Men 200m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) - Friday 08.08

Men 200m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) - Friday 08.08 - Gold Medl: Ato Boldon, Trinidad Tobago

Final 19:20 wind +2.3m/s		time	L	100m	200m
1. Ato Boldon	TRI	20.04s	3	10.36s	9.68s
2. Frank Fredericks	NAM	20.23s	4	10.41s	9.82s
3. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva	BRA	20.26s	5	10.56s	9.70s
4. Ivan Garcia	CUB	20.31s	6	10.43s	9.88s
5. Georgios Panagiotopoulos	GRE	20.32s	7	10.48s	9.84s
6. Obadele Thompson	BAR	20.37s	2	10.49s	9.88s
7. Jon Drummond	USA	20.44s	1	10.34s	10.10s
8. Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.44s	8	10.56s	9.88s

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Round	H	Athl.	date
Semi-Finals	2	16	07.08
Quarter-Finals	4	32	06.08
Heats	9	65	06.08

Having missed out on medals in the 100m, both Boldon and Fredericks were fired up for the longer distance. They were drawn together both in the second round and semi-final, winning one race apiece without giving too much away, but the final proved no contest. Second to Drummond (10.34) at 100m in 10.36, with Fredericks on 10.41, the US-based Trinidadian opened up in the straight to win by two metres in a windy 20.04.
Fredericks, champion in 1993 and runner-up in 1991 and 1995, added another silver to his bulging collection although he didn’t have much to spare over da Silva. Drummond, drawn in lane one after having the misfortune to encounter Boldon and Fredericks in his semi, faded to seventh. Boldon was gracious after winning his first major senior title: “I am sorry for Frankie as he is more than a rival; he is a mentor to me, an example to humanity.”

Semi-Finals - Thursday 07.08

Semi 1 19:25 wind -0.5m/s		time	L
1. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva	BRA	20.35s	6
2. Ivan Garcia	CUB	20.39s	3
3. Georgios Panagiotopoulos	GRE	20.43s	7
4. Obadele Thompson	BAR	20.46s	4
5. Sergey Osovich	UKR	20.51s	2
6. Kevin Little	USA	20.57s	5
7. Julian Golding	GBR	20.61s	8
8. Carlos Gats	ARG	21.44s	1

Semi 2 19:35 wind -0.2m/s		time	L
1. Ato Boldon	TRI	20.09s	4
2. Frank Fredericks	NAM	20.18s	6
3. Jon Drummond	USA	20.29s	8
4. Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.42s	5
5. Troy Douglas	BER	20.43s	3
6. Douglas Walker	GBR	20.61s	7
7. Deji Aliu	NGR	20.78s	1
8. Chris Donaldson	NZL	20.92s	2

Quarter-Finals - Wednesday 06.08

Quarter 1 18:45 wind -3.5m/s		time	L
1. Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.77s	6
2. Troy Douglas	BER	20.78s	4
3. Chris Donaldson	NZL	21.04s	3
4. Gentry Bradley	USA	21.08s	8
5. Sergejs Insakovs	LAT	21.22s	5
6. Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	21.25s	2
7. Sayon Cooper	LBR	21.39s	1
8. Owusu Dako	GBR	21.52s	7

Quarter 2 18:51 wind -0.1m/s		time	L
1. Frank Fredericks	NAM	20.13s	5
2. Ato Boldon	TRI	20.28s	4
3. Jon Drummond	USA	20.59s	2
4. Julian Golding	GBR	20.69s	3
5. Erik Wijmeersch	BEL	20.73s	6
6. O'Brian Gibbons	CAN	20.78s	7
7. Anninos Markoullides	CYP	20.83s	1
8. Carlo Occhiena	ITA	21.14s	8

Quarter 3 18:57 wind +0.4m/s		time	L
1. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva	BRA	20.27s	4
2. Kevin Little	USA	20.38s	5
3. Sergey Osovich	UKR	20.54s	2
4. Douglas Walker	GBR	20.56s	3
5. Georgios Panagiotopoulos	GRE	20.57s	1
6. Deji Aliu	NGR	20.65s	8
7. Prodromos Katsantonis	CYP	20.77s	7
8. Gary Ryan	IRL	20.83s	6

Quarter 4 19:03 wind +1.6m/s		time	L
1. Ivan Garcia	CUB	20.48s	5
2. Obadele Thompson	BAR	20.62s	2
3. Carlos Gats	ARG	20.87s	1
4. Joseph Loua	GUI	20.91s	6
5. Ioannis Nafpliotis	GRE	20.94s	8
6. Sebastian Keitel	CHI	20.96s	7
7. Giovanni Puggioni	ITA	22.70s	4
-. Geir Moen	NOR	DNS	3

Heats - Wednesday 06.08

Heat 1 10:15 wind +1.9m/s		time	L
1. Ato Boldon	TRI	20.48s	4
2. Douglas Walker	GBR	20.49s	3
3. Georgios Panagiotopoulos	GRE	20.60s	2
4. Deji Aliu	NGR	20.60s	5
5. O'Brian Gibbons	CAN	20.71s	8
6. Emmanuel Tuffour	GHA	20.72s	6
7. Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami	OMN	21.45s	7

Heat 2 10:21 wind +1.1m/s		time	L
1. Erik Wijmeersch	BEL	20.71s	3
2. Frank Fredericks	NAM	20.74s	5
3. Sayon Cooper	LBR	20.88s	4
4. Phillip Mukomana	ZIM	20.88s	6
5. Justice Dipeba	BOT	20.96s	7
6. Patrick Johnson	AUS	21.45s	2
-. Christophe Cheval	FRA	DNS	8

Heat 3 10:27 wind -0.2m/s		time	L
1. Sergejs Insakovs	LAT	20.72s	5
2. Obadele Thompson	BAR	20.75s	6
3. Prodromos Katsantonis	CYP	20.77s	8
4. Koji Ito	JPN	20.82s	2
5. Juan Pedro Toledo	MEX	21.03s	4
6. Lars Hedner	SWE	21.30s	3
7. Wu-Shiun Tao	TPE	21.85s	7

Heat 4 10:33 wind +2.0m/s		time	L
1. Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.45s	6
2. Julian Golding	GBR	20.49s	4
3. Carlo Occhiena	ITA	20.90s	8
4. Gilles Queneherve	FRA	20.93s	3
5. Ryszard Pilarczyk	POL	20.98s	7
6. Pascal Dangbo	BEN	21.58s	2
7. Kendon Maynard	ISV	21.64s	5

Heat 5 10:39 wind -0.2m/s		time	L
1. Giovanni Puggioni	ITA	20.73s	6
2. Joseph Loua	GUI	20.75s	8
3. Jon Drummond	USA	20.76s	7
4. Christoph Postinger	AUT	20.77s	3
5. Antoine Boussombo	GAB	20.79s	5
6. Thierry Lubin	FRA	20.80s	4
7. Arif Ahundov	AZE	22.08s	2

Heat 6 10:45 wind +0.7m/s		time	L
1. Kevin Little	USA	20.68s	4
2. Gary Ryan	IRL	20.69s	3
3. Owusu Dako	GBR	20.70s	8
4. Steve Brimacombe	AUS	20.75s	7
5. Alessandro Attene	ITA	20.92s	6
6. Andrew Tynes	BAH	21.00s	2
7. Mohammad Bin Haji	BRU	22.37s	5

Heat 7 10:51 wind +0.6m/s		time	L
1. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva	BRA	20.59s	5
2. Chris Donaldson	NZL	20.75s	4
3. Ioannis Nafpliotis	GRE	20.84s	6
4. Andrey Fedoriv	RUS	20.88s	2
5. Jordi Mayoral	ESP	20.99s	3
6. Kwame Galloway	MNT	22.45s	8
-. Ivan Slehobr	CZE	DNS	7

Heat 8 10:57 wind +0.6m/s		time	L
1. Geir Moen	NOR	20.79s	6
2. Gentry Bradley	USA	20.80s	2
3. Carlos Gats	ARG	20.86s	5
4. Thomas Sbokos	GRE	20.94s	8
5. Oumar Loum	SEN	20.95s	3
6. Ahmed Douhou	CIV	21.08s	1
7. Benjamin Sirimou	CMR	21.45s	4
8. Djaffar Hadhari	COM	21.59s	7

Heat 9 11:03 wind +1.2m/s		time	L
1. Ivan Garcia	CUB	20.41s	6
2. Troy Douglas	BER	20.46s	7
3. Anninos Markoullides	CYP	20.47s	8
4. Sergey Osovich	UKR	20.56s	2
5. Sebastian Keitel	CHI	20.72s	4
6. Malik-Khaled Louahla	ALG	21.31s	1
7. Khongdy Amnouayphone	LAO	22.86s	5
8. Mohammad M. Alam	BAN	23.54s	3