| Date | 16 October 1964 — 10:30 | |
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| Location | Kokuritsu Kyogijo, Shinjuku, Tokyo | |
| Format | Top 4 in each heat advanced to the quarter-finals. | |
| Wind | 0.6 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
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| 1 | 4 | Paul Drayton | 20.7 | 20.70 | |||
| 2 | 8 | Andrzej Zieliński | 21.2 | 21.24 | |||
| 3 | 3 | Cliff Bertrand | 21.3 | 21.39 | |||
| 4 | 5 | Johan Du Preez | 21.4 | 21.45 | |||
| 5 | 7 | Jean-Louis Descloux | 21.5 | 21.52 | |||
| 6 | 6 | Francisco Gutiérrez | 21.8 | 21.88 | |||
| 7 | 1 | Gerardo di Tolla | 22.1 | – | |||
| 8 | 2 | Somsak Thongsuk | 22.6 | – |
| Wind | 0.2 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Roger Bambuck | 21.2 | 21.29 | |||
| 2 | 7 | Arquímedes Herrera | 21.3 | 21.38 | |||
| 3 | 1 | Boris Zubov | 21.4 | 21.46 | |||
| 4 | 4 | Peter Radford | 21.5 | 21.52 | |||
| 5 | 6 | Sam Amukun | 21.5 | 21.55 | |||
| 6 | 2 | Carlos Lorenzo | 21.6 | 21.60 | |||
| 3 | Levi Psavkin | – | – | ||||
| 8 | Hideo Iijima | – | – |
| Wind | 0.3 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Menzies Campbell | 21.3 | 21.33 | |||
| 2 | 2 | Seraphino Antao | 21.5 | 21.52 | |||
| 3 | 6 | Csaba Csutorás | 21.5 | 21.54 | |||
| 4 | 5 | Bouchaib El-Maachi | 21.5 | 21.58 | |||
| 5 | 4 | David Njitock | 22.5 | – | |||
| 6 | 3 | Wesley Johnson | 24.7 | – | |||
| 7 | Eric Bigby | – | – | ||||
| 8 | Pablo McNeil | – | – |
| Wind | 0.0 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Marian Foik | 21.1 | 21.11 | |||
| 2 | 7 | Sergio Ottolina | 21.2 | 21.27 | |||
| 3 | 5 | Edvin Ozolin | 21.3 | 21.32 | |||
| 4 | 1 | Jeffery Smith | 21.7 | 21.77 | |||
| 5 | 4 | Jassim Karim | 22.6 | – | |||
| 6 | 3 | Lee Ar-Tu | 23.0 | – | |||
| 2 | Enrique Figuerola | – | – |
| Wind | 0.0 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Harry Jerome | 20.9 | 20.95 | |||
| 2 | 3 | Mani Jegathesan | 20.9 | 20.99 | |||
| 3 | 6 | Paul Genevay | 21.0 | 21.08 | |||
| 4 | 7 | Frans Luitjes | 21.1 | 21.13 | |||
| 5 | 1 | Heinz Erbstößer | 21.4 | 21.40 | |||
| 6 | 4 | Tegegne Bezabeh | 22.0 | 22.03 | |||
| 7 | 2 | Vahab Shahkhoreh | 22.3 | – | |||
| 8 | Boris Savchuk | [21.4] | [21.45] |
| Wind | 0.1 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
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| 1 | 7 | Edwin Roberts | 20.8 | 20.89 | |||
| 2 | 6 | Bob Lay | 21.3 | 21.34 | |||
| 3 | 3 | Pedro Grajales | 21.4 | 21.48 | |||
| 4 | 8 | David Ejoke | 21.4 | 21.48 | |||
| 5 | 4 | George Collie | 21.9 | 21.91 | |||
| 6 | 5 | Aggrey Awori | 21.9 | 21.94 | |||
| 7 | 2 | Ken Powell | 22.2 | – | |||
| 8 | 1 | William Hill | 22.5 | – |
| Wind | -1.4 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Heinz Schumann | 21.0 | 21.09 | |||
| 2 | 6 | Henry Carr | 21.1 | 21.12 | |||
| 3 | 3 | Jocelyn Delecour | 21.3 | 21.38 | |||
| 4 | 5 | Iván Moreno | 21.5 | 21.55 | |||
| 5 | 4 | Alioune Sow | 21.9 | 21.91 | |||
| 6 | 7 | Michael Okantey | 21.9 | 21.97 | |||
| 7 | 8 | Rogelio Onofre | 22.1 | 22.17 | |||
| 1 | Tom Robinson | – | – |
| Wind | 0.9 m/s |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitor | NOC | Time (Hand) | Time (Automatic) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Livio Berruti | 21.1 | 21.11 | |||
| 2 | 6 | Dick Stebbins | 21.1 | 21.17 | |||
| 3 | 3 | Fritz Roderfeld | 21.5 | 21.58 | |||
| 4 | 4 | Gary Holdsworth | 21.6 | 21.65 | |||
| 5 | 2 | José Rocha | 21.7 | 21.79 | |||
| 6 | 1 | Valeriu Jurcă | 21.8 | 21.82 | |||
| 7 | 8 | Jeong Gi-Seon | 22.3 | – | |||
| 8 | 7 | Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa | 22.4 | – |