Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres


The men's 200 metres was held on 2 September and 3 September as part of the Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, which were held in Rome. 74 athletes from 54 nations entered, but only 62 athletes from 47 nations ultimately competed.

Results

First round

The top two runners in each of the 12 heats advanced, as well as the next four fastest runners from across all heats.

First round, heat 1

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Paul Genevay21.2 seconds
2Vadym Arkhypchuk21.5 seconds
3James Omagbemi26.2 seconds
-Iftikhar ShahDNS
-HailouDNS
-Enrique FiguerolaDNS

First round, heat 2

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Les Carney21.1 seconds
2David Segal21.3 seconds
3Peter Laeng21.6 seconds
4Shahrudin Mohamed Ali22.3 seconds
-Hilmar ThorbjörnssonDNS

First round, heat 3

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Stone Johnson21.7 seconds
2Nikolaos Georgopoulos22.0 seconds
3Clayton Glasgow22.6 seconds
4James Roberts23.1 seconds
-Harry JeromeDNS

First round, heat 4

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Marcel Wendelin21.6 seconds
2Leonid Bartenev21.8 seconds
3Michael Okantey21.8 seconds
4Santiago Plaza22.0 seconds
5Huang Suh-Chuang22.9 seconds
6Abdul Khaliq23.1 seconds

First round, heat 5

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Peter Radford21.1 seconds
2Erasmus Amukun21.3 seconds
3Csaba Csutorás21.7 seconds
4Sitiveni Moceidreke21.8 seconds
5Elmar Kunauer22.2 seconds
-Emmanuel PutuDNS

First round, heat 6

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Ray Norton21.2 seconds
2David Jones21.2 seconds
3Yuriy Konovalov21.4 seconds
4Ramón Vega21.8 seconds
5Patrick Lowry22.1 seconds
-Vilém MandlíkDNF

First round, heat 7

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Livio Berruti21.0 seconds
2Tom Robinson21.4 seconds
3Lloyd Murad21.8 seconds
4Pentti Rekola22.2 seconds
5Bouchaib El-Maachi22.3 seconds
-Jalal GozalDNS

First round, heat 8

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Dennis Johnson21.2 seconds
2José da Conceição Telles21.3 seconds
3Sebald Schnellmann21.4 seconds
4Jean-Pierre Barra22.3 seconds
5Enrique Bautista23.0 seconds
6Ali Yusuf Zaid23.1 seconds

First round, heat 9

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Abdoulaye Seye21.1 seconds
2Carl Fredrik Bunæs21.3 seconds
3Clifton Bertrand21.3 seconds
4Amos Grodzinowsky21.8 seconds
5Barry Robinson22.2 seconds
6Lennart Jonsson22.3 seconds

First round, heat 10

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Marian Foik21.1 seconds
2Jocelyn Delecour21.3 seconds
3Armando Sardi21.6 seconds
4Lynn Eves21.9 seconds
5Mikhail Bachvarov22.2 seconds
6Roger Bofferding23.2 seconds

First round, heat 11

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Seraphino Antao21.3 seconds
2Rafael Romero21.4 seconds
3Manfred Germar21.6 seconds
4Romain Poté22.1 seconds
5Melanio Asensio22.3 seconds
6Aydin Onur22.5 seconds

First round, heat 12

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Edward Jefferys21.1 seconds
2Salvatore Giannone21.5 seconds
3Kimitada Hayase22.3 seconds
4Falih Fahmi22.6 seconds
5Dennis Tipping22.9 seconds
-Milkha SinghDNS

Second round

The first three in each quarter-final qualified for the semi-finals.

Second round, heat 1

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Stone Johnson20.9 seconds
2Edward Jefferys21.1 seconds
3Tom Robinson21.2 seconds
4Erasmus Amukun21.3 seconds
5Yuriy Konovalov21.3 seconds
6Clifton Bertrand21.4 seconds
7Rafael Romero21.4 seconds

Second round, heat 2

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Abdoulaye Seye20.8 seconds
2Ray Norton21.0 seconds
3David Segal21.1 seconds
4Seraphino Antao21.3 seconds
5Vadym Arkhypchuk21.5 seconds
6José da Conceição Telles21.5 seconds
7Nikolaos Georgopoulos22.0 seconds

Second round, heat 3

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Les Carney20.9 seconds
2Peter Radford21.0 seconds
3Dennis Johnson21.1 seconds
4Jocelyn Delecour21.5 seconds
5Leonid Bartenev21.5 seconds
6Sebald Schnellmann21.5 seconds
7Salvatore Giannone21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 4

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Livio Berruti20.8 seconds
2Marian Foik20.9 seconds
3Paul Genevay21.1 seconds
4David Jones21.2 seconds
5Carl Fredrik Bunæs21.4 seconds
6Marcel Wendelin21.6 seconds

Semi-Finals

The first three in each semi-final qualified for the final.

Semi-final 1

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Abdoulaye Seye20.8 seconds
2Marian Foik21.0 seconds
3Les Carney21.1 seconds
4Edward Jefferys21.3 seconds
5Tom Robinson21.5 seconds
-David SegalDSQ

Semi-final 2

Berruti tied the world record of 20.5 seconds.
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Livio Berruti20.5 seconds=EWR
2Ray Norton20.7 seconds
3Stone Johnson20.8 seconds
4Peter Radford20.9 seconds
5Dennis Johnson21.0 seconds
6Paul Genevay21.0 seconds

Final

Berruti tied again the world record of 20.5 seconds
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Livio Berruti20.5 seconds=EWR
2Les Carney20.6 seconds
3Abdoulaye Seye20.7 seconds
4Marian Foik20.8 seconds
5Stone Johnson20.8 seconds
6Ray Norton20.9 seconds