World Athletics Championships 1987/200 m men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	46 athletes from 32 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary / quarter finals) September 3rd (semifinals / final)
Medalist Calvin Smith ( USA )   Gilles Quenéhervé ( FRA )   John Regis ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome in 2009

The men's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 1 and 3, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the American title holder Calvin Smith , who also 1984 Olympic gold and 1983 World Cup -Gold with the US sprint relay won and 1983 runner-up over 100 meters had become. He won after the final photo decision before the Frenchman Gilles Quenéhervé at the same time . Bronze went to the Briton John Regis , who was just two hundredths of a second behind, too.

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
World championship record	20.14 s	Calvin Smith	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. In the final, the winner and also the runner-up missed the record by two hundredths of a second in a light headwind.

Preliminary round

August 1, 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Floyd Heard	United States	20.37
2	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.77
3	Peter Klein	BR Germany	20.89
4th	Mustapha camel Selmi	Algeria	21.14
5	Nelson Boateng	Ghana	21.19
6th	Harouna Pale	Burkina Faso	21.26
7th	Dazel Jules	Trinidad and Tobago	21.53
DNS	Linford Christie	Great Britain

Forward 2

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Attila Kovács	Hungary	20.77
2	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.82
3	Besik Gotsiridze	Soviet Union	20.89
4th	Sergio Querol	Cuba	20.94
5	Stefano Tilli	Italy	21.01
6th	Feng Li	People's Republic of China	21.47
7th	Felix Sandy	Sierra Leone	21.67
8th	Yaya Seyba	Mali	21.93

Forward 3

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	20.59
2	Clive Wright	Jamaica	20.88
3	Achmed De Kom	Netherlands	21.11
4th	Volker Westhagemann	BR Germany	21.15
5	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	21.33
6th	Haron Mundir	Singapore	21.51
7th	John Dinan	Australia	21.62
8th	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	23.41

Forward 4

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.56
2	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.62
3	Andreas Berger	Austria	20.82
4th	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	20.93
5	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.06
6th	Luis Barroso	Portugal	21.15
7th	Wing Kwong Leung	Hong Kong	21.48
8th	Sahim Saleh Mehdi	South Yemen	23.07

Forward 5

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.62
2	Daniel Sangouma	France	20.80
3	Simon Kipkemboi	Kenya	20.84
4th	Christian Haas	BR Germany	20.96
5	Jindrich Roun	Czechoslovakia	21.04
6th	Ian Morris	Trinidad and Tobago	21.36
7th	Takale Tuna	Papua New Guinea	22.06
8th	Suli Peauope	Tonga	22.45

Forward 6

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	John Regis	Great Britain	20.76
2	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.80
3	Wallace spearmon sr	United States	20.82
4th	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	21.03
5	Robert Stone	Australia	21.23
6th	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	21.37
7th	Secundino Borabota	Equatorial Guinea	23.66

Quarter finals

From each of the four quarter-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Quarter-finals 1

September 1, 1987

Wind: −1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Floyd Heard	United States	20.56
2	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.79
3	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.11
4th	Daniel Sangouma	France	21.11
5	Peter Klein	BR Germany	21.12
6th	Sergio Querol	Cuba	21.37
7th	Achmed De Kom	Netherlands	21.39
8th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	21.68

Quarter-finals 2

September 1, 1987

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.48
2	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.61
3	Simon Kipkemboi	Kenya	20.65
4th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.67
5	Luis Barroso	Portugal	20.90
6th	Christian Haas	BR Germany	21.12
7th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	26.25
DNS	Nelson Boateng	Ghana

Quarter-finals 3

September 1, 1987

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	20.48
2	Wallace spearmon sr	United States	20.55
3	John Regis	Great Britain	20.60
4th	Andreas Berger	Austria	20.86
5	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	20.87
6th	Volker Westhagemann	BR Germany	20.98
7th	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	21.15
8th	Robert Stone	Australia	21.23

Quarter-finals 4

September 1, 1987

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.48
2	Attila Kovács	Hungary	20.61
3	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.65
4th	Clive Wright	Jamaica	20.67
5	Besik Gotsiridze	Soviet Union	20.90
6th	Jindrich Roun	Czechoslovakia	21.12
7th	Mustapha camel Selmi	Algeria	21.26
8th	Harouna Pale	Burkina Faso	21.46

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

3rd September 1987

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	John Regis	Great Britain	20.54
2	Calvin Smith	United States	20.54
3	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.69
4th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.78
5	Wallace spearmon sr	United States	20.87
6th	Andreas Berger	Austria	20.99
7th	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.22
8th	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	21.28

Semi-final run 2

3rd September 1987

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	20.31
2	Floyd Heard	United States	20.31
3	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.34
4th	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.38
5	Attila Kovács	Hungary	20.47
6th	Clive Wright	Jamaica	20.50
7th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.86
8th	Simon Kipkemboi	Kenya	20.90

final

Bronze medalist John Regis

3rd September 1987

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.16
2	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	20.16
3	John Regis	Great Britain	20.18
4th	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.22
5	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.23
6th	Floyd Heard	United States	20.25
7th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.45
8th	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.78

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 20, 2020
• Men 200m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 200 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 97), English, accessed on March 20, 2020

Video

• Men's 200m at 1987 World Championships in Rome on youtube.com, accessed March 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 20, 2020