Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
| Men's 100 metres at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
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Maurice Greene |
 United States
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Ato Boldon |
 Trinidad and Tobago
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Obadele Thompson |
 Barbados
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The Men's 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics programme were held at Stadium Australia on Friday 22 September and Saturday 23 September 2000.
The top three runners in each of the initial eleven heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next eight fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. Those 41 runners competed in 5 heats in the second round, with the top three runners from each heat and the single next fastest runner qualifying for the semifinals. There were two semifinals, and only the top four from each heat advanced to the final.
World and Olympic records prior to the Games.
All times shown are in seconds.
Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm
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