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200 metres, Men

Date	6 – 8 August 1984
Status	Olympic
Location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
Participants	76 from 58 countries

The Soviet-led boycott had no effect on this race, as no Eastern Europeans were challengers in the 200. Carl Lewis was the story of the 1984 Olympics as he was attempting to emulate Jesse Owens’ feat of 1936 in winning the 100, 200, long jump, and 4×100 relay. By the day of the 200 final, he had already won gold in the 100 and long jump. His biggest opponents in the 200 were felt to be his teammates Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson. Italys’ Pietro Mennea, 1980 gold medalist was also back, in his fourth straight Olympic 200 final, but was not expected to be a threat to Lewis. Lewis opened up a lead on the curve, had two metres as he entered the straight, and appeared to win as he pleased. His time was 19.80, run into a headwind of 0.9 m/s, and writing in Track & Field News, Bob Hersh noted that it was the best 200 ever run. Lewis would return three days later to win his fourth gold medal. Baptiste also ran a superb race, finishing second in 19.96 against the wind, but could not catch Lewis. Jefferson completed the US sweep, with Mennea in seventh.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	QF	SF	Final
1	915	Carl Lewis	USA	21.02 (1 h7)	20.48 (1 h1)	20.27 (1 h2)	19.80 (1)	Gold	OR
2	884	Kirk Baptiste	USA	20.63 (1 h8)	20.48 (1 h4)	20.29 (1 h1)	19.96 (2)	Silver
3	908	Thomas Jefferson	USA	20.63 (1 h4)	20.47 (1 h3)	20.40 (2 h1)	20.26 (3)	Bronze
4	95	João Batista da Silva	BRA	20.70 (=2 h4)	20.61w (4 h2)	20.61 (2 h2)	20.30 (4)
5	325	Ralf Lübke	FRG	20.88 (2 h2)	20.57 (2 h4)	20.67 (4 h2)	20.51 (5)
6	273	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	FRA	20.82 (2 h9)	20.54 (2 h3)	20.55 (4 h1)	20.55 (6)
7	511	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.70 (1 h1)	20.50w (2 h2)	20.47 (3 h1)	20.55 (7)
8	377	Ade Mafe	GBR	21.24 (2 h6)	20.55w (3 h2)	20.63 (3 h2)	20.85 (8)
5 h1 r3/4	130	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	21.42 (2 h7)	20.69 (3 h1)	20.77 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r3/4	144	Desai Williams	CAN	20.70 (=2 h4)	20.40w (1 h2)	20.70 (5 h2)	–
6 h1 r3/4	96	Robson da Silva	BRA	21.08 (3 h1)	20.88 (4 h3)	20.80 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r3/4	525	Stefano Tilli	ITA	20.72 (1 h9)	20.64 (2 h1)	20.72 (6 h2)	–
7 h1 r3/4	552	Gus Young	JAM	21.14 (3 h5)	20.75 (3 h4)	21.17 (7 h1)	–
7 h2 r3/4	546	Don Quarrie	JAM	20.84 (1 h6)	20.57 (3 h3)	20.77 (7 h2)	–
8 h1 r3/4	735	Luis Morales	PUR	21.05 (2 h8)	20.82 (4 h1)	21.22 (8 h1)	–
8 h2 r3/4	524	Carlo Simionato	ITA	21.06 (1 h3)	20.86 (4 h4)	20.92 (8 h2)	–
5 h1 r2/4	450	Purnomo Muhammad Yudhi	INA	21.01 (3 h9)	20.93 (5 h1)	–	–
5 h2 r2/4	308	Jürgen Evers	FRG	21.12 (3 h3)	20.95w (5 h2)	–	–
5 h3 r2/4	1	Julien Thode	AHO	21.62 (3 h7)	21.45 (5 h3)	–	–
5 h4 r2/4	40	Peter Van Miltenburg	AUS	21.06 (2 h1)	21.09 (5 h4)	–	–
6 h1 r2/4	272	Patrick Barré	FRA	20.88 (1 h5)	20.95 (6 h1)	–	–
6 h2 r2/4	601	Jang Jae-Geun	KOR	21.32 (1 h10)	21.14w (6 h2)	–	–
6 h3 r2/4	140	Tony Sharpe	CAN	21.31 (3 h6)	21.46 (6 h3)	–	–
6 h4 r2/4	401	Buster Watson	GBR	21.26 (3 h2)	21.14 (6 h4)	–	–
7 h1 r2/4	52	Dudley Parker	BAH	21.12 (2 h3)	21.10 (7 h1)	–	–
7 h2 r2/4	63	John Mayers	BAR	21.70 (3 h10)	21.46w (7 h2)	–	–
7 h3 r2/4	874	John Goville	UGA	21.59 (2 h10)	21.55 (7 h3)	–	–
7 h4 r2/4	740	Jamal Al-Abdullah	QAT	21.10 (4 h4)	21.44 (7 h4)	–	–
8 h1 r2/4	3	Ali Bakhta	ALG	21.15 (4 h8)	21.35 (8 h1)	–	–
AC h2 r2/4	547	Leroy Reid	JAM	20.62 (1 h2)	– (DNF h2)	–	–
2 h5 r1/4	33	Fred Martin	AUS	20.98 (2 h5)	– (DNS h3)	–	–
3 h8 r1/4	483	Neville Hodge	ISV	21.12 (3 h8)	– (DNS h4)	–	–
4 h1 r1/4	177	Georges Kablan Degnan	CIV	21.39 (4 h1)	–	–	–
4 h2 r1/4	173	Yu Zhuanghui	CHN	21.48 (4 h2)	–	–	–
4 h3 r1/4	707	Florencio Aguilar	PAN	21.50 (4 h3)	–	–	–
4 h5 r1/4	593	Alfred Nyambane	KEN	21.35 (4 h5)	–	–	–
4 h6 r1/4	836	Sumet Promna	THA	21.53 (4 h6)	–	–	–
4 h7 r1/4	190	Manuel Ramírez	COL	21.71 (4 h7)	–	–	–
4 h9 r1/4	768	David Sawyerr	SLE	21.29 (4 h9)	–	–	–
4 h10 r1/4	730	Nelson Erazo	PUR	21.72 (4 h10)	–	–	–
5 h1 r1/4	439	Earl Haley	GUY	21.52 (5 h1)	–	–	–
5 h2 r1/4	620	Nordin Mohamed Jadi	MAS	21.88 (5 h2)	–	–	–
5 h3 r1/4	349	Oumar Faye	GAM	21.56 (5 h3)	–	–	–
5 h4 r1/4	36	Paul Narracott	AUS	21.20 (5 h4)	–	–	–
5 h5 r1/4	557	Hiroki Fuwa	JPN	21.37 (5 h5)	–	–	–
5 h6 r1/4	533	Lindel Hodge	IVB	22.28 (5 h6)	–	–	–
5 h7 r1/4	648	Henrique Ferreira	MOZ	21.87 (5 h7)	–	–	–
5 h8 r1/4	94	Arnaldo Oliveira	BRA	21.24 (5 h8)	–	–	–
5 h9 r1/4	762	Ivan Benjamin	SLE	21.54 (5 h9)	–	–	–
5 h10 r1/4	79	Damel Flowers	BIZ	21.72 (5 h10)	–	–	–
6 h1 r1/4	245	Inoke Bainimoli	FIJ	22.16 (6 h1)	–	–	–
6 h2 r1/4	77	Gregory Simons	BER	21.88 (6 h2)	–	–	–
6 h3 r1/4	705	Muhammad Mansha	PAK	22.04 (6 h3)	–	–	–
6 h4 r1/4	16	Larry Miller	ANT	21.93 (6 h4)	–	–	–
6 h5 r1/4	982	Henry Ngolwe	ZAM	21.58 (6 h5)	–	–	–
6 h6 r1/4	698	Mohamed Al-Hashimi	OMA	22.83 (6 h6)	–	–	–
6 h7 r1/4	718	Luís Barroso	POR	22.03 (6 h7)	–	–	–
6 h8 r1/4	673	Lapule Tamean	PNG	21.97 (6 h8)	–	–	–
6 h9 r1/4	642	Moussa Savadogo	MLI	21.72 (6 h9)	–	–	–
6 h10 r1/4	650	Daniel André	MRI	22.16 (6 h10)	–	–	–
7 h1 r1/4	57	Saidur Rahman Dawn	BAN	22.59 (7 h1)	–	–	–
7 h2 r1/4	417	James Idun	GHA	22.55 (7 h2)	–	–	–
7 h3 r1/4	449	Christian Nenepath	INA	22.20 (7 h3)	–	–	–
7 h4 r1/4	615	Markus Büchel	LIE	22.14 (7 h4)	–	–	–
7 h5 r1/4	147	Antoine Kiakouama	CGO	21.64 (7 h5)	–	–	–
7 h6 r1/4	218	Aldo Salandra	ESA	22.90 (7 h6)	–	–	–
7 h7 r1/4	966	Christopher Madzokere	ZIM	22.75 (7 h7)	–	–	–
7 h8 r1/4	978	Gustavo Envela	GEQ	22.14 (7 h8)	–	–	–
7 h9 r1/4	760	Denis Rose	SEY	21.87 (7 h9)	–	–	–
8 h2 r1/4	193	Glen Abrahams	CRC	22.75 (8 h2)	–	–	–
8 h3 r1/4	819	Clifford Mamba	SWZ	22.76 (8 h3)	–	–	–
8 h4 r1/4	988	Augustus Moulton	LBR	22.94 (8 h4)	–	–	–
8 h5 r1/4	629	Odiya Silweya	MAW	22.46 (8 h5)	–	–	–
8 h6 r1/4	614	Jean-Yves Mallat	LBN	22.91 (8 h6)	–	–	–
8 h8 r1/4	437	Emilio Samayoa	GUA	22.19 (8 h8)	–	–	–
AC h1 r1/4	183	Emmanuel Bitanga	CMR	– (DNF h1)	–	–	–
DNS	86	Kgosiemang Khumoyarano	BOT	– (DNS h7)	–	–	–
DNS	403	Allan Wells	GBR	– (DNS h10)	–	–	–
DNS	312	Christian Haas	FRG	– (DNS h10)	–	–	–
DNS	850	Hasely Crawford	TTO	– (DNS h9)	–	–	–

Round One (6 August 1984 — 10:00)

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

Heat One

Wind	0.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.70	Q
2	8	Peter Van Miltenburg	AUS	21.06	Q
3	4	Robson da Silva	BRA	21.08	Q
4	2	Georges Kablan Degnan	CIV	21.39
5	1	Earl Haley	GUY	21.52
6	5	Inoke Bainimoli	FIJ	22.16
7	7	Saidur Rahman Dawn	BAN	22.59
DNF	6	Emmanuel Bitanga	CMR	–

Heat Two

Wind	0.6 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Leroy Reid	JAM	20.62	Q
2	2	Ralf Lübke	FRG	20.88	Q
3	7	Buster Watson	GBR	21.26	Q
4	6	Yu Zhuanghui	CHN	21.48
5	5	Nordin Mohamed Jadi	MAS	21.88
6	1	Gregory Simons	BER	21.88
7	3	James Idun	GHA	22.55
8	4	Glen Abrahams	CRC	22.75

Heat Three

Wind	-0.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Carlo Simionato	ITA	21.06	Q
2	2	Dudley Parker	BAH	21.12	Q
3	3	Jürgen Evers	FRG	21.12	Q
4	1	Florencio Aguilar	PAN	21.50
5	4	Oumar Faye	GAM	21.56
6	6	Muhammad Mansha	PAK	22.04
7	7	Christian Nenepath	INA	22.20
8	8	Clifford Mamba	SWZ	22.76

Heat Four

Wind	1.4 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	2	Thomas Jefferson	USA	20.63	Q
=2	7	Desai Williams	CAN	20.70	Q
=2	1	João Batista da Silva	BRA	20.70	Q
4	5	Jamal Al-Abdullah	QAT	21.10	q
5	4	Paul Narracott	AUS	21.20
6	8	Larry Miller	ANT	21.93
7	3	Markus Büchel	LIE	22.14
8	6	Augustus Moulton	LBR	22.94

Heat Five

Wind	0.9 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Patrick Barré	FRA	20.88	Q
2	4	Fred Martin	AUS	20.98	Q
3	2	Gus Young	JAM	21.14	Q
4	5	Alfred Nyambane	KEN	21.35
5	6	Hiroki Fuwa	JPN	21.37
6	1	Henry Ngolwe	ZAM	21.58
7	7	Antoine Kiakouama	CGO	21.64
8	8	Odiya Silweya	MAW	22.46

Heat Six

Wind	0.8 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Don Quarrie	JAM	20.84	Q
2	7	Ade Mafe	GBR	21.24	Q
3	6	Tony Sharpe	CAN	21.31	Q
4	2	Sumet Promna	THA	21.53
5	8	Lindel Hodge	IVB	22.28
6	3	Mohamed Al-Hashimi	OMA	22.83
7	5	Aldo Salandra	ESA	22.90
8	1	Jean-Yves Mallat	LBN	22.91

Heat Seven

Wind	0.6 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Carl Lewis	USA	21.02	Q
2	5	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	21.42	Q
3	4	Julien Thode	AHO	21.62	Q
4	6	Manuel Ramírez	COL	21.71
5	8	Henrique Ferreira	MOZ	21.87
6	2	Luís Barroso	POR	22.03
7	7	Christopher Madzokere	ZIM	22.75
DNS	1	Kgosiemang Khumoyarano	BOT	–

Heat Eight

Wind	0.4 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Kirk Baptiste	USA	20.63	Q
2	7	Luis Morales	PUR	21.05	Q
3	4	Neville Hodge	ISV	21.12	Q
4	5	Ali Bakhta	ALG	21.15	q
5	6	Arnaldo Oliveira	BRA	21.24
6	8	Lapule Tamean	PNG	21.97
7	2	Gustavo Envela	GEQ	22.14
8	1	Emilio Samayoa	GUA	22.19

Heat Nine

Wind	1.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	7	Stefano Tilli	ITA	20.72	Q
2	5	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	FRA	20.82	Q
3	3	Purnomo Muhammad Yudhi	INA	21.01	Q
4	8	David Sawyerr	SLE	21.29
5	4	Ivan Benjamin	SLE	21.54
6	1	Moussa Savadogo	MLI	21.72
7	6	Denis Rose	SEY	21.87
DNS	2	Hasely Crawford	TTO	–

Heat Ten

Wind	0.4 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Jang Jae-Geun	KOR	21.32	Q
2	7	John Goville	UGA	21.59	Q
3	1	John Mayers	BAR	21.70	Q
4	5	Nelson Erazo	PUR	21.72
5	4	Damel Flowers	BIZ	21.72
6	2	Daniel André	MRI	22.16
DNS	3	Allan Wells	GBR	–
DNS	6	Christian Haas	FRG	–

Quarter-Finals (6 August 1984 — 12:00)

Top four in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One

Wind	-0.5 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Carl Lewis	USA	20.48	Q
2	5	Stefano Tilli	ITA	20.64	Q
3	6	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	20.69	Q
4	7	Luis Morales	PUR	20.82	Q
5	1	Purnomo Muhammad Yudhi	INA	20.93
6	3	Patrick Barré	FRA	20.95
7	8	Dudley Parker	BAH	21.10
8	2	Ali Bakhta	ALG	21.35

Heat Two

Wind	2.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	7	Desai Williams	CAN	20.40w	Q
2	3	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.50w	Q
3	6	Ade Mafe	GBR	20.55w	Q
4	1	João Batista da Silva	BRA	20.61w	Q
5	4	Jürgen Evers	FRG	20.95w
6	5	Jang Jae-Geun	KOR	21.14w
7	2	John Mayers	BAR	21.46w
DNF	8	Leroy Reid	JAM	–

Heat Three

Wind	-0.7 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	3	Thomas Jefferson	USA	20.47	Q
2	6	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	FRA	20.54	Q
3	5	Don Quarrie	JAM	20.57	Q
4	4	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.88	Q
5	2	Julien Thode	AHO	21.45
6	1	Tony Sharpe	CAN	21.46
7	7	John Goville	UGA	21.55
DNS	8	Fred Martin	AUS	–

Heat Four

Wind	-0.3 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	2	Kirk Baptiste	USA	20.48	Q
2	3	Ralf Lübke	FRG	20.57	Q
3	7	Gus Young	JAM	20.75	Q
4	8	Carlo Simionato	ITA	20.86	Q
5	1	Peter Van Miltenburg	AUS	21.09
6	4	Buster Watson	GBR	21.14
7	5	Jamal Al-Abdullah	QAT	21.44
DNS	6	Neville Hodge	ISV	–

Semi-Finals (8 August 1984 — 16:00)

Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat One

Wind	0.7 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Kirk Baptiste	USA	20.29	Q
2	3	Thomas Jefferson	USA	20.40	Q
3	6	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.47	Q
4	2	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	FRA	20.55	Q
5	7	Atlee Mahorn	CAN	20.77
6	4	Robson da Silva	BRA	20.80
7	8	Gus Young	JAM	21.17
8	1	Luis Morales	PUR	21.22

Heat Two

Wind	-2.2 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	6	Carl Lewis	USA	20.27	Q
2	4	João Batista da Silva	BRA	20.61	Q
3	8	Ade Mafe	GBR	20.63	Q
4	7	Ralf Lübke	FRG	20.67	Q
5	3	Desai Williams	CAN	20.70
6	5	Stefano Tilli	ITA	20.72
7	1	Don Quarrie	JAM	20.77
8	2	Carlo Simionato	ITA	20.92

Final (8 August 1984 — 18:30)

Wind	-0.9 m/s

Pos	Lane	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)	Reaction Time
1	7	Carl Lewis	USA	19.80	0.177	OR
2	3	Kirk Baptiste	USA	19.96	0.153
3	4	Thomas Jefferson	USA	20.26	0.180
4	8	João Batista da Silva	BRA	20.30	0.165
5	6	Ralf Lübke	FRG	20.51	0.191
6	2	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	FRA	20.55	0.191
7	5	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.55	0.170
8	1	Ade Mafe	GBR	20.85	0.195