# 1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

These are the results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece.

## Medalists

| Gold | Maurice Greene United States (USA) |
| Silver | Donovan Bailey Canada (CAN) |
| Bronze | Tim Montgomery United States (USA) |

## Results
### Heats

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 9 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 10.11 | Q, NR |
| 1 | 6 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.11 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 10.12 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Michael Marsh | United States | 10.16 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | Eric Nkansah | Ghana | 10.16 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | Donovan Bailey | Canada | 10.17 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | Percival Spencer | Jamaica | 10.18 | Q |
| 8 | 9 | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 10.21 | Q |
| 9 | 10 | Darren Campbell | Great Britain | 10.21 | Q, SB |
| 11 | 7 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 10.22 | Q |
| 11 | 11 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 10.22 | Q |
| 11 | 12 | Robert Esmie | Canada | 10.22 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | Davidson Ezinwa | Nigeria | 10.23 | Q |
| 15 | 8 | Seun Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 10.24 | Q |
| 15 | 12 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 10.24 | Q, SB |
| 17 | 4 | Stefano Tilli | Italy | 10.25 | Q, SB |
| 17 | 9 | Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | Russia | 10.25 | Q, SB |
| 19 | 4 | Marlon Devonish | Great Britain | 10.26 | q |
| 19 | 7 | Aziz Zakari | Ghana | 10.26 | Q, PB |
| 19 | 9 | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 10.26 | Q |
| 19 | 11 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 10.26 | Q |
| 23 | 1 | André da Silva | Brazil | 10.28 | Q |
| 23 | 9 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 10.28 | q, NR |
| 25 | 5 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 10.30 | Q |
| 25 | 10 | Yiannis Zisimides | Cyprus | 10.30 | q, SB |
| 27 | 1 | Jean-Olivier Zirignon | Ivory Coast | 10.31 | Q |
| 28 | 3 | Maurice Greene | United States | 10.32 | Q |
| 28 | 3 | Peter Karlsson | Sweden | 10.32 | Q, SB |
| 28 | 8 | Charalambos Papadias | Greece | 10.32 | Q |
| 28 | 11 | Jone Delai | Fiji | 10.32 | Q |
| 28 | 13 | Bruny Surin | Canada | 10.32 | Q |
| 33 | 6 | Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda | Cuba | 10.33 | Q |
| 34 | 4 | Renward Wells | Bahamas | 10.34 | q |
| 34 | 4 | Martin Lachkovics | Austria | 10.34 | q, PB |
| 34 | 11 | Donovan Powell | Jamaica | 10.34 | q |
| 37 | 5 | Anninos Marcoullides | Cyprus | 10.35 | Q |
| 37 | 7 | Sayon Cooper | Liberia | 10.35 | q |
| 39 | 12 | Prodromos Katsantonis | Cyprus | 10.36 | q |
| 40 | 2 | Marcin Krzywański | Poland | 10.37 | Q |
| 41 | 2 | Andrey Fedoriv | Russia | 10.38 | Q |
| 41 | 8 | Ryszard Pilarczyk | Poland | 10.38 | Q |
| 42 | 2 | Stephane Cali | France | 10.39 | Q |
| 44 | 10 | Hiroyasu Tsuchie | Japan | 10.40 | q |
| 45 | 3 | Piotr Balcerzak | Poland | 10.41 | Q |
| 45 | 12 | Augustine Nketia | New Zealand | 10.41 | |
| 47 | 3 | Per Ivar Sivle | Norway | 10.42 | |
| 47 | 6 | Ian Mackie | Great Britain | 10.42 | Q |
| 47 | 7 | Ousmane Diarra | Mali | 10.42 | |
| 50 | 1 | Chris Donaldson | New Zealand | 10.43 | Q |
| 50 | 6 | Carlos Gats | Argentina | 10.43 | SB |
| 50 | 11 | Chintake De Zoysa | Sri Lanka | 10.43 | |
| 50 | 13 | Erik Wijmeersch | Belgium | 10.43 | Q |
| 54 | 2 | Torbjörn Mårtensson | Sweden | 10.46 | |
| 54 | 5 | Koji Ito | Japan | 10.46 | |
| 56 | 6 | Miguel Janssen | Aruba | 10.47 | |
| 57 | 13 | Saad Al-Kuwari | Qatar | 10.48 | Q |
| 58 | 1 | Carlton Chambers | Canada | 10.49 | |
| 58 | 11 | Anvar Kuchmuradov | Uzbekistan | 10.49 | |
| 60 | 6 | Ibrahim Meité | Ivory Coast | 10.50 | |
| 60 | 8 | Issa-Aime Nthepe | Cameroon | 10.50 | |
| 60 | 9 | Carlos Villaseñor | Mexico | 10.50 | |
| 63 | 1 | Paulo Neves | Portugal | 10.51 | |
| 64 | 3 | Dennis Mowatt | Jamaica | 10.52 | |
| 64 | 5 | Joseph Styles | Bahamas | 10.52 | |
| 66 | 6 | Carlos Moreno | Chile | 10.53 | |
| 67 | 7 | Frutos Feo | Spain | 10.54 | |
| 68 | 12 | Ivan Šlehobr | Czech Republic | 10.55 | |
| 69 | 13 | Juan Pedro Toledo | Mexico | 10.56 | |
| 70 | 2 | Neil Ryan | Ireland | 10.57 | |
| 71 | 5 | Alexandros Genovelis | Greece | 10.58 | |
| 72 | 13 | Jose Illan | Spain | 10.60 | |
| 73 | 2 | Tommy Kafri | Israel | 10.64 | |
| 73 | 8 | Tomaž Božič | Slovenia | 10.64 | |
| 75 | 8 | Horace Dove-Edwin | Sierra Leone | 10.65 | |
| 76 | 4 | Ruslan Rusidze | Georgia | 10.67 | |
| 76 | 5 | Wai Lok To | Hong Kong | 10.67 | |
| 78 | 3 | Nigel Jones | Grenada | 10.68 | |
| 79 | 2 | Patrick Mocci Raoumbe | Gabon | 10.69 | |
| 80 | 7 | Lee Heyeong-Gum | South Korea | 10.73 | |
| 81 | 3 | Antonio Serpas | El Salvador | 10.77 | |
| 81 | 12 | Peter Pulu | Papua New Guinea | 10.77 | |
| 83 | 1 | Pascal Dangbo | Benin | 10.78 | |
| 83 | 3 | De-Von Bean | Bermuda | 10.78 | |
| 85 | 9 | Gabriel Simon | Argentina | 10.79 | |
| 86 | 7 | Mohd Mahbub Alam | Bangladesh | 10.83 | |
| 87 | 1 | Toluta'u Koula | Tonga | 10.85 | |
| 88 | 9 | Maocha Mpho | Botswana | 10.86 | |
| 89 | 8 | Mario Bonello | Malta | 10.92 | |
| 89 | 13 | Amarildo Almeida | Guinea-Bissau | 10.92 | |
| 91 | 10 | Laurence Jack | Vanuatu | 10.97 | |
| 92 | 12 | Trevor Davis | Angola | 11.07 | |
| 93 | 13 | Huang Hsin-Ping | Chinese Taipei | 11.09 | |
| 94 | 4 | Albert Shaw Elston | Belize | 11.13 | |
| 95 | 8 | Mohamed Amir | Maldives | 11.18 | NR |
| 96 | 10 | Detrickson Anson | Federated States of Micronesia | 11.47 | |
| 97 | 1 | Watson Nyambek | Malaysia | 11.60 | |
| 98 | 2 | Nelson Kabitana | Solomon Islands | 11.61 | |
| 99 | 11 | Norberto Nsue Ondo | Equatorial Guinea | 11.65 | |
| 100 | 11 | Daniel Adachi | Palau | 11.90 | |
| 101 | 5 | Kim Collins | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 21.73 | |
| | 9 | Venancio José | Spain | DQ | |
| | 10 | Igor Strakh | Ukraine | DNF | |

### Quarterfinals

First 2 of each Heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 9.87 | Q, WL |
| 2 | 1 | Maurice Greene | United States | 9.90 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 9.99 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 9.99 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Michael Marsh | United States | 10.05 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Bruny Surin | Canada | 10.06 | Q, SB |
| 7 | 3 | Donovan Bailey | Canada | 10.10 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | Davidson Ezinwa | Nigeria | 10.11 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Darren Campbell | Great Britain | 10.13 | q, PB |
| 10 | 5 | Eric Nkansah | Ghana | 10.15 | Q |
| 11 | 5 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 10.17 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 10.17 | q |
| 13 | 3 | Sayon Cooper | Liberia | 10.21 | q |
| 13 | 6 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 10.21 | q |
| 15 | 1 | Andrey Fedoriv | Russia | 10.22 | |
| 15 | 2 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 10.22 | Q |
| 17 | 1 | Charalambos Papadias | Greece | 10.23 | PB |
| 17 | 4 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 10.23 | Q, SB |
| 19 | 1 | Ian Mackie | Great Britain | 10.24 | |
| 20 | 2 | Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda | Cuba | 10.25 | |
| 20 | 4 | Jean-Olivier Zirignon | Ivory Coast | 10.25 | |
| 20 | 5 | Robert Esmie | Canada | 10.25 | |
| 23 | 3 | Ryszard Pilarczyk | Poland | 10.26 | PB |
| 24 | 4 | Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | Russia | 10.27 | |
| 25 | 6 | Aziz Zakari | Ghana | 10.29 | |
| 26 | 5 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 10.31 | |
| 27 | 2 | Piotr Balcerzak | Poland | 10.32 | |
| 28 | 1 | Marcin Krzywański | Poland | 10.33 | |
| 28 | 2 | Prodromos Katsantonis | Cyprus | 10.33 | |
| 28 | 4 | Seun Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 10.33 | |
| 31 | 2 | Erik Wijmeersch | Belgium | 10.34 | |
| 31 | 5 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 10.34 | |
| 33 | 4 | Donovan Powell | Jamaica | 10.35 | |
| 34 | 5 | Stefano Tilli | Italy | 10.36 | |
| 35 | 4 | Marlon Devonish | Great Britain | 10.37 | |
| 35 | 6 | Yiannis Zisimides | Cyprus | 10.37 | |
| 37 | 1 | Hiroyasu Tsuchie | Japan | 10.38 | |
| 38 | 4 | Anninos Marcoullides | Cyprus | 10.39 | |
| 38 | 6 | Martin Lachkovics | Austria | 10.39 | |
| 40 | 1 | Chris Donaldson | New Zealand | 10.40 | |
| 40 | 3 | Saad Al-Kuwari | Qatar | 10.40 | PB |
| 40 | 3 | Peter Karlsson | Sweden | 10.40 | |
| 43 | 6 | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 10.41 | |
| 44 | 2 | Stephane Cali | France | 10.47 | |
| 44 | 5 | Jone Delai | Fiji | 10.47 | |
| 46 | 5 | Renward Wells | Bahamas | 10.57 | |
| 47 | 3 | André da Silva | Brazil | 12.56 | |
| | 2 | Percival Spencer | Jamaica | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Maurice Greene | United States | 9.90 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Donovan Bailey | Canada | 9.91 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 2 | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 9.93 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.00 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 10.08 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Davidson Ezinwa | Nigeria | 10.15 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Eric Nkansah | Ghana | 10.18 | |
| 8 | 2 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 10.20 | |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Marsh | United States | 10.21 | Q |
| 10 | 1 | Bruny Surin | Canada | 10.22 | Q |
| 11 | 1 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 10.29 | |
| 12 | 1 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 10.30 | |
| 12 | 2 | Sayon Cooper | Liberia | 10.30 | |
| 14 | 1 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 10.33 | |
| 14 | 2 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 10.33 | |
| 16 | 1 | Darren Campbell | Great Britain | 10.37 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Maurice Greene | United States | 9.86 | =CR |
| | 4 | Donovan Bailey | Canada | 9.91 | |
| | 7 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 9.94 | |
| 4 | 2 | Frankie Fredericks | Namibia | 9.95 | |
| 5 | 6 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 10.02 | |
| 6 | 5 | Davidson Ezinwa | Nigeria | 10.10 | |
| 7 | 1 | Bruny Surin | Canada | 10.12 | |
| 8 | 8 | Michael Marsh | United States | 10.29 | |