European Athletics Championships 2018/200 m men

discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	40 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2018 (preliminary) August 9, 2018 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Ramil Guliyev ( TUR )
silver	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake ( GBR )
bronze	Alex Wilson ( SUI )

Berlin Olympic Stadium
on the afternoon of August 9th

The men's 200-meter run at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place on August 8th and 9th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

World champion was the Turk Ramil Guliyev , who won ahead of the Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake . The Swiss Alex Wilson won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

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

Record improvements

In the final, Ramil Guliyev improved the existing EM record to 19.76 seconds.

Conducting the competition

The ten fastest sprinters on the year's best list - marked with ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary runs. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

The Bulgarian Fenis Dimitrov was eliminated as eighth of his prelude

The Norwegian Jonathan Quarcoo did not reach the final as fourth of his prelim

Fifth place in his preliminary run was not enough for the Finn Oskari Lehtonen to take part in the finals

For the Swiss Silvan Wicki, fourth place in the last heat was not enough for the final qualification

From the four preliminary heats, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 10:50 a.m. CEST
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Robin Vanderbemden	Belgium	20.50
2	6th	Andrew Howe	Italy	20.60
3	8th	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	20.67
4th	3	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.69
5	1	Pol Retamal	Spain	20.92
6th	7th	Emil Ibrahimov	Ukraine	21.29
7th	4th	Alexandru Terpezan	Romania	21.39
8th	2	Denis Dimitrov	Bulgaria	21.43

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 10:58 a.m. CEST
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.49
2	4th	Méba-Mickaël Zézé	France	20.65 SB
3	3	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.70
4th	7th	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway	20.77
5	2	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	20.80
6th	5	Ionuț Andrei Neagoe	Romania	21.21
7th	5	Sergio Juarez	Spain	21.33

Run 3

August 8, 2018, 11:06 a.m. CEST
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.39 SB
2	8th	Stuart Dutamby	France	20.64
3	6th	Delano Williams	Great Britain	20.89
4th	2	Felix Svensson	Sweden	20.95
5	5	Oskari Lehtonen	Finland	06/21
6th	4th	Jan Jirka	Czech Republic	21.15
7th	3	Šimon Bujna	Slovakia	21.26

Run 4

August 8, 2018, 11:06 a.m. CEST
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.66
2	8th	Steven Muller	Germany	20.78
3	4th	Daniel Rodríguez	Spain	20.81
4th	5	Silvan Wicki	Switzerland	20.93
5	6th	Gediminas Truskauskas	Lithuania	21.11
6th	3	Panagiotis Trivyzas	Greece	21.18
7th	7th	Markus Fuchs	Austria	21.29
8th	2	Paisios Dimitriades	Cyprus	2.31

Semifinals

The Italian Davide Manenti reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in fifth place in his run

The German Robin Erewa had no chance in the semifinals and failed as the last of his race

Aleixo-Platini Menga, the second German in the semi-finals, did not reach the final as seventh of his run

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The ten fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 8:15 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Ramil Guliyev ‡	Turkey	20.33
2	3	Leon Reid ‡	Ireland	20.38
3	5	Ján Volko ‡	Slovakia	20.58
4th	7th	Steven Muller	Germany	20.76
5	8th	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.81
6th	2	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	20.84
DNS	6th	Stuart Dutamby	France
	1	Delano Williams	Great Britain

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 8:23 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Bruno Hortelano ‡	Spain	20.29
2	6th	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.35 SB
3	5	Adam Gemili ‡	Great Britain	20.46
4th	2	Méba-Mickaël Zézé	France	20.49 SB
5	3	Churandy Martina ‡	Netherlands	20.51
6th	5	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.54
7th	7th	Robin Vanderbemden	Belgium	20.62
8th	1	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.79

Run 3

August 8, 2018, 8:31 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Alex Wilson ‡	Switzerland	20.16
2	5	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.35
3	7th	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.41
4th	3	Serhiy Smelyk ‡	Ukraine	20.54
5	2	Daniel Rodríguez	Spain	20.77
6th	8th	Andrew Howe	Italy	20.78
7th	6th	Aleixo Platini Menga ‡	Germany	20.83
8th	1	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway	21.07

final

August 9, 2018, 9:05 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.7 m / s

The clear favorite for this final was the Turkish World Champion of 2017 and Vice European Champion of 2016 Ramil Guliyev. Among his strongest competitors were the British World Cup fourth Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, his compatriot Adam Gemili as European champion in 2014 and the Spanish defending champion Bruno Hortelano. The Swiss Alex Wilson also made a very strong impression in the semi-finals.

Three runners came out of the starting curve, almost level, onto the home straight. These were Guliyev, Hortelano and Gemili. Mitchell-Blake and Wilson followed closely behind, and Irish Leon Reid wasn't far behind either. On the home stretch, the favorite Ramil Guliyev clearly prevailed and became European champion. The fight for the places behind him was extremely close. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake came second, while Alex Wilson won the bronze medal with him. Defending champion Bruno Hortelano took fourth place just a hundredth of a second back. Adam Gemili finished fifth another five hundredths of a second ahead of the Italian Eseosa Desalu, who was also not far behind with three more hundredths of a second. The ranks seven and eight went to Leon Reid and the Dutchman Solomon Bockarie.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	19.76 CR
	4th	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.04 SB
	5	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.04 NO
4th	3	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.05
5	2	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	20.10 SB
6th	7th	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.13 PB
7th	8th	Leon Reid	Ireland	20.37
8th	1	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.39 SB

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  European Champion Ramil Guliyev, Turkey

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  Vice European Champion Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Great Britain

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  Bronze medalist Alex Wilson, Switzerland

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  The Spaniard Bruno Hortelano reached fourth place

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  The Briton Adam Gemili - fifth - and the Dutchman Solomon Bockarie - eighth - at the finish of the 200-meter final

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  Sixth place for the Italian Eseosa Desalu

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  The Irishman Leon Reid finished seventh

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on December 30, 2018
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 30, 2018
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 30, 2018

Video

• European Championship, Final 200 m, Berlin 2018 on youtube.com (French), published on September 25, 2018, accessed on December 30, 2018