World Athletics Championships 1991/200 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	58 athletes from 44 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 27th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Michael Johnson ( USA )   Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   Atlee Mahorn ( CAN )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 26 and 27, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

World champion was the American Michael Johnson , who won his first of many subsequent titles here at world championships and the Olympic Games. He won ahead of Frank Fredericks from Namibia . A very successful international career began here for him too, with numerous Olympic and world championship medals. Bronze went to the Canadian Atlee Mahorn .

Records

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

Record improvement

The US world champion Michael Johnson improved the existing world championship record twice.

• 20.05 s - third quarter-finals on August 26 with a tail wind of 0.8 m / s
• 20.01 s - Final on August 27 with a headwind of 3.4 m / s

The strong headwind of 3.4 m / s prevented faster times. World champion Johnson would certainly have undercut the twenty-second mark in better conditions. The world record of 19.72 s would also have been possible.

Preliminary round

August 26, 1991, 11:35 a.m.

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

Forward 1

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.70
2	Innocent Asonze	Nigeria	20.88
3	Jaroslaw Kaniecki	Poland	21.00
4th	Ioannis Markoullides	Cyprus	21.07
5	Attila Kovács	Hungary	21.55
6th	Christian Mandengue	Cameroon	22.31
7th	Ahmed Shageef	Maldives	22.80

Forward 2

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.52
2	Yoshiyuki Okuyama	Japan	20.80
3	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.89
4th	Enrique Talavera	Spain	20.98
5	Peter Ogilvie	Canada	21.09
6th	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	21.87
DNS	Mohamed Abderrin	Libya

Forward 3

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.51
2	Michael Rosswess	Great Britain	20.58
3	Daniel Effiong	Nigeria	20.68
4th	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	20.73
5	Dmitri Bartenjew	Soviet Union	20.78
6th	Edmund Estaphane	St. Lucia	21.48
7th	Eric Haynes	St. Kitts and Nevis	21.58
8th	Fortune Ogouchi	Benin	22.36

Forward 4

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.28
2	Leroy Burrell	United States	20.38
3	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya	20.43
4th	Cyprian Enweani	Canada	20.95
5	Pascal Thurnherr	Switzerland	20.97
6th	Dudley the Dulk	Netherlands Antilles	21.65
7th	Rodney Cox	Turks and Caicos Islands	21.91
DNS	Karim Abdul	Afghanistan

Forward 5

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	20.63
2	Hermann Lomba	France	20.78
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	21.19
4th	Khaled Ibrahim Jouma	Bahrain	21.31
5	Joseph Styles	Bahamas	21.43
6th	Joseph Dias	Senegal	21.60
7th	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	21.68
DSQ	Goolam Ambia	Bangladesh

Forward 6

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.75
2	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.83
3	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.93
4th	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	20.94
5	Boévi Lawson	Togo	21.09
6th	Sandro Floris	Italy	21.10
7th	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	21.85
8th	Jerry Jeremiah	Vanuatu	21.91

Forward 7

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.50
2	John Regis	Great Britain	20.62
3	Alexander Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.67
4th	Thomas Renner	Austria	20.85
5	Botlhoko Shebe	Lesotho	21.74
DSQ	Troy Douglas	Bermuda
DNS	Franck Zio	Burkina Faso

Forward 8

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Floyd Heard	United States	20.67
2	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.90
3	Cameron Taylor	New Zealand	21.06
4th	Felix Stevens	Cuba	21.06
5	Miguel Gomez	Spain	21.08
6th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	21.36
7th	Word Coombs	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	22.29
8th	Manuel Alves Fonseca	Sao Tome and Principe	23.44

Quarter finals

August 26, 1991, 4:50 p.m.

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

Quarter-finals 1

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.17
2	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.18
3	Floyd Heard	United States	20.56
4th	Daniel Effiong	Nigeria	20.59
5	Hermann Lomba	France	20.69
6th	Jaroslaw Kaniecki	Poland	20.82
7th	Thomas Renner	Austria	21.11
8th	Enrique Talavera	Spain	21.12

Quarter-finals 2

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.41
2	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.58
3	Michael Rosswess	Great Britain	20.61
4th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.85
5	Dmitri Bartenjew	Soviet Union	20.90
6th	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	21.07
7th	Felix Stevens	Cuba	21.09
DSQ	Innocent Asonze	Nigeria

Quarter-finals 3

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.05 CR
2	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.20
3	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	20.30
4th	John Regis	Great Britain	20.38
5	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.77
6th	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	20.80
7th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.92
8th	Cyprian Enweani	Canada	21.09

Quarter-finals 4

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alexander Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.36
2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.40
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.54
4th	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya	20.63
5	Yoshiyuki Okuyama	Japan	21.00
6th	Leroy Burrell	United States	21.21
7th	Pascal Thurnherr	Switzerland	21.23
8th	Cameron Taylor	New Zealand	21.40

Semifinals

Linford Christie was eliminated as sixth of his semi-final run

John Regis (here in 2012) missed the final by one place with a gap of five hundredths of a second

August 27, 1991, 4:20 pm

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

Semi-final run 1

Wind: +2.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.40
2	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.43
3	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.48
4th	Alexander Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.48
5	Floyd Heard	United States	20.61
6th	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.62
7th	Daniel Effiong	Nigeria	20.85
8th	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya	21.01

Semi-final run 2

Wind: −3.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.06
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.27
3	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	20.47
4th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.47
5	John Regis	Great Britain	20.52
6th	Michael Rosswess	Great Britain	20.82
7th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.91
8th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	21.04

World Champion Michael Johnson celebrated his first big win, which was to be followed by many more

final

August 27, 1991, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: −3.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.01 CR
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.34
3	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.49
4th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.49
5	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria	20.51
6th	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.58
7th	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.59
8th	Alexander Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.78

• 

  A very successful international career with many other medals began here for runner-up world champion Frank Fredericks

• 

  After his seventh place over 100 meters , Robson Caetano da Silva now reached fourth place and only missed the bronze medal by a few thousandths of a second

Video

• Men's 200m Final World Champs in Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 17, 2020
• Men 200m Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 200 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 97f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 17, 2020

Individual references and notes

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 17, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Note on Alexander Sokolow: In various sources, instead of Alexander Sokolow, an athlete named Aleksandr Goremykin is listed in the result lists. There is evidence that this is the same person (e.g. Aleksandr Goremykin on peoplepill.com, accessed April 17, 2020). In addition, an identical date of birth is named for both names with March 3, 1971 (e.g. Aleksandr Goremkyn / Aleksandr Sokolov on worldathletics.org, accessed on April 17, 2020). However, z. B. at worldathletics.org both athletes are listed as two different people with different profiles - see the last-mentioned links .