Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres


The men's 200 metres was the second-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 and 17 October 1964. 63 athletes from 48 nations entered, with 6 not starting in the first round. The first two rounds were held on 16 October, with the semifinals and the final on 17 October.

Results

First round

The top four runners in each of the 8 heats advanced.

First round, heat 1

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Paul Drayton20.7 seconds
2Andrzej Zieliński21.2 seconds
3Clifton Bertrand21.3 seconds
4Johan du Preez21.4 seconds
5Jean-Louis Descloux21.5 seconds
6F. J. Gutierrez Hernandez21.8 seconds
7Gerardo di Tolla22.1 seconds
8Somsak Thongsuk22.6 seconds

First round, heat 2

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Roger Bambuck21.2 seconds
2Arquímedes Herrera21.3 seconds
3Boris Zubov21.4 seconds
4Peter Radford21.5 seconds
5Erasmus Amukun21.5 seconds
6Carlos Lorenzo Manueco21.6 seconds
—Levy PsawkinDid not start
—Iijima HideoDid not start

First round, heat 3

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Menzies Campbell21.3 seconds
2Serafino Antao21.5 seconds
3Csaba Csutoras21.5 seconds
4B. El Maachi Bouchaib21.5 seconds
5David Njitock22.5 seconds
6Wesley Johnson22.5 seconds
—Eric James BigbyDid not start
—Pablo McNeilDid not start

First round, heat 4

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Marian Foik21.1 seconds
2Sergio Ottolina21.2 seconds
3Edvin Ozolin21.3 seconds
4Jeffery Smith21.7 seconds
5Jassim Karim Kuraishi22.6 seconds
6Lee Ar Tu23.0 seconds
—Enrique FiguerolaDid not start

First round, heat 5

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Harry Jerome20.9 seconds
2M. Jegathesan20.9 seconds
3Paul Genevay21.0 seconds
4Franciscus Luitjes21.1 seconds
5Heinz Erbstosser21.4 seconds
6Tegegn Bezabih22.0 seconds
7Vahab Shahkhordeh22.3 seconds
—Borys SavchukDisqualified

First round, heat 6

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Edwin Roberts20.8 seconds
2Bob Lay21.3 seconds
3Pedro Grajales21.4 seconds
4David Ejoke21.4 seconds
5George Reginald Collie21.9 seconds
6Kenneth Lawrence Powell21.9 seconds
7Aggrey Sheroy Awori22.2 seconds
8William Hill22.5 seconds

First round, heat 7

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Heinz Schumann21.0 seconds
2Henry Carr21.1 seconds
3Jocelyn Delecour21.3 seconds
4Ivan Moreno21.5 seconds
5Alioune Sow21.9 seconds
6Michael Okantey21.9 seconds
7Rogelio Onofre22.1 seconds
8Tom RobinsonDid not start

First round, heat 8

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Livio Berruti21.1 seconds
2Richard Stebbins21.1 seconds
3Fritz Roderfeld21.5 seconds
4Gary Holdsworth21.6 seconds
5Jose Fernandes da Rocha21.7 seconds
6Valeriu Jurcă21.8 seconds
7Chung Ki Sun22.3 seconds
8Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa22.4 seconds

Second round

The four fastest runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.

Second round, heat 1

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Paul Drayton20.9 seconds
2Livio Berruti21.2 seconds
3M. Jegathesan21.4 seconds
4Jocelyn Delecour21.5 seconds
5Andrzej Zielinski21.5 seconds
6Boris Zubov21.8 seconds
7Jeffery Smith22.0 seconds
8Serafino Antao22.1 seconds

Second round, heat 2

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Henry Carr21.0 seconds
2Sergio Ottolina21.1 seconds
3Heinz Schumann21.2 seconds
4Arquimedes Herrera21.2 seconds
5Bob Lay21.4 seconds
6Csaba Csutoras21.4 seconds
7Ivan Moreno21.7 seconds
8Johan du Preez21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 3

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Harry Jerome21.2 seconds
2Richard Stebbins21.2 seconds
3Roger Bambuck21.4 seconds
4B. El Maachi Boushaib21.6 seconds
5Clifton Bertrand21.6 seconds
6Menzies Campbell21.7 seconds
7P. A. Grajales Escobar21.7 seconds
8Friedrich Roderfeld22.2 seconds

Second round, heat 4

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Edwin Roberts20.9 seconds
2Marian Foik21.0 seconds
3Paul Genevay21.3 seconds
4Franciscus Luitjes21.4 seconds
5Edvin Ozolin21.4 seconds
6Peter Radford21.5 seconds
7Gary Holdsworth22.1 seconds
—David EjokeDid not start

Semifinals

The top four runners in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Drayton tied the Olympic record in this semifinal, three-tenths of a second short of the world record.
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Paul Drayton20.5 seconds =OR
2Sergio Ottolina20.7 seconds
3Richard Stebbins20.8 seconds
4Marian Foik20.9 seconds
5Paul Genevay20.9 seconds
6Arquimedes Herrera21.0 seconds
7Franciscus Luitjes21.1 seconds
8B. El Maachi Bouchaib21.6 seconds

Semifinal 2

The second semifinal was the fourth race of the 200 metres in which an American won and an Italian took second place.
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Henry Carr20.6 seconds
2Livio Berruti20.7 seconds
3Edwin Roberts20.8 seconds
4Harry Jerome21.0 seconds
5Roger Bambuck21.0 seconds
6Heinz Schumann21.1 seconds
7Jocelyn Delecour21.2 seconds
8M. Jegathesan21.2 seconds

Final

Drayton matched his semifinal time, which had tied the Olympic record at 20.5 seconds, but Carr did even better, setting a new Olympic record of 20.3 seconds to bump Drayton to the silver medal. Carr's time was only one-tenth of a second off the world record.
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Henry Carr20.3 seconds OR
2Paul Drayton20.5 seconds
3Edwin Roberts20.6 seconds
4Harry Jerome20.7 seconds
5Livio Berruti20.8 seconds
6Marian Foik20.8 seconds
7Richard Stebbins20.8 seconds
8Sergio Ottolina20.9 seconds