2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	54 athletes from 41 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24, 2004 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 25, 2004 (semi-finals) August 26, 2004 (final)
Medalist Shawn Crawford ( USA )   Bernard Williams ( USA )   Justin Gatlin ( USA )

The men's 200-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 24, 25 and 26, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 54 athletes took part.

The US team achieved a triple success. Shawn Crawford won ahead of Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin .

With Sebastian Ernst , Till Helmke and Tobias Unger , three German sprinters started. Helmke was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Ernst in the semi-finals. Unger reached the final and was seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Konstantinos Kenteris ( Greece )	20.09 s	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	John Capel ( USA )	20.30 s	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Konstantinos Kenteris ( Greece )	19.85 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Kenny Brokenburr ( USA )	20.42 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Dominic Demeritte ( Bahamas )	20.43 s	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Heber Viera ( Uruguay )	20.60 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Fawzi Al-Shammari ( Kuwait )	20.70 s	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Joseph Betangdon ( Cameroon )	20.46 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Peter Pulu ( Papua New Guinea )	21.39 s	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	19.32 s	Michael Johnson ( USA )	Atlanta , USA	August 1, 1996
Olympic record			Atlanta Final , USA

Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of seven preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

Nabie Foday Fofanah from Guinea did not reach the quarter-finals as seventh of his preliminary run

August 24, 2004, 10:35 a.m.

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Stéphan Buckland	Mauritius	20.29
2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.40
3	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	20.40	NO
4th	Yang Yaozu	People's Republic of China	20.59
5	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.60
6th	Paul Brizzel	Ireland	21.00
7th	Nabie Foday Fofanah	Guinea	21.45
DNS	Hamed Al-Bishi	Saudi Arabia

Forward 2

August 24, 2004, 10:41 am

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	20.55
2	Christopher Williams	Jamaica	20.57
3	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	20.71
4th	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	20.72
5	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Gambia	20.78
6th	Leigh Julius	South Africa	20.80
7th	Geronimo Goeloe	Netherlands Antilles	21.09
8th	Basílio de Moraes	Brazil	21.14

Forward 3

Heber Viera from Uruguay was fifth in his heat and was eliminated

The Briton Christopher Lambert gave up his preliminary race and was eliminated

August 24, 2004, 10:47 a.m.
Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.54
2	Malik Louahla	Algeria	20.67
3	David Canal	Spain	20.72
4th	Brian Dzingai	Zimbabwe	20.72
5	Heber Viera	Uruguay	20.94
6th	Oleg Sergeyev	Russia	20.95
7th	Mphelave Dlamini	Swaziland	21.82
DNF	Christopher Lambert	Great Britain

Forward 4

August 24, 2004, 10:53 am

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	20.63
2	Tobias Unger	Germany	20.65
3	Joseph Betangdon	Cameroon	20.92
4th	Géza Pauer	Hungary	21.02
5	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	21.05
6th	Christian Nsiah	Ghana	21.06
7th	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami	Oman	21.82
8th	Ryo Matsuda	Japan	24.59

Forward 5

The Czech Jiří Vojtík did not make it to the next round as fifth in his heat

August 24, 2004, 10:59 am

Wind: +2.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Dominic Demeritte	Bahamas	20.62
2	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.62
3	Panayiótis Sarrís	Greece	20.67
4th	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	20.77
5	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.79
6th	Dion Crabbe	British Virgin Islands	20.85
7th	Nazmizan Muhammad	Malaysia	21.24
8th	Adam Miller	Australia	21.31

Forward 6

August 24, 2004, 11:05 am

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Bernard Williams	United States	20.29
2	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	20.44
3	Andrew Howe	Italy	20.55
4th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.57
5	Till Helmke	Germany	20.72
6th	Oumar Loum	Senegal	20.97
7th	Anninos Markoullidis	Cyprus	23.94

Forward 7

August 24, 2004, 11:11 a.m.

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.47
2	Justin Gatlin	United States	20.51
3	Marco Torrieri	Italy	20.68
4th	Cláudio Roberto Souza	Brazil	20.70
5	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda	20.71
6th	Shinji Takahira	Japan	21.05
7th	Dadaş İbrahimov	Azerbaijan	21.60
8th	Russel Roman	Palau	24.89

Quarter finals

In each of the four quarter-finals, the first three athletes qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

August 24, 2004, 8:00 p.m.

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	19.95
2	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.20
3	Tobias Unger	Germany	20.30
4th	Christopher Williams	Jamaica	20.34
5	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.74
6th	Géza Pauer	Hungary	20.90
7th	David Canal	Spain	21.18
DNS	Joseph Betangdon	Cameroon

Run 2

August 24, 2004, 8:07 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Bernard Williams	United States	20.40
2	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	20.46
3	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	20.55
4th	Till Helmke	Germany	20.76
5	Brian Dzingai	Zimbabwe	20.87
6th	Marco Torrieri	Italy	20.89
7th	Malik Louahla	Algeria	20.93
8th	Yang Yaozu	People's Republic of China	21.03

Run 3

August 24, 2004, 8:14 pm

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	20.03
2	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	20.23
3	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.36
4th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.47	NO
5	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.56
6th	Dominic Demeritte	Bahamas	20.61
7th	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda	20.63
DNF	Marcin Urbaś	Poland

Run 4

August 24, 2004, 8:21 pm

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.33
2	Stéphane Buckland	Mauritius	20.36
3	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	20.43
4th	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	20.59
5	Cláudio Roberto Souza	Brazil	20.64
6th	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Gambia	20.73
7th	Panayiótis Sarrís	Greece	20.92
8th	Andrew Howe	Italy	21.17

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  The Swede Johan Wissman reached fifth place in his quarter-finals and was eliminated

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  The German Till Helmke was eliminated in fourth of his quarter-finals

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  Brian Dzingai from Zimbabwe finished fifth in his quarter-finals and did not reach the semi-finals

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  The Pole Marcin Urbaś gave up his quarter-final race and was eliminated

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  Jaysuma Saidy Ndure from Gambia did not reach the semi-finals as sixth of his quarter-finals

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  The Greek Panayiótis Sarrís could not qualify for the semi-finals as seventh of his quarter-final race

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  Andrew Howe from Italy finished eighth in his quarter-finals and was eliminated

Semifinals

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 25, 2004, 10:50 p.m.

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	20.05
2	Bernard Williams	United States	20.18
3	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.43
4th	Tobias Unger	Germany	20.54
5	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	20.68
6th	Christopher Williams	Jamaica	20.80
7th	Marcin Jędrusiński	Poland	20.81
8th	Darren Campbell	Great Britain	20.89

Run 2

August 25, 2004, 10:58 p.m.

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Justin Gatlin	United States	20.35
2	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.36
3	Stéphane Buckland	Mauritius	20.37
4th	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	20.56
5	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.63
6th	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	20.64
7th	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.77
8th	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.89

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  The Greek Anastasios Gousis was eliminated as fifth in his semi-final race

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  The Pole Marcin Jędrusiński reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in seventh place of his run

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  The Briton Darren Campbell was eighth of his semi-final run and did not reach the final

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  The German Sebastian Ernst made it to the semi-finals, but was eliminated there in fifth place of his run

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  The British Christian Malcolm did not reach the final as seventh in his semi-final race

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  Matic Osovnikar from Slovenia finished eighth in his semi-final run and was eliminated

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Shawn Crawford	United States	19.79
2	Bernard Williams	United States	20.01
3	Justin Gatlin	United States	20.03
4th	Frank Fredericks	Namibia	20.14
5	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.14
6th	Stéphane Buckland	Mauritius	20.24
7th	Tobias Unger	Germany	20.64
DNS	Asafa Powell	Jamaica		No start due to injury

August 26, 2004, 10:50 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

All three Americans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Germany, Mauritius, Namibia and Portugal. The Jamaican Asafa Powell did not appear due to an injury.

The favorites were the three US runners Justin Gatlin, who had already won the 100-meter run , Shawn Crawford and Bernard Williams as well as the silver medalist from Sydney , Frank Fredericks from Namibia. The 2000 Olympic champion and 2001 world champion Konstantinos Kenteris from Greece had been excluded from the games together with his teammate Ekaterini Thanou . Both deliberately missed a doping test on July 12, 2004.

In the final race Crawford was just ahead of the home straight, followed by Gatlin and Williams. Shawn Crawford was able to break away from Gatlin and run to Olympic victory. Between Gatlin Williams it was very close until the end. On the last ten meters, Williams caught his teammates very thinly. Bernard Williams won silver and Justin Gatlin bronze. In fourth place was the Portuguese Francis Obikwelu, silver medalist over 100 meters, until shortly before the finish. But Frank Fredericks ran a very fast final straight and finished fourth at the same time as Francis Obikwelu in fifth.

In the 24th Olympic final, Shawn Crawford won the 17th gold medal for the USA in the 200-meter run . It was the fourth triple success for the USA in this discipline.

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  Olympic Champion Shawn Crawford from the United States

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  Silver medalist Bernard Williams, USA

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  Bronze medalist Justin Gatlin from the USA

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  Frank Fredericks from Namibia finished in the Olympics

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  The Portuguese Francis Obikwelu finished fifth in the final

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  Stéphane Buckland from Mauritius came in sixth in the final

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  The German Tobias Unger was Olympic seventh

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  The Jamaican Asafa Powell did not appear in the final due to injury

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed April 20, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 20, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 20, 2018

Video

• Olympic 200m Mens Final 2004 Athens , published January 27, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed April 20, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on April 20, 2018
2. ↑ Netzeitung : Kenteris and Thanou doping case closed ( memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), June 26, 2006, accessed on April 20, 2018