Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 200 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	54 athletes from 41 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 7, 2012 (preliminary round) August 8, 2012 (semi-finals) August 5, 2012 (final)
Medalist Usain Bolt ( JAM )   Yohan Blake ( JAM )   Warren Weir ( JAM )

The men's 200-meter run at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 7, 8 and 9, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 54 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Jamaican Usain Bolt . He won in front of his compatriots Yohan Blake and Warren Weir .

Amaru Reto Schenkel and Alex Wilson started for Switzerland. Schenkel was eliminated in the preliminary round, Wilson in the semifinals.

Athletes from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	19.30 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion		19.40 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Churandy Martina ( Netherlands )	20.42 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Michael Mathieu ( Bahamas )	20.60 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Daniel Grueso ( Colombia )	20.90 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Femi Ogunode ( Qatar )	20.41 s	Kobe 2011
African champions	Ben Youssef Meïté ( South Africa )	20.62 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Roy Ravana ( Fiji )	21.66 s	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Usain Bolt ( Jamaica )	19.19 s	Berlin , Germany	August 20, 2009
Olympic record		19.30 s	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 20, 2008

Qualification basics

Each NOK could nominate up to three athletes who ran the IAAF qualification time of 20.55  seconds (A standard) in a competition held during the qualification time. Should no athlete from a NOC achieve the A standard, the NOC concerned could nominate an athlete who had managed the B standard of 20.65  seconds. Regardless of the running times, the NOKs whose athletes did not achieve the A or B standard could nominate an athlete.

Prelims

Seven preliminary runs were carried out. The first three athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

The fastest time in the heats was 20.28 s in race six. During this time, the Ecuadorian Álex Quiñónez improved the national record. The slowest time it took to reach the semi-finals was 20.72 seconds. During this time, Kei Takase from Japan and the Canadian Jared Connaughton reached the next round in race seven.

Note:
All times in this post are given in London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Forward 1

August 7, 2012, 11:50 a.m.
Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	20.39
2	Aldemir da Silva Junior	Brazil	20.53
3	Isiah Young	United States	20.55
4th	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.57
5	Noah Akwu	Nigeria	20.67
6th	Michael Herrera	Cuba	21.05
7th	Vyacheslav Muravyov	Kazakhstan	21.75
8th	Jidou El-Moctar	Mauritania	22.94

Forward 2

August 7, 2012, 11:58 a.m.
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.34
2	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	20.46
3	Aaron Brown	Canada	20.55
4th	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.56
5	Sorrillo roundabout	Trinidad and Tobago	20.76
6th	Carlos Jorge	Dominican Republic	21.02
7th	Cristián Reyes	Chile	21.29
8th	Ibrahim Turay	Sierra Leone	21.90

Forward 3

August 7, 2012, 12:06 p.m.
Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Maurice Mitchell	United States	20.54
2	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.59
3	Michael Mathieu	Bahamas	20.62
4th	Roberto Skyers	Cuba	20.66
5	Shota Iizuka	Japan	20.81
6th	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Swaziland	20.93	NO
7th	José Carlos Herrera	Mexico	21.17
8th	Joel Redhead	Grenada	21.22

Forward 4

August 7, 2012, 12:14 p.m.
Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	20.38
2	Bruno de Barros	Brazil	20.52
3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.52
4th	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.65
5	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.69
6th	Xie Zhenye	People's Republic of China	20.69
7th	Mosito Lehata	Lesotho	20.74

Forward 5

August 7, 2012, 12:22 p.m.
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Warren Weir	Jamaica	20.29
2	Antoine Adams	St. Kitts and Nevis	20.59
3	Kamil Krynski	Poland	20.66
4th	Pavel Maslák	Czech Republic	20.67
5	Tremaine Harris	Canada	20.70
6th	Marek Niit	Estonia	20.82
7th	Reto Schenkel	Switzerland	20.98
DSQ	Alonso Edward	Panama		IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Forward 6

August 7, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador	20.28	NO
2	Wallace Spearmon	United States	20.47
3	Shinji Takahira	Japan	20.57
4th	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda	20.63
5	Jonathan Astrand	Finland	20.73
6th	Aziz Ouhadi	Morocco	20.80
7th	Sandro Viana	Brazil	21.05
DNS	Ben Youssef Meïté	Ivory Coast

Forward 7

August 7, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
Wind: +0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.58
2	Kei Takase	Japan	20.72
3	Jared Connaughton	Canada	20.72
4th	Amru Seoud	Egypt	20.81
5	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	20.88
6th	James Ellington	Great Britain	21.23
7th	Trevorvano Mackey	Bahamas	21.28
8th	Jean-Yves Esparon	Seychelles	21.99

Semifinals

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

With 20.37 s, Álex Quiñónez qualified with the slowest time in race two. The fastest semi-final time was Yohan Blake in race one with 20.01 seconds .

Run 1

Alex Wilson (SUI)

Christian Malcolm (GBR)

Antoine Adams (SKN)

August 8, 2012, 8:10 p.m.
Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	20.01
2	Wallace Spearmon	United States	20.02
3	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.03
4th	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.42
5	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.52
6th	Bruno de Barros	Brazil	20.55
7th	Jared Connaughton	Canada	20.64
8th	Kei Takase	Japan	20.70

Run 2

August 8, 2012, 8:18 p.m.
Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	20.18
2	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	20.27
3	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador	20.37
4th	Aaron Brown	Canada	20.42
5	Aldemir da Silva Junior	Brazil	20.63
6th	Kamil Krynski	Poland	20.83
7th	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.85
8th	Isiah Young	United States	20.89

Run 3

August 8, 2012, 8:26 p.m.
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.17
2	Warren Weir	Jamaica	20.28
3	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	20.51
4th	Maurice Mitchell	United States	20.56
5	Brendan Christian	Antigua and Barbuda	20.58
6th	Shinji Takahira	Japan	20.77
DSQ	Antoine Adams	St. Kitts and Nevis		IAAF Rule 163.3 a - Crossing the lane boundary
	Michael Mathieu	Bahamas		IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

final

August 9, 2012, 8:55 p.m.
Wind: +0.4 m / s

All three Jamaicans had qualified for the final. The starting field was completed by one athlete each from Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt was a big favorite on this route, despite being defeated by Yohan Blake in the Jamaican Olympic qualifications. Bolt won in 19.32 seconds and became the first ever athlete to repeat the Olympic double (100 and 200 meters ) four days after his 100 meter win . For Bolt it was the fifth total Olympic gold medal.

Yohan Blake and Warren Weir completed the Jamaican triple triumph. Only US athletes in 1904 , 1932 and 1952 achieved a triple success in this discipline over 200 meters .

With 19.44 s, Blake ran the fastest time ever that was not enough to win. Blake, who also won the silver medal in the 100 meters, is the third athlete to win silver in the 100 and 200 meters at the same Olympic Games after the American Nate Cartmell (1904) and Frank Fredericks from Namibia ( 1992 and 1996 ).

It was only for the third time after 1980 and 2000 that there were no medals for a US athlete at the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	19.32
2	Yohan Blake	Jamaica	19.44
3	Warren Weir	Jamaica	19.84
4th	Wallace Spearmon	United States	19.90
5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.00
6th	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.19
7th	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador	20.57
8th	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa	20.69

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  Silver medal:
  Yohan Blake (JAM)

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  Bronze medal:
  Warren Weir (JAM)

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  The American Wallace Spearmon came fourth

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  The French Christophe Lemaitre was sixth in the Olympics

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed September 9, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 9, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation , accessed on September 9, 2018

Video recordings

• Preliminary highlights on youtube.com, published August 7, 2012, accessed September 9, 2018
• Semi-finals on youtube.com, published August 8, 2012, accessed September 9, 2018
• Finale on youtube.com, published August 9, 2012, accessed September 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 668 , accessed on September 9, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 71 , accessed on September 9, 2018
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on September 9, 2018