Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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![]() Bobby Morrow (right) | ||||||||||
Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||
Dates | 26 November 1956 & 27 November 1956 | |||||||||
Competitors | 67 from 32 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 20.6 =WR OR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | |
800 m | men | |
1500 m | men | |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
80 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Decathlon | men | |
The men's 200 metres was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. There were 67 competitors from 32 countries. The first and second rounds were held on Monday 26 November and the semifinals and final on Tuesday 27 November. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Even though it had been a part of the Olympics, the IAAF had only certified world records for the 200 meters around the bend since 1951. Both claimants to the record Andy Stanfield and Thane Baker were in this final. Stanfield took a slight lead from the gun, making up the stagger on Jose Telles da Conceicao to his outside just past halfway through the turn. Inside of him, 100 meter champion Bobby Morrow slowly accelerated and caught Stanfield. Coming off the turn, Morrow had almost a meter advantage. Two meters back, Baker was in a battle with Michael Agostini. Down the final straight, Morrow opened up another meter to take the win by 0.22 seconds. Baker separated from Agostini and made a late run at Stanfield, coming up a couple of feet short.
Morrow's hand time of 20.6 second equalled the world record. The American sweep was the second consecutive and fourth overall sweep for the United States; Morrow's gold was the fifth consecutive and 10th overall for the nation. Stanfield and Baker were the third and fourth men to earn multiple medals in the 200 metres.
This was the 12th appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. Two of the six finalists from the 1952 Games returned: gold medalist Andy Stanfield and silver medalist Thane Baker, both of the United States. The third member of the 1952 American sweep, James Gathers, had been replaced by Bobby Morrow. Morrow and Dave Sime had been favorites early in the year, but Sime was injured and did not make the Olympic team. [2]
The Bahamas, Ethiopia, Guyana, Liberia, Malaya, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and Uganda each made their debut in the event; East and West Germany competed as the United Team of Germany for the first time. The United States made its 12th appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the 200 metres to date.
The competition used the four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. There were 12 heats of between 2 and 7 runners each, with the top 2 men in each advancing to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals consisted of 4 heats of 6 athletes each; the 3 fastest men in each heat advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals, each with 6 runners. In that round, the top 3 athletes advanced. The final had 6 runners. The races were run on a 400 metre track. [2]
Prior to the competition, the existing world (curved track) and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() | 20.6 | Los Angeles, United States | 28 June 1952 |
Olympic record | ![]() | 20.7 | Berlin, Germany | 5 August 1936 |
Bobby Morrow's hand-timed final run of 20.6 seconds was equal to the world record and set a new Olympic record.
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Date | Time | Round |
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Tuesday, 26 November 1956 | 14:30 17:40 | Heats Quarterfinals |
Wednesday, 27 November 1956 | 15:00 17:00 | Semifinals Final |
Twelve heats were held, the two fastest in each would qualify for the quarterfinals.
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jose Telles da Conceicao | ![]() | 21.61 | Q |
2 | Manfred Germar | ![]() | 21.88 | Q |
3 | Rene Ahumada Rodriguez | ![]() | 21.96 | |
4 | Mel Spence | ![]() | 22.13 | |
5 | Jean-Pierre Goudeau | ![]() | 22.13 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Karl-Friedrich Haas | ![]() | 21.56 | Q |
2 | Václav Janeček | ![]() | 21.85 | Q |
3 | Douglas Winston | ![]() | 22.20 | |
4 | Milkha Singh | ![]() | 22.47 | |
5 | Kyohei Ushio | ![]() | 22.64 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Michael Agostini | ![]() | 21.80 | Q |
2 | Vincenzo Lombardo | ![]() | 21.94 | Q |
3 | Yuriy Konovalov | ![]() | 22.09 | |
4 | Josef Trousil | ![]() | 22.54 | |
5 | Legesse Beyene | ![]() | 23.63 | |
6 | Manut Bumrungphuk | ![]() | 24.59 | |
— | James Roberts | ![]() | DSQ |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Andy Stanfield | ![]() | 21.69 | Q |
2 | Sergio D'Asnasch | ![]() | 22.35 | Q |
3 | Muhammad Sharif Butt | ![]() | 22.38 | |
4 | Fred Hammer | ![]() | 22.73 | |
5 | Nigousse Robba | ![]() | 23.89 | |
— | Apolinar Solórzano | ![]() | DSQ |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Abdul Khaliq | ![]() | 21.32 | Q |
2 | Maurice Rae | ![]() | 21.57 | Q |
3 | Joao Pires Sobrinho | ![]() | 21.67 | |
4 | Tom Robinson | ![]() | 21.76 | |
5 | Sándor Jakabfy | ![]() | 21.78 | |
6 | Malcolm Spence | ![]() | 21.86 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Kanji Akagi | ![]() | 22.26 | Q |
2 | Jorge Machado de Barros | ![]() | 22.30 | Q |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Thane Baker | ![]() | 21.92 | Q |
2 | Béla Goldoványi | ![]() | 22.08 | Q |
3 | Bjørn Nilsen | ![]() | 22.33 | |
4 | Oliver Hunter | ![]() | 22.54 | |
5 | Giovanni Ghiselli | ![]() | 22.68 | |
6 | Hailou Abbebe | ![]() | 23.25 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Vilem Mandlik | ![]() | 21.79 | Q |
2 | Hector Hogan | ![]() | 21.97 | Q |
3 | David Segal | ![]() | 22.22 | |
4 | Joseph Foreman | ![]() | 22.28 | |
5 | Kesavan Soon | ![]() | 23.33 | |
6 | Lee Kah Fook | ![]() | 23.94 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bobby Morrow | ![]() | 21.95 | Q |
2 | Edward Szmidt | ![]() | 22.03 | Q |
3 | Graham Gipson | ![]() | 22.06 | |
4 | Akira Kiyofuji | ![]() | 22.56 | |
5 | Abdul Aziz | ![]() | 22.98 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Boris Tokarev | ![]() | 21.62 | Q |
2 | Brian Shenton | ![]() | 21.85 | Q |
3 | Rafael Romero | ![]() | 21.87 | |
4 | Janusz Jarzembowski | ![]() | 21.91 | |
5 | Joseph Goddard | ![]() | 22.23 | |
6 | Eero Kivelä | ![]() | 22.56 | |
7 | Benjamin Kiyini Nduga | ![]() | 22.89 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Constantin Lissenko | ![]() | 22.06 | Q |
2 | Iván Rodríguez | ![]() | 22.06 | Q |
3 | Roy Sandstrom | ![]() | 22.18 | |
4 | Pentti Rekola | ![]() | 22.22 | |
5 | John Parrington | ![]() | 22.61 | |
6 | Montri Srinaka | ![]() | 23.88 | |
7 | Emmanuel Gbecy Putu | ![]() | 24.33 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Leonhard Pohl | ![]() | 21.78 | Q |
2 | Leonid Bartenev | ![]() | 21.94 | Q |
3 | Yves Camus | ![]() | 22.37 | |
4 | Phaibulya Vacharabhan | ![]() | 23.92 | |
5 | Richard Estick | ![]() | 25.81 |
Four heats were held, the three fastest in each would qualify for the semifinals.
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Abdul Khaliq | ![]() | 21.34 | Q |
2 | Michael Agostini | ![]() | 21.35 | Q |
3 | Leonhard Pohl | ![]() | 21.49 | Q |
4 | Leonid Bartenev | ![]() | 21.53 | |
5 | Béla Goldoványi | ![]() | 21.64 | |
6 | Edward Szmidt | ![]() | 21.73 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Andy Stanfield | ![]() | 21.22 | Q |
2 | Boris Tokarev | ![]() | 21.42 | Q |
3 | Jose Telles da Conceicao | ![]() | 21.46 | Q |
4 | Vincenzo Lombardo | ![]() | 21.53 | |
5 | Kanji Akagi | ![]() | 22.03 | |
— | Constantin Lissenko | ![]() | DNS |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Thane Baker | ![]() | 21.34 | Q |
2 | Vilem Mandlik | ![]() | 21.56 | Q |
3 | Karl-Friedrich Haas | ![]() | 21.68 | Q |
4 | Hector Hogan | ![]() | 21.90 | |
5 | Iván Rodríguez | ![]() | 22.16 | |
6 | Sergio D'Asnasch | ![]() | 22.82 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bobby Morrow | ![]() | 22.03 | Q |
2 | Maurice Rae | ![]() | 22.12 | Q |
3 | Brian Shenton | ![]() | 22.15 | Q |
4 | Václav Janeček | ![]() | 22.26 | |
5 | Jorge Machado de Barros | ![]() | 23.88 | |
— | Manfred Germar | ![]() | DNS |
Two semifinals were held, the three fastest of which would qualify for the final.
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Thane Baker | ![]() | 21.21 | Q |
2 | Bobby Morrow | ![]() | 21.43 | Q |
3 | Jose Telles da Conceicao | ![]() | 21.53 | Q |
4 | Abdul Khaliq | ![]() | 21.58 | |
5 | Karl-Friedrich Haas | ![]() | 21.74 | |
6 | Maurice Rae | ![]() | 21.75 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Andy Stanfield | ![]() | 21.35 | Q |
2 | Michael Agostini | ![]() | 21.48 | Q |
3 | Boris Tokarev | ![]() | 21.50 | Q |
4 | Leonhard Pohl | ![]() | 21.64 | |
5 | Vilem Mandlik | ![]() | 21.74 | |
6 | Brian Shenton | ![]() | 22.08 |
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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![]() | Bobby Morrow | ![]() | 20.75 | =WR , OR |
![]() | Andy Stanfield | ![]() | 20.97 | |
![]() | Thane Baker | ![]() | 21.05 | |
4 | Michael Agostini | ![]() | 21.35 | |
5 | Boris Tokarev | ![]() | 21.42 | |
6 | Jose Telles da Conceicao | ![]() | 21.56 |
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