1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 31 July and 1 August.^[1]^[2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Christian Malcolm United Kingdom
Silver	Jairo Duzant Netherlands Antilles
Bronze	United States

Results[]

Final[]

1 August
Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.44
	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	20.92
		United States	20.94
4		Jamaica	20.99
5		Australia	21.00
6		Jamaica	21.02
7	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.08
8		Germany	21.39

Semifinals[]

1 August

Semifinal 1[]

Wind: -0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	20.92	Q
2	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.01	Q
3		Jamaica	21.16	Q
4		Germany	21.29	Q
5		South Africa	21.38
6	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.59
7	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.88
8	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.88

Semifinal 2[]

Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.62	Q
2	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	20.97	Q
3		Australia	21.05	Q
4		Jamaica	21.07	Q
5		United States	21.24
6		New Zealand	21.32
7		South Africa	21.45
8		Japan	21.89

Quarterfinals[]

31 July

Quarterfinal 1[]

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Jamaica	21.00	Q
2		Australia	21.14	Q
3		United States	21.53	Q
4	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.54	Q
5		France	21.56
6		Hungary	21.57
7	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.58
		Colombia	DNS

Quarterfinal 2[]

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	20.79	Q
2		Jamaica	21.07	Q
3	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.22	Q
4	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.31	Q
5	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.81
6		France	21.87
7		Japan	22.19
		Germany	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Quarterfinal 3[]

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.85	Q
2		New Zealand	21.26	Q
3		Japan	21.31	Q
4		South Africa	21.36	Q
5		Greece	21.48
6		Sweden	21.78
7		Spain	21.79
8		Australia	21.88

Quarterfinal 4[]

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.07	Q
2		Germany	21.27	Q
3	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.29	Q
4		South Africa	21.38	Q
5	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.40
6		Slovenia	21.66
7	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76
8		Gambia	22.51

Heats[]

31 July

Heat 1[]

Wind: +0.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Jamaica	21.32	Q
2		Japan	21.32	Q
3		Hungary	21.59	Q
4	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.77	Q
5	Nelson Lucas	Seychelles	22.14
6		Saint Kitts and Nevis	22.46
		Italy	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 2[]

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.25	Q
2		Germany	21.33	Q
3	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.52	Q
4		Slovenia	21.57	Q
5	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.59	q
6		Australia	21.79	q
7		Fiji	22.24
8		Liberia	23.41

Heat 3[]

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Australia	21.23	Q
2	Jamaica	21.34	Q
3	France	21.51	Q
4	Germany	21.56	Q
5	Japan	21.92	q
6	Belgium	21.97
7	Norfolk Island	23.61
8	Congo	23.66

Heat 4[]

Wind: +0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.10	Q
2		South Africa	21.25	Q
3		New Zealand	21.26	Q
4		Colombia	22.15	Q
5		Grenada	22.51
6	Xu Zizhou	China	22.69
7		Yemen	23.80
8	Philam Garcia	Guam	25.11

Heat 5[]

Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	20.97	Q
2		South Africa	21.43	Q
3	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.58	Q
4		Spain	21.69	Q
5	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76	q
6		Austria	22.11
7		Equatorial Guinea	23.80

Heat 6[]

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.73	Q
2		France	21.36	Q
3		Sweden	21.44	Q
4		Gambia	21.89	Q
5		Tunisia	21.94
6		Poland	22.00
7		Uganda	22.34

Heat 7[]

Wind: +1.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		United States	21.16	Q
2	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.19	Q
3	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.25	Q
4		Greece	21.61	Q
5	Isaac Yaya	Tahiti	22.64
		U.S. Virgin Islands	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 51 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.

Australia (2)
Austria (1)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (1)
China (1)
Colombia (1)
Congo (1)
Equatorial Guinea (1)
Fiji (1)
France (2)
Gambia (1)
Germany (2)
Greece (1)
Grenada (1)
Guam (1)
Hong Kong (1)
Hungary (1)
Italy (2)
Jamaica (2)
Japan (2)
Liberia (1)
Namibia (1)
Netherlands Antilles (1)
New Zealand (2)
Norfolk Island (1)
Poland (1)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
Seychelles (1)
Slovenia (1)
South Africa (2)
Spain (1)
Sweden (1)
Tahiti (1)
Tunisia (1)
Uganda (1)
United Kingdom (2)
United States (2)
Uruguay (1)
U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
Venezuela (1)
Yemen (1)

References[]

^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

[wjah-1] Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015

[iaaf_00-2] IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

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1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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