2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Espoo, Finland, at Leppävaara Stadium on 15 and 16 July.

Men's 200 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships
Venue	Leppävaara Stadium, Espoo
Dates	15 July (heats & semi-final) 16 July (final)
Competitors	40 from 24 nations
Winning time	20.67
Medalists
Blessing Afrifah   Israel   Raphael Bouju   Netherlands   Timothé Mumenthaler   Switzerland

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

European U23 record	Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)	19.80	Daegu, South Korea	3 September 2011
Championship U23 record	Ján Volko (SVK)	20.33	Bydgoszcz, Poland	15 July 2017

Results

Heats

Qualification rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals.

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.1 m/s, Heat 4: +2.7 m/s, Heat 5: +2.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	5	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.65	Q
2	5	Łukasz Żok	Poland	20.74	Q
3	1	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	20.83	Q
4	3	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	20.84	Q
5	3	Ioannis Kariofyllis	Greece	20.84	Q, PB
6	2	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	20.95	Q, SB
7	1	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	20.97	Q
8	4	Marco Ricci	Italy	20.98	Q
9	5	Simon Wulff	Germany	21.05	q
10	2	Bradley Lestrade	Switzerland	21.07	Q
11	3	Edoardo Luraschi	Italy	21.10	q, PB
12	2	James Hanson	Great Britain	21.12	q
13	2	Hugo Cerra	France	21.12	q
14	5	Andrej Skočir	Slovenia	21.12	q
15	1	Igor Bogaczyński	Poland	21.13	q
16	5	Colin Doyle	Ireland	21.15
17	2	Vasileios Myrianthopoulos	Greece	21.21
18	1	Jacopo Albertin	Italy	21.23
19	3	Valtteri Louko	Finland	21.26	PB
20	1	Linus Pihl	Sweden	21.27
21	3	Oskars Grava	Latvia	21.28
22	4	Marcin Karolewski	Poland	21.29	Q
23	1	Jordan Jalce	France	21.31
24	3	Robin Ganter	Germany	21.32
24	4	Eduard Kubelík	Czech Republic	21.32
26	5	Gabriel Maia	Portugal	21.33
27	2	Oğuz Uyar	Turkey	21.44
28	1	Simon Graf	Switzerland	21.46
29	4	Jehan Anicet	France	21.51
30	2	Jakub Nemec	Slovakia	21.58
31	4	Robin Sapar	Estonia	21.58
32	4	Kenny Emi Tijani-Ajayi	Norway	21.63
33	1	Anthony Smith	Turkey	21.67
34	3	Mikkel Linnemand Johansson	Denmark	21.68
35	4	Aviv Koffler	Israel	21.69
36	2	Beppe Grillo	Malta	21.72
37	5	Kristupas Seikauskas	Lithuania	22.07
	4	Felix Frühn	Germany	DQ
	5	Ioannis Granitsiotis	Greece	DQ
	3	Jaime Sancho	Spain	DQ

Semi-final

Qualification rules: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: -3.2 m/s, Heat 2: -3.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	2	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	21.07	Q
2	1	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	21.14	Q
3	1	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	21.21	Q
4	2	Łukasz Żok	Poland	21.28	Q
4	1	Marco Ricci	Italy	21.28	Q
6	2	Ioannis Kariofyllis	Greece	21.29	Q
6	2	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	21.29	q
8	1	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	21.37	q
9	1	James Hanson	Great Britain	21.37
10	2	Hugo Cerra	France	21.38
11	2	Simon Wulff	Germany	21.43
12	1	Edoardo Luraschi	Italy	21.46
13	1	Bradley Lestrade	Switzerland	21.47
14	2	Andrej Skočir	Slovenia	21.65
15	2	Marcin Karolewski	Poland	21.94
16	1	Igor Bogaczyński	Poland	25.85

Final

Wind: -1.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
	6	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.67
	5	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	20.68
	4	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	20.85
4	3	Marco Ricci	Italy	20.96
5	1	Ioannis Kariofyllis	Greece	20.98
6	8	Łukasz Żok	Poland	21.05
7	2	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	21.35
8	7	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	1:11.18