World Athletics Championships 2015/200 m men

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	60 athletes from 54 countries
Competition phase	August 25, 2015 (preliminary round) August 26, 2015 (semi-finals) August 27, 2015 (final)
Medalist
gold	Usain Bolt ( JAM )
silver	Justin Gatlin ( USA )
bronze	Anaso Jobodwana ( RSA )

World champion Usain Bolt after the final

The men's 200-meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 25, 26 and 27, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

Usain Bolt won the final in 19.55 s. For him it was the fourth World Cup triumph in the 200-meter run after 2009 , 2011 and 2013 .

Records

World record	Usain Bolt	19.19 s	Berlin , Germany	August 20, 2009
Championship record			World Cup in Berlin , Germany

Prelims

From the six preliminary heats, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

Hua Wilfried Koffi from Ivory Coast retired after finishing fourth in the preliminary run

August 25, 2015, 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.01 NO
2	2	Kenji Fujimitsu	Japan	20.28
3	9	Reynier Mena	Cuba	20.73
4th	7th	Hua Wilfried Koffi	Ivory Coast	20.39 SB
5	1	Mike Mokamba Nyang'au	Kenya	20.51
6th	3	Isiah Young	United States	20.51
7th	5	Mohammed Abukhousa	Palestine	21.36 SB
8th	6th	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan	21.55
DSQ	6th	Saeed Ahmed Ali	Sudan	IAAF Rule 163.3a - false start

Run 2

The Brazilian Bruno de Barros finished fifth in his preliminary heat and was eliminated

August 25, 2015, 7:27 p.m. (1:27 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Alonso Edward	Panama	20.11
2	5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.22
3	3	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.29
4th	6th	Kei Takase	Japan	20.33
5	4th	Bruno de Barros	Brazil	20.42
6th	2	Tega Odele	Nigeria	20.49
7th	1	Tatenda Tsumba	Zimbabwe	21.21
8th	8th	Luka Rakić	Montenegro	21.86
9	9	Beouch Ngirchongor	Northern Mariana Islands	23.93 PB

Run 3

The German Julian Reus did not reach the semi-finals with fifth place in his preliminary run

August 25, 2015, 7:44 p.m. (1:44 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	20.26
2	6th	Roberto Skyers	Cuba	20.29
3	7th	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic	20.34
4th	3	Julian Reus	Germany	20.51
5	1	Julius Morris	Montserrat	20.56
6th	8th	Teray Smith	Bahamas	20.91
7th	9	Sydney Siame	Zambia	21.08
8th	2	Mauriel Carty	Anguilla	22.63 SB
DSQ	5	Rolando Palacios	Honduras	IAAF Rule 163.3a - false start

Run 4

His fourth place in the fourth heat was too little for the Kenyan Carvin Nkanata to move into the next round

August 25, 2015, 7:51 p.m. (1:51 p.m. CEST )
wind: 0.0 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Justin Gatlin	United States	20.19
2	9	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan	20.35
3	2	Nickel Ashmeade	Jamaica	20.40
4th	6th	Carvin Nkanata	Kenya	20.43
5	4th	Jeffrey John	France	20.48
6th	8th	Antoine Adams	St. Kitts and Nevis	20.75
7th	5	Phearath Nget	Cambodia	22.11
8th	1	Jerai Torres	Gibraltar	22.77 SB
DNS	7th	Mohammad Hossein Abareghi	Iran

Run 5

Serhiy Smelyk from Ukraine was eliminated in sixth place in his heat

August 25, 2015, 7:58 p.m. (1:58 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.13
2	6th	Julian Forte	Jamaica	20.16
3	7th	Brendon Rodney	Canada	20.18 PB
4th	3	Akani Simbine	South Africa	20.23 PB
5	8th	Jeremy Dodson	Samoa	20.31 SB
6th	4th	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.60
7th	9	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Swaziland	20.78 SB
8th	5	Harold Houston	Bermuda	20.92

Run 6

Fourth place in his preliminary run was not enough for German Robin Erewa to reach the semi-finals

August 25, 2015, 8:05 p.m. (2:05 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	9	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece	20.14
2	8th	Warren Weir	Jamaica	20.24 SB
3	6th	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.35
4th	4th	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.67
5	2	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.77
6th	3	Adama Jammeh	Gambia	20.81 SB
7th	5	Mosito Lehata	Lesotho	21.43
DNS	7th	Wallace Spearmon	United States

Run 7

August 25, 2015, 8:12 p.m. (2:12 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	20.22 SB
2	3	Femi Ogunode	Qatar	20.25 SB
3	2	Miguel Francis	Antigua and Barbuda	20.38
4th	6th	Aaron Brown	Canada	20.43
5	4th	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago	20.51
6th	9	Aldemir da Silva Junior	Brazil	20.59
DSQ	7th	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start
	8th	Xie Zhenye	People's Republic of China	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

As before over 100 meters , the Dutchman Churandy Martina failed over 200 meters in the semifinals

August 26, 2015, 8:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.14
2	2	Nickel Ashmeade	Jamaica	20.19
3	5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.20 SB
4th	6th	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece	20.22
5	9	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.34
6th	3	Akani Simbine	South Africa	20.37
7th	4th	Warren Weir	Jamaica	20.43
8th	8th	Brendon Rodney	Canada	20.46

Run 2

Yancarlos Martínez from the Dominican Republic did not reach the final after finishing fourth in his semifinals

August 26, 2015, 8:38 p.m. (2:38 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Justin Gatlin	United States	19.87
2	4th	Alonso Edward	Panama	20.02
3	6th	Femi Ogunode	Qatar	20.05 NO
4th	8th	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic	20.31
5	9	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan	20.47
6th	3	Jeremy Dodson	Samoa	20.53
7th	2	Reynier Mena	Cuba	20.56
8th	5	Julian Forte	Jamaica	20.57

Run 3

August 26, 2015, 8:46 p.m. (2:46 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19.95 SB
2	6th	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	20.01 PB
3	4th	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.10
4th	3	Miguel Francis	Antigua and Barbuda	20.14
5	9	Roberto Skyers	Cuba	20.23
6th	8th	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.27 PB
7th	5	Kenji Fujimitsu	Japan	20.34
8th	2	Kei Takase	Japan	20.64

final

August 27, 2015, 8:55 pm local time (2:55 pm CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

Over 200 meters could be assumed from a hardly endangered favorite position for Usain Bolt. At this distance, too, the American Justin Gatlin was primarily assessed as his fiercest competitor.

Bolt no longer had the formidable form of years gone by when he was able to run times under 20.30 seconds. But even with his win time of 20.55 s at these world championships, he won the race by a clear margin. Just two tenths of a second behind him, Gatlin became vice world champion. So there was the same ranking on the first two places as over 100 meters . The South African Anaso Jobodwana surprisingly took third place and set a new national record with his 19.87 s. The fourth-placed Jason Edward from Panama just missed a medal by a very thin margin, he crossed the finish line at the same time as Jobodwana. These four sprinters undercut the 20-second mark. The Briton Zharnel Hughes was the best European in this final as fifth. Ramil Guliyev from Turkey was sixth ahead of Femi Ogunode from Qatar and the Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19.55 WL
	3	Justin Gatlin	United States	19.74
	7th	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	19.87 NO
4th	9	Alonso Edward	Panama	19.87 SB
5	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.02 PB
6th	3	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.11
7th	2	Femi Ogunode	Qatar	20.27
8th	8th	Nickel Ashmeade	Jamaica	20.33

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  World Champion
  Usain Bolt, Jamaica

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  Vice World Champion
  Justin Gatlin, USA

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  The South African Anaso Jobodwana Bromell took third place

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  Alonso Edward from Panama finished fourth

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  The World Cup sixth Ramil Guliyev from Turkey

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  Femi Ogunde from Qatar reached seventh place

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  The Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade came in eighth in the final

Web links and sources

• Homepage of the 2015 World Championships. 200 m men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on October 20, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships on Leichtathletik.de, https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/200-metres/men Homepage for the 2015 World Championships
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 20, 2018

Video

• Usain Bolt wins 200m gold - 2015 IAAF World Championships Beijing on youtube.com, published on August 27, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on October 18, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 , accessed on October 18, 2018