Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres

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The Men's 100m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea ended in controversy, after Canada's Ben Johnson defeated defending champion Carl Lewis from the United States with a world record time of 9.79s. Two days after the final however, Johnson was stripped of his gold medal and sent packing by the IOC when his post-race drug test indicated steroid use. His amazing record time of 9.79 seconds was also erased.

Johnson was not the first Olympian to be caught with performance enhancing drugs, but he was a tremendously popular athlete involved in the highest-profile event of the Olympics. Johnson's drug scandal stoked a media frenzy and gave rise to the Dubin Inquiry into steroid use by Canadian athletes.

There were a total number of 103 athletes competing in the men's 100 metres in Seoul, with thirteen qualifying heats (103 competitors), five second-round races (40 competitors) and two semi-finals (16 competitors), before the final (8 competitors) took off on Saturday September 24, 1988.

1 Final
2 Semi Finals
3 See also
4 Reference

[edit] Final

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
	Carl Lewis	USA	9.92
	Linford Christie	GBR	9.97
	Calvin Smith	USA	9.99
4.	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.04
5.	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.11
6.	Desai Williams	CAN	10.11
7.	Ray Stewart	JAM	12.26
–	Ben Johnson	CAN	DSQ

[edit] Semi Finals

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
1.	Carl Lewis	USA	9.97
2.	Calvin Smith	USA	10.15
3.	Ray Stewart	JAM	10.38
4.	Desai Williams	CAN	10.24
5.	Arnaldo da Silva	BRA	10.32
6.	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	10.33
7.	Mardi Mardi	INA	10.39
8.	John Myles-Mills	GHA	10.43

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	COUNTRY	TIME
1.	Ben Johnson	CAN	10.03
2.	Linford Christie	GBR	10.11
3.	Dennis Mitchell	USA	10.23
4.	Robson da Silva	BRA	10.24
5.	Attila Kovács	HUN	10.31
6.	Juan Nuñez	DOM	10.35
7.	Isiaq Adeyanju	NGR	10.60
–	Vladimir Krylov	URS	DNS