# 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 100 metres

The boys' 100 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 6 and 7 July. The event was won by Odail Todd of Jamaica, who was only drafted into the event after World Youth leader Jazeel Murphy was forced to withdraw due to injury. Odean Skeen, the 2010 Youth Olympic 100 m champion, also had to withdraw prior to the event.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Odail Todd Jamaica | Kazuma Oseto Japan | Méba-Mickaël Zeze France |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World Youth Best | Rynell Parson (USA) | 10.23 | Indianapolis, United States | 21 June 2007 |
| Championship Record | Darrel Brown (TRI) | 10.31 | Debrecen, Hungary | 13 July 2001 |
| World Youth Leading | Jazeel Murphy (JAM) | 10.27 | Montego Bay, Jamaica | 23 April 2011 |
No new records were set during the competition.

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 10.70 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Mohammed Sico Ibrahim | Saudi Arabia | 10.79 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 5 | Chukwudike Harry | Nigeria | 10.90 | |
| 4 | 7 | Yan Lam Chan | Hong Kong | 10.96 | |
| 5 | 4 | Waisele Ledua | Fiji | 11.04 | |
| 6 | 6 | Luka Šakota | Croatia | 11.05 | PB |
| 7 | 1 | Ondrej Lengyel | Slovakia | 11.35 | |
| 8 | 2 | Mamadou Bah | Guinea | 11.83 | PB |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Jarrod Geddes | Australia | 10.66 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 6 | Chijindu Ujah | Great Britain | 10.77 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Jeneko Place | Bermuda | 10.88 | SB |
| 4 | 8 | Zhang Mingming | China | 10.95 | |
| 5 | 4 | Misael Rivera | Venezuela | 11.06 | PB |
| 6 | 7 | Péter Csuhai | Hungary | 11.13 | |
| 7 | 3 | Viktor Šarnjai | Serbia | 11.50 | |
| 8 | 1 | Vitalii Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 11.54 | PB |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Kazuya Tsukamoto | Japan | 10.79 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Tommey Outten | Bahamas | 11.00 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Humod Ali Al Wani | Saudi Arabia | 11.00 | |
| 4 | 4 | Flavio Lucena | Brazil | 11.04 | |
| 5 | 5 | Jean-Yves Esparon | Seychelles | 11.36 | |
| 6 | 1 | Julien Miguel Meunier | Mauritius | 11.57 | |
| 7 | 8 | Daniel Philimon | Vanuatu | 12.23 | PB |
| - | 7 | César Holguín | Dominican Republic | DNS | |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Delano Davis | Bahamas | 10.95 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Bradley Britz | South Africa | 10.96 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Giovanni Cellario | Italy | 10.99 | |
| 4 | 3 | Zong Tang Yan | Singapore | 11.07 | |
| 5 | 5 | Alexandr Kasper | Kazakhstan | 11.42 | |
| 6 | 1 | Brian Thomas | Grenada | 11.54 | |
| 7 | 8 | Enoka Kirata | Kiribati | 12.31 | PB |
| 8 | 4 | Sajith De Silva | Sri Lanka | 14.19 | |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Tahir Walsh | Antigua and Barbuda | 10.73 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Deon Hope | Barbados | 10.91 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Sebastián Acevedo | Argentina | 11.04 | |
| 4 | 6 | Rait Veesalu | Estonia | 11.13 | |
| 5 | 3 | Ioan Pitigoi | Romania | 11.15 | |
| 6 | 2 | Jonathan Oliver Permal | Mauritius | 11.28 | |
| 7 | 1 | Mahamadou Diane | Mali | 11.44 | PB |
| 8 | 5 | José-Nguema Nsue | Equatorial Guinea | 12.66 | PB |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Ronald Darby | United States | 10.67 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Gautier Dautremer | France | 10.84 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Kritsada Namsuwan | Thailand | 10.92 | |
| 4 | 6 | Henrik Overvåg | Norway | 11.05 | |
| 5 | 8 | Sergey Rassadnikov | Kazakhstan | 11.14 | |
| 6 | 7 | Orlando Gbahi | Ivory Coast | 11.24 | |
| 7 | 3 | Shaguoy Stephens | British Virgin Islands | 11.25 | |
| - | 4 | James Chutaro | Marshall Islands | DQ | |

### Heat 7

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 10.78 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Sapwaturrahman | Indonesia | 10.98 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Aykut Ay | Turkey | 10.99 | |
| 4 | 7 | Zenebe Madfu | Ethiopia | 11.08 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | Scott Clarke | Bermuda | 11.08 | PB |
| 6 | 3 | Rihards Parandjuks | Latvia | 11.31 | |
| 7 | 5 | Mihai Petrescu | Romania | 11.32 | |
| 8 | 2 | Juan Carlos López | Bolivia | 11.62 | |

### Heat 8

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Baban Bahaaldin Hasan | Iraq | 10.81 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Sergeal Petersen | South Africa | 10.87 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | César Ramírez | Mexico | 11.01 | SB |
| 3 | 7 | Furkan Sen | Turkey | 11.01 | |
| 5 | 4 | Daniel Engen Lauritzen | Norway | 11.07 | |
| 6 | 3 | Ahmed Mohamed Alshawoosh | Bahrain | 11.31 | PB |
| 7 | 8 | Jorge Óscar Caracassis | Argentina | 11.40 | |
| 8 | 5 | Sargis Kostandyan | Armenia | 11.60 | |

### Heat 9

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Andre Azonwanna | Canada | 10.70 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Hasanain Hasan Zubaiyen | Iraq | 10.89 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 2 | Ruttanapon Sowan | Thailand | 10.93 | |
| 4 | 3 | Lorenzo Bilotti | Italy | 11.00 | |
| 5 | 8 | Oleg Polovytsya | Ukraine | 11.22 | |
| 6 | 1 | Lukáš Mészáros | Slovakia | 11.49 | |
| 7 | 5 | Ansley Cooper | Liberia | 11.67 | PB |
| 8 | 4 | Alford Dyett | Montserrat | 12.03 | |

### Heat 10

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 10.60 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 1 | Wesley Best | Canada | 10.83 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Minsuk Choi | South Korea | 10.96 | |
| 4 | 3 | Carlos Nascimento | Portugal | 10.98 | |
| 5 | 4 | Volodymyr Suprun | Ukraine | 10.99 | PB |
| 6 | 7 | Renato dos Santos Junior | Brazil | 10.99 | |
| 7 | 8 | Husain Sameer Mubarak | Bahrain | 11.45 | PB |
| 8 | 6 | Abdulrazaq Al Mutairi | Kuwait | 11.65 | |

### Heat 11

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Marek Bakalár | Czech Republic | 10.79 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Dmitriy Sychev | Russia | 10.87 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Cejhae Greene | Antigua and Barbuda | 10.94 | PB |
| 4 | 7 | Mamus Emuobonuvie | Nigeria | 11.09 | |
| 5 | 8 | Hamza Bendoukkalia | Morocco | 11.42 | |
| 6 | 6 | Haitham Al Saadi | Oman | 11.60 | |
| 7 | 4 | Dave Prosper | Haiti | 11.80 | PB |
| 8 | 2 | Ramón Marcía | Honduras | 12.87 | PB |

### Heat 12

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Kazuma Oseto | Japan | 10.65 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Zhiyuan Donovan Chan | Singapore | 11.03 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Luka Žontar | Slovenia | 11.10 | |
| 4 | 2 | Juan Carlos Alanis | Mexico | 11.24 | |
| 5 | 4 | Khuphukile Jamaine Chilufya | Zimbabwe | 11.35 | PB |
| 6 | 3 | Jijin Vijayan | India | 11.38 | |
| 7 | 5 | Nicholas Hughes | Anguilla | 11.84 | |
| - | 7 | Erik Hagberg | Sweden | DNF | |

## Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 10.83 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Chijindu Ujah | Great Britain | 10.88 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Andre Azonwanna | Canada | 10.88 | |
| 4 | 4 | Tahir Walsh | Antigua and Barbuda | 10.94 | |
| 5 | 2 | Hasanain Hasan Zubaiyen | Iraq | 11.09 | |
| 6 | 8 | Dmitriy Sychev | Russia | 11.14 | |
| 7 | 5 | Delano Davis | Bahamas | 11.15 | |
| 8 | 1 | Zhiyuan Donovan Chan | Singapore | 11.30 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Jarrod Geddes | Australia | 10.76 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Ronald Darby | United States | 10.81 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 5 | Marek Bakalár | Czech Republic | 10.84 | |
| 4 | 3 | Kazuya Tsukamoto | Japan | 10.92 | |
| 5 | 7 | Gautier Dautremer | France | 11.00 | |
| 6 | 8 | Wesley Best | Canada | 11.00 | |
| 7 | 2 | Sapwaturrahman | Indonesia | 11.01 | |
| - | 1 | Bradley Britz | South Africa | DNS | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 10.67 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 4 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 10.69 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Kazuma Oseto | Japan | 10.75 | q |
| 4 | 8 | Mohammad Sico Ibrahim | Saudi Arabia | 10.78 | q, PB |
| 5 | 7 | Sergeal Petersen | South Africa | 10.89 | |
| 6 | 5 | Baban Bahaaldin Hasan | Iraq | 10.97 | |
| 7 | 2 | Deon Hope | Barbados | 11.06 | |
| 8 | 1 | Tommey Outten | Bahamas | 11.15 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 10.51 | PB |
| | 1 | Kazuma Oseto | Japan | 10.52 | |
| | 4 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 10.57 | |
| 4 | 8 | Ronald Darby | United States | 10.61 | PB |
| 5 | 6 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 10.62 | |
| 6 | 3 | Jarrod Geddes | Australia | 10.63 | PB |
| 7 | 2 | Mohammad Sico Ibrahim | Saudi Arabia | 10.63 | PB |
| 8 | 7 | Chijindu Ujah | Great Britain | 10.69 | |