2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympiastadion on 18 and 19 August.^[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympiastadion
Location	Munich
Dates	18 August (round 1 and semifinals) 19 August (final)
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Winning time	20.07
Medalists
Zharnel Hughes    Great Britain   Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake    Great Britain   Filippo Tortu    Italy
← 2018 2024 →

Records

Standing records prior to the 2022 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	Ramil Guliyev (TUR)	19.76	Berlin, Germany	9 August 2018
World Leading	Noah Lyles (USA)	19.31[4]	Eugene, Oregon, United States	21 July 2022
Europe Leading	Blessing Afrifah (ISR)	19.96 [5]	Cali, Colombia	4 August 2022

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
18 August 2022	12:30	Round 1
18 August 2022	20:13	Semifinals
19 August 2022	21:20	Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals. The 12 highest ranked athletes received a bye into the semi-finals.^[6]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	20.48	Q
2	6	Łukasz Żok	Poland	20.78	Q
3	5	Jan Jirka	Czech Republic	20.84	Q
4	7	Mathias Hove Johansen	Norway	20.89
5	2	Robin Vanderbemden	Belgium	20.90
6	3	Panayiotis Trivizas	Greece	21.00
7	4	Marcus Lawler	Ireland	21.10
8	1	Robin Erewa	Germany	21.12
				Wind: -1.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.46	Q, SB
2	2	William Reais	Switzerland	20.66	Q, SB
3	4	Gediminas Truskauskas	Lithuania	20.67	Q
4	3	Samuel Purola	Finland	20.77	q
5	6	Tazana Kamanga-Dyrbak	Denmark	20.88
6	1	Tamás Máté	Hungary	20.94
7	5	Eduard Kubelík	Czech Republic	21.25
8	7	Jerai Torres	Gibraltar	22.70
				Wind: -0.6 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	Ján Volko	Slovakia	20.48	Q, SB
2	5	Diego Aldo Pettorossi	Italy	20.65	Q
3	4	Daniel Rodríguez	Spain	20.80	Q
4	3	Patryk Wykrota	Poland	20.81	q
5	6	Simon Hansen	Denmark	20.81	q
6	2	Felix Svensson	Switzerland	20.90
7	7	Jiří Polák	Czech Republic	20.94
				Wind: +0.3 m/s

Semi-finals

The twelve qualifiers from round 1 are joined by the twelve highest ranked athletes who received a bye.

First 2 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.^[7]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.19	Q
2	6	Joshua Hartmann	Germany	20.33	Q, PB
3	4	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.34	q
4	8	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.48
5	2	Jan Jirka	Czech Republic	20.80
6	3	Mouhamadou Fall	France	20.83
7	1	Łukasz Żok	Poland	20.93
–	7	Simon Hansen	Denmark	DNS
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Charlie Dobson	Great Britain	20.21	Q
2	6	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.44	Q
3	5	Méba-Mickaël Zeze	France	20.47
4	3	Owen Ansah	Germany	20.48
5	7	Diego Aldo Pettorossi	Italy	20.75
6	1	Daniel Rodríguez	Spain	20.75
7	8	Samuel Purola	Finland	20.83
8	2	Gediminas Truskauskas	Lithuania	21.05
				Wind: +0.4 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Filippo Tortu	Italy	20.29	Q
2	4	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.34	Q
3	6	Pol Retamal	Spain	20.38	q
4	8	Ján Volko	Slovakia	20.39	SB
5	7	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	20.44	SB
6	3	Ryan Zeze	France	20.58
7	2	William Reais	Switzerland	20.82
8	1	Patryk Wykrota	Poland	22.84
				Wind: -0.1 m/s

Final

Olympiastadion - 19 Aug - 21:20^[8]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	3	Zharnel Hughes	Great Britain	20.07	SB
	7	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	Great Britain	20.17
	6	Filippo Tortu	Italy	20.27
4	5	Charlie Dobson	Great Britain	20.34
5	4	Joshua Hartmann	Germany	20.50
6	2	Pol Retamal	Spain	20.63
7	1	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.69
–	8	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	DNF
				Wind: -0.3 m/s