The men's 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games

1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

took place between July 22 and July 23. The final was won by American

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 Andy Stanfield

Andy Stanfield

Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...

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Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the eighteen heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff		21.72
2	Étienne Bally Étienne Bally Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...		22.03
3	Adolf Turakainen		22.55
4	Hörður Haraldsson		22.56

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Thane Baker Thane Baker Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...		21.62
2	Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze was a Georgian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Boris Tokarev, Levan Kalyayev and Vladimir Sukharev....		22.26
3	Stefanos Petrakis		22.64
4	Willy Eichenberger		22.98

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Don McFarlane Don McFarlane Don McFarlane was a Canadian sprinter.-Life:While at Burlington High School Don played as a half-back on both the Junior and Senior Football teams and was a member of the 1948 Championship senior team...		22.94
2	Roman Budzyński		23.37

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...		21.98
2	Nick Stacey		22.07
3	Fernand Linssen		22.37
4	Edward Ajado		22.92

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Theo Saat		22.17
2	Werner Zandt		22.23
3	Juan Leiva		22.38
4	Fawzi Chaaban		22.90
5	Eugénio Eleutério		23.37

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Tabak		22.60
2	Marcel Gerdil		22.71

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andy Stanfield Andy Stanfield Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...		22.00
2	Zdobysław Stawczyk		22.22
3	Enrique Beckles		22.73
4	Youssef Ali Omar		23.26
5	Adulya Vanastit		23.50

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Sukharev		22.08
2	Angel García Ángel García Ángel Luis García García is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. García began playing basketball in his native municipality, before moving to Illinois, where he joined East Chicago in high school...		22.14
3	Hans Wehrli		22.35
4	Pauli Tavisalo		22.45
5	Abdul Aziz		23.02

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Václav Janeček		21.99
2	Peter Kraus Peter Kraus Peter Kraus is a German singer and actor.Born Peter Siegfried Krausenecker in Munich, Kraus was popular especially in the 1950s, notably in those musical comedy films where he played opposite Cornelia Froboess.- Youth :...		22.06
3	Muhammad Aslam Muhammad Aslam Sardar Muhammad Aslam Baggra was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as back....		22.14
4	Fred Hammer		22.63

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brian Shenton Brian Shenton Brian Shenton was a track and field sprinter. Born in Doncaster from a working class background, he was a member of the Doncaster Plant Works Athletic Club, later having a successful career in the City and reaching the position of Chairman of Noble Lowndes...		22.12
2	Voitto Hellstén Voitto Hellstén Voitto Valdemar Hellsten was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.He competed for Finland in three Summer Olympics, in 1952, 1956 and 1960...		22.41
3	Roby Schaeffer		22.76
4	Vasilios Sillis		22.88

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Schalk Booysen		22.03
2	Gerard Mach		22.16
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt		22.34
4	Ásmundur Bjarnason		22.51
5	Walter Sutton Walter Sutton Walter Stanborough Sutton was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms...		22.53

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jim Gathers		21.42
2	Tomio Hosoda		22.36
3	Henry Brault		22.48
4	Luigi Grossi		22.49
5	Muslim Arogundade		22.71

Heat thirteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey		21.66
2	Miroslav Horčic		22.52
3	Giorgio Sobrero		22.66
4	Ernst Mühlethaler		23.26
5	Eom Par-Yong		23.41

Heat fourteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rafiu Oluwa		22.89
2	Boonterm Pakpuang		24.15

Heat fifteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Les Laing Les Laing Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...		21.97
2	Paul Dolan Paul Dolan Kenneth Paul Dolan is a former Canadian national team and Canadian Soccer League goalkeeper.-Club career:...		22.04
3	František Brož František Brož František Brož was a Czech violist, composer, conductor and music educator.-Biography:Brož studied violin at the Prague Conservatory with Jindřich Baštař. He later studied composition with Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák, and conducting under Otakar Ostrčil and Václav Talich...		22.35
4	Fernando Casimiro		22.72
5	José Julio Barillas		22.88

Heat sixteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Raúl Mazorra		22.52
2	Robert Hutchinson		22.66
3	Emad El-Din Shafei		22.75
4	Aroon Sankosik		23.64

Heat Seventeen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edwin Carr, Jr.		22.19
2	Angel Kolev		22.24

Heat eighteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Treloar		21.75
2	Lavy Pinto		21.83
3	Péter Karádi		22.24
4	Lucio Sangermano		22.38

Quarterfinals

The fastest two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jim Gathers		21.64
2	Lavy Pinto		21.80
3	Theo Saat		21.87
4	Zdobysław Stawczyk		22.12
5	Miroslav Horčic		22.44
6	Raúl Mazorra		31.00

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Thane Baker Thane Baker Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...		21.64
2	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...		21.98
3	Paul Dolan Paul Dolan Kenneth Paul Dolan is a former Canadian national team and Canadian Soccer League goalkeeper.-Club career:...		22.15
4	Peter Kraus Peter Kraus Peter Kraus is a German singer and actor.Born Peter Siegfried Krausenecker in Munich, Kraus was popular especially in the 1950s, notably in those musical comedy films where he played opposite Cornelia Froboess.- Youth :...		22.19
5	Voitto Hellstén Voitto Hellstén Voitto Valdemar Hellsten was a Finnish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.He competed for Finland in three Summer Olympics, in 1952, 1956 and 1960...		22.61
6	Rafiu Oluwa		22.69

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey		21.27
2	Václav Janeček		21.93
3	Edwin Carr, Jr.		21.98
4	Schalk Booysen		22.09
5	Marcel Gerdil		22.37
6	Robert Hutchinson		22.55

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff		21.67
2	Nick Stacey		21.79
3	Angel Kolev		22.07
4	Angel García Ángel García Ángel Luis García García is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. García began playing basketball in his native municipality, before moving to Illinois, where he joined East Chicago in high school...		22.11
5	David Tabak		22.34
6	Roman Budzyński		22.51

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andy Stanfield Andy Stanfield Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...		21.21
2	Les Laing Les Laing Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...		21.74
3	Étienne Bally Étienne Bally Étienne Marcel Bally is a retired French sprinter and a former European champion over 100 metres.Bally's first major competition was the 1946 European Championships held in Oslo, where he finished fourth in the final of the 100 metres—his time was equal to that of the bronze medalist, Carlo...		22.02
4	Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze Levan Sanadze was a Georgian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for the USSR in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Boris Tokarev, Levan Kalyayev and Vladimir Sukharev....		22.26
5	Don McFarlane Don McFarlane Don McFarlane was a Canadian sprinter.-Life:While at Burlington High School Don played as a half-back on both the Junior and Senior Football teams and was a member of the 1948 Championship senior team...		22.33

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Treloar		21.86
2	Werner Zandt		21.87
3	Vladimir Sukharev		21.88
4	Gerard Mach		22.12
5	Brian Shenton Brian Shenton Brian Shenton was a track and field sprinter. Born in Doncaster from a working class background, he was a member of the Doncaster Plant Works Athletic Club, later having a successful career in the City and reaching the position of Chairman of Noble Lowndes...		22.24
6	Tomio Hosoda		22.49

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andy Stanfield Andy Stanfield Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...		21.23
2	Jim Gathers		21.58
3	Les Laing Les Laing Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...		21.80
4	Werner Zandt		21.92
5	Nick Stacey		21.95
6	Václav Janeček		22.12

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey		21.46
2	Thane Baker Thane Baker Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...		21.50
3	Gerardo Bönnhoff		21.75
4	Rafael Fortún Rafael Fortún Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...		21.93
5	Lavy Pinto		22.01
-	John Treloar			DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Andy Stanfield Andy Stanfield Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.-Biography:...		20.81	OR
	Thane Baker Thane Baker Walter Thane Baker is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds. At those Olympics Baker also won a silver medal in the 100-meter and a bronze in the 200-meter...		20.97
	Jim Gathers		21.08
4	McDonald Bailey		21.14
5	Les Laing Les Laing Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...		21.45
6	Gerardo Bönnhoff		21.59

Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = Did not finish