Commonwealth Games 2022 men’s 100m heats results – Ferdinand Omanyala eases through

BIRMINGHAM, UK (AUGUST 1) —— The results from the men’s 100m heats at the 2022 Commonwealth Games at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on Tuesday (2) with Ferdinand Omanyala and Yupun Abeykoon leading the way with comfortable heat-winning performances.

Abeykoon of Sri Lanka paced all the qualifiers from the first round after running 10.06 seconds to win his heat easily and advanced to the semi-finals in fine style. Read more: Commonwealth Games 2022 track and field Day 1 order of events; how to watch

African record holder and the third-fastest man in the world this year, Omanyala of Kenya won his heat in 10.07 secs, the second quickest amongst the qualifiers from the heats and he will be aiming to step on the podium at the end of the event in Birmingham after missing out at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in Oregon, last month.

Dipping under the 10.10 seconds barrier in the heats as well was Emmanuel Eseme of Cameroon who posted a personal best of 10.08 secs to finish second behind Omanyala in heat five. He too will be eying a podium spot on Wednesday.

Also advancing to the semi-finals of the men’s 100m on Day 1 on the 2022 Commonwealth Games track and field schedule were Akani Simbine of South Africa (10.10), Rohan Browning (10.10) of Australia, Kenya’s Samwel Bitonyake Imeta (10.12), along with Nigerian Favour Ashe (10.12), England’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (10.14), Kemar Bailey-Cole (10.15) and Benjamin Azamati (10.19) of Ghana.

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Men’s 100m heats results

Round 1 – Heat 1 – 10:41 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	NGR	Favour Oghene Tejiri ASHE	10.12	Q
2	ENG	Nethaneel MITCHELL-BLAKE	10.14	Q
3	SKN	Nadale BUNTIN	10.37	q
4	CAN	Malachi MURRAY	10.47
5	FIJ	Ratu Banuve TABAKAUCORO	10.64
6	PNG	Leroy KAMAU	10.68
7	AIA	Davin FLEMING	11.09
8	TCA	Wilkinson FENELON	11.13

Round 1 – Heat 2 – 10:47 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	RSA	Akani SIMBINE	10.1	Q
2	AUS	Jake DORAN	10.39	Q
3	JAM	Nigel ELLIS	10.41
4	LES	Mojela KONESHE	10.46
5	SAM	Johnny KEY	10.98
6	MSR	Johmari LEE	11.03
7	AIA	Terrone WEBSTER	11.13

Round 1 – Heat 3 – 10:54 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	ENG	Ojie EDOBURUN	10.27	Q
2	IVB	Rikkoi BRATHWAITE	10.28	Q
3	LCA	Delan EDWIN	10.42
4	MSR	Julius MORRIS	10.56
5	JEY	Zachary SAUNDERS	10.76
6	TUV	Karalo Hepoiteloto MAIBUCA	11.39
DNS	SEY	Sharry DODIN
DNS	BAH	Terrence JONES

Round 1 – Heat 4 – 11:01 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	NGR	Raymond EKEVWO	10.14	Q
2	JAM	Kemar BAILEY-COLE	10.15	Q
3	MAW	Stern LIFFA	10.49
4	SEY	Dylan SICOBO	10.74
5	TCA	Courtney MISSICK	10.87
6	NRU	Jireh AGEGE	11.08
DQ	CMR	Raphael NGAGUELE MBERLINA
DNS	SOL	Paul MA’UNIKENI

Round 1 – Heat 5 – 11:09 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	KEN	Ferdinand OMANYALA	10.07	Q
2	CMR	Emmanuel ESEME	10.08	Q
3	NAM	Gilbert HAINUCA	10.31	q
4	GUY	Noelex HOLDER	10.5
5	SHN	Sean CROWIE	10.74
6	TGA	Ronald FOTOFILI	10.8
7	SGP	Ian KOE	10.91

Round 1 – Heat 6 – 11:15 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	SRI	Yupun ABEYKOON	10.06	Q
2	TTO	Kion BENJAMIN	10.34	Q
3	NGR	Godson Oke OGHENEBRUME	10.36	q
4	SVG	McKish COMPTON	10.62
5	SAM	William Angliss HUNT	10.7
6	SEY	Denzel ADEM	10.7
DNF	SWZ	Ayanda MALAZA

Round 1 – Heat 7 – 11:25 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	GHA	Benjamin AZAMATI	10.19	Q
2	WAL	Jeremiah AZU	10.35	Q
3	BAN	Imranur RAHMAN	10.46
4	SGP	Marc Brian LOUIS	10.51
5	SWZ	Lwazi Menziwokuhle MSIBI	10.83
6	BIZ	Brandon JONES	10.91
7	SHN	Aiden YON-STEVENS	11.9

Round 1 – Heat 8 – 11:31 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	JAM	Conroy JONES	10.28	Q
2	SCO	Adam THOMAS	10.3	Q
3	TTO	Eric HARRISON JR	10.37	q
4	PAK	Shajar ABBAS	10.38
5	MDV	Hassan SAAID	10.75
6	BIZ	Shaun GILL	10.76
7	SLE	Julius MORIE	10.88
8	GIB	Craig GILL	11.09

Round 1 – Heat 9 – 11:38 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	AUS	Rohan BROWNING	10.1	Q
2	KEN	Samwel Bitonyake IMETA	10.12	Q
3	ANT	Cejhae GREENE	10.16	q
4	GUY	Akeem STEWART	10.46
5	GGY	Joe CHADWICK	10.6
6	SGP	Joshua Hanwei CHUA	10.67
7	SVG	Javon RAWLINS	10.79
8	KIR	Lataisi MWEA	11.33

Round 1 – Heat 10 – 11:45 – Official
Rank	CGA	Name	Time	Qualification
1	TTO	Jerod ELCOCK	10.26	Q
2	GUY	Emanuel ARCHIBALD	10.28	Q
3	LCA	Stephan CHARLES	10.29	q
4	GHA	Sean SAFO-ANTWI	10.33	q
5	SLE	Ibrahim Karim BANGURA	10.51
6	MSR	Tevique BENJAMIN	11.06
7	SAM	Pesamino IAKOPO	11.29
DNS	CAY	Kemar HYMAN