200 metres, Men

#	Performance	Athlete(s)	NOC	Games	Date	Phase	Rank
1	24.0	Bill Holland	USA	Paris 1900	22 July 1900	Round One, Heat #1	1
2	22.2	Walter Tewksbury	USA	Paris 1900	22 July 1900	Final Round	1
3	22.2	Archie Hahn	USA	St. Louis 1904	31 August 1904	Round One, Heat #1	1
4	21.6	Archie Hahn	USA	St. Louis 1904	31 August 1904	Final Round	1
5	21.6	Jackson Scholz	USA	Paris 1924	9 July 1924	Final Round	1
6	21.6	Helmut Körnig	GER	Amsterdam 1928	31 July 1928	Quarter-Finals, Heat #6	1
7	21.9 WRa	Willie Walters	RSA	Los Angeles 1932	2 August 1932	Round One, Heat #2	1
8	21.5 WRa	Ralph Metcalfe	USA	Los Angeles 1932	2 August 1932	Quarter-Finals, Heat #1	1
9	21.5 WRa	Eddie Tolan	USA	Los Angeles 1932	2 August 1932	Quarter-Finals, Heat #2	1
10	21.4 WRa	Carlos Bianchi	ARG	Los Angeles 1932	2 August 1932	Quarter-Finals, Heat #3	1
11	21.4	Arthur Jonath	GER	Los Angeles 1932	2 August 1932	Quarter-Finals, Heat #4	1
12	21.2 WRa	Eddie Tolan	USA	Los Angeles 1932	3 August 1932	Final Round	1
13	21.1	Jesse Owens	USA	Berlin 1936	4 August 1936	Round One, Heat #3	1
14	21.1w (>2.0 m/s)	Jesse Owens	USA	Berlin 1936	4 August 1936	Quarter-Finals, Heat #3	1
15	20.7 (2.0 m/s) WR	Jesse Owens	USA	Berlin 1936	5 August 1936	Final Round	1
16	20.7 (1.0 m/s) WRa	Andy Stanfield	USA	Helsinki 1952	23 July 1952	Final Round	1
17	20.6 =WR	Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	Melbourne 1956	27 November 1956	Final Round	1
18	20.5 =WR	Livio Berruti	ITA	Roma 1960	3 September 1960	Semi-Finals, Heat #2	1
19	20.5 (0.0 m/s) =WR	Livio Berruti	ITA	Roma 1960	3 September 1960	Final Round	1
20	20.5 (0.4 m/s)	Paul Drayton	USA	Tokyo 1964	17 October 1964	Semi-Finals, Heat #1	1
21	20.3 (-0.8 m/s) WRa	Henry Carr	USA	Tokyo 1964	17 October 1964	Final Round	1
22	20.3 (0.5 m/s)	Tommie Smith	USA	Ciudad de México 1968	15 October 1968	Round One, Heat #2	1
23	20.2 (1.2 m/s)	Peter Norman	AUS	Ciudad de México 1968	15 October 1968	Round One, Heat #6	1
24	20.2 (0.0 m/s)	Tommie Smith	USA	Ciudad de México 1968	15 October 1968	Quarter-Finals, Heat #3	1
25	20.1 (0.2 m/s)	John Carlos	USA	Ciudad de México 1968	16 October 1968	Semi-Finals, Heat #1	1
26	20.1 (0.6 m/s)	Tommie Smith	USA	Ciudad de México 1968	16 October 1968	Semi-Finals, Heat #2	1
27	19.8 (0.9 m/s) WR	Tommie Smith	USA	Ciudad de México 1968	16 October 1968	Final Round	1
28	20.30w (2.2 m/s)	Valery Borzov	URS	München 1972	3 September 1972	Quarter-Finals, Heat #1	1
29	20.28 (0.4 m/s)	Larry Black	USA	München 1972	3 September 1972	Quarter-Finals, Heat #4	1
30	20.00 (0.0 m/s)	Valery Borzov	URS	München 1972	4 September 1972	Final Round	1
31	19.80 (-0.9 m/s)	Carl Lewis	USA	Los Angeles 1984	8 August 1984	Final Round	1
32	19.75 (1.7 m/s)	Joe DeLoach	USA	Seoul 1988	28 September 1988	Final Round	1
33	19.73 (-0.2 m/s)	Mike Marsh	USA	Barcelona 1992	5 August 1992	Semi-Finals, Heat #1	1
34	19.32 (0.4 m/s) WR	Michael Johnson	USA	Atlanta 1996	1 August 1996	Final Round	1
35	19.30 (-0.9 m/s) WR	Usain Bolt	JAM	Beijing 2008	20 August 2008	Final Round	1