Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 18, 19 and 20 August.^[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pietro Mennea   Italy	Chris Monk   Great Britain	Wardell Gilbreath   United States

Results

Heats

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -1.5 m/s, Heat 5: -0.5 m/s, Heat 6: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.87	Q^[4]
2	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.09	Q
3	1	Charles Ducasse	France	21.31	q^[5]
4	1	Selendorj Oimandahk	Mongolia	22.1
5	1	Georg Regner	Austria	22.6
	1	Eduardo González	Mexico	DNF
1	2	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.4	Q
2	2	Gheorghe Dulgheru	Romania	22.0	Q
3	2	Andrew Ratcliffe	Australia	22.08	^[6]
4	2	Susumu Shimizu	Japan	22.4
5	2	José Antônio Rabaca	Brazil	22.8
6	2	Houshemy Yar Arshadi	Iran	22.95
7	2	Sam Musoke	Uganda	23.1
1	3	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	21.03	Q
2	3	Bernd Borth	East Germany	21.7	Q
3	3	Witold Ziendalski	Poland	21.8	q
4	3	Toma Petrescu	Romania	21.9
5	3	Mohamed Hassan	Iraq	23.1
6	3	Younis Abdallah Rabee	Kuwait	23.40
1	4	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.31	Q
2	4	Mark Lutz	United States	21.39	Q
3	4	Vladimir Lovetskiy	Soviet Union	21.66	q^[7]
4	4	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.8
5	4	Uwe Schläfer	West Germany	22.09
6	4	Wolfgang Rabe	East Germany	22.10
7	4	Said Marvez Mir	Pakistan	23.8
1	5	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	21.5	Q
2	5	René Metz	France	21.52	Q,^[5]
3	5	Aleksandr Zhidkikh	Soviet Union	21.5	q
4	5	Pablo Bandomo	Cuba	21.8
5	5	Jesús Rohena	Puerto Rico	22.2
6	5	Doljinsouren Ganbat	Mongolia	23.5
1	6	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.43	Q^[8]
2	6	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	21.9	Q
3	6	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	21.9
4	6	Günther Würfel	Austria	22.0
5	6	Yussif Issa Al-Hasawi	Kuwait	23.1
6	6	Carlos Abbott	Costa Rica	23.2
7	6	Michele Komane	Central African Republic	23.6

Semifinals

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.88	Q^[4]
2	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.10	Q
3	1	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	21.12	Q
4	1	René Metz	France	21.36	Q^[5]
5	1	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.62	^[9]
6	1	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	21.6
7	1	Vladimir Lovetskiy	Soviet Union	21.84	^[7]
1	2	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.97	Q
2	2	Charles Ducasse	France	21.05	Q^[5]
3	2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.13	Q
4	2	Mark Lutz	United States	21.25	Q^[10]
5	2	Aleksandr Zhidkikh	Soviet Union	21.46	^[7]
6	2	Bernd Borth	East Germany	21.62
7	2	Witold Ziendalski	Poland	21.8
8	2	Gheorghe Dulgheru	Romania	21.9

Final

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Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.56
	5	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.70
	2	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	20.80
4	3	Charles Ducasse	France	20.82
5	6	Mark Lutz	United States	20.88
6	7	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	20.97
7	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.11
8	8	René Metz	France	21.32

References

1. "Zweite Plätze für Schiitenhelm und Karst" [Second places for Schiitenhelm und Karst]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 34/1973: 1202–1204. 21 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 35/1973: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
3. Results at Tilastopaja
4. Year list
7. Soviet results (p32)
8. "Alle Schweizer vorzeitig ausgeschieden" (in German). Brig Glis Walliser Volksfreund. 20 August 1973. p. 8. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
9. "Die Universiade" (in German). Brig Glis Walliser Bote. 21 August 1973. p. 5. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
10. "Semifinals results". The Boston Globe. 20 August 1973. p. 25. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
11. "Final results". The Central New Jersey Home News. 21 August 1973. p. 18. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
12. "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 1973. p. 43. Retrieved 8 April 2020.