Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Centennial Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | July 31 – August 1 | |||||||||
Competitors | 78 from 57 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 19.32 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
10 km walk | women | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
Wheelchair races | ||
The men's
Background
This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. Four of the eight finalists from the 1992 Games returned: gold medalist Michael Marsh of the United States, silver medalist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, fourth-place finisher (and 1988 bronze medalist) Robson da Silva of Brazil, and sixth-place finisher John Regis of Great Britain; fifth-place finisher Olapade Adeniken of Nigeria was entered but did not start. Michael Johnson, favored to win in Barcelona before food poisoning resulted in a semifinal exit, also returned.[2]
By the summer of 1996,
Aruba, Comoros, Gabon, Guam, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 21st appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
Summary
From the gun, Johnson took the lead, quickly making up the stagger on
Competition format
The competition used the four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system introduced in 1960 was used in the heats and quarterfinals.
There were 11 heats of 7 or 8 runners each, with the top 3 men in each advancing to the quarterfinals along with the next 7 fastest overall. The quarterfinals consisted of 5 heats of 8 athletes each; the 3 fastest men in each heat and the next fastest overall advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals, each with 8 runners. The top 4 athletes in each semifinal advanced. The final had 8 runners. The races were run on a 400 metre track.[2]
Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.
World record | Michael Johnson (USA) |
19.66 | Atlanta, United States | 23 June 1996 |
Olympic record | Michael Marsh (USA ) |
19.73 | Barcelona, Spain | 5 August 1992 |
In the final, Michael Johnson set a new world record with a time of 19.32.
Schedule
All times are
The competition returned to a two-day schedule after one Games with three days; now, however, there was no rest day between the two competition days.
Date | Time | Round |
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Wednesday, 31 July 1996 | 10:45 18:15 |
Heats Quarterfinals |
Thursday, 1 August 1996 | 19:10 21:00 |
Semifinals Final |
Results
Heats
Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Marsh |
United States | 20.27 | Q |
2 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 20.41 | Q |
3 | Troy Douglas | Bermuda | 20.41 | Q |
4 | Steve Brimacombe | Australia | 20.45 | q |
5 | Alfred Visagie | South Africa | 21.10 | |
6 | Mohamed Al-Houti | Oman | 21.10 | |
7 | Takahiro Mazuka | Japan | 21.13 |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ivan Garcia |
Cuba | 20.49 | Q |
2 | Albert Agyemang | Ghana | 20.69 | Q |
3 | Elston Cawley | Jamaica | 20.73 | Q |
4 | Owusu Dako | Great Britain | 20.83 | |
5 | Thomas Sbokos | Greece | 20.88 | |
6 | Anton Ivanov |
Bulgaria | 21.20 | |
7 | David Wilson | Guam | 21.85 | |
8 | Mohamed Ould Brahim | Mauritania | 22.71 |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 20.26 | Q |
2 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 20.42 | Q |
3 | Anninos Markoullides |
Cyprus | 20.57 | Q |
4 | Carlos Gats | Argentina | 20.82 | q |
5 | Joseph Gikonyo | Kenya | 20.88 | |
6 | Chris Donaldson | New Zealand | 20.96 | |
7 | Tao Wu-shiun | Chinese Taipei | 21.25 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Johnson |
United States | 20.55 | Q |
2 | Erik Wymeersch |
Belgium | 20.68 | Q |
3 | Percival Spencer | Jamaica | 20.73 | Q |
4 | Frank Waota |
Ivory Coast | 20.78 | q |
5 | Benjamin Sirimou | Cameroon | 21.00 | |
6 | Antoine Boussombo | Gabon | 21.06 | |
— | Venancio Jose |
Spain | DNS |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 20.62 | Q |
2 | Edson Ribeiro |
Brazil | 20.69 | Q |
3 | John Regis | Great Britain | 20.78 | Q |
4 | Pierre Lisk | Sierra Leone | 20.86 | |
5 | Lars Hedner | Sweden | 20.97 | |
6 | Thomas Griesser | Austria | 21.20 | |
7 | Pascal Dangbo | Benin | 21.65 | |
8 | Hadhari Djaffar |
Comoros | 22.68 |
Heat 6
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 20.60 | Q |
2 | Jordi Mayoral | Spain | 20.65 | Q |
3 | Claudinei da Silva | Brazil | 20.80 | Q |
4 | Joseph Loua | Guinea | 20.81 | q |
5 | Boevi Lawson | Togo | 20.99 | |
6 | Anderson Vilien | Haiti | 21.62 | |
7 | Peter Ogilvie | Canada | 22.00 | |
8 | Gustavo Envela |
Equatorial Guinea | 22.09 |
Heat 7
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Linford Christie | Great Britain | 20.64 | Q |
2 | Robert Maćkowiak | Poland | 20.67 | Q |
3 | George Panayiotopoulos |
Greece | 20.69 | Q |
4 | Geir Moen | Norway | 20.78 | q |
5 | O'Brian Gibbons | Canada | 20.79 | q |
6 | Andrey Fedoriv | Russia | 20.95 | |
7 | Brahim Abdoulaye | Chad | 21.67 |
Heat 8
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Neil De Silva |
Trinidad and Tobago | 20.54 | Q |
2 | Robson Da Silva |
Brazil | 20.61 | Q |
3 | Oumar Loum | Senegal | 20.69 | Q |
4 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 20.76 | q |
5 | Matthew Coad | New Zealand | 21.25 | |
6 | Amos Ali | Papua New Guinea | 21.37 | |
7 | Laurence Jack | Vanuatu | 21.94 | |
— | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | DNS |
Heat 9
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jeff Williams |
United States | 20.37 | Q |
2 | Vladyslav Dolohodin | Ukraine | 20.57 | Q |
3 | Francisco Navarro | Spain | 20.87 | Q |
4 | Alain Reimann | Switzerland | 20.99 | |
5 | Ousmane Diarra | Mali | 21.20 | |
6 | Mohamed Al-Aswad | United Arab Emirates | 21.77 | |
— | Ibrahim Ismail Muftah | Qatar | DNS |
Heat 10
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Koji Ito | Japan | 20.56 | Q |
2 | Torbjorn Eriksson |
Sweden | 20.77 | Q |
3 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 20.85 | Q |
4 | Mark Keddell | New Zealand | 20.93 | |
5 | Justice Dipeba | Botswana | 21.09 | |
6 | Carlton Chambers | Canada | 21.32 | |
7 | Miguel Janssen | Aruba | 21.72 |
Heat 11
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Frank Fredericks |
Namibia | 20.59 | Q |
2 | Seun Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 20.78 | Q |
3 | Gary Ryan | Ireland | 20.78 | Q |
4 | Sebastian Keitel |
Chile | 20.96 | |
5 | Christoph Pöstinger | Austria | 20.98 | |
6 | Sandro Floris | Italy | 21.01 | |
7 | Chen Wenzhong | China | 21.05 |
Quarterfinals
Quarterfinal 1
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Frank Fredericks |
Namibia | 20.38 | Q |
2 | Jeff Williams |
United States | 20.47 | Q |
3 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 20.53 | Q |
4 | Erik Wymeersch |
Belgium | 20.59 | |
5 | Percival Spencer | Jamaica | 20.59 | |
6 | Troy Douglas | Bermuda | 20.63 | |
7 | Francisco Navarro | Spain | 21.06 | |
— | O'Brian Gibbons | Canada | DNS |
Quarterfinal 2
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Johnson |
United States | 20.37 | Q |
2 | Geir Moen | Norway | 20.48 | Q |
3 | Neil De Silva |
Trinidad and Tobago | 20.62 | Q |
4 | Robson Da Silva |
Brazil | 20.65 | |
5 | Jordi Mayoral | Spain | 20.68 | |
6 | George Panayiotopoulos |
Greece | 20.86 | |
7 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 21.03 | |
8 | Oumar Loum | Senegal | 21.31 |
Quarterfinal 3
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ivan Garcia |
Cuba | 20.36 | Q |
2 | Koji Ito | Japan | 20.47 | Q |
3 | Steve Brimacombe | Australia | 20.53 | Q |
4 | Robert Maćkowiak | Poland | 20.61 | |
5 | Anninos Markoullides |
Cyprus | 20.63 | |
6 | Vladyslav Dolohodin | Ukraine | 20.65 | |
7 | Elston Cawley | Jamaica | 20.75 | |
8 | Frank Waota |
Ivory Coast | 21.14 |
Quarterfinal 4
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Marsh |
United States | 20.39 | Q |
2 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 20.43 | Q |
3 | John Regis | Great Britain | 20.56 | Q |
4 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 20.58 | q |
5 | Albert Agyemang | Ghana | 20.87 | |
6 | Seun Ogunkoya | Nigeria | 21.00 | |
7 | Joseph Loua | Guinea | 21.01 | |
— | Claudinei da Silva | Brazil | DNF |
Quarterfinal 5
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 20.25 | Q |
2 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 20.49 | Q |
3 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 20.49 | Q |
4 | Linford Christie | Great Britain | 20.59 | |
5 | Edson Ribeiro |
Brazil | 20.60 | |
6 | Torbjorn Eriksson |
Sweden | 20.83 | |
7 | Carlos Gats | Argentina | 20.84 | |
8 | Gary Ryan | Ireland | 20.89 |
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Johnson |
United States | 20.27 | Q |
2 | Ivan Garcia |
Cuba | 20.34 | Q |
3 | Jeff Williams |
United States | 20.39 | Q |
4 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 20.46 | Q |
5 | Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | 20.56 | |
6 | John Regis | Great Britain | 20.58 | |
7 | Emmanuel Tuffour | Ghana | 20.61 | |
8 | Neil De Silva |
Trinidad and Tobago | 21.26 |
Semifinal 2
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Frank Fredericks |
Namibia | 19.98 | Q |
2 | Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 20.05 | Q |
3 | Michael Marsh |
United States | 20.26 | Q |
4 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 20.32 | Q |
5 | Steve Brimacombe | Australia | 20.38 | |
6 | Koji Ito | Japan | 20.45 | |
7 | Sergejs Inšakovs | Latvia | 20.48 | |
8 | Geir Moen | Norway | 20.96 |
Final
Held on August 1, 1996.
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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Michael Johnson |
United States | 19.32 | WR | |
Frank Fredericks |
Namibia | 19.68 | AR | |
Ato Boldon | Trinidad and Tobago | 19.80 | ||
4 | Obadele Thompson | Barbados | 20.14 | |
5 | Jeff Williams |
United States | 20.17 | |
6 | Ivan Garcia |
Cuba | 20.21 | |
7 | Patrick Stevens | Belgium | 20.27 | |
8 | Michael Marsh |
United States | 20.48 |
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1996 Atlanta Games: Men's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ a b c "200 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 January 2021.