2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the 2022 World Championships
Venue	Hayward Field
Dates	18 July (heats) 19 July (semi-finals) 21 July (final)
Competitors	55 from 33 nations
Winning time	19.31
Medalists
Noah Lyles    United States   Kenny Bednarek    United States   Erriyon Knighton    United States
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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. ^[1] 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: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Usain Bolt  (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
Championship record
World Leading	Erriyon Knighton  (USA)	19.49	Baton Rouge, United States	30 April 2022
African Record	Frank Fredericks  (NAM)	19.68	Atlanta, United States	1 August 1996
Asian Record	Xie Zhenye  (CHN)	19.88	London, Great Britain	21 July 2019
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Usain Bolt  (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
South American Record	Alonso Edward  (PAN)	19.81	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European Record	Pietro Mennea  (ITA)	19.72	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Oceanian record	Peter Norman  (AUS)	20.06	Mexico City, Mexico	16 October 1968

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.24. ^[3]

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Round
18 July	17:05	Heats
19 July	18:50	Semi-finals
21 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. ^[4]

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	United States  (USA)	19.98	Q
2	4	Alexander Ogando	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	20.01	Q, NR
2	3	Erriyon Knighton	United States  (USA)	20.01	Q
4	3	Luxolo Adams	South Africa  (RSA)	20.10	Q
5	3	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	20.11	Q
6	1	Joseph Fahnbulleh	Liberia  (LBR)	20.12	Q
7	3	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	20.13	q
8	5	Fred Kerley	United States  (USA)	20.17	Q
9	6	Filippo Tortu	Italy  (ITA)	20.18	Q
10	1	Koki Ueyama	Japan  (JPN)	20.26	Q, PB
11	5	Sinesipho Dambile	South Africa  (RSA)	20.29	Q, PB
12	7	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica  (JAM)	20.29	Q
13	1	Jerome Blake	Canada  (CAN)	20.30	Q
14	7	Xie Zhenye	China  (CHN)	20.30	Q
15	1	Joe Ferguson	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	20.33	q
16	5	Udodi Onwuzurike	Nigeria  (NGR)	20.34	Q
17	2	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	20.35	Q
18	4	Kenny Bednarek	United States  (USA)	20.35	Q
19	5	Yohan Blake	Jamaica  (JAM)	20.35	q
20	1	Joseph Amoah	Ghana  (GHA)	20.40	SB
21	6	Guy Maganga Gorra	Gabon  (GAB)	20.44	Q, NR
22	4	Tarsis Orogot	Uganda  (UGA)	20.44	Q
23	6	Calab Law	Australia  (AUS)	20.50	Q, PB
24	7	Owen Ansah	Germany  (GER)	20.52
25	7	Eric Harrison Jr.	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	20.54
26	3	Akeem Bloomfield	Jamaica  (JAM)	20.56
27	2	Aaron Brown	Canada  (CAN)	20.60	Q
28	6	Adam Gemili	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	20.60
29	3	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Eswatini  (SWZ)	20.60
30	4	Fausto Desalu	Italy  (ITA)	20.63
31	7	Lucas Vilar	Brazil  (BRA)	20.65	SB
32	5	William Reais	Switzerland  (SUI)	20.71	SB
33	2	Shota Iizuka	Japan  (JPN)	20.72	Q
34	3	Tinotenda Matiyenga	Zimbabwe  (ZIM)	20.72
35	7	Jan Jirka	Czech Republic  (CZE)	20.73
36	5	Aidan Murphy	Australia  (AUS)	20.75
37	2	Shaun Maswanganyi	South Africa  (RSA)	20.79
38	2	Simon Hansen	Denmark  (DEN)	20.80
39	2	Shainer Rengifo Montoya	Cuba  (CUB)	20.80
40	4	Mouhamadou Fall [5]	France  (FRA)	20.83
41	1	Lucas Rodrigues da Silva	Brazil  (BRA)	20.90
42	4	Hachim Maaroufou	Comoros  (COM)	20.91
43	2	Joseph Green	Guam  (GUM)	22.04
44	6	Alonso Edward	Panama  (PAN)	22.08
	4	Marcos Santos	Angola  (ANG)		DQ
	1	Terrence Talio	Papua New Guinea  (PNG)		DQ
	6	Andre de Grasse	Canada  (CAN)		DNS
	5	Emmanuel Eseme	Cameroon  (CMR)		DNS [6]
	6	Yuki Koike	Japan  (JPN)		DNS

Semi-finals

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final. ^[7]

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	United States  (USA)	19.62	Q
2	3	Erriyon Knighton	United States  (USA)	19.77	Q
3	2	Kenny Bednarek	United States  (USA)	19.84	Q, SB
4	2	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	19.86	q
5	1	Alexander Ogando	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	19.91	Q, NR
6	1	Joseph Fahnbulleh	Liberia  (LBR)	19.92	Q
7	2	Luxolo Adams	South Africa  (RSA)	20.09	q
8	3	Aaron Brown	Canada  (CAN)	20.10	Q
9	3	Filippo Tortu	Italy  (ITA)	20.10	PB
10	3	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	20.21	SB
11	1	Jerome Blake	Canada  (CAN)	20.29
12	1	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	20.30
13	2	Tarsis Orogot	Uganda  (UGA)	20.35
14	2	Udodi Onwuzurike	Nigeria  (NGR)	20.39
15	3	Xie Zhenye	China  (CHN)	20.41
16	1	Sinesipho Dambile	South Africa  (RSA)	20.47
17	3	Koki Ueyama	Japan  (JPN)	20.48
18	2	Joe Ferguson	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	20.52
19	2	Guy Maganga Gorra	Gabon  (GAB)	20.65
20	1	Fred Kerley	United States  (USA)	20.68
21	3	Calab Law	Australia  (AUS)	20.72
22	1	Shota Iizuka	Japan  (JPN)	20.77
23	3	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica  (JAM)	20.87
	1	Yohan Blake	Jamaica  (JAM)		DNS

Final

The final was started at 19:50 on 21 July. ^[8] The results were as follows: ^{[9] [10]}

Wind: +0.4 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Noah Lyles	United States  (USA)	19.31	WL NR
	5	Kenny Bednarek	United States  (USA)	19.77	SB
	3	Erriyon Knighton	United States  (USA)	19.80
4	7	Joseph Fahnbulleh	Liberia  (LBR)	19.84
5	4	Alexander Ogando	Dominican Republic  (DOM)	19.93
6	2	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago  (TTO)	20.08
7	8	Aaron Brown	Canada  (CAN)	20.18
8	1	Luxolo Adams	South Africa  (RSA)	20.47

References

1. Timetable
2. "200 Metres Men − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 9 July 2022.
3. "Competitions Entry Standards 2022 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022" (PDF). iaaf.org. 9 July 2022.
4. Heats Summary
5. Sub judice.
6. For administrative reasons:
7. Semi-finals Start List
8. "START LIST 200 Metres Men – Final" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
9. "RESULTS 200 Metres Men – Final" (PDF). World Athletics. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
10. "RACE ANALYSIS 200 Metres Men – Final" (PDF). World Athletics. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.