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1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

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Field	Value
event	Men's 200 metres
competition	1997 World Championships
venue	Olympic Stadium
dates	6 August (heats and quarter-finals)
7 August (semi-finals)
8 August (final)
competitors	63
win_value	20.03
gold	Ato Boldon
goldNOC	TRI
silver	Frankie Fredericks
silverNOC	NAM
bronze	Claudinei da Silva
bronzeNOC	BRA
prev	1995
next	1999

7 August (semi-finals) 8 August (final)

These are the results of the Men's 200 metres event at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece. The winning margin was 0.20 seconds.

Medalists

Bronze	BRA Claudinei da Silva
Brazil (BRA)

Results

Heats

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	9	Iván García		20.41	Q
	4	Patrick Stevens		20.45	Q
	9	Troy Douglas		20.46	Q
	9	Anninos Marcoullides		20.47	Q
	1	Ato Boldon		20.48	Q
	1	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.49	Q, PB
	4	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.49	Q
	9	Sergey Osovich		20.56	q
	7	Claudinei da Silva		20.59	Q
10	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos		20.60	Q
11	1	Deji Aliu		20.60	q
12	6	Kevin Little		20.68	Q
13	6	Gary Ryan		20.69	Q, NR
14	6	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	20.70	Q, SB
15	1	O'Brian Gibbons		20.71	q, SB
15	2	Erik Wijmeersch		20.71	Q, SB
17	1	Emmanuel Tuffour		20.72	q, SB
17	3	Sergejs Inšakovs		20.72	Q, SB
17	9	Sebastián Keitel		20.72	q
20	5	Giovanni Puggioni		20.73	Q
21	2	Frankie Fredericks		20.74	Q
22	3	Obadele Thompson		20.75	Q
22	5	Joseph Loua		20.75	Q
22	6	Steve Brimacombe		20.75
22	7	Chris Donaldson		20.75	Q
26	5	Jon Drummond		20.76	Q
27	3	Prodromos Katsantonis		20.77	Q
27	5	Christoph Postinger		20.77
29	5	Antoine Boussombo		20.79	NR
29	8	Geir Moen		20.79	Q
31	8	Gentry Bradley		20.80	Q
31	5	Thierry Lubin		20.80
33	3	Koji Ito		20.82
34	7	Ioannis Nafpliotis		20.84	Q
35	8	Carlos Gats		20.86	Q
36	2	Sayon Cooper		20.88	Q
36	2	Phillip Mukomana		20.88	SB
36	7	Andrey Fedoriv		20.88
39	4	Carlo Occhiena		20.90	Q
40	6	Alessandro Attene		20.92
41	4	Gilles Quénéhervé		20.93
42	8	Thomas Sbokos		20.94
43	8	Oumar Loum		20.95
44	2	Justice Dipeba		20.96	SB
45	4	Ryszard Pilarczyk		20.98
46	7	Jordi Mayoral		20.99
47	6	Andrew Tynes		21.00
48	3	Juan Pedro Toledo		21.03
49	8	Ahmed Douhou		21.08
50	3	Lars Hedner		21.30
51	9	Malik-Khaled Louahla		21.31
52	1	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami		21.45
52	2	Patrick Johnson		21.45
52	8	Benjamin Sirimou		21.45
55	4	Pascal Dangbo		21.58
56	8	Djaffar Hadhari	Comoros	21.59	NR
57	4	Kendon Maynard		21.64
58	3	Tao Wu-Shiun		21.85
59	5	Arif Ahundov		22.08
60	6	Mohammad Bin Haji		22.37
61	7	Kwame Galloway		22.45
62	9	Khongdy Amnouayphone		22.86
63	9	Mohd Mahbub Alam		23.54
	2	Christophe Cheval
	7	Ivan Šlehobr

Quarterfinals

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Frankie Fredericks		20.13	Q
	3	Claudinei da Silva		20.27	Q, PB
	2	Ato Boldon		20.28	Q
	3	Kevin Little		20.38	Q
	4	Iván García		20.48	Q
	3	Sergey Osovich		20.54	Q, SB
	3	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.56	q
	3	Georgios Panagiotopoulos		20.57	q
	2	Jon Drummond		20.59	Q
10	4	Obadele Thompson		20.62	Q
11	3	Deji Aliu		20.65	q
12	2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.69	q
13	2	Erik Wijmeersch		20.73
14	1	Patrick Stevens		20.77	Q
14	3	Prodromos Katsantonis		20.77
16	1	Troy Douglas		20.78	Q
16	2	O'Brian Gibbons		20.78
18	2	Anninos Marcoullides		20.83
18	3	Gary Ryan		20.83
20	4	Carlos Gats		20.87	Q
21	4	Joseph Loua		20.91
22	4	Ioannis Nafpliotis		20.94
23	4	Sebastián Keitel		20.96
24	1	Chris Donaldson		21.04	Q
25	1	Gentry Bradley		21.08
26	2	Carlo Occhiena		21.14
27	1	Sergejs Inšakovs		21.22
28	1	Emmanuel Tuffour		21.25
29	1	Sayon Cooper		21.39
30	1	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	21.52
31	4	Giovanni Puggioni		22.77
	4	Geir Moen

Semifinals

First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Ato Boldon		20.09	Q
	2	Frankie Fredericks		20.18	Q
	2	Jon Drummond		20.29	Q
	1	Claudinei da Silva		20.35	Q
	1	Iván García		20.39	Q
	2	Patrick Stevens		20.42	Q
	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos		20.43	Q, PB
	2	Troy Douglas		20.43	SB
	1	Obadele Thompson		20.46	Q
10	1	Sergey Osovich		20.51
11	1	Kevin Little		20.57
12	1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.61
12	2	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.61
14	2	Deji Aliu		20.78
15	2	Chris Donaldson		20.92
16	1	Carlos Gats		21.44

Final

Wind: 2.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
	3	Ato Boldon	20.03
	4	Frankie Fredericks	20.23
	5	Claudinei da Silva	20.26
4	6	Iván García	20.31
5	7	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	20.32
6	2	Obadele Thompson	20.37
7	1	Jon Drummond	20.44
8	8	Patrick Stevens	20.44

References

Results
IAAF

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