# Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1977 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 19 and 20 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Silvio Leonard Cuba | Petar Petrov Bulgaria | Osvaldo Lara Cuba |

## Results
### Heats

Held on 19 August
Wind: Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +1.0 m/s, Heat 4: -1.4 m/s, Heat 7: -0.6 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Harvey Glance | United States | 10.33 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Cole Doty | Canada | 10.44 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Philippe Pastre | France | 10.61 | q |
| 4 | 1 | Peter Matejka | Austria | 10.71 | |
| 1 | 2 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.59 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Sirious Zare | Iran | 11.03 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Jesus Cabrera | Portugal | 11.09 | |
| 4 | 2 | Selim Ergun | Turkey | 11.24 | |
| 5 | 2 | Nabil Nahri | Syria | 11.26 | |
| 6 | 2 | Reijo Byman | Finland | 11.6 | |
| 7 | 2 | Awad Draj Hussein | Sudan | 11.6 | |
| 1 | 3 | Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.33 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Josep Carbonell | Spain | 10.41 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 3 | Stefano Rasori | Italy | 10.50 | q |
| 4 | 3 | Paul Narracott | Australia | 10.61 | |
| 5 | 3 | Antoine Kiakouama | Congo | 10.80 | |
| 6 | 3 | Mohamed Kamal | Kuwait | 11.4 | |
| 1 | 4 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 10.33 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 10.46 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Mike Kee | United States | 10.48 | q |
| 4 | 4 | Jean-Claude Amoureux | France | 10.58 | q |
| 5 | 4 | Patrick Wamister | Switzerland | 10.79 | |
| 6 | 4 | Bello Akele Misban | Kuwait | 11.2 | |
| 7 | 4 | Mosnaraf Hassan Shamin | Bangladesh | 11.3 | |
| 1 | 5 | Roland Bombardella | Luxembourg | 10.51 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Franco Fändrich | Switzerland | 10.57 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Stoyko Stoykov | Bulgaria | 10.97 | |
| 4 | 5 | Gerhard Oberreiter | Austria | 11.16 | |
| 1 | 6 | Lutz Jänicke | East Germany | 10.37 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.38 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Leszek Dunecki | Poland | 10.38 | q |
| 4 | 6 | Renno Roeland | Belgium | 10.60 | q |
| 5 | 6 | Jeffrey Matahelemual | Indonesia | 10.76 | |
| 6 | 6 | Alan Bell | Great Britain | 10.8 | |
| 7 | 6 | Sabidou Touré | Senegal | 10.9 | |
| 1 | 7 | Aleksandr Aksinin | Soviet Union | 10.35 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Jan Alończyk | Poland | 10.35 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Mula Imekki Fadlel | Sudan | 10.73 | |
| 4 | 7 | José Cartas | Mexico | 10.99 | |
| 5 | 7 | Mohamed Khlil | Jordan | 11.95 | |
| 1 | 8 | Luciano Caravani | Italy | 10.20 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Théophile Nkounkou | Congo | 10.28 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Endre Léopold | Hungary | 10.41 | q |
| 4 | 8 | Ulrich Haupt | West Germany | 10.60 | q |
| 5 | 8 | Güner Güngör | Turkey | 10.92 | |

### Semifinals

Held on 20 August
Wind: Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.21 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Lutz Jänicke | East Germany | 10.34 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.35 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 10.36 | q |
| 5 | 2 | Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.39 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Leszek Dunecki | Poland | 10.39 | q |
| 7 | 3 | Luciano Caravani | Italy | 10.42 | |
| 8 | 2 | Harvey Glance | United States | 10.48 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Josep Carbonell | Spain | 10.52 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Cole Doty | Canada | 10.54 | |
| 11 | 3 | Renno Roeland | Belgium | 10.55 | |
| 12 | 2 | Théophile Nkounkou | Congo | 10.56 | |
| 13 | 3 | Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 10.57 | |
| 14 | 2 | Aleksandr Aksinin | Soviet Union | 10.58 | |
| 15 | 1 | Roland Bombardella | Luxembourg | 10.61 | |
| 16 | 1 | Jan Alończyk | Poland | 10.62 | |
| 17 | 1 | Mike Kee | United States | 10.63 | |
| 18 | 2 | Franco Fändrich | Switzerland | 10.65 | |
| 19 | 1 | Endre Léopold | Hungary | 10.74 | |
| 20 | 1 | Jean-Claude Amoureux | France | 10.79 | |
| 21 | 2 | Stefano Rasori | Italy | 10.79 | |
| 22 | 2 | Ulrich Haupt | West Germany | 10.81 | |
| 23 | 2 | Philippe Pastre | France | 10.89 | |
| 24 | 1 | Sirious Zare | Iran | 10.98 | |

### Final

Held on 20 August
Wind: +0.2 m/s
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Silvio Leonard | Cuba | 10.08 |
| | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.19 |
| | Osvaldo Lara | Cuba | 10.31 |
| 4 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 10.35 |
| 5 | Lutz Jänicke | East Germany | 10.37 |
| 6 | Harvey Glance | United States | 10.37 |
| 7 | Leszek Dunecki | Poland | 10.44 |
| 8 | Josep Carbonell | Spain | 10.49 |