2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Espoo, Finland, at Leppävaara Stadium on 15 and 16 July.^[1]

Men's 200 metres at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships
Venue	Leppävaara Stadium
Location	Espoo, Finland
Dates	15 July (heats & semi-final) 16 July (final)
Competitors	40 from 24 nations
Winning time	20.67
Medalists
Blessing Afrifah    Israel   Raphael Bouju    Netherlands   Timothé Mumenthaler     Switzerland
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Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

European U23 record	Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)	19.80	Daegu, South Korea	3 September 2011
Championship U23 record	Ján Volko (SVK)	20.33	Bydgoszcz, Poland	15 July 2017

Results

Heats

First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	20.83	Q
2	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	20.97	Q
3	Igor Bogaczyński [de; es]	Poland	21.13	q
4	Jacopo Albertin	Italy	21.23
5	Linus Pihl	Sweden	21.27
6	Jordan Jalce	France	21.31
7	Simon Graf	Switzerland	21.46
8	Anthony Smith	Turkey	21.67
[2]			Wind: (+0.4 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	20.95	Q, SB
2	Bradley Lestrade [de; no]	Switzerland	21.07	Q
3	James Hanson	Great Britain	21.12	q
4	Hugo Cerra	France	21.12	q
5	Vasilios Mirianthopoulos [de; no]	Greece	21.21
6	Oğuz Uyar [de]	Turkey	21.44
7	Jakub Nemec	Slovakia	21.58
8	Beppe Grillo [de; it]	Malta	21.72
[2]			Wind: (+0.1 m/s)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	20.84	Q
2	Ioannis Kariofyllis [de; no]	Greece	20.84	Q, PB
3	Edoardo Luraschi	Italy	21.10	q, PB
4	Valtteri Louko [fi]	Finland	21.26	PB
5	Oskars Grava [de; lv; no]	Latvia	21.28
6	Robin Ganter	Germany	21.32
7	Mikkel Linnemand Johansson	Denmark	21.68
—	Jaime Sancho	Spain	DNS
[2]			Wind: (+0.1 m/s)

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marco Ricci [de; es; it]	Italy	20.98	Q
2	Marcin Karolewski	Poland	21.29	Q
3	Eduard Kubelík	Czech Republic	21.32
4	Jehan Anicet	France	21.51
5	Robin Sapar	Estonia	21.58
6	Kenny Emi Tijani-Ajayi [no]	Norway	21.63
7	Aviv Koffler	Israel	21.69
—	Felix Frühn	Germany	DQ	TR 17.3.1
[2]			Wind: (+2.7 m/s)

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.65	Q
2	Łukasz Żok [de; no; pl]	Poland	20.74	Q
3	Simon Wulff [es]	Germany	21.05	q
4	Andrej Skočir [de; no]	Slovenia	21.12	q
5	Colin Doyle	Ireland	21.15
6	Gabriel Maia	Portugal	21.33
7	Kristupas Seikauskas [de]	Lithuania	22.07
—	Ioannis Granitsiotis [de]	Greece	DQ	TR 16.8
[2]			Wind: (+2.3 m/s)

Semi-finals

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	21.14	Q
2	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	21.21	Q
3	Marco Ricci [de; es; it]	Italy	21.28	Q
4	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	21.37	q
5	James Hanson	Great Britain	21.37
6	Edoardo Luraschi	Italy	21.46
7	Bradley Lestrade [de; no]	Switzerland	21.47
8	Igor Bogaczyński [de; es]	Poland	25.85
[3]			Wind: (−3.2 m/s)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	21.07	Q, SB
2	Łukasz Żok [de; no; pl]	Poland	21.28	Q
3	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	21.29	Q
4	Ioannis Kariofyllis [de; no]	Greece	21.29	q
5	Hugo Cerra	France	21.38
6	Simon Wulff [es]	Germany	21.43
7	Andrej Skočir [de; no]	Slovenia	21.65
8	Marcin Karolewski	Poland	21.94
[3]			Wind: (−3.3 m/s)

Final

Place	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	6	Blessing Afrifah	Israel	20.67
	5	Raphael Bouju	Netherlands	20.68
	4	Timothé Mumenthaler	Switzerland	20.85
4	3	Marco Ricci [de; es; it]	Italy	20.96
5	1	Ioannis Kariofyllis [de; no]	Greece	20.98
6	8	Łukasz Żok [de; no; pl]	Poland	21.05
7	2	Ondřej Macík	Czech Republic	21.35
8	7	Xavi Mo-Ajok	Netherlands	1:11.18
[4]				Wind: (−1.1 m/s)