2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres
at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
VenueNational Stadium
LocationTokyo, Japan
Dates13 September (preliminary rounds & heats)
14 September (semi-finals & final)
Competitors77 from 52 nations
Winning time9.77 PB
Medalists
gold medal Oblique Seville   Jamaica
silver medal Kishane Thompson   Jamaica
bronze medal Noah Lyles   United States
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The men's 100 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 13 and 14 September 2025.[1]

Summary

Through the 2025 season, Kishane Thompson came in as the World leader, his 9.75 at the Jamaican Championships making him #6 of all time. During the opening heats he had such a lead he shut it down early and still cruised to a 9.95. Defending champion Noah Lyles had already been beaten by Thompson in the Diamond League. He ran a more serious race to equal 9.95. Snakebit at the last three major championships, Oblique Seville again showed signs of brilliance this season. He had the misfortune to get seeded into the fast heat as Gift Leotlela and Kayinsola Ajayi battled to sub 9.9 times in the heats, making Seville's 9.93 look like a desperate rescue.[2]

Lyles and Ajayi ran through semi final one easily enough, bringing Akani Simbine sub 10 for a time qualifier. The highlight of the semis was the second heat where Thompson and Kenny Bednarek battled to an exact time tie at 9.844. In an extreme statistical rarity, 3rd and 4th place Zharnel Hughes and Jerome Blake also had an exact time tie in a non-qualifying 10.022. In the third semi, Seville showed his brilliance with a 9.86 separating from returning silver medalist and Olympic 200 gold medalist Letsile Tebogo.

In the final, Letsile Tebogo left everybody in the blocks. Unfortunately, the gun hadn't fired yet. After some discussion, he was disqualified. On the second calling, Oblique Seville (0.157s) and Kishane Thompson (0.160s) had the quickest reaction times, while Bednarek had the slowest reaction time (0.211s).[3] By the halfway point, Thompson had a step on everybody but Seville. Over the last half, Noah Lyles accelerated in the final metres to secure third place, while Seville matched that kind of speed to ease past Thompson and take the win. Seville's winning time of 9.77 put him into the top ten of all time.[4]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[5]

Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date
World record  Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58 Berlin, Germany 16 August 2009
Championship record
World Leading  Kishane Thompson (JAM) 9.75 Kingston, Jamaica 27 June 2025
African Record  Ferdinand Omanyala (KEN) 9.77 Nairobi, Kenya 18 September 2021
Asian Record  Su Bingtian (CHN) 9.83 Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021
European Record  Marcell Jacobs (ITA) 9.80
North, Central American and Caribbean record  Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.58 Berlin, Germany 16 August 2009
Oceanian record  Patrick Johnson (AUS) 9.93 Mito, Japan 5 May 2003
South American Record  Erik Cardoso (BRA) 9.93 São Paulo, Brazil 31 July 2025

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 10.00.[6]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:[1]

Date Time Round
13 September 11:10 Preliminary round
20:35 Heats
14 September 20:45 Semi-finals
22:20 Final

Results

Preliminary round

The preliminary round took place on 13 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for round 1.[7]

Heat 1

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 6 Christopher Borzor  Haiti 10.41 Q
2 5 Zaid Ashraf Omar Al-Awamleh  Jordan 10.62 Q
3 3 D'Angelo Huisden  Suriname 10.89
4 4 Sanjay Weekes  Montserrat 11.08
5 9 Titali Kolomalu  Tonga 11.29 PB
6 1 Matthew Fiso  American Samoa 11.40 PB
7 2 Salin Tort  Cambodia 11.42 SB
8 7 Marcos Santos  Angola 11.72
— 8 Abdul Rahim Abdullah  Brunei DNF
[8] Wind: (−0.8 m/s)

Heat 2

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 6 Saif Al-Rammahi  Iraq 10.56 Q
2 4 Dylan Sicobo  Seychelles 10.79 Q
3 7 Olivier Mwimba  DR Congo 10.92
4 5 Winzar Kakiouea  Nauru 10.93
5 3 Stanislaus Kostka  Micronesia 11.48 SB
6 8 Tyson Chinn  Palau 11.55
7 2 Ty'ree Langidrik  Marshall Islands 11.68 SB
8 9 Sean Penalver  Gibraltar 11.87 SB
[8] Wind: (−0.6 m/s)

Heat 3

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 7 Kuron Griffith  Barbados 10.47 Q
2 6 Alieu Joof  Gambia 10.60 Q
3 5 Favoris Muzrapov  Tajikistan 10.67 q
4 4 Hassan Saaid  Maldives 10.84 q
5 3 Kenaz Kaniwete  Kiribati 11.10
6 9 Gregorio Ndong  Equatorial Guinea 11.48 PB
7 2 Manuel Ataide  Timor-Leste 11.59 SB
8 8 Theodore Cleveland Rodgers  Northern Mariana Islands 12.13
[8] Wind: (−0.5 m/s)

Round 1 (heats)

Round 1 took place on 13 September. The first three athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next three fastest ( q ) qualified for the semi-finals.[9]

Heat 1

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 4 Gift Leotlela  South Africa 9.87 Q, PB
2 7 Kayinsola Ajayi  Nigeria 9.88 Q, PB
3 6 Oblique Seville  Jamaica 9.93 Q
4 5 Romell Glave  Great Britain & N.I. 10.00 q, =PB
5 9 Zhenye Xie  China 10.21 =SB
6 3 Taymir Burnet  Netherlands 10.21
7 8 Mamadou Fall Sarr  Senegal 10.25
8 2 Zaid Ashraf Omar Al-Awamleh  Jordan 10.46 =SB
[10] Wind: (+0.3 m/s)

Heat 2

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 5 Kishane Thompson  Jamaica 9.95 Q
2 3 Eliezer Adjibi  Canada 10.19 Q
3 6 Ronal Longa  Colombia 10.21 Q
4 8 Henrik Larsson  Sweden 10.22 [.216]
5 2 Simon Hansen  Denmark 10.22 [.218]
6 4 Eloy Benitez  Puerto Rico 10.23
7 7 Yuhi Mori  Japan 10.37
8 9 Hassan Saaid  Maldives 10.81 SB
[10] Wind: (+0.1 m/s)

Heat 3

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 5 Noah Lyles  United States 9.95 Q
2 7 Ackeem Blake  Jamaica 10.07 Q
3 8 Terrence Jones  Bahamas 10.16 Q
4 3 Ali Al-Balushi  Oman 10.25
5 6 Yoshihide Kiryu  Japan 10.28
6 2 Christopher Borzor  Haiti 10.36
7 9 Kuron Griffith  Barbados 10.40
8 4 Felipe Bardi  Brazil 10.54
[10] Wind: (−1.1 m/s)

Heat 4

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 6 Kenneth Bednarek  United States 10.01 Q
2 5 Jerome Blake  Canada 10.05 Q
3 4 Jeremiah Azu  Great Britain & N.I. 10.10 Q
4 9 Puripol Boonson  Thailand 10.15 q
5 3 Rohan Browning  Australia 10.16
6 8 Owen Ansah  Germany 10.21
7 7 Carlos Flórez  Colombia 10.42
8 2 Favoris Muzrapov  Tajikistan 10.70
[10] Wind: (−0.8 m/s)

Heat 5

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 8 Letsile Tebogo  Botswana 10.07 Q
2 2 Andre De Grasse  Canada 10.16 Q
3 5 Courtney Lindsey  United States 10.19 Q
4 3 Rikkoi Brathwaite  British Virgin Islands 10.23
5 7 Lucas Ansah-Peprah  Germany 10.25
6 6 Benjamin Azamati  Ghana 10.30
7 4 Erik Cardoso  Brazil 10.32
8 9 Dylan Sicobo  Seychelles 10.85
[10] Wind: (−1.2 m/s)

Heat 6

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 3 Israel Okon  Nigeria 10.04 Q
2 7 Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. 10.06 Q
3 2 Lamont Marcel Jacobs  Italy 10.20 Q
4 5 T'Mars McCallum  United States 10.25
5 4 Davonte Howell  Cayman Islands 10.33
6 8 Joshua Azzopardi  Australia 10.41
7 6 Retshidisitswe Mlenga  South Africa 10.42
8 9 Alieu Joof  Gambia 10.54
[10] Wind: (−0.6 m/s)

Heat 7

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 4 Akani Simbine  South Africa 10.02 Q
2 7 Abdul-Rasheed Saminu  Ghana 10.09 Q
3 6 Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya 10.12 Q
4 8 Elvis Afrifa  Netherlands 10.15 q
5 3 Xinrui Deng  China 10.23
6 5 Emmanuel Eseme  Cameroon 10.24
7 9 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown  Japan 10.37
8 2 Saif Al-Rammahi  Iraq 10.58
[10] Wind: (±0.0 m/s)

Semi-finals

The semi-finals took place on 14 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.[11]

Heat 1

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 5 Noah Lyles  United States 9.92 Q
2 7 Kayinsola Ajayi  Nigeria 9.93 Q
3 6 Akani Simbine  South Africa 9.96 q
4 8 Jeremiah Azu  Great Britain & N.I. 10.05
5 4 Ackeem Blake  Jamaica 10.12
6 2 Lamont Marcel Jacobs  Italy 10.16 SB
7 9 Elvis Afrifa  Netherlands 10.20
8 3 Eliezer Adjibi  Canada 10.27
[12] Wind: (+0.1 m/s)

Heat 2

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 4 Kenneth Bednarek  United States 9.85 [.844] Q
1 5 Kishane Thompson  Jamaica 9.85 [.844] Q
3 6 Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. 10.03 [.022]
3 7 Jerome Blake  Canada 10.03 [.022]
5 3 Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya 10.09
6 8 Terrence Jones  Bahamas 10.10
7 9 Puripol Boonson  Thailand 10.17
8 2 Ronal Longa  Colombia 10.23
[12] Wind: (+0.2 m/s)

Heat 3

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 8 Oblique Seville  Jamaica 9.86 Q
2 5 Letsile Tebogo  Botswana 9.94 Q, SB
3 4 Gift Leotlela  South Africa 9.97 q
4 6 Abdul-Rasheed Saminu  Ghana 10.08
5 3 Andre De Grasse  Canada 10.09 [.084]
6 2 Romell Glave  Great Britain & N.I. 10.09 [.089]
7 7 Israel Okon  Nigeria 10.14
8 9 Courtney Lindsey  United States 10.18
[12] Wind: (±0.0 m/s)

Final

Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 Oblique Seville  Jamaica 9.77 PB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Kishane Thompson  Jamaica 9.82
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 Noah Lyles  United States 9.89 SB
4 6 Kenneth Bednarek  United States 9.92
5 9 Gift Leotlela  South Africa 9.95
6 3 Kayinsola Ajayi  Nigeria 10.00
7 2 Akani Simbine  South Africa 10.04
— 8 Letsile Tebogo  Botswana DQ TR 16.8
[13] Wind: (+0.3 m/s)

References

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