2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 7, 9, and 10 August.[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	7 August (heats) 9 August (semifinal) 10 August (final)
Competitors	49 from 38 nations
Winning time	20.09
Medalists
Ramil Guliyev    Turkey   Wayde van Niekerk    South Africa   Jereem Richards    Trinidad and Tobago

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Summary

Coming out of the blocks in the final, Wayde van Niekerk and Isaac Makwala were the first to make up ground on the stagger, coming off the turn with Ramil Guliyev about even. Makwala started to lose ground, passed by Jereem Richards to his outside. van Niekerk seemed to have the edge until the last 30 metres when Guliyev pulled ahead. As Richards closed, all the athletes leaned for a photo finish. Guliyev had a clear win, but van Niekerk's edge for silver on Richards was the narrowest possible, .001 of a second 20.106 to 20.107.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	19.19	Usain Bolt	JAM	20 Aug 2009	Berlin, Germany
Championship
World leading	19.77	Isaac Makwala	BOT	14 Jul 2017	Madrid, Spain
African	19.68	Frank Fredericks	NAM	1 Aug 1996	Atlanta, United States
Asian	19.97	Femi Ogunode	QAT	11 Sep 2015	Brussels, Belgium
NACAC	19.19	Usain Bolt	JAM	20 Aug 2009	Berlin, Germany
South American	19.81	Alonso Edward	PAN	20 Aug 2009	Berlin, Germany
European	19.72	Pietro Mennea	ITA	12 Sep 1979	Mexico City, Mexico
Oceanian	20.08	Peter Norman	AUS	16 Oct 1968	Mexico City, Mexico

The following records were set at the competition:[3]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Zambian	20.29	Sydney Siame	ZAM	7 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.44.[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:[5]

Date	Time	Round
7 August	18:30	Heats
9 August	20:55	Semifinals
10 August	21:50	Final

Results

Heats

The first round took place on 7 August in seven heats. However, Isaac Makwala, who was prevented from competing due to being quarantined for norovirus, was allowed to run in an additional heat on the 9 August following an appeal by the Botswana delegation.[6] The 8 heats were as follows:[7]

Heat	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Date	7 Aug							9 Aug
Start time	18:30	18:38	18:46	18:54	19:02	19:10	19:18	18:41
Wind (m/s)	−0.5	−0.6	+0.3	+0.7	−0.6	+0.6	+0.7	+1.4
Photo finish	​	​	​	​	​	​	​	​

The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next four[lower-alpha 1] fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The overall results were as follows:[8]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	2	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.05	Q
2	7	4	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.08	Q
3	4	5	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.16	Q
4	3	7	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa (RSA)	20.16	Q
5	3	8	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.16	Q, PB
6	8	7	Isaac Makwala	Botswana (BOT)	20.20	q
7	6	8	Isiah Young	United States (USA)	20.19	Q
8	4	2	Ameer Webb	United States (USA)	20.22	Q
9	6	7	Akani Simbine	South Africa (RSA)	20.26	Q
10	5	3	Sydney Siame	Zambia (ZAM)	20.29	Q, NR
11	6	4	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece (GRE)	20.37	Q
12	1	6	Yohan Blake	Jamaica (JAM)	20.39	Q
13	4	4	Christophe Lemaitre	France (FRA)	20.40	Q
14	2	7	Kyree King	United States (USA)	20.41	Q
15	6	6	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.43	q
16	5	6	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.48	Q
17	4	7	Wilfried Koffi Hua	Ivory Coast (CIV)	20.49	q
18	2	8	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica (JAM)	20.49	Q
19	1	8	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	20.52	Q
20	3	5	Ján Volko	Slovakia (SVK)	20.52	Q
21	1	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland (SUI)	20.54	Q
22	4	3	David Lima	Portugal (POR)	20.54	q
23	1	3	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine (UKR)	20.58
24	7	3	Shota Iizuka	Japan (JPN)	20.58	Q
25	5	4	Filippo Tortu	Italy (ITA)	20.59	Q
26	2	6	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway (NOR)	20.60
27	5	8	Warren Weir	Jamaica (JAM)	20.60
28	7	7	Winston George	Guyana (GUY)	20.61	Q
29	3	3	Alonso Edward	Panama (PAN)	20.61	SB
30	6	3	Ahmed Ali	Sudan (SUD)	20.64
31	2	4	Jeffrey John	France (FRA)	20.66
32	3	4	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Swaziland (SWZ)	20.67
33	2	5	Mark Otieno Odhiambo	Kenya (KEN)	20.74
34	1	2	Teray Smith	Bahamas (BAH)	20.77
35	5	2	Adama Jammeh	Gambia (GAM)	20.79
36	5	5	Jeremy Dodson	Samoa (SAM)	20.81
37	3	2	Aldemir da Silva Júnior	Brazil (BRA)	20.82
38	4	8	Salem Eid Yaqoob	Bahrain (BHR)	20.84
39	1	5	Bernardo Baloyes	Colombia (COL)	20.86
40	6	2	Joseph Millar	New Zealand (NZL)	20.97
41	3	6	Burkheart Ellis, Jr.	Barbados (BAR)	20.99
42	6	5	Fabrice Dabla	Togo (TOG)	21.40
43	1	4	Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi	Oman (OMN)	21.50
44	2	3	Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye	Turks and Caicos Islands (TKS)	21.91
45	7	2	Muhd Noor Firdaus ar-Rasyid	Brunei (BRU)	22.36
46	4	6	Kabongo Mulumba	DR Congo (COD)	23.57	SB
	7	5	Aaron Brown	Canada (CAN)	DQ	R 163.3(a)
	7	6	Clarence Munyai	South Africa (RSA)	DQ	R 163.3(a)
	4	9	Paul Nalau	Vanuatu (VAN)	DQ	R 163.3(a)
	7	8	Julius Morris	Montserrat (MNT)	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 9 August in three heats as follows:[9]

Heat	1	2	3
Start time	20:55	21:04	21:13
Wind (m/s)	+2.1	−0.3	+0.3
Photo finish	​	​	​

The first two in each heat ( Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:[10]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	7	Isiah Young	United States (USA)	20.12	Q
2	2	5	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.14	Q
3	1	1	Isaac Makwala	Botswana (BOT)	20.14	Q
4	3	4	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.17	Q
5	1	5	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.19	q
6	3	5	Ameer Webb	United States (USA)	20.22	Q
7	3	6	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa (RSA)	20.28	q
8	3	8	Christophe Lemaitre	France (FRA)	20.30
9	3	7	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.38
10	2	9	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	20.43	Q
11	2	7	Yohan Blake	Jamaica (JAM)	20.52
12	2	6	Sydney Siame	Zambia (ZAM)	20.54
13	1	2	David Lima	Portugal (POR)	20.56
14	2	4	Kyree King	United States (USA)	20.59
15	2	8	Ján Volko	Slovakia (SVK)	20.61
16	1	8	Shota Iizuka	Japan (JPN)	20.62
17	1	3	Filippo Tortu	Italy (ITA)	20.62
18	1	4	Akani Simbine	South Africa (RSA)	20.62
19	1	6	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.65
20	1	9	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica (JAM)	20.69
21	3	9	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece (GRE)	20.73
22	3	2	Winston George	Guyana (GUY)	20.74
23	3	3	Wilfried Koffi Hua	Ivory Coast (CIV)	20.80
24	2	3	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.85
25	2	2	Alex Wilson	Switzerland (SUI)	21.22

Final

The final took place on 10 August at 21:52. The wind was −0.1 metres per second and the results were as follows (photo finish):[11]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.09
	3	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa (RSA)	20.11	20.106
	7	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.11	20.107
4	2	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.24
5	9	Ameer Webb	United States (USA)	20.26
6	6	Isaac Makwala	Botswana (BOT)	20.44
7	8	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan (JPN)	20.63
8	4	Isiah Young	United States (USA)	20.64

References

1. Start list
2. "200 Metres Men − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
3. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
4. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
5. "200 Metres Men − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
6. "The Latest: Allyson Felix wins 14th career medal at worlds". The Washington Post. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
7. "200 Metres Men − Heats − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
8. "200 Metres Men − Heats − Summary" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
9. "200 Metres Men − Semi-Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
10. "200 Metres Men − Semi-Final − Summary" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
11. "200 Metres Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

Notes

1. Originally three, but increases to four to accommodate Makwala's time in his additional heat.