World Athletics Championships 2017/200 m men

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	51 athletes from 39 countries
Competition phase	August 7, 2017 (preliminary) August 9, 2017 (semi-finals) August 10, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Ramil Guliyev ( TUR )
silver	Wayde van Niekerk ( RSA )
bronze	Jereem Richards ( TTO )

London Olympic Stadium

The men's 200 meter run at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , between 7-10 August 2017 .

World champion was the Turk Ramil Guliyev . The South African Wayde van Niekerk won the silver medal. Bronze went to Jereem Richards from Trinidad and Tobago.

Records

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

Prelims

From the seven preliminary runs and an eighth special preliminary run, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

The sprinter Isaac Makwala from Botswana was excluded from the preliminaries over 200 meters and the final of the 400-meter run of the IAAF due to gastroenteritis quarantine . His quarantine expired on August 9 at 2 p.m. local time - the day of the semi-finals over 200 meters. After a written request from the Botswana delegation, Makwala was given the opportunity to qualify for the semi-finals in a separate preliminary race. The time he had to undercut was 20.53 s. Makwala achieved 20.20 s on the wet tartan track; and was then allowed to participate in the semi-finals. After the success, he did seven push-ups and saluted the audience.

Forward 1

The Ukrainian Serhiy Smelyk, who was third in the 2014 European Championship , was eliminated as fourth in his heat

The Norwegian Jonathan Quarcoo did not reach the semi-finals as fourth of his prelim

The World Cup fourth in 2015, Alonso Edward from Panama, finished fourth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

Sibusiso Matsenjwa from Swaziland was eliminated in fifth place in the third heat

Salem Eid Yaqoob from Bahrain did not qualify for the next round by finishing sixth in his heat

Also for the runner-up world champion from 2013 Warren Weir from Jamaica, fourth place in his preliminary run meant the end of the preliminary round

The Sudanese Ahmed Ali failed as fifth in his preliminary round in the preliminary round

The successful solo run of Isaac Makwala from Botswana

August 7, 2017, 6:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	20.39
2	6th	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan	20.52
3	7th	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.54
4th	3	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.58
5	2	Teray Smith	Bahamas	20.77
6th	5	Bernardo Baloyes	Colombia	20.86
7th	4th	Mohamed Obaid al-Saadi	Oman	21.50

Forward 2

August 7, 2017, 6:38 p.m. (7:38 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago	20.05
2	7th	Kyree King	United States	20.42
3	8th	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica	20.49
4th	6th	Jonathan Quarcoo	Norway	20.60
5	4th	Jeffrey John	France	20.66
6th	5	Mark Otieno Odhiambo	Kenya	20.74
7th	3	Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye	Turks and Caicos Islands	21.91

Forward 3

August 7, 2017, 6:46 p.m. (7:46 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	20.16
2	8th	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.16 PB
3	8th	Ján Volko	Slovakia	20.52
4th	3	Alonso Edward	Panama	20.61 SB
5	4th	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Swaziland	20.67
6th	2	Aldemir da Silva Júnior	Brazil	20.82
7th	6th	Burkheart Ellis	Barbados	20.99

Forward 4

August 7, 2017, 6:54 p.m. (7:54 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.16
2	2	Ameer Webb	United States	20.22
3	4th	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.40
4th	7th	Wilfried Koffi Hua	Ivory Coast	20.49
5	3	David Lima	Portugal	20.54
6th	8th	Salem Eid Yaqoob	Bahrain	20.84
7th	6th	Kabongo Mulumba	Democratic Republic of Congo	23.57 SB
DSQ	9	Paul Nalau	Vanuatu	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

Forward 5

August 7, 2017, 7:02 p.m. (8:02 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	3	Sydney Siame	Zambia	20.29 NO
2	6th	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago	20.48
3	4th	Filippo Tortu	Italy	20.59
4th	8th	Warren Weir	Jamaica	20.60
5	2	Adama Jammeh	Gambia	20.79
6th	5	Jeremy Dodson	Samoa	20.81
DNS	7th	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	Start ban due to gastroenteritis quarantine

Forward 6

August 7, 2017, 7:10 p.m. (8:10 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Isiah Young	United States	20.19
2	7th	Akani Simbine	South Africa	20.26
3	4th	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.37
4th	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.43
5	3	Ahmed Ali	Sudan	20.64
6th	2	Joseph Millar	New Zealand	20.97
7th	5	Fabrice Dabla	Togo	21.40

Forward 7

August 7, 2017, 7:18 p.m. (8:18 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.08
2	3	Shota Iizuka	Japan	20.58
3	7th	Winston George	Guyana	20.61
4th	2	Muhd Noor Firdaus Ar Rasyid	Brunei	22.36
DSQ	5	Aaron Brown	Canada
	6th	Clarence Munyai	South Africa
DNS	8th	Julius Morris	Montserrat

Special advance

August 9, 2017, 6:40 p.m. (7:40 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	20.20

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

Fifth place in the first semifinal run was not enough for the Japanese Shōta Iizuka Harvey to participate in the final

The Jamaican Yohan Blake, who was extremely successful in previous years, did not reach the final with third place in his semi-final race this time

The French Olympic third in 2016 Christophe Lemaitre was eliminated in fourth in his semi-final run

August 9, 2017, 8:55 p.m. (9:55 p.m. CEST )
wind: +2.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Isiah Young	United States	20.12
2	1	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	20.14
3	5	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.19
4th	6th	David Lima	Portugal	20.56
5	8th	Shota Iizuka	Japan	20.62
6th	3	Filippo Tortu	Italy	20.62
7th	4th	Akani Simbine	South Africa	20.62
8th	6th	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago	20.65
9	9	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica	20.69

Run 2

August 9, 2017, 9:04 p.m. (10:04 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago	20.14
2	9	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan	20.43
3	7th	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	20.52
4th	6th	Sydney Siame	Zambia	20.54
5	4th	Kyree King	United States	20.59
6th	8th	Ján Volko	Slovakia	20.61
7th	3	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.85
8th	2	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	21.22

Run 3

August 9, 2017, 9:13 p.m. (10:13 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.17
2	5	Ameer Webb	United States	20.22
3	5	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	20.28
4th	8th	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.30
5	7th	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.38
6th	9	Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.73
7th	2	Winston George	Guyana	20.74
8th	3	Hua Wilfried Koffi	Ivory Coast	20.80

final

August 10, 2017, 9:52 p.m. local time (10:52 p.m. CEST )
Wind: –0.1 m / s

The dominator of the sprint courses Usain Bolt from Jamaica let his career come to a close this year and only took part in these world championships over 100 meters . Since 2008 he had triumphed in all world championships and Olympic Games over 200 meters without interruption and also brought the world record into his possession. Without him, the outcome of this race was pretty much open. The three runners placed after Bolt at the last World Championships - the American Justin Gatlin (only over 100 meters at the start), the South African Anaso Jobodwana (no start at these World Championships) and Alonso Edward from Panama (eliminated in the preliminary stages) - were in not represented in this final. Also the Olympic runner-up and the Olympic runner-up in 2012 Yohan Blake and Warren Weir, both from Jamaica, had already failed in the semi-finals and the preliminary stages here in London . The 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Christophe Lemaitre was also eliminated in the semi-finals.

This opened up opportunities for a new generation of sprinters. In the semi-finals, the times of the best runners were very close. Five athletes ran faster than 20.20 seconds. The US-American Isiah Young was the fastest semi-finalist with 20.12 seconds, followed by Jereem Richards from Trinidad and Tobago, Isaac Makwala from Botswana, the Turkish Vice European Champion Ramil Guliyev and the Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake. The South African Wayde van Niekerk, who is already world champion over 400 meters here , as well as Olympic champion and world record holder over 400 meters , also had to be taken into account .

The race was close to the last meter. From the finish curve, van Niekerk, Guliyev and Makwala were three runners, almost at the same height at the top. Richards, the US-American Webb and the Japanese Abdul Hakim Sani Brown followed just a little further. On the home straight, van Niekerk initially worked out a wafer-thin lead ahead of Guliyev, while Makwala now lost a lot of ground. On the other hand, Richards came ever further forward. With the last steps, Ramil Guliyev had the greatest stamina and won in 20.09 s with a few thousandths of a second ahead of Wayde van Niekerk. Jereem Richards won the bronze medal just a thousandth of a second behind the South African. With about two tenths of a second behind, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake took fourth place ahead of Ameer Webb, Isaac Makwala and Abdul Hakim Sani Brown. Isiah Young came in eighth.

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	5	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.09
	3	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	20.106
	7th	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago	20.107
4th	2	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.24
5	9	Ameer Webb	United States	20.26
6th	6th	Isaac Makwala	Botswana	20.44
7th	8th	Abdul Hakim Sani Brown	Japan	20.63
8th	4th	Isiah Young	United States	20.64

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  World Champion Ramil Guliyev, Turkey

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  Vice world champion Wayde van Niekerk, South Africa

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  Bronze medalist Jareem Richards from Trinidad and Tobago

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  The Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake finished fourth

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  The American Armeer Webb finished fifth

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  Isaac Makwala from Botswana came in sixth place

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  Eighth place for the American Isah Young

Web links and sources

• Homepage of the 2017 World Championships, 200 m men on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 20, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 20, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 20, 2018

Video

• Ramil Guliyev shocks Wayde van Niekerk to win 200 m title at IAAF Worlds on youtube.com, published on August 10, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Makwala medically fit to run 200 m , IAAF , August 9, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2018 (English).
2. ↑ Splitter from the 6th day of the World Cup, section Makwala uses Solo-Chance Niekerk with difficulty , kicker sports magazine, August 9, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2018.
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on November 20, 2018