Harrison Dillard Wins A 100m Photo-Finish | London 1948 Olympics

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Although failing to qualify for the 110m hurdles Harrison Dillard had done enough already to compete in the men's 100m sprint at the London 1948 Olympic Games.
In the race, Dillard won gold in an incredibly tight photo-finish at the line.
Harrison Dillard began hurdling at the age of eight, running in an alley and using the springs from abandoned car seats as barriers. During 1947 and 1948, Dillard won 82 straight races. However, in the final of the 110m hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials, he lost his stride and failed to finish.
Fortunately, he had already qualified in the 100m dash. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948, Dillard edged teammate Barney Ewell for the gold medal. He won a second gold medal in the 4x100m relay.
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[@juaquito02]

Lloyd Barrington LaBeach 🇵🇦 🥉🥉 100 and 200 meter dash, Panama's first two medals in the Olympic Games.

[@milagrosnino644]

El primero en darnos una medalla

[@johnwhitfield5376]

It's amazing that they could run those times on a dirt track...

[@tundetheepic8631]

look at the state of this track

[@davewanamaker3690]

Wow. You are right. That makes many of those athletes great that they could do it on that surface. What they could have done today on synthetic surfaces !!!

[@SeanManning12869]

Though his name was never mentioned, and no, he didn't medal, but Basil McKenzie of Jamaica ran in the trials... He and his counterpart Lang, are the first Jamaicans to qualify for the Olympics in the 100 meters, and I'm proud to be his oldest Grandson.

[@caseycahill637]

I'll tell you for sure. That was the beginning of the greatest tradition of sprinting in the world. Greatness from a small nation!

[@solebotemitayo]

Glad to hear this from you...thank ur grandad for me even though I may never know you😄

[@leonardvarasano4549]

It's my understanding that Mr. Dillard, an NCAA and AAU champion high and low hurdler, failed to qualify for the 1948 team in the high hurdle event. I remember hearing that he fell down during his heat, and though he was the best hurdler in the world, did not qualify due to stringent US rules. Undaunted, he entered and qualified for the US in the 100 meter dash, where he subsequently won the Olympic gold medal. He went on to win his specialty in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, capturing the high hurdle gold medal. Counting 4 x 100 meter relay golds earned in 1948 and 1952, Mr. Dillard won 4 Olympic gold medals during his stellar career.

[@deaftvaussie]

I know. My dad told me about Dillard. Cut-throat US Trials. No favouritism.

[@ShanHFernandes]

great !! glad to see 1948 in colour .

[@thomasfrazier4425]

I met the man at a high school track on Hough Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, ten years after that photo finish. He was quite a guy! Very helpful to a young budding track star. (In 1960 I clocked a 10.0 with a slight tail wind)

[@jonathanhart8570]

i wrote in above comment-didnt know i could reply to yours-did you ever run in any major trials/champs etc?????--with a time like that-at that time-a gold would of surely been yours

[@davewanamaker3690]

What a great memory to have. Thanks for sharing.

[@leonardvarasano4549]

Slight tail wind or not - that's fast!

[@roybean7166]

10 sec in 100 yards, maybe ? ?? Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦

[@michaellazuka654]

It’s incredible that these men were running times less than a second behind behind Bolt 73 years ago

[@travellingshoes5241]

@corytemplar5703 And didn't have Nike Vaporfly's.

[@vangroover1903]

It's incredible how much stronger, faster and better they all are these days, but we have to give it to these guys for those adorable shorts.

[@thepsychologist8159]

@@travellingshoes5241 Pretty sure Bolt wasn't running in Vaporfly's

[@noelimit23]

Great video quality for 1948.

[@Pihasanddunes1]

Superb footage from 1948, I was as interested in the crowd as the marvelous display of athletes. I have seen B/W footage of this before, but never colour.

[@Ghostmanriding]

Amazing color footage.

[@geraldbraxton8709]

Was sitting going down memory lane. Thought about this Great champion. He did what no one today has done yet. Willie Gault was to come the closest, but didn't. A true champion.

[@jameschappelle9809]

Mr Dillard passed away earlier today in Cleveland Ohio

[@LeslieGMN]

Harrison Dillard ROCKED!

[@malligrub]

Wow! Colour footage like this really makes it more real and less like a story

[@Sonicman1979]

Wonderful color footage for that time.

[@favouritepeople1519]

Rip sir

[@davewanamaker3690]

I read about Dillard years ago but never saw the race until today. This is great footage. How was he able to try out for the 100 meters since he specialized in the hurdles. Did he do any races during the year in that event or did he just ask to run the hundred? What a movie they could have made about him! Sounds like a perfect Disney-type athlete! An article I just read said he qualified in the dash the night before. Did he try out just for the heck of it?

[@jtprimetime]

cant believe Harrison Dillard went to Baldwin-Wallace... such a small school in Ohio where i went and ran

[@Carolinacaveman]

They were trail blazers!

[@geraldbraxton8709]

excellent race.

[@jhrockgod]

Gerald Braxton I suppose the blacks are excellent when it comes to race, lol.

[@1499rock]

pause at 3:03 to see the shadow of dillard's foot on finish line👍

[@thenewlc]

it's crazy to watch the starts before they had the electronic pressure sensors. you can see guys twitching and almost going then settling, almost going then settling. sometimes the gun goes off when a guy is settling, and then his start is fucked. i think the electronic sensors take away from the mental aspect of racing.

[@lukwagoisah6840]

Memories

[@deaftvaussie]

Ewell did his victory dance at the end of the 100 metres final but the judges were not fooled. Ewell was declared a second place.

[@Revolver1981]

deaftvaussie No I think he genuinely thought he won the race. Hahaha!!!

[@rogerc23]

They said it was a photo finish but there was no photo. So hard to say if he won or not.

[@deaftvaussie]

It was a photo finish there. Although there was no photo finish in many races in USA - that's why Ewell tried to do his victory dancing habit to fool the judges.

[@saucychurch23]

This is from 1948??? Can't believe it's in color

[@docsmithdc]

Color film has been around since the silent era. Watch "Toll Of The Sea".

[@vieuxbal1253]

@@docsmithdc THANKS for pointing this out. Color had been around long time ago.

[@docsmithdc]

@@vieuxbal1253 You're welcome.

[@MansourDieng-l1p]

10.3 olympic record

[@johnmcmullan8]

WHAT Happend to the PHOTO????

[@sokha326]

Did you even watch the end of the video.. it's there.

[@jasonleekimmings]

My father-in-law was there. He said there was a runner in the heats who 'galloped'. Anyone know who it was?

[@Insert639]

Hahahaha

[@studentoftheword6115]

wow. They don't show the times for people that come in 4th 5th etc. Wow.

[@worldstarter]

Ewell pensava di aver vinto la finale: infatti festeggia. Comunque partenze indecenti!

[@S2000Y]

These guys would have run close to 10 dead on the tracks of today. RIP Dillard.

[@jodimendoza4932]

The 10000 rum

[@allenmurray7893]

Barney Ewell went to Penn State I think and Mel Patton went to USC. Patton set the world record in the 100 yd dash at 9.3 and it stood from 1948 u til 1961 whence prank Budd of Villanova broke it at 9.2.

[@therightway4715]

I wonder how much more faster they would be if they ran on a surface

[@sokha326]

they didn't say the times, it was on the vidoe.... 3:26

[@gopher3737]

0:34 lane 6, isn't it illegal to step on the lane lines in track races? Maybe they didn't care about that back then? I remember that Wallace Spearmon got disqualified for that in the 2008 Beijing Olympics 200 meter final. Though maybe in 200 races it matters more since you can cut down the distance you need to run by running as close as you can to the inside lane line

[@steviesly7908]

DID THEY HAVE BLOCKS)RAN ON THE SAME KIND OF TRACK BACK IN THE DAY) THE 1970s

[@kelneezy3]

@jtprimetime... I went to B-W also. However I played bball. Small world tho.

[@vigneshwarr874]

There was no finishing line with numbers? 🤔

[@imkingthemanhimself6598]

The number 5 is fast

[@martinezroger9862]

Track looks like a dirt bike race ! lol

[@tonyrobson4681]

In those days they ran on cinder tracks.

[@funathle299]

Yo men

[@Yornek1]

how do they get these films in colour wasnt this before colour tv?

[@Yornek1]

+Daisy pretty amazing will have to look up how it's done

[@asantealphonso9941]

Daisy

[@73stingrayvette]

Color film was developed before color television.

[@UWalvern0810]

This wasn’t tv. It was film.

[@UWalvern0810]

My God. Bolt runs almost a full second faster than these guys.

[@DrYeyo06]

The time when white were fast

[@jonathanhart8570]

I think after all the blood, sweat and tears-false starts should go bk to something like this-if a man reacts below 0.1-its a false start-i say its the perfect start-if it was -0.1...then yes false--but for athletes today, after 1 false start they go home-have to wait 4 yrs for another olympics-i think 1 false start-and i mean a minus 0.00001-in other words-before the gun-the athlete should be yellow carded-do it again and your going home-it sickened me to see linford christie in atlanta not able to take part and defend his barcelona title-he won his title at 9.96-although i remember him running 9.87secs-so to the man on the comment below-thomas frazier-did you ever run in any championships????-that time you posted then-would of won gold-am gonna google you!!!!!!!!!

[@gillarheckar]

FALSE starts are part of the 100m, they have to train to not predict the gun, but to react to the gun. The human mind can't react faster than 0.1 seconds, that is why the rule is as it is.

[@docsmithdc]

Agreed.The one false start and you're out was invented for television in order to shorten the broadcast time-very unfair to the athletes.

[@gabesegun7966]

Why were the spectators mostly wearing white

[@UWalvern0810]

Probably because it was really hot out there. 😃

[@CanadaMath]

These were the times before the juice. Before sprinters started to take big time doses of performance enhancing drugs like drug cheat Usain Bolt.

[@vangroover1903]

Ben Johnson was the fastest ever for years thanks to the juice. They need to have a Juiced Olympics to see what people can do hopped up.

[@Tumi_nn]

Can we all agree that black people are the fastest in the world? 👀

[@gratefuldead3750]

52. 56 and 60 went on with european and euroamerican champions in 100m

[@mhdfrb9971]

Nope

[@poetrygirl34]

Not in the 100m, but it is illegal in the 200m. Although you would get disqualified for stepping on or over the line if it interfered with another racer in the 100m.

[@paulotri-mundial8375]

EUA um país tão racista, mas não descartam as medalhas conquistadas pelos atletas negros! O pai das guerras é uma incógnita mesmo.

[@JoYiSgUiTaR]

The winner Harrison Dilliard is still alive as of today! 96 years old wow

[@wasteofoxygen2198]

They had blocks back then? I thought they came out in the 50s. But 8 guess I’m stupid

[@isaacshaw1596]

that is Round 1 in olympics these days. Wow!

[@igolfjtweetler4097]

these old dirt tracks must have slowed you up

[@michaelrowley941]

Great brittain 4th again lol

[@Kelpwoud]

You watched without eyes then.

[@loverainbowsmiles]

Why so many false starts?

[@Gjestrumen]

haha, that track

[@muhammedvpm7712]

Have

[@alvinfrazierTV]

So proud to say I know Mr. Dillard!!