2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 29 September to 1 October 2019.^[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 2019 World Championships
200m men final
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	29 September (heats) 30 September (semi-finals) 1 October (final)
Competitors	52 from 37 nations
Winning time	19.83
Medalists
Noah Lyles    United States   Andre De Grasse    Canada   Álex Quiñónez    Ecuador
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Video on YouTube
Official Video

Summary

Out of the blocks in the final, Adam Gemili took a slight lead through the turn with Andre De Grasse then Noah Lyles giving up as much as a meter. Coming off the turn, Lyles accelerated past Gemili. Once Lyles hit his top end speed, there was no catching him. Behind him, Álex Quiñónez was gaining on De Grasse and both were edging closer to Gemili. 20 metres out, both went by. Lyles won by 2 metres, De Grasse held off Quiñónez for silver.

Lyles' victory capped an evening of 3 men's gold medals for USA also including Sam Kendricks in the pole vault and Donavan Brazier in the 800 metres.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record	Athlete	Perf.	Location	Date
World	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
Championship
World Leading	Noah Lyles (USA)	19.50	Lausanne, Switzerland	5 July 2019
African	Frank Fredericks (NAM)	19.68	Atlanta, United States	1 August 1996
Asian	Xie Zhenye (CHN)	19.88	London, Great Britain	21 July 2019
North, Central American and Caribbean	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
South American	Alonso Edward (PAN)	19.81	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72A	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Oceanian	Peter Norman (AUS)	20.06A	Mexico City, Mexico	16 October 1968

The following records were set at the competition:^[3]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Lebanese	20.84	Noureddine Hadid	LIB	29 Sep 2019
Yemeni	22.37	Ahmed Al-Yaari	YEM

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.40.^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:^[5]

Date	Time	Round
29 September	20:05	Heats
30 September	20:50	Semi-finals
1 October	22:40	Final

Results

Heats

The first three in each heat (Q) and the next three fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[6]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: +1.0 m/s, Heat 6: +0.9 m/s, Heat 7: +0.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	7	Adam Gemili	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.06	Q, SB
2	3	4	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador (ECU)	20.08	Q
3	5	4	Aaron Brown	Canada (CAN)	20.10	Q
4	5	5	Miguel Francis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.11	Q
5	4	6	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.19	Q
6	2	4	Xie Zhenye	China (CHN)	20.20	Q
7	6	7	Andre De Grasse	Canada (CAN)	20.20	Q
8	7	8	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.23	Q
8	3	8	Yohan Blake	Jamaica (JAM)	20.23	Q, SB
10	2	3	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.24	Q, SB
11	7	3	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	20.26	Q
12	1	2	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.27	Q
13	6	9	Clarence Munyai	South Africa (RSA)	20.29	Q
14	2	5	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa (RSA)	20.35	Q, SB
15	5	6	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica (JAM)	20.37	Q
16	1	6	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands (NED)	20.37	Q
17	7	2	Brendon Rodney	Canada (CAN)	20.38	Q
18	6	6	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine (UKR)	20.39	Q
19	1	9	Divine Oduduru	Nigeria (NGR)	20.40	q
20	3	6	Alex Wilson	Switzerland (SUI)	20.40	Q
21	7	7	Andre Ewers	Jamaica (JAM)	20.41	q
22	5	3	Fausto Desalu	Italy (ITA)	20.43	q
23	3	7	Aldemir da Silva Júnior	Brazil (BRA)	20.44
24	2	8	Yuki Koike	Japan (JPN)	20.46
25	4	2	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	20.47	Q
26	2	7	Fahhad Al-Subaie	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	20.51
27	4	4	Reynier Mena	Cuba (CUB)	20.52	Q
28	6	3	Sydney Siame	Zambia (ZAM)	20.58
29	4	7	Jeremy Dodson	Samoa (SAM)	20.60
30	6	4	Kirara Shiraishi	Japan (JPN)	20.62
31	5	8	Jun Yamashita	Japan (JPN)	20.62
32	7	6	Mouhamadou Fall	France (FRA)	20.63
33	4	3	Bernardo Baloyes	Colombia (COL)	20.64
34	6	8	Steven Müller	Germany (GER)	20.69
35	7	4	Guy Maganga Gorra	Gabon (GAB)	20.74
36	1	5	Paulo André de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	20.75
37	5	7	Abdelaziz Mohamed	Qatar (QAT)	20.75	SB
38	3	2	Yang Chun-han	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	20.80
39	3	5	Noureddine Hadid	Lebanon (LIB)	20.84	NR
40	6	5	Sibusiso Matsenjwa	Eswatini (SWZ)	20.85
41	4	8	Emmanuel Eseme	Cameroon (CMR)	20.87
42	3	9	Antonio Infantino	Italy (ITA)	20.89
43	1	8	Rodney Rowe	United States (USA)	20.92
44	5	9	Emmanuel Arowolo	Nigeria (NGR)	21.07
45	1	3	Fodé Sissoko	Mali (MLI)	21.30
46	4	5	Kenneth Bednarek	United States (USA)	21.50
47	2	6	José Andrés Salazar	El Salvador (ESA)	21.64
48	2	9	Muhd Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid	Brunei (BRU)	21.99
49	6	2	Ahmed Al-Yaari	Yemen (YEM)	22.37	NR
50	3	3	Grégory Bradai	French Polynesia (PYF)	22.79	SB
	1	4	Terrance Jones	Bahamas (BAH)	DQ	163.3(a)
	5	2	Jeffrey Vanan	Suriname (SUR)
	7	5	Alonso Edward	Panama (PAN)	DNS

Semi-finals

 

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

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	19.86	Q
2	2	4	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador (ECU)	19.95	Q
3	2	6	Xie Zhenye	China (CHN)	20.03	q
4	1	5	Adam Gemili	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.03	Q, SB
5	3	6	Andre De Grasse	Canada (CAN)	20.08	Q
6	1	4	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.16	Q
7	1	6	Aaron Brown	Canada (CAN)	20.20	q
8	3	7	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.24	Q
9	2	8	Yancarlos Martínez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	20.28	SB
10	1	7	Jereem Richards	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.28
11	3	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.30
12	3	8	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands (NED)	20.34	PB
13	2	9	Brendon Rodney	Canada (CAN)	20.34
14	3	9	Anaso Jobodwana	South Africa (RSA)	20.34	SB
15	3	4	Yohan Blake	Jamaica (JAM)	20.37
16	1	8	Rasheed Dwyer	Jamaica (JAM)	20.54
17	1	9	Clarence Munyai	South Africa (RSA)	20.55
18	1	2	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine (UKR)	20.55
19	2	3	Andre Ewers	Jamaica (JAM)	20.61
20	3	3	Reynier Mena	Cuba (CUB)	20.61
21	2	2	Fausto Desalu	Italy (ITA)	20.73
22	3	2	Divine Oduduru	Nigeria (NGR)	20.84
	1	3	Alex Wilson	Switzerland (SUI)	DNS
	2	7	Miguel Francis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)

Final

The final was started on 1 October at 22:40.^[8]

Wind: +0.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Noah Lyles	United States (USA)	19.83
	7	Andre De Grasse	Canada (CAN)	19.95
	4	Álex Quiñónez	Ecuador (ECU)	19.98
4	6	Adam Gemili	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.03	SB
5	9	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey (TUR)	20.07
6	3	Aaron Brown	Canada (CAN)	20.10
7	2	Xie Zhenye	China (CHN)	20.14
8	8	Kyle Greaux	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	20.39

References

1. "200 Metres Men − Round 1 − Start List" (PDF). IAAF. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
2. "100 Metres Men − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
3. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
4. "Competitions Entry Standards 2019 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019". iaaf.org. 2 August 2019.
5. "200 Metres Men − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
6. Heats results ()
7. "Semi-finals results" (PDF).
8. "Final results" (PDF).