On the second day, the proceedings will begin with three semi-final races. Each race has nine sprinters. From these, the top two in each heat and next two fastest will advance to the final later in the day.
The field includes defending Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy. Other notable names include world No. 1 Noah Lyles of the USA, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medal winner in the 200m and the reigning world champion in both the 100m and 200m.
Canada’s Andre De Grasse, the defending 200m champion and 100m bronze medallist in Tokyo and Fred Kerley, runner-up in the 100m in Tokyo and a 2022 world champion, make up the stacked field.
Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson has the world-leading time of 9.77 seconds, set when he won the Olympic trials in Kingston. Kenya's African record holder Ferdinand Omanyala holds the second-fastest time of the season.
Noah Lyle is third with a season-best of 9.81, set at the London Diamond League last month, followed by Jamaica’s Oblique Seville, just a hundredth off. Marcell Jacobs’ best effort this year has been a 9.92.
Usain Bolt holds both the 100m Olympic record of 9.63s, set at London 2012, and the world record time of 9.58s, set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Australia had two entries for the 100m event at the Paris 2024 Olympics – Rohan Browning and Joshua Azzopardi. Both participated in round 1 and were knocked out.
Joshua Azzopardi ran 10.20s in heat 2 to finish fourth while Rohan Browning ran in heat 6 and clocked a season-best 10.29 to finish sixth.
