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.

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.

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). 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.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete & Location Date World record 9.58 Berlin, Germany 16 August 2009 Championship record World Leading 9.75 Kingston, Jamaica 27 June 2025 African Record 9.77 Nairobi, Kenya 18 September 2021 Asian Record 9.83 Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021 European Record 9.80 North, Central American and Caribbean record 9.58 Berlin, Germany 16 August 2009 Oceanian record 9.93 Mito, Japan 5 May 2003 South American Record 9.93 São Paulo, Brazil 31 July 2025

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 10.00.

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

Date Time Round13 September 11:10 Preliminary round20:35 Heats14 September 20:45 Semi-finals22:20 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.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Christopher Borzor 10.41 2 5 Zaid Ashraf Omar Al-Awamleh 10.62 3 3 D'Angelo Huisden 10.89 4 4 Sanjay Weekes 11.08 5 9 Titali Kolomalu 11.29 6 1 Matthew Fiso 11.40 7 2 Salin Tort 11.42 8 7 Marcos Santos 11.72 — 8 Abdul Rahim Abdullah Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Saif Al-Rammahi 10.56 2 4 Dylan Sicobo 10.79 3 7 Olivier Mwimba 10.92 4 5 Winzar Kakiouea 10.93 5 3 Stanislaus Kostka 11.48 6 8 Tyson Chinn 11.55 7 2 Ty'ree Langidrik 11.68 8 9 Sean Penalver 11.87 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 7 Kuron Griffith 10.47 2 6 Alieu Joof 10.60 3 5 10.67 4 4 Hassan Saaid 10.84 5 3 Kenaz Kaniwete 11.10 6 9 Gregorio Ndong 11.48 7 2 Manuel Ataide 11.59 8 8 Theodore Cleveland Rodgers 12.13 Wind:

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.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Gift Leotlela 9.87 , 2 7 Kayinsola Ajayi 9.88 , 3 6 Oblique Seville 9.93 4 5 Romell Glave 10.00 , = 5 9 Zhenye Xie 10.21 = 6 3 Taymir Burnet 10.21 7 8 Mamadou Fall Sarr 10.25 8 2 Zaid Ashraf Omar Al-Awamleh 10.46 = Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Kishane Thompson 9.95 2 3 Eliezer Adjibi 10.19 3 6 Ronal Longa 10.21 4 8 Henrik Larsson 10.22 5 2 Simon Hansen 10.22 6 4 Eloy Benitez 10.23 7 7 10.37 8 9 Hassan Saaid 10.81 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Noah Lyles 9.95 2 7 Ackeem Blake 10.07 3 8 Terrence Jones 10.16 4 3 Ali Al-Balushi 10.25 5 6 Yoshihide Kiryu 10.28 6 2 Christopher Borzor 10.36 7 9 Kuron Griffith 10.40 8 4 Felipe Bardi 10.54 Wind:

Heat 4 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 6 Kenneth Bednarek 10.01 2 5 Jerome Blake 10.05 3 4 Jeremiah Azu 10.10 4 9 Puripol Boonson 10.15 5 3 Rohan Browning 10.16 6 8 Owen Ansah 10.21 7 7 Carlos Flórez 10.42 8 2 10.70 Wind:

Heat 5 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 8 Letsile Tebogo 10.07 2 2 Andre De Grasse 10.16 3 5 Courtney Lindsey 10.19 4 3 Rikkoi Brathwaite 10.23 5 7 Lucas Ansah-Peprah 10.25 6 6 Benjamin Azamati 10.30 7 4 Erik Cardoso 10.32 8 9 Dylan Sicobo 10.85 Wind:

Heat 6 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 3 Israel Okon 10.04 2 7 Zharnel Hughes 10.06 3 2 Lamont Marcel Jacobs 10.20 4 5 T'Mars McCallum 10.25 5 4 Davonte Howell 10.33 6 8 Joshua Azzopardi 10.41 7 6 Retshidisitswe Mlenga 10.42 8 9 10.54 Wind:

Heat 7 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Akani Simbine 10.02 2 7 Abdul-Rasheed Saminu 10.09 3 6 Ferdinand Omanyala 10.12 4 8 Elvis Afrifa 10.15 5 3 Xinrui Deng 10.23 6 5 Emmanuel Eseme 10.24 7 9 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown 10.37 8 2 Saif Al-Rammahi 10.58 Wind:

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.

Heat 1 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 5 Noah Lyles 9.92 2 7 Kayinsola Ajayi 9.93 3 6 Akani Simbine 9.96 4 8 Jeremiah Azu 10.05 5 4 Ackeem Blake 10.12 6 2 Lamont Marcel Jacobs 10.16 7 9 Elvis Afrifa 10.20 8 3 Eliezer Adjibi 10.27 Wind:

Heat 2 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 4 Kenneth Bednarek 9.85 1 5 Kishane Thompson 9.85 3 6 Zharnel Hughes 10.03 3 7 Jerome Blake 10.03 5 3 Ferdinand Omanyala 10.09 6 8 Terrence Jones 10.10 7 9 Puripol Boonson 10.17 8 2 Ronal Longa 10.23 Wind:

Heat 3 Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 8 Oblique Seville 9.86 2 5 Letsile Tebogo 9.94 , 3 4 Gift Leotlela 9.97 4 6 Abdul-Rasheed Saminu 10.08 5 3 Andre De Grasse 10.09 6 2 Romell Glave 10.09 7 7 Israel Okon 10.14 8 9 Courtney Lindsey 10.18 Wind:

Final Place Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 7 Oblique Seville 9.77 5 Kishane Thompson 9.82 4 Noah Lyles 9.89 4 6 Kenneth Bednarek 9.92 5 9 Gift Leotlela 9.95 6 3 Kayinsola Ajayi 10.00 7 2 Akani Simbine 10.04 — 8 Letsile Tebogo Wind:

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