1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 33 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 25, 1976 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 26, 1976 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Donald Quarrie ( JAM )   Millard Hampton ( USA )   Dwayne Evans ( USA )

The men's 200-meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 25 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 45 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Jamaican Donald Quarrie . He won ahead of the Americans Millard Hampton and Dwayne Evans .

The Swiss Peter Muster reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there.
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	19.83 s	Tommie Smith ( USA )	Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
Olympic record			Mexico City Final , Mexico

Note:
Even hand-timed times were still part of the official best and record lists at that time, which had an impact on the short distances in particular and led to different records. The official lists consisted of a mixture in which hand-stopped and electronically recorded times rounded to tenths of a second were included. However, since the hand-timed times were about one to two tenths of a second better than the electronically determined values ​​due to the delay in reaction of the timekeepers, there were soon separate lists. From 1977 on, only electronic times were officially kept.

To complete this, here is an overview of the records rounded to tenths of a second, including hand-timed times:

World record	19.8 s	Tommie Smith ( USA )	Mexico City , Mexico	October 16, 1968
		Donald Quarrie ( Jamaica )	Cali , Colombia	3rd August 1971
Olympic record		Tommie Smith ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 16, 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in eight heats on July 25th. The four best running teams made it to the quarterfinals on the same day. From this, the four best running runners reached the semifinals on July 26th, from which the four best running runners also qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 25, 10.30 a.m .: Preliminaries
July 25, 6:05 p.m .: Quarter-finals
July 26, 2:45 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 26, 4:50 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

Preliminary round

Date: July 25, 1976, from 10.30 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Billard Hampton	United States	21.11 s
2	Cuthbert Jacobs	Antigua and Barbuda	21.50 s
3	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.57 s
4th	Armando Padilla	Nicaragua	23.07 s
5	Hamed Ali	Saudi Arabia	23.37 s
DNF	Ainsley Armstrong	Trinidad and Tobago
DNS	Hannu Mäkelä	Finland

Forward 2

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Rick Mitchell	Australia	21.91 s
2	Peter Muster	Switzerland	22.33 s
3	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	22.35 s
4th	Calvin Dill	Bermuda	22.38 s
DNS	Felix López	Dominican Republic
	Alexander Aksinin	Soviet Union

Forward 3

Wind: +0.89 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dwayne Evans	United States	20.96 s
2	Peter Fitzgerald	Australia	21.35 s
3	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	21.57 s
4th	Abdul Aziz Abdul Kareem	Kuwait	22.44 s
5	Rawle Clarke	Barbados	22.75 s
DNS	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria
	Colin Thurton	British Honduras

Forward 4

Wind: +0.31 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Guy Abrahams	Panama	20.95 s
2	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.05 s
3	Pietro Farina	Italy	10.59 s
4th	Nikolai Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	21.33 s
5	Mark Lutz	United States	21.50 s
6th	Christian Dorosario	Senegal	21.96 s
DNS	Robert Martin	Canada

Forward 5

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.93 s
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.29 s
3	Joseph Arame	France	21.34 s
4th	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	21.60 s
5	Ramli Ahmad	Malaysia	21.92 s
DNF	Clive Sands	Bahamas
DNS	Hermes Ramirez	Cuba

Forward 6

Wind: +0.67 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.26 s
2	Bogdan Grzejszczak	Poland	21.35 s
3	Pedro Ferrer	Puerto Rico	21.60 s
4th	Tony Moore	Fiji	21.82 s
5	Philippe Etienne	Haiti	22.57 s
DNS	Valery Borsov	Soviet Union
	Francisco Gomez	Cuba

Forward 7

Wind: +0.12 m / s Wavala Kali was the first athlete from Papua New Guinea to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.85 s
2	Rui da Silva	Brazil	20.99 s
3	Endre Lépold	Hungary	21.50 s
4th	Walter Callander	Bahamas	21.79 s
5	Marian Voronin	Poland	21.90 s
6th	Ayoub Bodaghi	Iran	22.47 s
7th	Wavala Kali	Papua New Guinea	22.64 s

Forward 8

Wind: +0.17 m / s The Cuban registered for the run did not start.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.18 s
2	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.25 s
3	Jean Mayer	Thailand	21.25 s
4th	Hugh Fraser	Canada	21.54 s
5	Barka Sy	Senegal	21.54 s
6th	Vittorino Milanesio	Italy	21.94 s
DNS	Silvio Leonard	Cuba

Quarter finals

Date: July 25, 1976, from 6:05 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: −0.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dwayne Evans	United States	20.56 s
2	Guy Abrahams	Panama	20.72 s
3	Rui da Silva	Brazil	20.76 s
4th	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.03 s
5	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.09 s
6th	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.22 s
7th	Pietro Farina	Italy	21.31 s
8th	Hugh Fraser	Canada	21.57 s

Run 2

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.70 s
2	George Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.91 s
3	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.07 s
4th	Nikolai Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	21.08 s
5	Thorsten Johansson	Sweden	21.08 s
6th	Calvin Dill	Bermuda	21.40 s
7th	Endre Lépold	Hungary	21.68 s
DNS	Rick Mitchell	Australia

Run 3

Wind: −0.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.28 s
2	Billard Hampton	United States	20.83 s
3	Joseph Arame	France	21.04 s
4th	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.09 s
5	Sammy Monsels	Suriname	21.29 s
6th	Cuthbert Jacobs	Antigua and Barbuda	21.33 s
7th	Tony Moore	Fiji	21.75 s
8th	Abdul Aziz Abdul Kareem	Kuwait	22.34 s

Run 4

Wind: 0.00 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	20.95 s
2	Bogdan Grzejszczak	Poland	21.02 s
3	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.03 s
4th	Peter Fitzgerald	Australia	21.07 s
5	Pedro Ferrer	Puerto Rico	21.33 s
6th	Walter Callander	Bahamas	21.78 s
7th	Armando Padilla	Nicaragua	22.74 s
8th	Jean Mayer	France	24.27 s

Semifinals

Date: July 26, 1976, from 2:45 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.75 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.67 s
2	Billard Hampton	United States	20.69 s
3	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	20.99 s
4th	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.09 s
5	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	21.14 s
6th	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.16 s
7th	Nikolai Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	21.25 s
8th	Peter Fitzgerald	Australia	21.29 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.71 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.48 s
2	Dwayne Evans	United States	20.83 s
3	Rui da Silva	Brazil	21.01 s
4th	Bogdan Grzejszczak	Poland	21.14 s
5	Guy Abrahams	Panama	21.15 s
6th	Joseph Arame	France	21.29 s
7th	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.46 s
8th	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	21.52 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.23 s
2	Billard Hampton	United States	20.29 s
3	Dwayne Evans	United States	20.43 s
4th	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.54 s
5	Rui da Silva	Brazil	20.84 s
6th	Bogdan Grzejszczak	Poland	20.91 s
7th	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.17 s
DNF	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago

Date: July 26, 1976, 4:50 p.m.

Wind: +0.72 m / s

The Jamaican Quarrie was favored, especially after his closest competitor, the US sprinter Steve Williams , was unable to take part in Montreal due to a thigh injury that he sustained at the US Olympic qualifications . Another medal contender was dropped because of the Olympic boycott of the African states, which his country followed. This was James Gilkes from Guyana . The Americans Millard Hampton and Dwayne Evans remained as rivals for Quarrie. The Italian Pietro Mennea also had certain outsider chances.

As expected, the final was tight and exciting. On the home stretch, Quarrie was initially level with Evans. Then the Jamaican developed a small lead, but in the end Millard Hampton came up strongly and overtook Dwayne Evans. Donald Quarrie saved a lead of six hundredths of a second to the finish line and after his silver medal over 100 meters, he has now won gold on the 200-meter course . Pietro Mennea finished fourth, eleven hundredths of a second behind Evans.

Hasely Crawford, the 100 meter winner, suffered a groin injury after the start and fell. He got up and hobbled to the finish after 1: 19.60 minutes. While the SportsReference database states that he was the last to arrive with this time, the official report states that he did not finish the race.

Donald Quarrie achieved the first Jamaican Olympic victory in this discipline.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 217

Video

• HQ Don Quarrie 200m 1976 Montreal olympics , published December 16, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 11, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed December 11, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 52, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 11, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 547 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 11, 2017
2. ↑ IAAF records. 200 m men , accessed December 11, 2017
3. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 11, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 52, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 11, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 11, 2017