2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres explained

The men's 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on August 9 and August 10. Obikwelu completed the sprinters' double, leading comfortably out of the last curve and continuing all the way to the finish. Wissman took silver in a time level with the national record. Devonish faded in the end and just managed to hold on to third in front of Belgian Kristof Beyens..

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 9, 2006	11:10	Round 1
August 9, 2006	19:35	Quarter-finals
August 10, 2006	19:15	Semi-finals
August 10, 2006	20:45	Final

Results

Round 1

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the Quarter-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	David Alerte		20.58
2	Kristof Beyens		20.61	,
3	Ruslan Abbasov		20.86	,
4	Morten Jensen		20.94
5	Panagiotis Sarris		20.99
6	Koura Kaba Fantoni		21.14
7	Marco Cribari		21.16
			Wind: +1.7 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marlon Devonish		20.53	,
2	Sebastian Ernst		20.67	,
3	Eddy De Lépine		20.70	,
4	Paul Brizzel		20.84	,
5	Marcin Urbaś		20.87
6	Dmytro Hlushchenko		21.00
7	Tommi Hartonen		21.22
			Wind: +1.8 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ivan Teplykh		20.71	,
2	Yordan Ilinov		20.80
3	Rikki Fifton		21.02
4	Stefano Anceschi		21.04
5	align=left	Patrick van Luijk	align=left		21.05
6	align=left	Johan Engberg	align=left		21.12
7	align=left	Ronald Pognon	align=left
			Wind: +0.5 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anastasios Gousis		20.64
2	Paul Hession		20.81
3	Alessandro Cavallaro		20.82	,
4	Caimin Douglas		20.97
5	Marc Schneeberger		21.06
6	Vojtěch Šulc		21.07
			Wind: -0.5 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Francis Obikwelu		20.78
2	Roman Smirnov		20.92
3	Guus Hoogmoed		20.93
4	Tim Abeyie		21.03
5	Josué Mena		21.09
6	Jan Schiller		21.12
7	Gary Ryan		21.14
			Wind: -1.1 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Johan Wissman		20.66
2	Matic Osovnikar		20.90
3	Daniel Schnelting		20.90	,
4	Jiří Vojtík		20.91
5	Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé		20.93
6	Florin Suciu		21.10
7	Josip Šoprek		21.55
			Wind: +0.4 m/s

Quarter-finals

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) advance to the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Marlon Devonish		20.67
2	Sebastian Ernst		20.71
3	Yordan Ilinov		20.76
4	Guus Hoogmoed		20.76
5	Roman Smirnov		20.93
6	Panagiotis Sarris		21.04
7	Marcin Urbaś		21.39
	Stefano Anceschi
			Wind: +0.6 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	David Alerte		20.68
2	Kristof Beyens		20.70
3	Paul Hession		20.80
4	Jiří Vojtík		20.90
5	Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé		20.96
6	Ruslan Abbasov		20.98
7	Tim Abeyie		21.17
	Marc Schneeberger
			Wind: -0.1 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Johan Wissman		20.68
2	Rikki Fifton		20.73
3	Ivan Teplykh		20.82
4	Eddy De Lépine		21.00
5	Dmytro Hlushchenko		21.07
6	Patrick van Luijk		21.46
7	Morten Jensen		21.56
	Daniel Schnelting
			Wind: -0.5 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Francis Obikwelu		20.58
2	Anastasios Gousis		20.68
3	Matic Osovnikar		20.85
4	Alessandro Cavallaro		20.91
5	Josué Mena		21.09
6	Caimin Douglas		21.18
7	Vojtěch Šulc		21.21
	Paul Brizzel
			Wind: -0.7 m/s

Semi-finals

First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified (Q) for the Final.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	align=left			20.36
2	6	align=left			20.38	,
3	7	align=left			20.70	,
4	5	align=left			20.76
5	8	align=left			20.80
6	4	align=left			20.85
7	2	align=left			21.00
8	1	align=left			21.08

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	align=left			20.60
2	3	align=left			20.62
3	5	align=left			20.69
4	1	align=left			20.82
5	7	align=left			20.83
6	6	align=left			21.04
7	2	align=left			21.09
8	8	align=left			21.19

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	align=left			20.01	,
	4	align=left			20.38	=
	3	align=left			20.54
4	6	align=left			20.57
5	1	align=left			20.76
6	7	align=left			20.77
7	2	align=left			20.93
8	8	align=left			20.94

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