Summer Olympic Games the strict quarantine laws of Australia, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm. At the 1960 Rome Games a young light-heavyweight boxer named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, arrived on the scene. Ali would later throw his gold medal away in disgust after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky. He was awarded a new medal 36 years later at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Other performers of note in 1960 included Wilma Rudolph, a gold medallist in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. The
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres major race before his retirement from athletics the next year. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics. Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres These are the official results of the men's 100 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There were a total number of 106 participating athletes (plus two non-starters), with two rounds (twelve heats in round 1, five heats at round 2), two semifinals and a final. Canada's Donovan Bailey won the gold medal, breaking the world record that Leroy Burrell of the