1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 29 and 30 July.

Medalists

Gold	Kevin Braunskill United States
Silver	Olapade Adeniken Nigeria
Bronze	Dmitriy Bartenyev Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 July
Wind: +4.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kevin Braunskill	United States	20.87 w
	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	20.88 w
	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	20.92 w
4	Christopher Barnes	United States	20.99 w
5	Sven Matthes	East Germany	21.00 w
6	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	21.12 w
7	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.16 w
8	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.23 w

Semifinals

29 July

Semifinal 1

Wind: +2.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	20.83 w	Q
2	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	20.92 w	Q
3	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.08 w	q
4	Masahiro Nagura	Japan	21.39 w
5	Dean Capobianco	Australia	21.57 w
6	Maurizio Federici	Italy	21.60 w
7	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.74 w
8	Rodrigue Ceryl	France	21.75 w

Semifinal 2

Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.02	Q
2	Kevin Braunskill	United States	21.04	Q
3	Mark Garner	Australia	21.21
4	Victor Nwankwo	Nigeria	21.38
5	Didac Mañas	Spain	21.66
6	Johan Pierre	Canada	21.68
7	Fabien Muyaba	Zimbabwe	21.77
8	Wolfgang Montag	West Germany	21.97

Semifinal 3

Wind: +3.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Matthes	East Germany	20.81 w	Q
2	Christopher Barnes	United States	20.90 w	Q
3	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	20.98 w	q
4	Brad McCuaig	Canada	21.37 w
5	Lloyd Stapleton	United Kingdom	21.49 w
6	Roman Reiter	West Germany	21.60 w
7	Yoshihiro Kato	Japan	21.61 w
8	Maurizio De Masi	Italy	21.78 w

Heats

29 July

Heat 1

Wind: +1.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Masahiro Nagura	Japan	21.40	Q
2	Brad McCuaig	Canada	21.47	Q
3	Roman Reiter	West Germany	21.63	q
4	Jimmy Stafford	Trinidad and Tobago	21.95
5	Ally Nyonyi	Tanzania	22.38
6	William Archer	British Virgin Islands	22.76
7	Mohamed Abdulghani	Bangladesh	23.10
	Liu Yao	China	DQ

Heat 2

Wind: +1.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dean Capobianco	Australia	21.67	Q
2	Didac Mañas	Spain	21.73	Q
3	Milan Petaković	Yugoslavia	22.09
4	Yehuda Moreli	Israel	22.54
5	Paul Young	Western Samoa	24.02
	Óscar Fernández	Peru	DQ
	Francis Amuzu	Ghana	DQ

Heat 3

Wind: +1.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Goremykin	Soviet Union	21.06	Q
2	Rodrigue Ceryl	France	21.60	Q
3	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.60	q
4	Leonardo Prevot	Cuba	21.92

Heat 4

Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Braunskill	United States	21.03	Q
2	Lloyd Stapleton	United Kingdom	21.53	Q
3	Wolfgang Montag	West Germany	21.66	q
4	Joseph Dias	Senegal	21.91
5	José Hernández	Puerto Rico	22.43
6	Jorge Castellón	Bolivia	22.50
	Robert Loua	Guinea	DQ

Heat 5

Wind: +0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Bartenyev	Soviet Union	21.11	Q
2	Mark Garner	Australia	21.16	Q
3	Johan Pierre	Canada	21.49	q
4	Maurizio Federici	Italy	21.67	q
5	Aurelio Mancheno	Ecuador	22.19
6	Henry Sebbale	Uganda	22.75
	Francisco Brenes	Costa Rica	DQ

Heat 6

Wind: +2.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Victor Nwankwo	Nigeria	21.40 w	Q
2	Maurizio De Masi	Italy	21.99 w	Q
3	Joel Otim-Bua	Uganda	22.32 w
4	Sriyantha Dissanayake	Sri Lanka	22.87 w
5	Alfredo Trujillo	Honduras	23.90 w
	Leif Jonsson	Sweden	DQ

Heat 7

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Matthes	East Germany	21.19	Q
2	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	21.26	Q
3	Fabien Muyaba	Zimbabwe	21.62	q
	Dennis Mowatt	Jamaica	DQ
	Ebenezer Lawson	Ghana	DQ

Heat 8

Wind: +2.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olapade Adeniken	Nigeria	21.13 w	Q
2	Christopher Barnes	United States	21.16 w	Q
3	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	21.34 w	q
4	Yoshihiro Kato	Japan	21.63 w	q

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.

• Australia (2)
• Bangladesh (1)
• Bolivia (1)
• British Virgin Islands (1)
• Canada (2)
• China (1)
• Costa Rica (1)
• Cuba (1)
• East Germany (1)
• Ecuador (1)
• France (1)
• Ghana (2)
• Guinea (1)
• Honduras (1)
• Hungary (1)
• Israel (1)
• Italy (2)
• Jamaica (1)
• Japan (2)
• Nigeria (2)
• Peru (1)
• Puerto Rico (1)
• Senegal (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (1)
• Sri Lanka (1)
• Sweden (2)
• Tanzania (1)
• Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• Uganda (2)
• United Kingdom (1)
• United States (2)
• West Germany (2)
• Western Samoa (1)
• Yugoslavia (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)