| Final 18:00 | time | | | | 1. Valeriy Borzov |  URS | 10.4s | 10.49s | | | 2. Alain Sarteur |  FRA | 10.4s | 10.50s | | | 3. Philippe Clerc |  SUI | 10.5s | 10.56s | | | 4. Gérard Fenouil | FRA | 10.7s | 10.71s | | | 5. Hermann Burde |  GDR | 10.7s | 10.72s | | | 6. Barrie Kelly |  GBR | 10.7s | 10.77s | | | 7. Peter Haase | GDR | 10.8s | 10.84s | | | -. René Metz | FRA | DNS | | |
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| History Men 100m | | World Record: Hines (USA) 9.9s - 1968, R. Smith (USA) 9.9s - 1968, Greene (USA) 9.9s - 1968 | | European Record: Hary (FRG) 10.0s - 1960, Bambuck (FRA) 10.0s - 1968, Sapeja (URS) 10.0s - 1968, Borzov (URS) 10.0s - 1969, | | Semi-Finals | | Heats |
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| Semi 1 Wind -2.3m/s | time | | | 1. Philippe Clerc | SUI | 10.5s | Q | | 2. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.5s | Q | | 3. René Metz | FRA | 10.5s | Q | | 4. Peter Haase | GDR | 10.6s | Q | | 5. Luděk Bohman |  TCH | 10.6s | | | 6. Hans-Jürgen Bombach | GDR | 10.7s | | | 7. Ossi Karttunen |  FIN | 10.7s | | | 8. Ron Jones | GBR | 10.8s | |
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| Semi 2 Wind -3.1m/s | time | | | 1. Alain Sarteur | FRA | 10.6s | Q | | 2. Hermann Burde | GDR | 10.6s | Q | | 3. Gérard Fenouil | FRA | 10.6s | Q | | 4. Barrie Kelly | GBR | 10.6s | Q | | 5. Zenon Nowosz |  POL | 10.6s | | | 6. Hansruedi Wiedmer | SUI | 10.7s | | | 7. Aleksandr Lebedev | URS | 10.8s | | | 8. Vladislav Sapeya | URS | 10.8s | |
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| Heat 1 | time | | | 1. Valeriy Borzov | URS | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Hansruedi Wiedmer | SUI | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Hans-Jürgen Bombach | GDR | 10.8s | Q | | 4. Ron Jones | GBR | 10.9s | Q | | 5. Ivica Karasi |  YUG | 11.0s | | | 6. Vasilios Papageorgopoulos |  GRE | 11.0s | | | 7. Godwin Zammit |  MLT | 11.8s | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Hermann Burde | GDR | 10.7s | Q | | 2. René Metz | FRA | 10.8s | Q | | 3. Barrie Kelly | GBR | 10.8s | Q | | 4. Ossi Karttunen | FIN | 10.8s | Q | | 5. Tadeusz Cuch | POL | 10.9s | | | 6. Ladislav Kříž | TCH | 11.0s | | | 7. Paul Poels |  BEL | 11.0s | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Alain Sarteur | FRA | 10.6s | Q | | 2. Peter Haase | GDR | 10.7s | Q | | 3. Luděk Bohman | TCH | 10.8s | Q | | 4. Vladislav Sapeya | URS | 10.8s | Q | | 5. Don Halliday | GBR | 10.8s | | | 6. Orhan Aydın |  TUR | 11.0s | |
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| Heat 4 | time | | | 1. Philippe Clerc | SUI | 10.7s | Q | | 2. Zenon Nowosz | POL | 10.7s | Q | | 3. Gérard Fenouil | FRA | 10.8s | Q | | 4. Aleksandr Lebedev | URS | 10.8s | Q | | 5. Dionýz Szögedi | TCH | 10.9s | | | 6. Axel Nepraunik |  AUT | 10.9s | | | 7. Ole Bernt Skarstein |  NOR | 11.0s | | | 8. Anders Faager |  SWE | 12.4s | |
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