World Athletics Championships 1995/200 m men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	70 athletes from 48 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 11th (semifinals / final)
Medalist Michael Johnson ( USA )   Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   Jeff Williams ( USA )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 200-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 10 and 11, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

In this competition, the US sprinters won two medals, gold and bronze. It was won by the 1991 world champion Michael Johnson , who was world champion over 400 meters in 1993 and won Olympic gold in his country's 4 x 400 meter relay in 1992 and World Cup gold in 1993. Here in Gothenburg, too, Michael Johnson had won over 400 meters two days earlier and was world champion over 4 × 400 meters on the final day. Second place went to the Namibian defending champion, vice world champion in 1991 and two-time Olympic runner-up in 1992 ( 100 meters / 200 meters), Frank Fredericks . Bronze went to Jeff Williams .

Records

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
World championship record	19.85 s	Frank Fredericks	World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	August 20, 1993

Record improvement

The US world champion Michael Johnson improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 11th by six hundredths of a second to 19.79 s despite a headwind of 0.5 m / s.

Michael Johnson missed the world record by just seven hundredths of a second.

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 10, 1995, 9:40 a.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.54
2	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas	20.56
3	Aléxios Alexópoulos	Greece	20.59
4th	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	20.69
5	Alexander Lack	Germany	20.97
6th	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	21.42
7th	Tawanda Chiwira	Zimbabwe	21.51
DSQ	Li Xiaoping	People's Republic of China	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 2

21.01 s were not enough for Erik Wijmeersch (right) to take part in the quarter-finals

August 10, 1995, 9:46 a.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.57
2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.66
3	Charles Gitonga	Kenya	20.72
4th	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	20.87
5	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.01
6th	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.03
7th	Christopher Sayeh	Liberia	23.84
DSQ	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 3

August 10, 1995, 9:52 a.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.63
2	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.75
3	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.76
4th	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	20.78
5	Dean Capobianco	Australia	20.88
6th	Marcelo Brivilati Da Silva	Brazil	21.02
7th	Jordi Mayoral	Spain	21.11
8th	Antonio Ichiou	Northern Mariana Islands	24.28

Forward 4

Robert Maćkowiak missed two hundredths of a second with his 20.83 seconds to make it to the quarter-finals

August 10, 1995, 9:58 a.m.

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jeff Williams	United States	20.56
2	David Dollé	Switzerland	20.69
3	Thomás Sbókos	Greece	20.71
4th	Mark Keddell	New Zealand	20.81
5	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	20.83
6th	Peter Ogilvie	Canada	21.18
7th	Word Coombs	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	21.27
8th	Martin Frick	Liechtenstein	21.89

Forward 5

August 10, 1995, 10:04 am

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Steve Brimacombe	Australia	20.74
2	Geir Moen	Norway	20.80
3	Kôji Itô	Japan	20.80
4th	Riaan Dempers	South Africa	20.97
5	Alexander Sokolov	Russia	21.17
6th	Alain Reimann	Switzerland	21.28
7th	Ricardo Roach	Chile	21.65
8th	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	22.03

Forward 6

August 10, 1995, 10:10 am

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.65
2	John Regis	Great Britain	20.78
3	Lars Hedner	Sweden	20.85
4th	Joseph Loua	Guinea	21.06
5	Huang Danwei	People's Republic of China	21.16
6th	Justice Dipeba	Botswana	21.17
DSQ	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	IAAF Rule 162.8 - false start
DNS	Deji Aliu	Nigeria

Forward 7

August 10, 1995, 10:16 am

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.44
2	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain	20.51
3	Iván García	Cuba	20.70
4th	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	20.70
5	Francisco Javier Navarro	Spain	20.88
6th	Boevi Menelik Lawson	Togo	21.06
7th	Jun Osakada	Japan	21.25
8th	Brahim Abdoulaye	Chad	21.86

Forward 8

August 10, 1995, 10:22 am

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.53
2	Robert Kurnicki	Germany	20.61
3	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	20.83
4th	Carlos Gats	Argentina	21.02
5	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	21.09
6th	Kurvin Wallace	St. Kitts and Nevis	21.29
7th	Antoine Boussombo	Gabon	21.32
DNS	Olapade Adenics	Nigeria

Forward 9

August 10, 1995, 10:28 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.73
2	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.75
3	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	20.77
4th	Kevin Little	United States	20.80
5	Marc Blume	Germany	20.86
6th	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	21.31
7th	Keith Smith	American Virgin Islands	21.63
DNF	Wladyslaw Dolohodin	Ukraine

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

August 10, 1995, 5:20 pm

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.35
2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.41
3	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas	20.49
4th	Aléxios Alexópoulos	Greece	20.57
5	David Dollé	Switzerland	20.84
6th	Lars Hedner	Sweden	20.87
7th	Charles Gitonga	Kenya	20.90
8th	Mark Keddell	New Zealand	40.08

Quarter-finals 2

August 10, 1995, 5:25 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jeff Williams	United States	20.36
2	Iván García	Cuba	20.52
3	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.57
4th	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.60
5	Robert Kurnicki	Germany	20.67
6th	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	20.74
7th	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	21.60
DSQ	Thomás Sbókos	Greece	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Quarter-finals 3

August 10, 1995, 5:30 p.m.

Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.26
2	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.35
3	John Regis	Great Britain	20.51
4th	Steve Brimacombe	Australia	20.52
5	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	20.73
6th	Kôji Itô	Japan	20.80
7th	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.82
8th	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.01

Ato Boldon (here in 2000) , third over 100 meters , was eliminated in the quarterfinals with 21.81 seconds

Quarter-finals 4

August 10, 1995, 5:35 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.33
2	Geir Moen	Norway	20.37
3	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.49
4th	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain	20.55
5	Kevin Little	United States	20.60
6th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.61
7th	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	21.81
DNS	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 11, 1995, 5:05 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	20.01
2	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.20
3	Geir Moen	Norway	20.32
4th	John Regis	Great Britain	20.39
5	Damien Marsh	Australia	20.39
6th	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.58
7th	Aléxios Alexópoulos	Greece	20.78
8th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.79

• 

  Obadele Thompson achieved 20.66 s in the semifinals, which was not enough for participation in the final

• 

  Andrew Tynes ran in the semifinals for 20.72 seconds and was eliminated

Semi-final run 2

August 11, 1995, 5:12 pm

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.28
2	Jeff Williams	United States	20.32
3	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.37
4th	Iván García	Cuba	20.45
5	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain	20.58
6th	Steve Brimacombe	Australia	20.59
7th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.66
8th	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas	20.72

World champion Michal Johnson - with three gold medals the most successful athlete at these world championships

final

August 11, 1995, 7:45 p.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Michael Johnson	United States	19.79 CR
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.12
3	Jeff Williams	United States	20.18
4th	Robson Caetano da Silva	Brazil	20.21
5	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.40
6th	Geir Moen	Norway	20.51
7th	John Regis	Great Britain	20.67
8th	Iván García	Cuba	20.77

• 

  For defending champion Frank Fredericks there was silver this time

• 

  Robson Caetano da Silva was three hundredths of a second short of the bronze medal in fourth place

• 

  John Regis, vice world champion in 1993 and European champion in 1990 , reached seventh place this time

Video

• Michael Johnson: 200m Gold World Championships, Gothenburg, 1995 , video published on May 13, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on May 23, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Men 200m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 200 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 98f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 23, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 23, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 86f (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 23, 2020