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200 metres, Men

Date	3 – 6 August 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Estadio Olímpico de Montjuïc, Barcelona
Participants	79 from 65 countries

The heavy favorite was America’s Michael Johnson, who was world ranked #1 in 1990 and 1991. He was beaten in June 1992, for the first time in 30 races, by Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks. After winning the US Olympic Trials in 19.79, he developed food poisoning after eating at a restaurant in Salamanca, Spain, and weakened by the virus, he would not survive the semi-finals in Barcelona. That left the final to be between Fredericks and Mike Marsh, who had placed second at the US Olympic Trials in 19.86. Marsh took the lead into the straight and won comfortably over Fredericks, with American Michael Bates getting the bronze medal.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	QF	SF	Final
1	1734	Mike Marsh	USA	20.38 (1 h10)	20.08 (1 h4)	19.73 (1 h1)	20.01 (1)	Gold
2	1272	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	20.74 (1 h1)	20.02 (1 h5)	20.14 (1 h2)	20.13 (2)	Silver
3	1668	Michael Bates	USA	20.91 (1 h4)	20.22 (1 h3)	20.39 (2 h2)	20.38 (3)	Bronze
4	138	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.62 (1 h11)	20.35 (1 h2)	20.15 (3 h1)	20.45 (4)
5	1294	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	20.79 (1 h7)	20.47 (2 h2)	20.39 (3 h2)	20.50 (5)
6	750	John Regis	GBR	20.63 (1 h9)	20.16 (2 h5)	20.09 (2 h1)	20.55 (6)
7	1303	Oluyemi Kayode	NGR	20.42 (1 h3)	20.22 (2 h3)	20.23 (4 h1)	20.67 (7)
8	681	Marcus Adam	GBR	20.62 (1 h6)	20.43 (1 h1)	20.63 (4 h2)	20.80 (8)
5 h1 r3/4	695	Linford Christie	GBR	21.23 (2 h5)	20.52 (3 h3)	20.38 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r3/4	876	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	21.07 (3 h9)	20.58 (4 h5)	20.78 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r3/4	173	Nikolay Antonov	BUL	20.94 (2 h6)	20.50 (3 h5)	20.55 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r3/4	1720	Michael Johnson	USA	20.80 (1 h2)	20.55 (2 h1)	20.78 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r3/4	1071	Clive Wright	JAM	20.98 (2 h7)	20.70 (3 h2)	20.82 (7 h1)	–
7 h2 r3/4	160	Sidney de Souza	BRA	20.72 (2 h9)	20.69 (2 h4)	20.88 (7 h2)	–
8 h1 r3/4	1567	Torbjörn Eriksson	SWE	21.08 (2 h8)	20.81 (3 h4)	20.85 (8 h1)	–
AC h2 r3/4	1645	Neil de Silva	TTO	20.89 (2 h10)	20.66 (3 h1)	– (DQ h2)	–
4 h1 r2/4	231	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	21.01 (2 h3)	20.78 (4 h1)	–	–
4 h2 r2/4	510	Edvin Ivanov	EUN	21.10 (3 h7)	20.78 (4 h2)	–	–
4 h3 r2/4	31	Dean Capobianco	AUS	20.86 (1 h8)	20.61 (4 h3)	–	–
4 h4 r2/4	1135	Kennedy Ondiek	KEN	21.04 (3 h4)	20.86 (4 h4)	–	–
5 h1 r2/4	77	Christoph Pöstinger	AUT	21.02 (3 h11)	20.83 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r2/4	1334	Cameron Taylor	NZL	20.91 (2 h11)	20.83 (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r2/4	239	Peter Ogilvie	CAN	21.11 (3 h10)	20.77 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r2/4	657	Gilles Quénéhervé	FRA	20.99 (2 h4)	20.96 (5 h4)	–	–
5 h5 r2/4	109	Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.93 (2 h2)	20.67 (5 h5)	–	–
6 h1 r2/4	144	Sérgio de Menezes	BRA	21.17 (3 h2)	21.00 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r2/4	867	Nelson Boateng	GHA	21.03 (3 h6)	21.04 (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r2/4	70	Andreas Berger	AUT	21.02 (2 h1)	21.02 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r2/4	1451	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	21.20 (1 h5)	20.96 (6 h4)	–	–
6 h5 r2/4	96	Henrico Atkins	BAR	21.28 (4 h6)	21.19 (6 h5)	–	–
7 h1 r2/4	1511	Horace Dove-Edwin	SLE	21.38 (4 h9)	21.80 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r2/4	305	Ouattara Lagazane	CIV	21.13 (4 h3)	21.39 (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r2/4	1615	Seaksarn Boonrat	THA	21.39 (4 h4)	21.30 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h4 r2/4	1503	Ibrahima Tamba	SEN	21.25 (3 h8)	21.28 (7 h4)	–	–
7 h5 r2/4	250	Anthony Wilson	CAN	21.21 (4 h11)	21.22 (7 h5)	–	–
8 h2 r2/4	1660	Francis Ogola	UGA	21.29 (4 h2)	21.41 (8 h2)	–	–
8 h4 r2/4	423	Miguel Ángel Gómez	ESP	21.46 (5 h2)	21.32 (8 h4)	–	–
8 h5 r2/4	1640	Boevi Lawson	TOG	21.05 (3 h3)	21.47 (8 h5)	–	–
9 h4 r2/4	1547	Stefan Burkart	SUI	21.33 (3 h5)	21.52 (9 h4)	–	–
3 h1 r1/4	1429	Edgardo Guilbe	PUR	21.75 (3 h1)	– (DNS h1)	–	–
4 h1 r1/4	975	Wyndell Dickinson	ISV	21.78 (4 h1)	–	–	–
4 h5 r1/4	1477	Abel Tshaka Nzimande	RSA	21.43 (4 h5)	– (DNS h3)	–	–
4 h7 r1/4	376	Giannis Zisimidis	CYP	21.51 (4 h7)	–	–	–
4 h8 r1/4	1435	Sayed Mubarak Al-Kuwari	QAT	21.87 (4 h8)	–	–	–
4 h10 r1/4	1253	Ousmane Diarra	MLI	21.73 (4 h10)	–	–	–
5 h1 r1/4	1181	Bothloko Shebe	LES	21.96 (5 h1)	–	–	–
5 h3 r1/4	1120	Simeon Kipkemboi	KEN	21.57 (5 h3)	–	–	–
5 h4 r1/4	1796	Eswort Coombs	VIN	22.07 (5 h4)	–	–	–
5 h5 r1/4	1613	Mateaki Mafi	TGA	22.05 (5 h5)	–	–	–
5 h6 r1/4	1643	Ato Boldon	TTO	21.65 (5 h6)	–	–	–
5 h7 r1/4	1524	Aldo Canti	SMR	21.69 (5 h7)	–	–	–
5 h8 r1/4	1542	Adam Hassan Sakak	SUD	21.96 (5 h8)	–	–	–
5 h9 r1/4	166	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	BRN	21.55 (5 h9)	–	–	–
5 h10 r1/4	1342	Hussain Arif	PAK	21.75 (5 h10)	–	–	–
5 h11 r1/4	203	Valentin Ngbogo	CAF	21.51 (5 h11)	–	–	–
6 h1 r1/4	579	Apisai Driu Baibai	FIJ	22.07 (6 h1)	–	–	–
6 h2 r1/4	316	Samuel Nchinda-Kaya	CMR	21.50 (6 h2)	–	–	–
6 h3 r1/4	1826	Dejan Jovković	IOA	21.77 (6 h3)	–	–	–
6 h4 r1/4	657	Bounhom Siliphone	LAO	23.64 (6 h4)	–	–	–
6 h5 r1/4	679	Lamin Marikong	GAM	22.33 (6 h5)	–	–	–
6 h6 r1/4	93	Shahanuddin Choudhury	BAN	21.88 (6 h6)	–	–	–
6 h7 r1/4	891	Gabriel Simeon	GRN	22.09 (6 h7)	–	–	–
6 h8 r1/4	1584	Robinson Stewart	SWZ	21.97 (6 h8)	–	–	–
6 h9 r1/4	193	Harouna Pale	BUR	21.65 (6 h9)	–	–	–
6 h10 r1/4	906	Pat Kwok Wai	HKG	22.45 (6 h10)	–	–	–
6 h11 r1/4	903	Claude Roumain	HAI	22.51 (6 h11)	–	–	–
7 h1 r1/4	256	Médard Makanga	CGO	22.18 (7 h1)	–	–	–
7 h2 r1/4	1536	Sriyantha Dissanayake	SRI	21.61 (7 h2)	–	–	–
7 h3 r1/4	895	Amadou Sy Savané	GUI	21.86 (7 h3)	–	–	–
7 h5 r1/4	328	Randolph Foster	CRC	22.47 (7 h5)	–	–	–
7 h6 r1/4	1359	Kaminiel Selot	PNG	22.36 (7 h6)	–	–	–
7 h7 r1/4	22	Kenmore Hughes	ANT	22.18 (7 h7)	–	–	–
7 h9 r1/4	1264	Boubout Dieng	MTN	22.75 (7 h9)	–	–	–
7 h10 r1/4	1224	Ahmed Shageef	MDV	22.54 (7 h10)	–	–	–
8 h3 r1/4	910	Jaime Zelaya	HON	22.05 (8 h3)	–	–	–
8 h5 r1/4	1338	Abdullah Salem Al-Khalidi	OMA	22.48 (8 h5)	–	–	–
8 h6 r1/4	1311	Boureima Kimba	NIG	22.49 (8 h6)	–	–	–
AC h8 r1/4	672	Jean-Charles Trouabal	FRA	– (DNF h8)	–	–	–
AC h8 r1/4	778	Juan Vicente Matala	GEQ	– (DQ h8)	–	–	–
DNS	18	Afonso Ferraz	ANG	– (DNS h4)	–	–	–
DNS	1791	Fletcher Wamilee	VAN	– (DNS h11)	–	–	–

Round One (3 August 1992 — 10:20)

Top three in each heat and next seven fastest advanced to the quarter-.finals.

Heat One

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	20.74	Q
2	6	Andreas Berger	AUT	21.02	Q
3	5	Edgardo Guilbe	PUR	21.75	Q
4	7	Wyndell Dickinson	ISV	21.78
5	2	Bothloko Shebe	LES	21.96
6	3	Apisai Driu Baibai	FIJ	22.07
7	8	Médard Makanga	CGO	22.18

Heat Two

Wind	-0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Michael Johnson	USA	20.80	Q
2	3	Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.93	Q
3	6	Sérgio de Menezes	BRA	21.17	Q
4	8	Francis Ogola	UGA	21.29	q
5	7	Miguel Ángel Gómez	ESP	21.46	q
6	4	Samuel Nchinda-Kaya	CMR	21.50
7	2	Sriyantha Dissanayake	SRI	21.61

Heat Three

Wind	0.6 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Oluyemi Kayode	NGR	20.42	Q
2	3	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	21.01	Q
3	4	Boevi Lawson	TOG	21.05	Q
4	1	Ouattara Lagazane	CIV	21.13	q
5	2	Simeon Kipkemboi	KEN	21.57
6	6	Dejan Jovković	IOA	21.77
7	7	Amadou Sy Savané	GUI	21.86
8	5	Jaime Zelaya	HON	22.05

Heat Four

Wind	0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Michael Bates	USA	20.91	Q
2	5	Gilles Quénéhervé	FRA	20.99	Q	1
3	4	Kennedy Ondiek	KEN	21.04	Q
4	8	Seaksarn Boonrat	THA	21.39	Q	2
5	2	Eswort Coombs	VIN	22.07
6	7	Bounhom Siliphone	LAO	23.64
DNS	3	Afonso Ferraz	ANG	–

Heat Five

Wind	-1.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	21.20	Q
2	4	Linford Christie	GBR	21.23	Q
3	5	Stefan Burkart	SUI	21.33	Q
4	6	Abel Tshaka Nzimande	RSA	21.43	q
5	2	Mateaki Mafi	TGA	22.05
6	1	Lamin Marikong	GAM	22.33
7	3	Randolph Foster	CRC	22.47
8	7	Abdullah Salem Al-Khalidi	OMA	22.48

Heat Six

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	7	Marcus Adam	GBR	20.62	Q
2	1	Nikolay Antonov	BUL	20.94	Q
3	2	Nelson Boateng	GHA	21.03	Q
4	5	Henrico Atkins	BAR	21.28	q
5	8	Ato Boldon	TTO	21.65
6	4	Shahanuddin Choudhury	BAN	21.88
7	6	Kaminiel Selot	PNG	22.36
8	3	Boureima Kimba	NIG	22.49

Heat Seven

Wind	-0.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	20.79	Q
2	6	Clive Wright	JAM	20.98	Q
3	7	Edvin Ivanov	EUN	21.10	Q
4	4	Giannis Zisimidis	CYP	21.51
5	3	Aldo Canti	SMR	21.69
6	8	Gabriel Simeon	GRN	22.09
7	2	Kenmore Hughes	ANT	22.18

Heat Eight

Wind	-0.4 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Dean Capobianco	AUS	20.86	Q
2	1	Torbjörn Eriksson	SWE	21.08	Q
3	3	Ibrahima Tamba	SEN	21.25	Q
4	6	Sayed Mubarak Al-Kuwari	QAT	21.87
5	7	Adam Hassan Sakak	SUD	21.96
6	5	Robinson Stewart	SWZ	21.97
DNF	2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	FRA	–
DQ	8	Juan Vicente Matala	GEQ	–

Heat Nine

Wind	0.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	John Regis	GBR	20.63	Q
2	7	Sidney de Souza	BRA	20.72	Q
3	5	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	21.07	Q
4	8	Horace Dove-Edwin	SLE	21.38	q
5	6	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	BRN	21.55
6	2	Harouna Pale	BUR	21.65
7	3	Boubout Dieng	MTN	22.75

Heat Ten

Wind	0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	7	Mike Marsh	USA	20.38	Q
2	3	Neil de Silva	TTO	20.89	Q
3	6	Peter Ogilvie	CAN	21.11	Q
4	4	Ousmane Diarra	MLI	21.73
5	5	Hussain Arif	PAK	21.75
6	8	Pat Kwok Wai	HKG	22.45
7	2	Ahmed Shageef	MDV	22.54

Heat Eleven

Wind	1.1 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.62	Q
2	5	Cameron Taylor	NZL	20.91	Q
3	4	Christoph Pöstinger	AUT	21.02	Q
4	7	Anthony Wilson	CAN	21.21	q
5	3	Valentin Ngbogo	CAF	21.51
6	2	Claude Roumain	HAI	22.51
DNS	8	Fletcher Wamilee	VAN	–

Quarter-Finals (3 August 1992 — 18:20)

Top three in each heat and next fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One

Wind	0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Marcus Adam	GBR	20.43	Q	3
2	4	Michael Johnson	USA	20.55	Q
3	6	Neil de Silva	TTO	20.66	Q
4	5	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	20.78
5	1	Christoph Pöstinger	AUT	20.83
6	2	Sérgio de Menezes	BRA	21.00
7	7	Horace Dove-Edwin	SLE	21.80
DNS	8	Edgardo Guilbe	PUR	–

Heat Two

Wind	0.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.35	Q
2	4	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	20.47	Q
3	5	Clive Wright	JAM	20.70	Q
4	2	Edvin Ivanov	EUN	20.78
5	3	Cameron Taylor	NZL	20.83
6	7	Nelson Boateng	GHA	21.04
7	1	Ouattara Lagazane	CIV	21.39
8	8	Francis Ogola	UGA	21.41

Heat Three

Wind	1.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Michael Bates	USA	20.22	Q
2	5	Oluyemi Kayode	NGR	20.22	Q
3	8	Linford Christie	GBR	20.52	Q
4	4	Dean Capobianco	AUS	20.61
5	1	Peter Ogilvie	CAN	20.77
6	6	Andreas Berger	AUT	21.02
7	7	Seaksarn Boonrat	THA	21.30
DNS	2	Abel Tshaka Nzimande	RSA	–

Heat Four

Wind	1.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Mike Marsh	USA	20.08	Q
2	3	Sidney de Souza	BRA	20.69	Q
3	8	Torbjörn Eriksson	SWE	20.81	Q
4	5	Kennedy Ondiek	KEN	20.86
5	4	Gilles Quénéhervé	FRA	20.96
6	2	Daniel Cojocaru	ROU	20.96
7	7	Ibrahima Tamba	SEN	21.28
8	9	Miguel Ángel Gómez	ESP	21.32
9	1	Stefan Burkart	SUI	21.52

Heat Five

Wind	0.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	20.02	Q
2	4	John Regis	GBR	20.16	Q
3	6	Nikolay Antonov	BUL	20.50	Q
4	8	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	20.58	q
5	3	Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.67
6	7	Henrico Atkins	BAR	21.19
7	2	Anthony Wilson	CAN	21.22
8	1	Boevi Lawson	TOG	21.47

Semi-Finals (5 August 1992 — 18:30)

Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One

Wind	-0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Mike Marsh	USA	19.73	QOR
2	4	John Regis	GBR	20.09	Q
3	3	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.15	Q
4	6	Oluyemi Kayode	NGR	20.23	Q
5	1	Linford Christie	GBR	20.38
6	7	Nikolay Antonov	BUL	20.55
7	2	Clive Wright	JAM	20.82
8	8	Torbjörn Eriksson	SWE	20.85

Heat Two

Wind	-1.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	20.14	Q
2	5	Michael Bates	USA	20.39	Q
3	6	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	20.39	Q
4	4	Marcus Adam	GBR	20.63	Q
5	8	Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	20.78
6	2	Michael Johnson	USA	20.78
7	1	Sidney de Souza	BRA	20.88
DQ	7	Neil de Silva	TTO	–

Final (6 August 1992 — 18:40)

Wind	-1.0 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Mike Marsh	USA	20.01
2	5	Frankie Fredericks	NAM	20.13
3	1	Michael Bates	USA	20.38
4	6	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.45
5	2	Olapade Adeniken	NGR	20.50
6	3	John Regis	GBR	20.55
7	7	Oluyemi Kayode	NGR	20.67
8	8	Marcus Adam	GBR	20.80