2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene from 18 to 21 July 2022.Timetable The winning margin was 0.46 seconds.

Summary

A cramp in the semi-final round quashed Fred Kerley's bid to win a medal in all three sprint events. The Olympic Gold Medalist Andre De Grasse did not start in the heats, #2 of all time Yohan Blake did not start the semi-final round. The world leader coming into this was 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton with a 19.49. Alexander Ogando set a national record to win heat 1, Knighton won heat 3 and defending champion Noah Lyles won semi 2 ahead of the next fastest qualifier Kenny Bednarek, putting those four in the center of the track for the final. The first six qualifiers ran under 20 in the semis.

In the final, Knighton had lane 3, Ogando 4, Bednarek 5 and Lyles 6. In the past Lyles had been slow to start, depending on his superior top end speed to win at the end. That strategy also resulted in him "only" getting the bronze medal in the Olympics. Here, Lyles was fast at the start, making up the stagger on also notoriously slow starting Joseph Fahnbulleh just past the halfway point in the turn. Only Bednarek was able to stay close. Coming onto the straightaway, Lyles was up a metre on Bednarek who had another metre on Knighton. Lyles turned on the top end jets and pulled away. Knighton also accelerated, closing on Bednarek, while holding off the fast close of Fahnbulleh for the bronze.

Lyles 19.31 broke Michael Johnson's American Record set winning the 1996 Olympics to become the third fastest 200 runner of all time. Additionally, bronze medalist Knighton became the youngest medalist in the 200 metres in Championship history. It was the third sweep on home soil for the American team. Prior to these Championships, no Men's team had a sweep since 2015.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record19.19Berlin, Germany20 August 2009Championship recordWorld Leading19.49Baton Rouge, United States30 April 2022African Record19.68Atlanta, United States1 August 1996Asian Record19.88London, Great Britain21 July 2019North, Central American and Caribbean record19.19Berlin, Germany20 August 2009South American Record19.81Berlin, Germany20 August 2009European Record19.72Mexico City, Mexico12 September 1979Oceanian record20.06Mexico City, Mexico16 October 1968

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.24.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date Time Round18 July 17:05 Heats19 July 18:50 Semi-finals21 July 19:50 Final

Results

Heats The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the semi-finals.Heats Summary

Wind:Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +2.1 m/s, Heat 4: +0.5 m/s, Heat 5: +0.4 m/s, Heat 6: +1.0 m/s, Heat 7: -0.3 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 Noah Lyles 19.98 Q 2 4 Alexander Ogando 20.01 Q, 2 3 Erriyon Knighton 20.01 Q 4 3 Luxolo Adams 20.10 Q 5 3 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.11 Q 6 1 Joseph Fahnbulleh 20.12 Q 7 3 Yancarlos Martínez 20.13 q 8 5 Fred Kerley 20.17 Q 9 6 Filippo Tortu 20.18 Q 10 1 Koki Ueyama 20.26 Q, 11 5 Sinesipho Dambile 20.29 Q, 12 7 Rasheed Dwyer 20.29 Q 13 1 Jerome Blake 20.30 Q 14 7 Xie Zhenye 20.30 Q 15 1 Joe Ferguson 20.33 q 16 5 Udodi Onwuzurike 20.34 Q 17 2 Jereem Richards 20.35 Q 18 4 Kenny Bednarek 20.35 Q 19 5 Yohan Blake 20.35 q 20 1 Joseph Amoah 20.40 21 6 Guy Maganga Gorra 20.44 Q, 22 4 Tarsis Orogot 20.44 Q 23 6 Calab Law 20.50 Q, 24 7 Owen Ansah 20.52 25 7 Eric Harrison Jr. 20.54 26 3 Akeem Bloomfield 20.56 27 2 Aaron Brown 20.60 Q 28 6 Adam Gemili 20.60 29 3 Sibusiso Matsenjwa 20.60 30 4 Fausto Desalu 20.63 31 7 Lucas Vilar 20.65 32 5 William Reais 20.71 33 2 Shota Iizuka 20.72 Q 34 3 Tinotenda Matiyenga 20.72 35 7 Jan Jirka 20.73 36 5 Aidan Murphy 20.75 37 2 Shaun Maswanganyi 20.79 38 2 Simon Hansen 20.80 39 2 Shainer Rengifo Montoya 20.80 40 4 Mouhamadou FallSub judice. 20.83 41 1 Lucas Rodrigues da Silva 20.90 42 4 Hachim Maaroufou 20.91 43 2 Joseph Green 22.04 44 6 Alonso Edward 22.08 4 Marcos Santos 1 Terrence Talio 6 Andre de Grasse 5 Emmanuel Eseme For administrative reasons: 6 Yuki Koike

Semi-finals The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.Semi-finals Start List

Wind:Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Noah Lyles 19.62 Q 2 3 Erriyon Knighton 19.77 Q 3 2 Kenny Bednarek 19.84 Q, 4 2 Jereem Richards 19.86 q 5 1 Alexander Ogando 19.91 Q, 6 1 Joseph Fahnbulleh 19.92 Q 7 2 Luxolo Adams 20.09 q 8 3 Aaron Brown 20.10 Q 9 3 Filippo Tortu 20.10 10 3 Yancarlos Martínez 20.21 11 1 Jerome Blake 20.29 12 1 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.30 13 2 Tarsis Orogot 20.35 14 2 Udodi Onwuzurike 20.39 15 3 Xie Zhenye 20.41 16 1 Sinesipho Dambile 20.47 17 3 Koki Ueyama 20.48 18 2 Joe Ferguson 20.52 19 2 Guy Maganga Gorra 20.65 20 1 Fred Kerley 20.68 21 3 Calab Law 20.72 22 1 Shota Iizuka 20.77 23 3 Rasheed Dwyer 20.87 1 Yohan Blake

Final The final was started at 19:50 on 21 July. The results were as follows:

Wind: +0.4 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Noah Lyles 19.31 5 Kenny Bednarek 19.77 3 Erriyon Knighton 19.80 4 7 Joseph Fahnbulleh 19.84 5 4 Alexander Ogando 19.93 6 2 Jereem Richards 20.08 7 8 Aaron Brown 20.18 8 1 Luxolo Adams 20.47

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