World Athletics Championships 1997/200 m men

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	63 athletes from 51 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 7th (semi-finals) August 8th (final)
Medalist Ato Boldon ( TRI )   Frank Fredericks ( NAM )   Claudinei da Silva ( BRA )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's 200-meter race at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 75 and 8, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

World champion became the world championship bronze medalist from 1995 and Olympic bronze medalist from 1996 Ato Boldon from Trinidad and Tobago , who was also Olympic third in the 100 meters in 1996 . The second place went to the World Champion of 1993 , two-time World Cup -Second ( 1991 /1995) and two-time Olympic silver medalist ( 1992 /1996) Frank Fredericks of Namibia , who is also the 100 meters in 1992 and 1996 each Olympic silver had won. Bronze went to the Brazilian Claudinei da Silva .

Existing records

World record	19.32 s	Michael Johnson	OS 1996 in Atlanta , USA	August 1, 1996
World championship record	19.79 s		World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
The 20-second mark was not undercut in any of the races.

There were three new national records in the preliminary stages:

• 20.79 s - Antoine Boussombo ( Gabon ), 5th lead
• 20.69s - Gary Ryan ( Ireland ), 6th forerun
• 21.59 s - Hadhari Djaffar ( Comoros ), 8th advance

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 6, 1997, 10:15 a.m.

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.48
2	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.49
3	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	20.60
4th	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.60
5	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	20.71
6th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.72
7th	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami	Oman	21.45

Forward 2

August 6, 1997, 10:21 am

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	20.71
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.74
3	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	20.88
4th	Philip Mukomana	Zimbabwe	20.88
5	Justice Dipeba	Botswana	20.96
6th	Patrick Johnson	Australia	21.45
DNS	Christophe Cheval	France

Forward 3

August 6, 1997, 10:27 a.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	20.72
2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.75
3	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.77
4th	Kôji Itô	Japan	20.82
5	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	21.03
6th	Lars Hedner	Sweden	21.30
7th	Tao Wu-Shiun	Chinese Taipei	21.85

Forward 4

August 6, 1997, 10:33 am

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.45
2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.49
3	Carlo Occhiena	Italy	20.90
4th	Gilles Quénéhervé	France	20.93
5	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	20.98
6th	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	21.58
7th	Kendon Maynard	American Virgin Islands	21.64

Forward 5

August 6, 1997, 10:39 a.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	20.73
2	Joseph Loua	Guinea	20.75
3	Jon Drummond	United States	20.76
4th	Christoph Pöstinger	Austria	20.77
5	Antoine Boussombo	Gabon	20.79 NO
6th	Thierry Lubin	France	20.80
7th	Arif Ahundov	Azerbaijan	22.08

Forward 6

August 6, 1997, 10:45 a.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kevin Little	United States	20.68
2	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.69 NO
3	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	20.70
4th	Steve Brimacombe	Australia	20.75
5	Alessandro Attene	Italy	20.92
6th	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas	21.00
7th	Mohammad Bin Haji	Brunei	22.37

Forward 7

August 6, 1997, 10:51 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.59
2	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.75
3	Ioannis Nafpliotis	Greece	20.84
4th	Andrei Fedoriv	Russia	20.88
5	Jordi Mayoral	Spain	20.99
6th	Kwame Galloway	Montserrat	22.45
DNS	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic

Forward 8

August 6, 1997, 10:57 am

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Geir Moen	Norway	20.79
2	Gentry Bradley	United States	20.80
3	Carlos Gats	Argentina	20.86
4th	Thomás Sbókos	Greece	20.94
5	Oumar Loum	Senegal	20.95
6th	Ahmed Douhou	Ivory Coast	21.08
7th	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	21.45
8th	Hadhari Djaffar	Comoros	21.59 NO

Forward 9

August 6, 1997, 11:03 am

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Iván García	Cuba	20.41
2	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.46
3	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.47
4th	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	20.56
5	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	20.72
6th	Malik Louahla	Algeria	21.31
7th	Khongdy Amnouayphone	Laos	22.86
8th	Mahbub Alam	Bangladesh	23.54

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

August 6, 1997, 6:45 p.m.

Wind: -3.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.77
2	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.78
3	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	21.04
4th	Gentry Bradley	United States	21.08
5	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	21.22
6th	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	21.25
7th	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	21.39
8th	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	21.52

Quarter-finals 2

Erik Wijmeersch (left) was only four hundredths of a second missing from the semi-finals

August 6, 1997, 6:51 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.13
2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.28
3	Jon Drummond	United States	20.59
4th	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.69
5	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	20.73
6th	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	20.78
7th	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.83
8th	Carlo Occhiena	Italy	21.14

Quarter-finals 3

August 6, 1997, 6:57 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.27
2	Kevin Little	United States	20.38
3	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	20.54
4th	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.56
5	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	20.57
6th	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.65
7th	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.77
8th	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.83

Quarter-finals 4

Sebastián Keitel (photo: 2012) was eliminated in the quarter-finals in sixth place in his race

August 6, 1997, 7:03 p.m.

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Iván García	Cuba	20.48
2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.62
3	Carlos Gats	Argentina	20.87
4th	Joseph Loua	Guinea	20.91
5	Ioannis Nafpliotis	Greece	20.94
6th	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	20.96
7th	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	22.70
DNS	Geir Moen	Norway

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

Carlos Gats (here in 2012) finished eighth in his semi-final and was eliminated

August 7, 1997, 7:25 pm

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.35
2	Iván García	Cuba	20.39
3	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	20.43
4th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.46
5	Sergey Osovic	Ukraine	20.51
6th	Kevin Little	United States	20.57
7th	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.61
8th	Carlos Gats	Argentina	21.44

Semi-final run 2

Troy Douglas, here for Bermuda and later for the Netherlands, missed the final by one place

August 7, 1997, 7:35 p.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.09
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.18
3	Jon Drummond	United States	20.29
4th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.42
5	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.43
6th	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.61
7th	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.78
8th	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.92

After bronze at the Olympics ( 1996 ) and World Championships ( 1995 , here also over 100 meters ), Ato Bolden was now gold

final

August 8, 1997, 7:20 pm

Wind: +2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.04
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.23
3	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.26
4th	Iván García	Cuba	20.31
5	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	20.32
6th	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.37
7th	Jon Drummond	United States	20.44
8th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.44

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  Silver again as with the World Cup 1991 / 1995 and the Olympics 1992 / 1996 (also about 100 meters ) won the world champion of 1993 Frank Fredericks

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  Bronze medalist Claudinei da Silva

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  Obadele Thompson finished sixth

Video

• Uncut - 200m Men Final Athens 1997 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 4, 2020
• Men 200m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 200 m, Athens 1997, p. 99 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 23, 2020