2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 7 July. The event consisted of three rounds, Preliminary, semi-final and final, with the top nine ranked athletes automatically entered at the semi-final stage.

The gold and silver medallists clocked the same time in the final (10.07 seconds), the first time this has happened at these championships since the introduction of fully automatic timing.

Schedule
All times are local times (UTC+2)

Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 4 (q) advance to the Semifinals. 9 fastest entrants awarded bye to Semifinals.

Wind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: +1.9 m/s, Heat 4: +0.6 m/s

Semifinals
First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Wind: Heat 1: +1.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: -0.4 m/s * Athletes who received a bye to the semifinals

Final
Wind: 0.0 m/s