Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

This was the third time the event was held. None of the previous runners competed in 1904. American Archie Hahn, had won the 1903 U.S. and Canadian championships; he had also taken the 60 metres and 200 metres titles earlier in the 1904 Olympics. He was heavily favored.[1]

The 1904 competition was one of only two Olympic Games (along with 1900) where the men's 100 metres was not the shortest sprint, with the 60 metres being held in those two years.

Canada was represented in the event for the first time. Hungary was the only other country, aside from the host, to send a runner; this made the United States and Hungary the only two nations to have appeared at each of the first three Olympic men's 100 metres events.

With fewer entrants than in 1900, the event was reduced from four rounds to two: heats and a final. The top two runners in each heat advanced to the final.

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1904 Summer Olympics.

World Record	10.8(*)	Luther Cary	Paris (FRA)	July 4, 1891
	10.8(*)	Cecil Lee	Brussels (BEL)	September 25, 1892
	10.8(*)	Etienne De Re	Brussels (BEL)	August 4, 1893
	10.8(*)	L. Atcherley	Frankfurt/Main (GER)	April 13, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harry Beaton	Rotterdam (NED)	August 28, 1895
	10.8(*)	Harald Anderson-Arbin	Helsingborg (SWE)	August 9, 1896
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 11, 1898
	10.8(*)	Isaac Westergren	Gävle (SWE)	September 10, 1899
	10.8(*)	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8(*)	Carl Ljung	Stockholm (SWE)	September 23, 1900
	10.8(*)	Walter Tewksbury	Philadelphia (USA)	October 6, 1900
	10.8(*)	André Passat	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Louis Kuhn	Bordeaux (FRA)	June 14, 1903
	10.8(*)	Harald Grønfeldt	Aarhus (DEN)	July 5, 1903
	10.8(*)	Eric Frick	Jönköping (SWE)	August 9, 1903
Olympic Record	10.8	Frank Jarvis	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900
	10.8	Walter Tewksbury	Paris (FRA)	July 14, 1900

(*) unofficial

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 13 December 2006.