1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres
at the 1999 World Championships

Venue

Estadio Olímpico

Dates

21 August (heats)
21 August (quarter-finals)
25 August (semi-finals)
27 August (final)

Competitors

Winning time

19.90

Medalists

	Maurice Greene	United States
	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil
	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria

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Events at the 1999 World Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Men's 200 metres event at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 72 participating athletes, with ten qualifying heats, four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and the final held on Friday 27 August 1999 at 20:00h. The winning margin was 0.10 seconds.

Final

Frank Fredericks was forced to scratch from the final after he injured his hamstring while warming up.

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Maurice Greene (USA)	19.90
	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.00
	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	20.11
4.	Obadele Thompson (BAR)	20.23
5.	Marcin Urbaś (POL)	20.30
6.	Kevin Little (USA)	20.37
7.	Julian Golding (GBR)	20.48
	Frank Fredericks (NAM)	DNS

Semi-final

Held on Wednesday 25 August 1999

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Maurice Greene (USA)	20.10
2.	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.13
3.	Julian Golding (GBR)	20.28
4.	Obadele Thompson (BAR)	20.36
5.	Christopher Williams (JAM)	20.48
6.	Koji Ito (JPN)	20.51
7.	John Ertzgard (NOR)	20.72
8.	Stefan Holz (GER)	21.89

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	19.84
2.	Marcin Urbaś (POL)	19.98 (NR)
3.	Kevin Little (USA)	20.10
4.	Frank Fredericks (NAM)	20.10
5.	Marlon Devonish (GBR)	20.25
6.	Iván García (CUB)	20.38
7.	Glenn Smith (CAN)	20.72
	Patrick Stevens (BEL)	DNS

Quarter-finals

Held on Saturday 21 August 1999

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.22
2.	Obadele Thompson (BAR)	20.26
3.	Kevin Little (USA)	20.38
4.	Stefan Holz (GER)	20.59
5.	Panagiotis Sarris (GRE)	20.65
6.	Renward Wells (BAH)	20.66
7.	Matt Shirvington (AUS)	20.67
8.	Douglas Turner (GBR)	21.08

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Maurice Greene (USA)	20.23
2.	Julian Golding (GBR)	20.32
3.	John Ertzgard (NOR)	20.61
4.	Glenn Smith (CAN)	20.65
5.	Marcus La Grange (RSA)	20.81
6.	Martin Lachkovics (AUT)	20.89
	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	DNS
	Anninos Markoullides (CYP)	DQ

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Marlon Devonish (GBR)	20.51
2.	Iván García (CUB)	20.57
3.	Christopher Williams (JAM)	20.59
4.	Koji Ito (JPN)	20.62
5.	Torbjörn Eriksson (SWE)	20.74
6.	Curtis Perry (USA)	20.76
7.	Joseph Loua (GUI)	20.83
8.	Chris Donaldson (NZL)	20.96

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Frank Fredericks (NAM)	20.11
2.	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	20.15
3.	Marcin Urbaś (POL)	20.32
4.	Patrick Stevens (BEL)	20.49
5.	Patrick van Balkom (NED)	20.59
6.	Joseph Batangdon (CMR)	20.70
7.	Antoine Boussombo (GAB)	20.74
8.	Serhiy Osovych (UKR)	20.93

Heats

Held on Saturday 21 August 1999

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Francis Obikwelu (NGR)	20.54
2.	Glenn Smith (CAN)	20.68
3.	Joseph Batangdon (CMR)	20.76
4.	Panagiotis Sarris (GRE)	20.78
5.	Sergey Slukin (RUS)	20.92
6.	Kim Collins (SKN)	20.95
7.	Salem Mubarak Al-Yami (KSA)	21.27

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Frank Fredericks (NAM)	20.60
2.	John Ertzgard (NOR)	20.74
3.	Matt Shirvington (AUS)	20.75
4.	Martin Lachkovics (AUT)	20.77
5.	Ricardo Roach (CHI)	21.13
6.	Asli Haseri (BRU)	22.91
	Carlos Gats (ARG)	DQ

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Torbjörn Eriksson (SWE)	20.58
2.	Koji Ito (JPN)	20.59
3.	Anninos Markoullides (CYP)	20.73
4.	André da Silva (BRA)	21.04
	Robert Dennis (LBR)	DNS
	Heber Viera (URU)	DQ
	Petko Yankov (BUL)	DQ

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Julian Golding (GBR)	20.48
2.	Patrick Stevens (BEL)	20.54
3.	Christopher Williams (JAM)	20.68
4.	Mohammed Al Hooti (OMA)	20.80 (NR)
5.	Tommy Kafri (ISR)	20.89 (NR)
6.	Albert Agyemang (GHA)	20.94
7.	Francisco Javier Navarro (ESP)	20.97

RANK	HEAT 5	TIME
1.	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	20.68
2.	Douglas Turner (GBR)	20.72
3.	Maurice Greene (USA)	20.76
4.	Paul Brizzell (IRL)	21.02
5.	Dean Capobianco (AUS)	21.48
6.	Keita Cline (IVB)	21.69
	Christopher Silas Adolf (PLW)	DQ

RANK	HEAT 6	TIME
1.	Marlon Devonish (GBR)	20.56
2.	Patrick van Balkom (NED)	20.65
3.	Renward Wells (BAH)	20.73
4.	Darryl Wohlsen (AUS)	20.79
5.	Paul Gorries (RSA)	20.94
6.	Malik-Khaled Louahla (ALG)	21.21
7.	Christie van Wyk (NAM)	21.27
8.	Robert Craig (NFK)	24.10

RANK	HEAT 7	TIME
1.	Marcus la Grange (RSA)	20.78
2.	Marcin Urbaś (POL)	20.80
3.	Curtis Perry (USA)	20.86
4.	Joel Mascoll (VIN)	21.25
5.	Sittichai Suwonprateep (THA)	21.32
6.	Christian Nsiah (GHA)	21.36
7.	Kwame Galloway (MSR)	22.88
	Nathanaël Esprit (AHO)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 8	TIME
1.	Claudinei da Silva (BRA)	20.38
2.	Iván García (CUB)	20.59
3.	Antoine Boussombo (GAB)	20.72
4.	Erik Wijmeersch (BEL)	20.89
5.	Sebastián Keitel (CHI)	20.90
6.	Wu-Shiun Tao (TPE)	21.38
7.	Sherwin James (DMA)	21.54

RANK	HEAT 9	TIME
1.	Kevin Little (USA)	20.76
2.	Chris Donaldson (NZL)	20.87
3.	Serhiy Osovych (UKR)	20.91
4.	Juan Pedro Toledo (MEX)	21.00
5.	Gennadiy Chernovol (KAZ)	21.05
6.	Kenneth Andam (GHA)	21.31
7.	Dominic Demeritte (BAH)	21.41

RANK	HEAT 10	TIME
1.	Obadele Thompson (BAR)	20.70
2.	Stefan Holz (GER)	20.74
3.	Joseph Loua (GUI)	20.80
4.	Georgios Panagiotopoulos (GRE)	20.82
5.	Gary Ryan (IRL)	20.86
6.	Sunday Emmanuel (NGR)	21.12
7.	Djaffar Hadhari (COM)	21.39

References

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v t e World champions in men's 200 metres
1983: Calvin Smith (USA) 1987: Calvin Smith (USA) 1991: Michael Johnson (USA) 1993: Frankie Fredericks (NAM) 1995: Michael Johnson (USA) 1997: Ato Boldon (TRI) 1999: Maurice Greene (USA) 2001: Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE) 2003: John Capel (USA) 2005: Justin Gatlin (USA) 2007: Tyson Gay (USA) 2009: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2011: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2013: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2015: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2017: Ramil Guliyev (TUR) 2019: Noah Lyles (USA) 2022: Noah Lyles (USA) 2023: Noah Lyles (USA)

World champions in men's 200 metres

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