2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Location	Barcelona
Dates	29 July (heats & semi-finals) 30 July (final)
Competitors	32 from 21 nations
Winning time	20.37
Medalists
Christophe Lemaitre   France   Christian Malcolm   Great Britain   Martial Mbandjock   France

The men's 200 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 29 and 30 July.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European record	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Championship record	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	19.85	Munich, Germany	9 August 2002
World Leading	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.56	Kingston, Jamaica	1 May 2010
European Leading	Christophe Lemaître (FRA)	20.16	Valence, France	10 July 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
29 July 2010	11:30	Round 1
29 July 2010	19:55	Semi-finals
30 July 2010	19:25	Final

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.63	Q
2	3	Kamil Kryński	Poland (POL)	20.81	Q, =PB
3	4	Martial Mbandjock	France (FRA)	20.83	Q
4	5	Ihor Bodrov	Ukraine (UKR)	20.98
5	8	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic (CZE)	21.02
6	7	Jan Žumer	Slovenia (SLO)	21.17
7	2	Izzet Safer	Turkey (TUR)	21.41
8	1	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria (BUL)	21.65
				Wind: -1.6 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Christophe Lemaitre	France (FRA)	20.64	Q
2	8	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal (POR)	20.87	Q
3	2	Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.93	Q
4	4	Daniel Schnelting	Germany (GER)	20.98
5	6	Petr Szetei	Czech Republic (CZE)	21.06
6	1	Ryan Moseley	Austria (AUT)	21.07
7	5	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia (SLO)	21.36	=SB
8	3	Alex Wilson	Switzerland (SUI)	21.40
				Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway (NOR)	20.60	Q
2	5	David Alerte	France (FRA)	20.70	Q
3	4	Johan Wissman	Sweden (SWE)	20.79	Q
4	7	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland (SUI)	20.80	q
5	8	Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	Russia (RUS)	20.95	q, PB
6	1	Matteo Galvan	Italy (ITA)	20.96
7	3	Steven Colvert	Ireland (IRL)	21.14
8	6	Piotr Wiaderek	Poland (POL)	21.20
				Wind: -0.6 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.68	Q, =SB
2	5	Paul Hession	Ireland (IRL)	20.69	Q
3	6	Sebastian Ernst	Germany (GER)	20.72	Q
4	7	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece (GRE)	20.74	q
5	1	Jonathan Åstrand	Finland (FIN)	20.78	q, PB
6	4	Dmitriy Glushchenko	Israel (ISR)	21.09
7	8	Gregor Kokalovic	Slovenia (SLO)	21.24
–	3	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal (POR)	DNS
				Wind: +0.2 m/s

Semi-finals

First 3 in each heat and 2 best performers advance to the Final.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway (NOR)	20.50	Q
2	3	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.55	Q, SB
3	8	Martial Mbandjock	France (FRA)	20.62	Q
4	5	Paul Hession	Ireland (IRL)	20.67	q
5	2	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece (GRE)	20.75	q
6	1	Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	Russia (RUS)	20.88	PB
7	6	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal (POR)	20.88
8	7	Sebastian Ernst	Germany (GER)	20.95
				Wind: +1.2 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	6	Christophe Lemaitre	France (FRA)	20.39	Q
2	5	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.58	Q
3	4	David Alerte	France (FRA)	20.59	Q
4	8	Johan Wissman	Sweden (SWE)	20.77
5	3	Kamil Kryński	Poland (POL)	20.81	=PB
6	1	Jonathan Åstrand	Finland (FIN)	20.81
7	2	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland (SUI)	20.82
8	7	Jeffrey Lawal-Balogun	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.85
				Wind: +0.8 m/s

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Christophe Lemaitre	France (FRA)	20.37
	6	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.38	SB
	8	Martial Mbandjock	France (FRA)	20.42
4	3	Marlon Devonish	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.62
5	4	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway (NOR)	20.63
6	2	Paul Hession	Ireland (IRL)	20.71
7	1	Likoúrgos-Stéfanos Tsákonas	Greece (GRE)	20.90
8	7	David Alerte	France (FRA)	1:27.24
				Wind: -0.8 m/s

References

• Results
• Full results