European Athletics Championships 2010/200 m men

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 29th (preliminary / semi-finals) July 30th (final)
Medalist Christophe Lemaître ( FRA )   Christian Malcolm ( GBR )   Martial Mbandjock ( FRA )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's 200-meter run at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 29 and 30, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

Gold and bronze went to the same two French sprinters as they did two days earlier in the 100 meters . Christophe Lemaître became European champion . Second place went to the Briton Christian Malcolm . Bronze went to Martial Mbandjock .

Existing records

World record	19.19 s	Usain Bolt	2009, World Cup Berlin , Germany	August 20, 2009
European record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
Championship record	19.85 s	Konstantinos Kenteris	EM Munich , Germany	August 9, 2002

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

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  Igor Bodrov was three hundredths of a second away from being one of the fastest in the semi-finals

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  Jiří Vojtík was eliminated as fifth in his prelude

July 29, 2010, 11:30 a.m.

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.63
2	Kamil Kryński	Poland	20.81
3	Martial Mbandjock	France	20.83
4th	Igor Bodrov	Ukraine	20.98
5	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	21.02
6th	Jan Žumer	Slovenia	21.17
7th	İzzet Safer	Turkey	21.41
8th	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	21.65

Forward 2

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  Matic Osovnikar did not manage to reach the semifinals like over 100 meters

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  As eighth of the second heat, Alex Wilson had no chance

July 29, 2010, 11:38 am

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	20.64
2	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	20.87
3	Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun	Great Britain	20.93
4th	Daniel Schnelting	Germany	20.98
5	Petr Szetei	Czech Republic	21.06
6th	Ryan Moseley	Austria	21.07
7th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	21.36
8th	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	21.40

Forward 3

Matteo Galvan missed the semifinals by a hundredth of a second

July 29, 2010, 11:46 am

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.60
2	David Alerte	France	20.70
3	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.79
4th	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland	20.80
5	Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	Russia	20.95
6th	Matteo Galvan	Italy	20.96
7th	Steven Colvert	Ireland	21.14
8th	Piotr Wiaderek	Poland	21.20

Forward 4

July 29, 2010, 11:54 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.68
2	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.69
3	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.72
4th	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece	20.74
5	Jonathan Åstrand	Finland	20.78
6th	Dmitriy Barskiy	Israel	21.09
7th	Gregor Kokalovič	Slovenia	21.24

Semifinals

July 29, 2010, 5:35 pm

From each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

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  His seventh place in the first semifinals was not enough for Arnaldo Abrantes to reach the final

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  Sebastian Ernst retired as eighth of his race in the semifinals

July 29, 2010, 7:55 pm

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.50
2	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.55
3	Martial Mbandjock	France	20.62
4th	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.67
5	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece	20.75
6th	Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	Russia	20.88
7th	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	20.88
8th	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.95

Run 2

Johan Wissman missed the final by a rank or two hundredths of a second

July 29, 2010, 8:02 pm

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	20.39
2	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.58
3	David Alerte	France	20.59
4th	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.77
5	Kamil Kryński	Poland	20.81
6th	Jonathan Åstrand	Finland	20.81
7th	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland	20.82
8th	Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun	Great Britain	20.85

final

Christophe Lemaître - double European champion on the two short sprint courses

July 30, 2010, 7:25 pm

Wind: −0.8 m / s

After he had already won the 100-meter run, Christophe Lemaitre was also able to win the race over the longer sprint distance . In the last few meters he passed Christian Malcolm.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christophe Lemaître	France	20.37
2	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.38
3	Martial Mbandjock	France	20.42
4th	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain	20.62
5	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.63
6th	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.71
7th	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece	20.90
8th	David Alerte	France	87.24

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  Vice European Champion Christian Malcolm

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  Martial Mbandjock - bronze medalist over 100 and 200 meters

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  Marlon Devonish finished fourth

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  Jaysuma Saidy Ndure - Sixth over 100 and fifth over 200 meters

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  Paul Hession reached number six

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  Eighth place David Alerte

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 9, 2019
• Men 200m Hurdles European Championship 2010 Barcelona on todor66.com, accessed December 9, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed December 9, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 500 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on December 9, 2019
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 9, 2019

Video

• European Championship Barcelona 2010. 200m men final on youtube.com (English), accessed on December 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m men , accessed December 9, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 9 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 9, 2019