# 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27 and 28 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Andre Cason United States |
| Silver | Sven Matthes East Germany |
| Bronze | Aleksandr Shlychkov Soviet Union |

## Results
### Final

28 July Wind: -2.8 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Andre Cason | United States | 10.22 |
| | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 10.28 |
| | Aleksandr Shlychkov | Soviet Union | 10.37 |
| 4 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 10.40 |
| 5 | Abdullah Tetengi | Nigeria | 10.47 |
| 6 | Darren Braithwaite | United Kingdom | 10.61 |
| 7 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.80 |
| 8 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 10.85 |

### Semifinals

28 July

#### Semifinal 1

Wind: -1.5 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aleksandr Shlychkov | Soviet Union | 10.40 | Q |
| 2 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 10.42 | Q |
| 3 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.62 | Q |
| 4 | Darren Braithwaite | United Kingdom | 10.62 | q |
| 5 | Fernando Botasso | Brazil | 10.84 | |
| 6 | Mitsushige Sugimoto | Japan | 10.86 | |
| 7 | Pascal Théophile | France | 10.88 | |
| 8 | Timothy Clinton | Bahamas | 11.01 | |

#### Semifinal 2

Wind: +0.8 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andre Cason | United States | 10.26 | Q |
| 2 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 10.30 | Q |
| 3 | Abdullah Tetengi | Nigeria | 10.44 | Q |
| 4 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 10.67 | q |
| 5 | Jamie Henderson | United Kingdom | 10.70 | |
| 6 | Anvar Kuchmuradov | Soviet Union | 10.73 | |
| 7 | Kevin Moore | Jamaica | 10.80 | |
| | Éric Perrot | France | DNS | |

### Quarterfinals

28 July

#### Quarterfinal 1

Wind: -2.9 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aleksandr Shlychkov | Soviet Union | 10.53 | Q |
| 2 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 10.76 | Q |
| 3 | Timothy Clinton | Bahamas | 10.95 | Q |
| 4 | Óscar Fernández | Peru | 11.01 | |
| 5 | Tim Jackson | Australia | 11.03 | |
| 6 | Leif Jonsson | Sweden | 11.10 | |
| 7 | Takayuki Nakamichi | Japan | 11.11 | |
| 8 | Milan Petaković | Yugoslavia | 11.19 | |

#### Quarterfinal 2

Wind: -2.2 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Abdullah Tetengi | Nigeria | 10.61 | Q |
| 2 | Kevin Moore | Jamaica | 10.82 | Q |
| 3 | Mitsushige Sugimoto | Japan | 10.87 | Q |
| 4 | Anvar Kuchmuradov | Soviet Union | 10.91 | q |
| 5 | Fernando Botasso | Brazil | 10.93 | q |
| 6 | Tony Lee | United States | 11.00 | |
| 7 | Eddy Winston | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 11.12 | |
| | Carlos Fernandes | Portugal | DNF | |

#### Quarterfinal 3

Wind: -2.3 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 10.59 | Q |
| 2 | Jamie Henderson | United Kingdom | 10.87 | Q |
| 3 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 10.88 | Q |
| 4 | Éric Perrot | France | 10.94 | q |
| 5 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 10.94 | |
| 6 | Stefan Peters | West Germany | 10.99 | |
| 7 | David Branle | Belgium | 11.10 | |
| 8 | Patrik Fallberg | Sweden | 11.31 | |

#### Quarterfinal 4

Wind: -1.8 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andre Cason | United States | 10.37 | Q |
| 2 | Darren Braithwaite | United Kingdom | 10.76 | Q |
| 3 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.79 | Q |
| 4 | Pascal Théophile | France | 10.86 | q |
| 5 | Gabriel Somma | Argentina | 10.95 | |
| 6 | David Dollé | Switzerland | 10.98 | |
| 7 | Troy Bennett | Australia | 10.99 | |
| 8 | Bart Buffel | Belgium | 11.06 | |

### Heats

27 July

#### Heat 1

Wind: +1.5 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Anvar Kuchmuradov | Soviet Union | 10.56 | Q |
| 2 | Kevin Moore | Jamaica | 10.62 | Q |
| 3 | Leif Jonsson | Sweden | 10.63 | Q |
| 4 | Gabriel Somma | Argentina | 10.68 | q |
| 5 | Tony Lee | United States | 10.79 | q |
| 6 | Mitchell Peters | U.S. Virgin Islands | 10.99 | |
| 7 | Percy Larame | Seychelles | 11.26 | |

#### Heat 2

Wind: -1.0 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Abdullah Tetengi | Nigeria | 10.45 | Q |
| 2 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 10.56 | Q |
| 3 | Fernando Botasso | Brazil | 10.70 | Q |
| 4 | Leonardo Prevot | Cuba | 10.90 | |
| 5 | Tseng Hsiao-Sheng | Chinese Taipei | 10.90 | |
| 6 | Kareem Streete-Thompson | Cayman Islands | 11.30 | |

#### Heat 3

Wind: +0.9 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aleksandr Shlychkov | Soviet Union | 10.54 | Q |
| 2 | Timothy Clinton | Bahamas | 10.70 | Q |
| 3 | Óscar Fernández | Peru | 10.79 | Q |
| 4 | Cyrus Allen | Jamaica | 10.84 | |
| 5 | Jimmy Stafford | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.92 | |
| 6 | Ally Nyonyi | Tanzania | 11.27 | |
| 7 | Eltaha Gariballa | Sudan | 11.91 | |

#### Heat 4

Wind: +1.4 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Takayuki Nakamichi | Japan | 10.51 | Q |
| 2 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.56 | Q |
| 3 | Tim Jackson | Australia | 10.65 | Q |
| 4 | Pascal Théophile | France | 10.67 | q |
| 5 | Henry Sebbale | Uganda | 10.99 | |
| 6 | Sheung Chau Wai | Hong Kong | 11.23 | |
| 7 | Reece Kalsakau | Vanuatu | 11.49 | |

#### Heat 5

Wind: +1.0 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 10.44 | Q |
| 2 | Darren Braithwaite | United Kingdom | 10.56 | Q |
| 3 | David Branle | Belgium | 10.73 | Q |
| 4 | Troy Bennett | Australia | 10.75 | q |
| 5 | Eddy Winston | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 10.83 | q |
| 6 | Sriyantha Dissanayake | Sri Lanka | 11.22 | |
| 7 | Alfredo Trujillo | Honduras | 11.59 | |

#### Heat 6

Wind: +0.6 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Mitsushige Sugimoto | Japan | 10.63 | Q |
| 2 | Jamie Henderson | United Kingdom | 10.67 | Q |
| 3 | Carlos Fernandes | Portugal | 10.71 | Q |
| 4 | David Dollé | Switzerland | 10.75 | q |
| 5 | Stefan Peters | West Germany | 10.75 | q |
| 6 | Dani Hakim | Lebanon | 11.96 | |

#### Heat 7

Wind: +1.2 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 10.69 | Q |
| 2 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 10.71 | Q |
| 3 | Bart Buffel | Belgium | 10.87 | Q |
| 4 | Stefan Terlinden | West Germany | 10.88 | |
| 5 | Derrick Dempster | Canada | 11.14 | |
| 6 | Robert Loua | Guinea | 11.25 | |
| 7 | Mohamed Abdulghani | Bangladesh | 11.41 | |

#### Heat 8

Wind: +0.6 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andre Cason | United States | 10.17 | Q |
| 2 | Éric Perrot | France | 10.61 | Q |
| 3 | Milan Petaković | Yugoslavia | 10.83 | Q |
| 4 | Patrik Fallberg | Sweden | 10.84 | q |
| 5 | Robert Clarke | Canada | 10.85 | |
| 6 | Athlee Ruan | Anguilla | 11.31 | |
| 7 | Paul Young | Western Samoa | 11.73 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.
* Anguilla (1)
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (2)
* Bahamas (1)
* Bangladesh (1)
* Belgium (2)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (2)
* Cayman Islands (1)
* Chinese Taipei (1)
* Cuba (1)
* East Germany (1)
* France (2)
* Guinea (1)
* Honduras (1)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Hungary (1)
* Jamaica (2)
* Japan (2)
* Lebanon (1)
* Nigeria (2)
* Peru (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
* Seychelles (1)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Sri Lanka (1)
* Sudan (1)
* Sweden (2)
* Switzerland (1)
* Tanzania (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (2)
* Uganda (1)
* United Kingdom (2)
* United States (2)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
* Vanuatu (1)
* West Germany (2)
* Western Samoa (1)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)