2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 8 July.^[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	July 7 (round 1) July 8 (semi-finals & final)
Competitors	34 from 22 nations
Winning time	20.45
Medalists
Bruno Hortelano    Spain   Ramil Guliyev    Turkey   Daniel Talbot    Great Britain
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Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19[2]	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European record	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72[3]	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Championship record	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	19.85	Munich, Germany	9 August 2002
World Leading	LaShawn Merritt (USA)	19.78[4]	Nassau, The Bahamas	16 April 2016
European Leading	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (GBR)	19.95[5]	Tuscaloosa, United States	14 May 2016

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
7 July 2016	11:20	Round 1
8 July 2016	18:50	Semi-finals
8 July 2016	20:35	Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Round 1

First 3 (Q) and next 5 fastest (q) qualify for the semi-finals.^[6]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.55	Q
2	8	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.69	Q
3	5	Mickaël-Meba Zézé	France	20.84	Q
4	6	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.96	q
5	3	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	21.06	q
6	4	Ionut Andrei Neagoe	Romania	21.18
7	2	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	21.21
8	1	Samuli Samuelsson	Finland	21.36
				Wind: -1.1 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.80	Q
2	8	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.82	Q
3	1	Ján Volko	Slovakia	21.00	Q
4	6	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	21.04	q
5	5	Robin Erewa	Germany	21.05	q
6	7	Vitaliy Korzh	Ukraine	21.49
7	3	Marek Niit	Estonia	21.93
8	2	Mikel de Sa	Andorra	22.74
				Wind: -1.2 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.55	Q
2	5	David Lima	Portugal	20.82	Q
3	8	Antonio Infantino	Italy	20.99	Q
4	3	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	21.06	q
5	1	Igor Bodrov	Ukraine	21.13
6	4	Robin Vanderbemden	Belgium	21.17
7	7	Silvan Wicki	Switzerland	21.41
8	6	Gábor Pásztor	Hungary	21.60
				Wind: -0.1 m/s

Semi-finals

First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.^[7]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Ramil Guliyev*	Turkey	20.69	Q
2	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.71	Q
3	3	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure*	Norway	20.92
4	6	Eseosa Desalu*	Italy	20.94
5	4	Aleixo Platini Menga*	Germany	21.06
6	2	Ján Volko	Slovakia	21.28
7	1	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	21.33
8	8	Hensley Paulina	Netherlands	23.49
				Wind: -1.7 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Danny Talbot*	Great Britain	20.37	Q, SB
2	3	Churandy Martina*	Netherlands	20.44	Q
3	5	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.46	q
4	7	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.69
5	8	Mickaël-Meba Zézé	France	20.81
6	6	Julian Reus*	Germany	20.83
7	2	David Lima	Portugal	20.86
–	1	Johan Wissman	Sweden	DNF
				Wind: -0.1 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.39	Q, NR
2	6	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.39	Q, PB
3	3	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake*	Great Britain	20.46	q
4	5	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas*	Greece	20.48
5	4	Serhiy Smelyk*	Ukraine	20.76
6	8	Antonio Infantino	Italy	20.93
7	1	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.98
8	2	Tom Kling-Baptiste	Sweden	21.34
				Wind: -1.1 m/s

*Athletes who received a bye to the semi-finals^[8]

Final

The start of the final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	6	Bruno Hortelano	Spain	20.45
	3	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.51
	5	Danny Talbot	Great Britain	20.56
4	4	Solomon Bockarie	Netherlands	20.56
5	1	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.60
6	2	Davide Manenti	Italy	20.66
7	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.70
–	8	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	DQ	R163.3a[9]
				Wind: -0.9 m/s

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