
9.83 (+0.9) 2SF Ronnie Baker (USA) - Tokyo 01.08.2021
Best marks on Asian soil
9.69 (+0.0) 1 Usain Bolt (JAM) - Beijing (Olympics) 16.08.2008
9.69 (+2.0) 1 Tyson Gay (USA) - Shanghai 20.09.2009
9.74 (+0.9) 1 Justin Gatlin (USA) - Doha 15.05.2015
Biggest winning margins
0.16s – 2011: Yohan Blake (JAM) – 9.92, Walter Dix (USA) – 10.08
0.15s – 1987: Carl Lewis (USA) – 9.93, Ray Stewart (JAM) – 10.08
Smallest winning margins
0.01s – 2003: Kim Collins (SKN) – 10.07, Darrel Brown (TTO) – 10.080.01s – 2015: Usain Bolt (JAM) – 9.79, Justin Gatlin (USA) – 9.80
0.02s – 1991: Carl Lewis (USA) – 9.86, Leroy Burrell (USA) – 9.88
Best mark by round
Preliminary - 10.15 (+0.9) Ján Volko (SVK), 2017
Heat - 9.79 (+0.1) Fred Kerley (USA), 2022
Quarterfinal - 9.80 (+4.3) Carl Lewis (USA), 1991
Semifinal - 9.77 (+0.9) Justin Gatlin (USA), 2015
Final - 9.58 (+0.9) Usain Bolt (JAM), 2009
Multiple winners
1983/87/1991 - Carl Lewis (USA)
1997/99/2001 - Maurice Greene (USA)
2005/17 - Justin Gatlin (USA)
2009/2013/15 - Usain Bolt (JAM)
Winners by country
12 - United States
4 - Jamaica
1 - Great Britain
1 - Canada
1 - St. Kitts and Nevis
Five historic facts
- The United States and Jamaica have won the last 10 editions of the men’s 100m at the World Championships. The last sprinter to win this title from a different nation was Kim Collins (SKN) in 2003
- Led by Carl Lewis, the United States swept the medals when Tokyo hosted the 1991 World Championships (1. Carl Lewis, 2. Leroy Burrell, 3. Dennis Mitchell)
- Letsile Tebogo (BOT) became the first athlete representing an African nation to win a medal in the men’s 100m when he won silver in Budapest 2023
- Only four athletes who reached the Olympic 100m final at the postponed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are on the entry-list: Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) - 1st, Andre de Grasse (CAN) - 3rd, Akani Simbine (RSA) - 4th, Zharnel Hughes (GBR) - DQ
- There have been 151 sub-10 100m clockings in all conditions in World Championships history
Potential storylines
- Can Noah Lyles (USA) become just the third American to win back-to-back 100m titles after Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene?
- If Lyles wins medals in three events in Tokyo, he will take his tally of World Championships medals up to 10. Usain Bolt (14), LaShawn Merritt (11) and Carl Lewis (10) are the only male athletes to have 10 or more medals
- Can Jamaica win their first medal in the men’s 100m since Usain Bolt won a farewell bronze in London 2017?
- Will there be an African winner in the men’s 100m for the first time in World Championships history?
- 26 athletes on the entry-list have broken the 10 second-barrier in 2025. Could we see a world final in which all finalists break the 10 second-barrier?
