At half-time of the 2024 Olympic Games, THE highlight takes place this weekend: the men’s 100m race.
The 100 meter Olympic race takes place on Sunday evening at 9:50 pm. The live broadcast can be seen on ARD and Eurosport.
Here you can find all information about the men’s 100m Olympic sprint: schedule and start time for heats, semi-finals and final, TV and streaming coverage as well as the favorites forecast with betting odds.
100m run Olympia 2024: time & broadcast
Date & Time: When is the men’s 100m Olympic sprint?
The men’s 100m Olympic 2024 race is one of the highlights, if not THE highlight, of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
When is the men’s 100m race at the 2024 Olympics?
The men’s 100m Olympic final will take place on Sunday, August 4. The start time is 21:50.
Qualification and the heats for the grand final of the 10-second running spectacle begin the day before on Saturday (August 3).
The three semi-finals will take place on Sunday evening, when it will be decided which eight runners will compete for the medals and perhaps the world record in the 100m Olympic final.
100m men’s schedule: Dates with time
- Sat., 03.08., 10:35 am: Preliminary heat 1
- Sat., 03.08., 10:43 a.m.: Pre-run 2
- Sa., 03.08., 10:51 a.m.: Pre-run 3
- Sat., 03.08., 10:59 a.m.: Pre-run 4
- Sat., 03.08., 11:07 a.m.: Pre-run 5
- Sa., 03.08., 11:55 am: 1st round (1st heat)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:04: 1st round (2nd run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:13 hrs: 1st lap (3rd run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:22 hrs: 1st lap (4th run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:31 hrs: 1st lap (5th run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:40 hrs: 1st lap (6th run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:49 hrs: 1st round (7th run)
- Sat., 03.08., 12:58 hrs: 1st round (8th run)
- Sun., 04.08., 20:05: Semi-final 1
- Sun., 04.08., 20:14: Semi-final 2
- Sun., 04.08., 20:23: Semi-final 3
- Sun., 04.08., 21:50: Final
Olympics schedule: Heats & semi-finals for the 100 m men’s race
For the 100m final, the eight participants must first qualify via the heats. There are three rounds in total.
A total of 13 heats are scheduled on the men’s 100m Olympic 2024 schedule. The first five, also known as qualifying, will take place on Saturday morning from 10:35 to 11:07.
Part 2 of the 100 meter Olympic heats with the 1st round will follow directly afterwards. The start of the eight elimination races is at 11:55 am. At 12:59 p.m. it will be clear who can continue to dream of the final and a medal in the 100m Olympic semi-final.
The semi-finals, and therefore the third and final round on the 10m Olympia 2024 schedule, will take place on Sunday evening. The start times for the three semifinal heats of the men’s 100 meters are 8:05 pm, 8:14 pm and 8:23 pm.
Those who qualify for the final will not have a long break – because the final for the Olympic medals will start a few hours later. The start time for the men’s 100m Olympic final is 21:50.
About ten seconds later you will know who has won gold, silver and bronze
100m Olympic broadcast on TV: Who will be showing the men’s 100m final live on August 4?
The men’s 100m Olympic race is one of the sporting highlights of the year, and not just for athletics fans. The 2024 Olympics will be broadcast in full on free-to-air TV in Germany. On the one hand on ARD and ZDF, which alternate daily in the live coverage, and on Eurosport.
Who is broadcasting the men’s 100m Olympic race?
The men’s 100m Olympic 2024 race will be broadcast live on ARD. Not only the final will be shown live on ARD, but also the three semi-finals from 20:05.
Eurosport will also be showing the men’s 100 meter sprint race live on Sunday.
Both ARD and Eurosport will also be offering a 100m Olympic live stream as part of their TV broadcasts. This is available on sportschau.de and in the ARD media library as well as on discoery+ and also on the sports streaming service DAZN, where Eurosport is included.
The favorites for the 100m Olympic men’s race 2024
According to the 100m Olympic forecast by experts and betting providers, there are several favorites who have a good chance of winning gold before the Olympic 100m race.
These include Noah Lyles (current 100m world champion) and Marcell Jacobs, the 2021 Olympic champion.
Another hot tip for gold among the 100m favorites is Jamaican Kishane Thompson, who ran the fastest 100m time this year
Noah Leyles – next 100 meter Olympic champion from the USA?
Noah Leyles’ name is at the top of every Olympic 100m race prediction.
Lyles is the reigning world champion in the 100 meters. He won in Budapest last year in 9.83 seconds.
The 27-year-old American’s personal best is 9.81 seconds – set recently in July 2024. However, he would not have won Olympic gold in 2021 with this time – Marcell Jacobs’ winning time at the time was 9.80 seconds.
By the way: The last 100-metre Olympic champion from the USA was Justin Gatlin in 2004. After that came the era of Usain Bolt
Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs – (not) an Olympic 100 m favorite?
Where is the 2021 Olympic champion among all the 100 meter Olympic 2024 favorites?
Marcell Jacobs stunned the (athletics) world in Tokyo when he surprisingly sprinted to gold in 9.80 seconds.
Since his heroic performance in Tokyo, however, the 27-year-old Italian, who was born in the USA, has shown only hints of the form that won him the Olympic gold medal. In fact, only when he won the 60 m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade and the 100 m at the European Championships in Munich.
He was unable to compete at last year’s World Championships due to injury and missed the final at the 2023 World Championships.
Who is 100 m secret favorite Kishane Thompson?
One man who could sprint into the international limelight in the Olympic 100m is Kishane Thompson.
The 23-year-old Jamaican made his 100m debut in the Diamond League on July 21, 2023 in Monaco, where he finished fifth in 10.04 seconds. In September 2023, he improved his personal best over 100 meters to 9.85 seconds and finished second at the Diamond League in Xiamen (China).
In 2024, he sprinted among the 100 m Olympic favorites with a time of 9.77 seconds.
More Olympic 100 meter favorites
Who else is among the 100 m Olympic favorites for the final on Sunday?
Letsile Tebogo sprinted to the silver medal behind Noah Lyles at the 2023 World Championships – with a time of 9.88 seconds. This is also the personal best for the man from Botswana.
Alongside Thompson, Oblique Seville is the second Jamaican among the Olympic 100 meter favorites for the medals. At the World Championships he finished fourth with a time of 9.88 – he was only four thousandths (!) slower than Tebogo.
Two other big names are only among the outsiders in the 100 meter sprint transfer. Fred Kerley (USA), the silver medal winner from the 2021 Olympics (time 9.84 at the time) and Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, who sprinted to bronze at the 2023 World Championships.
Kerley is only the third person to have a best time of under 10 seconds at 100 meters, under 20 seconds at 200 meters and under 44 seconds at 400 meters.
Akani Simbine could also be counted on for the 100m Olympic men’s sprint final. The South African comes to Paris in fourth place at the Tokyo Olympics (time 9.93). His personal best is 9.84 seconds.
Personal best times of the 100 m Olympic 2024 favorites:
- Kishane Thompson: 9.77 seconds (June 2024)
- Marcell Jacobs: 9.80 seconds (Tokyo 2021)
- Noah Lyles: 9.81 seconds (August 2023)
- Oblique Seville: 9.82 seconds (June 2024)
- Zharnel Hughes: 9.83 seconds (June 2023)
- Akani Simbine: 9.84 seconds (July 2023)
- Fred Kerley: 9.86 seconds (August 2023)
- Letsile Tebogo: 9.88 seconds (August 2023)
Will there be a new world record in the 100m Olympic race?
One of the most exciting questions, apart from the world champion, is whether one of the runners will set a new world record.
According to the estimates, this is not likely to happen in the 100m race. Both in 2008 (9.69) and four years later (9.63), Usain Bolt was much faster than this year’s contenders with their best performance of the year.
It therefore seems rather unlikely that we will see a new world record in the final of the 100m World Championships
The 100m world record runs since 1994
- 1994: Leroy Burrell (USA) – 9.85 seconds
- 1996: Donovan Bailey (CAN) – 9.84 seconds
- 1999: Maurice Greene (USA) – 9.79 seconds
- 2005: Asafa Powell (JAM) – 9.77 seconds
- 2006: Asafa Powell (JAM) – 9.77 seconds
- 2006: Asafa Powell (JAM) – 9.77 seconds
- 2007: Asafa Powell (JAM) – 9.77 seconds
- 2008: Usain Bolt (JAM) – 9.72 seconds
- 2008: Usain Bolt (JAM) – 9.69 seconds
- 2009: Usain Bolt (JAM) – 9.58 seconds
