Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 24 to 26.
The top four runners in each of the initial seven heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next four fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. Those 32 runners competed in four heats in the second round, with the top three runners from each heat and the four next fastest runners qualifying for the semifinals. There were two semifinal heats, and only the top four from each heat advanced to the final.
Barely turned eighteen, Usain Bolt came to the Olympics injured and was not able to compete at the level he had achieved earlier in the season. He was eliminated in the heats in his only Olympic defeat. He would eventually go on to win double gold at the Beijing, triple at London and Rio Olympics.
The final pool looked similar to the 100 metres final pool, with the favorites, Justin Gatlin, Francis Obikwelu and Shawn Crawford in the center of the track. Bernard Williams also was in the final, along with perennial silver medalist Frankie Fredericks. From the gun, Williams near the inside got a clearly better start, quickly making up a step on the stagger to Crawford to his outside. But through the turn, Crawford maintained the distance while running the further distance. Crawford and Gatlin ran about even last portion of the turn looked more powerful than Williams and Gatlin on either side. By the end of the turn, it was the three Americans in the lead, led by Crawford, Obikwelu the closest challenger a step behind. Crawford separated from Gatlin at the head of the straight and the race was for second. Gatlin held the edge down the straight until the last ten metres when Gatlin seemed to struggle and Williams cruised to silver. Next to last at the beginning of the straight, veteran Fredericks gained steadily and was able to dip past Obikwelu for fourth, but not enough to break up the American sweep.

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for athletics took place from 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's 200 metres, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 20.59 seconds or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 20.75 seconds or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, 24 August 2004	10:35 20:00	Round 1 Quarterfinals
Wednesday, 25 August 2004	22:50	Semifinals
Thursday, 26 August 2004	22:50	Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: The first four finishers in each heat plus the next four fastest overall runners qualified.

Heat 1

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	6	Stéphane Buckland		0.185	20.29	Q
2	2	Francis Obikwelu		0.243	20.40	Q
2	2	Juan Pedro Toledo		0.214	20.40	Q, NR
4	4	Yang Yaozu		0.217	20.59	Q, SB
5	7	Johan Wissman		0.245	20.60	q
6	1	Paul Brizzel		0.179	21.00
7	3	Nabie Foday Fofanah		0.227	21.45
	8	Hamed Al-Bishi

Heat 2

Wind: +1.4 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	5	Shawn Crawford		0.272	20.55	Q
2	8	Christopher Williams		0.140	20.57	Q
3	3	Marcin Urbaś		0.174	20.71	Q, SB
4	2	Darren Campbell		0.155	20.72	Q
5	1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure		0.158	20.78	q
6	4	Leigh Julius		0.164	20.80
7	6	Geronimo Goeloe		0.167	21.09
8	7	Basílio de Moraes Júnior		0.236	21.14

Heat 3

Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	5	Frankie Fredericks		0.235	20.54	Q
2	3	Malik Louahla		0.187	20.67	Q
3	4	David Canal		0.181	20.72	Q
4	1	Brian Dzingai		0.184	20.72	Q
5	7	Heber Viera		0.256	20.94	SB
6	2	Oleg Sergeyev		0.269	20.95
7	8	Menzi Dlamini		0.270	21.82
	6	Chris Lambert		0.244

Heat 4

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	7	Marcin Jędrusiński		0.256	20.63	Q, SB
2	2	Tobias Unger		0.160	20.65	Q
3	6	Joseph Batangdon		0.239	20.92	Q
4	8	Géza Pauer		0.257	21.02	Q
5	5	Usain Bolt		0.254	21.05
6	1	Christian Nsiah		0.146	21.06
7	3	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami		0.152	21.82
8	4	Ryo Matsuda		0.223	24.59

Heat 5

Wind: +2.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	7	Dominic Demeritte		0.246	20.62	Q
2	8	Christian Malcolm		0.284	20.62	Q
3	5	Panagiotis Sarris		0.254	20.67	Q
4	3	Asafa Powell		0.207	20.77	Q
5	2	Jiří Vojtík		0.179	20.79
6	4	Dion Crabbe		0.231	20.85
7	6	Nazmizan Mohamad		0.238	21.24
8	1	Adam Miller		0.198	21.31

Heat 6

Wind: +1.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	2	Bernard Williams		0.207	20.29	Q
2	8	Anastasios Gousis		0.236	20.44	Q, PB
3	3	Andrew Howe		0.198	20.55	Q
4	4	Matic Osovnikar		0.203	20.57	Q
5	6	Till Helmke		0.241	20.72	q
6	5	Oumar Loum		0.240	20.97
7	7	Anninos Marcoullides		0.247	23.94

Heat 7

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	2	Sebastian Ernst		0.220	20.47	Q, =PB
2	8	Justin Gatlin		0.282	20.51	Q
3	6	Marco Torrieri		0.222	20.68	Q
4	5	Cláudio Roberto Souza		0.165	20.70	Q, =SB
5	7	Brendan Christian		0.251	20.71	q
6	4	Shinji Takahira		0.212	21.05
7	3	Dadaş İbrahimov		0.141	21.60
8	1	Russel Roman		0.264	24.89

Quarterfinals

Qualification rule: The first three finishers in each heat plus the next four fastest overall runners advance to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Wind: +1.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Shawn Crawford		0.207	19.95	Q
2	5	Frankie Fredericks		0.228	20.20	Q, SB
3	3	Tobias Unger		0.162	20.30	Q, PB
4	6	Christopher Williams		0.186	20.34	q, SB
5	1	Johan Wissman		0.186	20.74
6	7	Géza Pauer		0.241	20.90
7	2	David Canal		0.179	21.18
	8	Joseph Batangdon

Heat 2

Wind: +0.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Bernard Williams		0.217	20.40	Q
2	3	Anastasios Gousis		0.195	20.46	Q
3	6	Marcin Jędrusiński		0.194	20.55	Q, SB
4	7	Till Helmke		0.144	20.76
5	8	Brian Dzingai		0.206	20.87
6	2	Marco Torrieri		0.177	20.89
7	5	Malik Louahla		0.175	20.93
8	1	Yang Yaozu		0.162	21.03

Heat 3

Wind: +0.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Justin Gatlin		0.220	20.03	Q
2	8	Asafa Powell		0.206	20.23	Q
3	5	Sebastian Ernst		0.244	20.36	Q, PB
4	7	Matic Osovnikar		0.235	20.47	q, NR
5	6	Christian Malcolm		0.259	20.56	q
6	3	Dominic Demeritte		0.141	20.61
7	2	Brendan Christian		0.182	20.63
	1	Marcin Urbaś		0.162

Heat 4

Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	3	Francis Obikwelu		0.191	20.33	Q
2	5	Stéphane Buckland		0.239	20.36	Q
3	6	Juan Pedro Toledo		0.276	20.43	Q
4	2	Darren Campbell		0.179	20.59	q, =SB
5	8	Cláudio Roberto Souza		0.159	20.64	SB
6	7	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure		0.248	20.73
7	1	Panagiotis Sarris		0.184	20.92
8	4	Andrew Howe		0.211	21.17

Semifinals

Qualification rule: The first four runners in each semifinal heat moves on to the final.

Semifinal 1

Wind: –0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	6	Shawn Crawford		0.231	20.05	Q
2	4	Bernard Williams		0.200	20.18	Q
3	3	Frankie Fredericks		0.152	20.43	Q
4	2	Tobias Unger		0.173	20.54	Q
5	5	Anastasios Gousis		0.205	20.68
6	7	Christopher Williams		0.164	20.80
7	8	Marcin Jędrusiński		0.245	20.81
8	1	Darren Campbell		0.150	20.89

Semifinal 2

Wind: +0.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
1	4	Justin Gatlin		0.195	20.35	Q
2	6	Francis Obikwelu		0.244	20.36	Q
3	3	Stéphane Buckland		0.183	20.37	Q
4	5	Asafa Powell		0.236	20.56	Q
5	8	Sebastian Ernst		0.299	20.63
6	2	Juan Pedro Toledo		0.215	20.64
7	7	Christian Malcolm		0.239	20.77
8	1	Matic Osovnikar		0.197	20.89

Final

Wind: +1.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Reaction	Result	Notes
	4	Shawn Crawford		0.226	19.79	PB
	5	Bernard Williams		0.173	20.01	PB
	3	Justin Gatlin		0.195	20.03
4	8	Frankie Fredericks		0.248	20.14	SB
5	6	Francis Obikwelu		0.183	20.14
6	7	Stéphane Buckland		0.294	20.24
7	1	Tobias Unger		0.153	20.64
	2	Asafa Powell

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