| Final -0.1m/s | time |  | 1. Geir Moen |  NOR | 20.30s |  | 2. Vladislav Dologodin |  UKR | 20.47s |  | 3. Patrick Stevens |  BEL | 20.68s |  | 4. Sergey Osovich |  UKR | 20.70s |  | 5. Jean-Charles Trouabal |  FRA | 20.70s |  | 6. Andrey Fedoriv |  RUS | 20.78s |  | 7. Georgios Panayiotopoulos |  GRE | 20.92s |  | 8. David Dolle |  SUI | 21.10s |   
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| Heat 1 +0.5m/s | time |  | 1. Geir Moen |  NOR | 20.56s |  | 2. David Dolle |  SUI | 20.69s |  | 3. Sergey Osovich |  UKR | 20.78s |  | 4. Georgios Panayiotopoulos |  GRE | 20.79s |  | 5. Giorgio Marras |  ITA | 20.95s |  | 6. Daniel Sangouma |  FRA | 20.98s |  | 7. Ari Pakarinen |  FIN | 21.12s |  | 8. Oleg Fatun |  RUS | 21.21s |   
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| Heat 2 +1.7m/s | time |  | 1. Vladislav Dologodin |  UKR | 20.52s |  | 2. Jean-Charles Trouabal |  FRA | 20.74s |  | 3. Patrick Stevens |  BEL | 20.74s |  | 4. Andrey Fedoriv |  RUS | 20.75s |  | 5. Lars Hedner |  SWE | 20.91s |  | 6. Anninos Markoullides |  CYP | 21.06s |  | 7. Philip Goedluck |  GBR | 21.11s |  | -. Evgenios Papadopoulos |  GRE | DNS |   
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| Heat 1 +0.5m/s | time |  | 1. Geir Moen |  NOR | 20.68s |  | 2. Anninos Markoullides |  CYP | 20.94s |  | 3. Daniel Sangouma |  FRA | 20.96s |  | 4. Ari Pakarinen |  FIN | 21.02s |  | 5. Giorgio Marras |  ITA | 21.03s |  | 6. Evgenios Papadopoulos |  GRE | 21.16s |  | 7. Aleksey Chikhachov |  UKR | 21.53s |  | 8. Bjorn Sinnhuber |  GER | 21.72s |   
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| Heat 2 +0.3m/s | time |  | 1. Patrick Stevens |  BEL | 20.76s |  | 2. Sergey Osovich |  UKR | 20.81s |  | 3. Georgios Panayiotopoulos |  GRE | 20.92s |  | 4. Philip Goedluck |  GBR | 20.99s |  | 5. Oleg Fatun |  RUS | 21.10s |  | 6. Michael Huke |  GER | 21.22s |  | 7. Per Ivar Sivle |  NOR | 21.47s |  | 8. Carlo Occhiena |  ITA | 21.56s |   
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| Heat 3 -1.2m/s | time |  | 1. Vladislav Dologodin |  UKR | 20.76s |  | 2. David Dolle |  SUI | 20.80s |  | 3. Jean-Charles Trouabal |  FRA | 20.87s |  | 4. Andrey Fedoriv |  RUS | 20.96s |  | 5. Lars Hedner |  SWE | 21.09s |  | 6. Alexander Lack |  GER | 21.40s |  | 7. Pertti Purola |  FIN | 21.51s |  | 8. Lars Pedersen |  DEN | 21.55s |   
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| Heat 1 -0.3m/s | time |  | 1. Georgios Panayiotopoulos |  GRE | 20.81s |  | 2. Geir Moen |  NOR | 21.29s |  | 3. Michael Huke |  GER | 21.40s |  | 4. Aleksey Chikhachov |  UKR | 21.51s |  | 5. Markus Lindahl |  FIN | 21.55s |  | 6. Mario Bonello |  MLT | 22.30s |  | -. Pedro Nolet |  ESP | DNS |   
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| Heat 2 -0.1m/s | time |  | 1. Giorgio Marras |  ITA | 20.84s |  | 2. Jean-Charles Trouabal |  FRA | 20.93s |  | 3. Philip Goedluck |  GBR | 21.01s |  | 4. Ari Pakarinen |  FIN | 21.03s |  | 5. Lars Pedersen |  DEN | 21.21s |  | 6. Frutos Feo |  ESP | 21.48s |  | -. Torbjorn Eriksson |  SWE | DNS |   
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| Heat 3 -0.5m/s | time |  | 1. Daniel Sangouma |  FRA | 20.86s |  | 2. Patrick Stevens |  BEL | 20.99s |  | 3. Andrey Fedoriv |  RUS | 21.04s |  | 4. Alexander Lack |  GER | 21.25s |  | 5. Per Ivar Sivle |  NOR | 21.40s |  | 6. Alain Reimann |  SUI | 21.42s |   
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| Heat 4 -0.6m/s | time |  | 1. Sergey Osovich |  UKR | 20.90s |  | 2. Anninos Markoullides |  CYP | 21.01s |  | 3. David Dolle |  SUI | 21.01s |  | 4. Bjorn Sinnhuber |  GER | 21.37s |  | 5. Regillio van der Vloot |  NED | 21.43s |  | -. Daniel Cojocaru |  ROU | DNF |   
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| Heat 5 -0.4m/s | time |  | 1. Vladislav Dologodin |  UKR | 20.80s |  | 2. Lars Hedner |  SWE | 20.92s |  | 3. Evgenios Papadopoulos |  GRE | 21.07s |  | 4. Carlo Occhiena |  ITA | 21.19s |  | 5. Oleg Fatun |  RUS | 21.25s |  | 6. Pertti Purola |  FIN | 21.30s |  | 7. Kfir Golan |  ISR | 21.54s |   
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