2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres
at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Men's 200 metres ; at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	July 7 (round 1); July 8 (semifinals & final);
Competitors	34 from 22 nations
Winning time	20.45
Medalists
	← 2014 2018 →

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19^[2]	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European record	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72^[3]	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Championship record	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	19.85	Munich, Germany	9 August 2002
World Leading	LaShawn Merritt (USA)	19.78^[4]	Nassau, The Bahamas	16 April 2016
European Leading	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (GBR)	19.95^[5]	Tuscaloosa, United States	14 May 2016

All times are local times (UTC+2)

First 3 (Q) and next 5 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.^[6]

Wind:
Heat 1: -1.1 m/s, Heat 2: -1.2 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	2	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.55	Q
1	1	7	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.55	Q
3	1	8	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.69	Q
4	2	4	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.80	Q
5	2	8	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.82	Q
5	3	5	David Lima	Portugal	20.82	Q
7	1	5	Mickaël-Meba Zézé	France	20.84	Q
8	1	6	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.96	q
9	3	8	Antonio Infantino	Italy	20.99	Q
10	2	1	Ján Volko	Slovakia	21.00	Q
11	2	6	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	21.04	q
12	2	5	Robin Erewa	Germany	21.05	q
13	1	3	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	21.06	q
13	3	3	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	21.06	q
15	3	1	Igor Bodrov	Ukraine	21.13
16	3	4	Robin Vanderbemden	Belgium	21.17
17	1	4	Ionut Andrei Neagoe	Romania	21.18
18	1	2	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	21.21
19	1	1	Samuli Samuelsson	Finland	21.36
20	3	7	Silvan Wicki	Switzerland	21.41
21	2	7	Vitaliy Korzh	Ukraine	21.49
22	3	6	Gábor Pásztor	Hungary	21.60
23	2	3	Marek Niit	Estonia	21.93
24	2	2	Mikel de Sa	Andorra	22.74

First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.^[7]

Wind:
Heat 1: -1.7 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -1.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	4	Danny Talbot*	Great Britain	20.37	Q, SB
2	3	7	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.39	Q, NR
2	3	6	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.39	Q, PB
4	2	3	Churandy Martina*	Netherlands	20.44	Q
5	2	5	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.46	q
5	3	3	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake*	Great Britain	20.46	q
7	3	5	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas*	Greece	20.48
8	2	7	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.69
8	1	5	Ramil Guliyev*	Turkey	20.69	Q
10	1	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.71	Q
11	3	4	Serhiy Smelyk*	Ukraine	20.76
12	2	8	Mickaël-Meba Zézé	France	20.81
13	2	6	Julian Reus*	Germany	20.83
14	2	2	David Lima	Portugal	20.86
15	1	3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure*	Norway	20.92
16	3	8	Antonio Infantino	Italy	20.93
17	1	6	Eseosa Desalu*	Italy	20.94
18	3	1	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.98
19	1	4	Aleixo Platini Menga*	Germany	21.06
20	1	2	Ján Volko	Slovakia	21.28
21	1	1	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	21.33
22	3	2	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	21.34
23	1	8	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	23.49
	2	1	Johan Wissman	Sweden	DNF

*Athletes who received a bye to the semifinals^[8]

The start of the final

Wind: -0.9 m/s^[9]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.45
	3	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.51
	5	Danny Talbot	Great Britain	20.56
4	4	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.56
5	1	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.60
6	2	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.66
7	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.70
	8	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	DQ	R163.3a^[10]