1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 29 and 30 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Kevin Braunskill  United States
Silver	Olapade Adeniken  Nigeria
Bronze	Dmitriy Bartenyev  Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 July
Wind: +4.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kevin Braunskill	United States	20.87 w
	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	20.88 w
	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	20.92 w
4	Christopher Barnes	United States	20.99 w
5	Sven Matthes	East Germany	21.00 w
6	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	21.12 w
7	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.16 w
8	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.23 w

Semifinals

29 July

Semifinal 1

Wind: +2.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	20.83 w	Q
2	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	20.92 w	Q
3	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.08 w	q
4	Masahiro Nagura	Japan	21.39 w
5	Dean Capobianco	Australia	21.57 w
6	Maurizio Federici	Italy	21.60 w
7	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.74 w
8	Rodrigue Ceryl	France	21.75 w

Semifinal 2

Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.02	Q
2	Kevin Braunskill	United States	21.04	Q
3	Mark Garner	Australia	21.21
4	Victor Nwankwo	Nigeria	21.38
5	Didac Mañas	Spain	21.66
6	Johan Pierre	Canada	21.68
7	Fabien Muyaba	Zimbabwe	21.77
8	Wolfgang Montag	West Germany	21.97

Semifinal 3

Wind: +3.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Matthes	East Germany	20.81 w	Q
2	Christopher Barnes	United States	20.90 w	Q
3	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	20.98 w	q
4	Brad McCuaig	Canada	21.37 w
5	Lloyd Stapleton	United Kingdom	21.49 w
6	Roman Reiter	West Germany	21.60 w
7	Yoshihiro Kato	Japan	21.61 w
8	Maurizio De Masi	Italy	21.78 w

Heats

29 July

Heat 1

Wind: +1.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Masahiro Nagura	Japan	21.40	Q
2	Brad McCuaig	Canada	21.47	Q
3	Roman Reiter	West Germany	21.63	q
4	Jimmy Stafford	Trinidad and Tobago	21.95
5	Ally Nyonyi	Tanzania	22.38
6	William Archer	British Virgin Islands	22.76
7	Mohamed Abdulghani	Bangladesh	23.10
	Liu Yao	China	DQ

Heat 2

Wind: +1.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dean Capobianco	Australia	21.67	Q
2	Didac Mañas	Spain	21.73	Q
3	Milan Petaković	Yugoslavia	22.09
4	Yehuda Moreli	Israel	22.54
5	Paul Young	Western Samoa	24.02
	Óscar Fernández	Peru	DQ
	Francis Amuzu	Ghana	DQ

Heat 3

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	21.06	Q
2	Rodrigue Ceryl	France	21.60	Q
3	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.60	q
4	Leonardo Prevot	Cuba	21.92

Heat 4

Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Braunskill	United States	21.03	Q
2	Lloyd Stapleton	United Kingdom	21.53	Q
3	Wolfgang Montag	West Germany	21.66	q
4	Joseph Dias	Senegal	21.91
5	José Hernández	Puerto Rico	22.43
6	Jorge Castellón	Bolivia	22.50
	Robert Loua	Guinea	DQ

Heat 5

Wind: +0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	21.11	Q
2	Mark Garner	Australia	21.16	Q
3	Johan Pierre	Canada	21.49	q
4	Maurizio Federici	Italy	21.67	q
5	Aurelio Mancheno	Ecuador	22.19
6	Henry Sebbale	Uganda	22.75
	Francisco Brenes	Costa Rica	DQ

Heat 6

Wind: +2.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Victor Nwankwo	Nigeria	21.40 w	Q
2	Maurizio De Masi	Italy	21.99 w	Q
3	Joel Otim-Bua	Uganda	22.32 w
4	Sriyantha Dissanayake	Sri Lanka	22.87 w
5	Alfredo Trujillo	Honduras	23.90 w
	Leif Jonsson	Sweden	DQ

Heat 7

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Matthes	East Germany	21.19	Q
2	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.26	Q
3	Fabien Muyaba	Zimbabwe	21.62	q
	Dennis Mowatt	Jamaica	DQ
	Ebenezer Lawson	Ghana	DQ

Heat 8

Wind: +2.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	21.13 w	Q
2	Christopher Barnes	United States	21.16 w	Q
3	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.34 w	q
4	Yoshihiro Kato	Japan	21.63 w	q

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (2)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Canada (2)
•  China (1)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Cuba (1)
•  East Germany (1)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  France (1)
•  Ghana (2)
•  Guinea (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Nigeria (2)
•  Peru (1)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Senegal (1)
•  Soviet Union (2)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Tanzania (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•  Uganda (2)
•  United Kingdom (1)
•  United States (2)
•  West Germany (2)
• Western Samoa (1)
•  Yugoslavia (1)
•  Zimbabwe (1)