World Athletics Championships 1993/200 m men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	68 athletes from 54 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 17th (preliminary) August 19th (quarter-finals / semi-finals) August 20th (final)
Medalist Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   John Regis ( GBR )   Carl Lewis ( USA )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held from August 17 to 20, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the vice world champion in 1991 and Olympic runner-up in 1992, Frank Fredericks from Namibia , who had also won Olympic silver over 100 meters in 1992. Silver went to the British Championships -third of 1987 and European Champion in 1990 John Regis , the 100 meters in 1990 EM -Dritter was, along with several relay medals at Olympic Games, World and European Championships had won. The multiple sprint , long jump and relay Olympic champion and world champion Carl Lewis from the United States came in third.

Records

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
World championship record	20.01 s	Michael Johnson	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 27, 1991

Record improvement

The Namibian world champion Frank Fredericks improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 20 with a wind support of 0.3 m / s by sixteen hundredths of a second to 19.85 s.

At the same time Fredericks set a new African record with this time.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 17, 1993, 11:10 a.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Daniel Effiong	Nigeria	20.53
2	Johan Rossouw	South Africa	20.68
3	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.73
4th	Bjorn Sinnhuber	Germany	20.99
5	Edgardo Guilbe	Puerto Rico	21.14
6th	Yousef Dehmiri	Iran	21.88
7th	Theodore Haba	Guinea	21.92
8th	Lam Hai Van	Vietnam	22.77

Forward 2

August 17, 1993, 11:17 a.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.52
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.65
3	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	20.85
4th	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.88
5	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	21.51
6th	Derry Pemberton	American Virgin Islands	21.89
7th	David Nkoua	Republic of the Congo	22.55
DNS	Claus Hirsbro	Denmark

Forward 3

August 17, 1993, 11:24 a.m.

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dave Dollé	Switzerland	20.67
2	Oleg Fatun	Russia	20.71
3	Jason Hendrix	United States	20.74
4th	Koji Ito	Japan	20.96
5	Pedro Nolet	Spain	21.09
6th	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	21.13
7th	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	21.49
8th	Mario Bonello	Malta	22.60

Forward 4

August 17, 1993, 11:31 a.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	20.45
2	Nelson Boateng	Ghana	20.53
3	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	20.73
4th	Oumar Loum	Senegal	21.12
5	Mark Keddell	New Zealand	21.28
6th	Edmund Estaphane	St. Lucia	21.53
7th	A. Tamba	Liberia	22.67
DNS	Marek Zalewski	Poland

Forward 5

August 17, 1993, 11:38 a.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	20.87
2	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	20.97
3	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya	21.14
4th	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	21.20
5	Slobodan Branković	IWP	21.35
6th	Goolam Ambia	Bangladesh	21.95
7th	Arfin Abdullah	Indonesia	22.29
DSQ	Michael Huke	Germany

Forward 6

August 17, 1993, 11:45 a.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.54
2	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.57
3	Robert Kurnicki	Germany	20.66
4th	Törbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	20.80
5	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	20.97
6th	Edsel Chase	Barbados	21.34
7th	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	21.51
8th	Word Coombs	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	21.82

Forward 7

André da Silva only missed the quarter-finals by two hundredths of a second

August 17, 1993, 11:52 am

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.60
2	John Regis	Great Britain	20.67
3	Alexandros Terzian	Greece	20.83
4th	Giorgio Marras	Italy	20.95
5	André da Silva	Brazil	20.99
6th	Niti Piyapan	Thailand	21.60
7th	Khalid Juma	Brunei	22.23
8th	Ricky Canon	Nauru	24.14

Forward 8

August 17, 1993, 11:59 a.m.

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.85
2	Stanislav Georgiev	Bulgaria	21.08
3	Sidnei Telles De Souza	Brazil	21.22
4th	Stephen Lewis	Montserrat	21.36
5	Cephas Lemba	Zambia	21.68
6th	Junior Cornette	Guyana	22.03
7th	Mark Sherwin	Cook Islands	21.82
DNS	Linford Christie	Great Britain

Forward 9

Ato Boldon was eliminated fourth in his run

August 17, 1993, 12:06 p.m.

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Marsh	United States	20.77
2	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.89
3	Geir Moen	Norway	21.18
4th	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	21.31
5	Carlos Moreno	Chile	21.36
6th	Amar Hecini	Algeria	21.36
7th	Edvin Ivanov	Russia	21.39

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

August 19, 1993, 12:50 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dave Dollé	Switzerland	20.45
2	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.58
3	Robert Kurnicki	Germany	20.58
4th	Jason Hendrix	United States	20.82
5	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	21.02
6th	Kōji Itō	Japan	21.04
7th	Törbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.07
DNF	Daniel Effiong	Nigeria

Quarter-finals 2

August 19, 1993, 12:55 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	20.21
2	John Regis	Great Britain	20.39
3	Johan Rossouw	South Africa	20.55
4th	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	20.59
5	Patrick Delice	Trinidad and Tobago	20.88
6th	Geir Moen	Norway	20.99
7th	Stanislav Georgiev	Bulgaria	21.03
8th	Kennedy Ondiek	Kenya	21.50

Quarter-finals 3

August 19, 1993, 1:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.24
2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.24
3	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.40
4th	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.58
5	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	20.81
6th	Giorgio Marras	Italy	20.87
7th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.89
8th	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	39.46

Quarter-finals 4

August 19, 1993, 1:05 pm

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Marsh	United States	20.40
2	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.44
3	Nelson Boateng	Ghana	20.69
4th	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.70
5	Oleg Fatun	Russia	20.92
6th	Alexandros Terzian	Greece	21.00
7th	Joseph Gikonyo	Kenya	21.09
8th	Sidnei Telles De Souza	Brazil	21.69

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 19, 1993, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Marsh	United States	20.10
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.11
3	John Regis	Great Britain	20.16
4th	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.21
5	Nelson Boateng	Ghana	20.52
6th	Robert Kurnicki	Germany	20.67
7th	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	20.80
DSQ	Johan Rossouw	South Africa

Semi-final run 2

August 19, 1993, 7:17 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	20.26
2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.27
3	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.44
4th	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.51
5	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	20.66
6th	Dave Dollé	Switzerland	20.70
7th	Jason Hendrix	United States	20.99
DSQ	Robson da Silva	Brazil

final

Frank Fredericks, winner of numerous Olympic and World Cup medals, achieved his big title here

August 20, 1993, 9:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	19.85 CR / AR
2	John Regis	Great Britain	19.94
3	Carl Lewis	United States	19.99
4th	Michael Marsh	United States	20.18
5	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.18
6th	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.20
7th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.49
8th	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.56

• 

  Vice world champion John Regis, 1987 World Cup -Dritter and 1990 European champion, in addition winner of several relay medals at Olympic Games, World and European Championships

• 

  This time bronze was awarded to the multiple sprint , long jump and relay Olympic champion and world champion Carl Lewis

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1993 - 200 Meters Men , Video posted October 23, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 7, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 7, 2020
• Men 200m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 200 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 98 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 7, 2020
2. ↑ Yugoslavia was during the Yugoslav wars according to the UN administrative penalties ( RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 1993 on www.un.org (PDF, 10.2 MB), accessed on May 7, 2020) by the IAAF by the WM suspended -participation . Individual athletes from this area were allowed to start with a special permit.