2018 IAAF World U20 Championships – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the 2018 World U20 Championships
Venue	Ratina Stadium
Dates	12 and 13 July
Competitors	40 from 31 nations
Winning time	20.48
Medalists
Jona Efoloko    Great Britain      Great Britain   Eric Harrison    United States
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Events at the 2018 World Championships
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	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
10000 m walk	men	women
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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The men's 200 metres at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Ratina Stadium on 12 and 13 July.^[1]

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Athletics
World Junior Record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.93	Devonshire, Bermuda	11 April 2004
Championship Record	Michael Norman Jr. (USA)	20.17	Bydgoszcz, Poland	22 July 2016
World Junior Leading	Christopher Taylor (JAM)	20.35	Kingston, Jamaica	24 March 2018

Results[]

Heats[]

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[2]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.9 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -0.1 m/s, Heat 5: +0.2 m/s, Heat 6: +0.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	4		Great Britain	20.65	Q, PB
2	3	Jona Efoloko	Great Britain	20.65	Q, PB
3	1		United States	20.70	Q
4	2	Eric Harrison	United States	20.73	Q
5	3		Germany	20.80	Q, PB
6	5		Spain	20.81	Q, NJR
7	5	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	20.88	Q
8	1		Japan	21.04	Q
9	5		Netherlands	21.04	Q, NJR
10	3		Australia	21.04	Q
11	5		Ireland	21.06	Q, PB
12	2	Lorenzo Patta	Italy	21.09	Q, PB
13	2		Japan	21.20	Q
14	3		Czech Republic	21.22	Q
15	1		France	21.23	Q
16	1		Qatar	21.25	Q
17	4		Sweden	21.25	Q
18	2		Zimbabwe	21.28	Q
19	1		Trinidad and Tobago	21.30	q
20	3		Jamaica	21.32	q
21	5		Saudi Arabia	21.33	q
22	1		Spain	21.34	q
23	3		Barbados	21.35
24	4		Poland	21.39	Q
25	4	William Reais	Switzerland	21.41	Q
26	5		Bulgaria	21.43
27	2		Czech Republic	21.53
28	4		Finland	21.57
29	4		South Africa	21.59
30	1		Netherlands Antilles	21.61
31	4		Italy	21.88
32	3		Trinidad and Tobago	21.91
33	3		Montenegro	22.08	NJR
34	5	Jacob El Aida Chaffey	Malta	22.17	PB
35	1		Aruba	22.96
36	2		São Tomé and Príncipe	23.12	PB
	2		British Virgin Islands	DQ
	2	Joel Johnson	Bahamas	DNS
	4		South Korea	DNS
	5	Thando Dlodlo	South Africa	DNS

Semifinal[]

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.^[3]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1		Great Britain	20.53	Q, PB
2	3	Jona Efoloko	Great Britain	20.74	Q
3	2		United States	20.79	Q
4	1		Australia	20.81	Q
5	1	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	20.85	q, PB
6	3	Eric Harrison	United States	20.86	Q
7	2		Spain	20.91	Q
8	1		Germany	20.96	q
9	3		Netherlands	21.10
10	2	Lorenzo Patta	Italy	21.18
11	1		Qatar	21.20
12	3		Japan	21.24
13	1		Japan	21.28
14	2		Sweden	21.30
15	2		Ireland	21.33
16	1		Spain	21.36
17	1		Zimbabwe	21.37
18	2		Poland	21.37
19	3		Czech Republic	21.45
20	2		Trinidad and Tobago	21.48
21	3	William Reais	Switzerland	21.51
22	3		Saudi Arabia	21.58
23	2		Jamaica	21.64
24	3		France	21.72

Final[]

^[4]

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Jona Efoloko	Great Britain	20.48	PB
	4		Great Britain	20.57
	7	Eric Harrison	United States	20.79
4	8		Spain	20.85
5	5		Australia	20.86
6	3		United States	20.87
7	1		Germany	21.07
	2	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	DNS

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