| Final 17:00 | time | | | 1. Owe Jonsson |  SWE | 20.7s | CR | | 2. Marian Foik |  POL | 20.8s | | | 3. Sergio Ottolina |  ITA | 20.8s | | | 4. Jocelyn Delecour |  FRA | 21.0s | | | 5. David Jones |  GBR | 21.0s | | | 6. Heinz Schumann |  FRG | 21.2s | |
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| History Men 200m | | World Record: Radford (GBR), S. Johnson (USA), Norton (USA), Berruti (ITA) 20.5s | | European Record: Radford (GBR), Berruti (ITA) 20.5s |
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Semi-Finals - Saturday 15.09 16:20 | | First 2 progress to Final. |
| Semi 1 | time | | | 1. Owe Jonsson | SWE | 21.0s | Q | | 2. Heinz Schumann | FRG | 21.2s | Q | | 3. Vilém Mandlík |  TCH | 21.5s | | | 4. Paul Genevay | FRA | 21.7s | | | 5. Michael Hildrey | GBR | 21.8s | | | 6. Valeriu Jurcă |  ROU | 22.1s | |
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| Semi 2 | time | | | 1. Marian Foik | POL | 21.1s | Q | | 2. David Jones | GBR | 21.4s | Q | | 3. Klaus Ulonska | FRG | 21.5s | | | 4. Csaba Csutorás |  HUN | 21.5s | | | 5. Armando Sardi | ITA | 21.9s | | | -. László Mihályfi | HUN | DNF | |
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| Semi 3 | time | | | 1. Sergio Ottolina | ITA | 21.0s | Q | | 2. Jocelyn Delecour | FRA | 21.0s | Q | | 3. Manfred Germar | FRG | 21.3s | | | 4. Andrzej Zieliński | POL | 21.5s | | | 5. Edvīns Ozoliņš |  URS | 21.5s | | | 6. Peter Radford | GBR | 21.6s | |
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| Heat 1 | time | | | 1. Paul Genèvay | FRA | 21.1s | Q | | 2. Peter Radford | GBR | 21.3s | Q | | 3. Edvīns Ozoliņš | URS | 21.4s | Q | | 4. Andrzej Karcz | POL | 21.5s | | | -. Livio Berruti | ITA | DNS | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Sergio Ottolina | ITA | 21.0ws | Q | | 2. Michael Hildrey | GBR | 21.4ws | Q | | 3. Manfred Germar | FRG | 21.6ws | Q | | 4. Jean-Louis Descloux |  SUI | 21.7ws | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Marian Foik | POL | 20.9ws | Q | | 2. David Jones | GBR | 20.9ws | Q | | 3. Klaus Ulonska | FRG | 21.3ws | Q | | 4. Amin Tuyakov | URS | 21.8ws | |
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| Heat 4 | time | | | 1. Owe Jonsson | SWE | 20.8s | CR Q | | 2. Jocelyn Delecour | FRA | 20.9s | Q | | 3. Valeriu Jurcă | ROU | 21.8s | Q | | 4. Josip Šarić |  YUG | 22.1s | |
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| Heat 5 | time | | | 1. Heinz Schumann | FRG | 21.0s | Q | | 2. Csaba Csutorás | HUN | 21.1s | Q | | 3. Armando Sardi | ITA | 21.6s | Q | | 4. Josef Trousil | TCH | 21.7s | |
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| Heat 6 | time | | | 1. Andrzej Zieliński | POL | 21.2ws | Q | | 2. Vilém Mandlík | TCH | 21.3ws | Q | | 3. László Mihályfi | HUN | 21.3ws | Q | | 4. Carl Fredrik Bunæs |  NOR | 21.4ws | | | 5. Heinz-Georg Kamler |  AUT | 21.7ws | | | 6. Ferruh Oygur |  TUR | 22.1ws | |
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