2006 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships were held at the Ullevi on August 9 and August 10. Obikwelu completed the sprinters' double, leading comfortably out of the last curve and continuing all the way to the finish. Wissman took silver in a time level with the national record. Devonish faded in the end and just managed to hold on to third in front of Belgian Kristof Beyens..

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	Johan Wissman  Sweden	Marlon Devonish  United Kingdom

Schedule

Results

Round 1

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the Round 2.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Marlon Devonish	United Kingdom	20.53	Q, SB
2	1	David Alerte	France	20.58	Q
3	1	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.61	Q, SB
4	4	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	20.64	Q
5	6	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.66	Q
6	2	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.67	Q, SB
7	2	Eddy De Lépine	France	20.70	Q, SB
8	3	Ivan Teplykh	Russia	20.71	Q, PB
9	5	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.78	Q
10	3	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	20.80	Q
11	4	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.81	Q
12	4	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	20.82	Q, SB
13	2	Paul Brizzel	Ireland	20.84	Q, SB
14	1	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	20.86	Q, NR
15	2	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	20.87	q
16	6	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.90	Q
17	6	Daniel Schnelting	Germany	20.90	Q, SB
18	6	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.91	Q
19	5	Roman Smirnov	Russia	20.92	Q
20	5	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	20.93	Q
20	6	Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé	Luxembourg	20.93	q
22	1	Morten Jensen	Denmark	20.94	Q
23	4	Caimin Douglas	Netherlands	20.97	Q
24	1	Panagiotis Sarris	Greece	20.99	q
25	2	Dmytro Hlushchenko	Ukraine	21.00	q
26	3	Rikki Fifton	United Kingdom	21.02	Q
27	5	Tim Abeyie	United Kingdom	21.03	Q
28	3	Stefano Anceschi	Italy	21.04	Q
29	3	Patrick van Luijk	Netherlands	21.05	q
30	4	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland	21.06	q
31	4	Vojtěch Šulc	Czech Republic	21.07	q
32	5	Josué Mena	Spain	21.09	q
33	6	Florin Suciu	Romania	21.10
34	3	Johan Engberg	Sweden	21.12
35	5	Jan Schiller	Czech Republic	21.12
36	1	Koura Kaba Fantoni	Italy	21.14
37	5	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.14
38	1	Marco Cribari	Switzerland	21.16
39	2	Tommi Hartonen	Finland	21.22
40	6	Josip Šoprek	Croatia	21.55
	3	Ronald Pognon	France	DNS

Round 2

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	20.58	Q
2	1	Marlon Devonish	United Kingdom	20.67	Q
3	2	David Alerte	France	20.68	Q
3	3	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.68	Q
3	4	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	20.68	Q
6	2	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	20.70	Q
7	1	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	20.71	Q
8	3	Rikki Fifton	United Kingdom	20.73	Q
9	1	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	20.76	Q
10	1	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	20.76	Q
11	2	Paul Hession	Ireland	20.80	Q
12	3	Ivan Teplykh	Russia	20.82	Q
13	4	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	20.85	Q
14	2	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	20.90	Q
15	4	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	20.91	Q
16	1	Roman Smirnov	Russia	20.93
17	2	Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé	Luxembourg	20.96
18	2	Ruslan Abbasov	Azerbaijan	20.98
19	3	Eddy De Lépine	France	21.00	Q
20	1	Panagiotis Sarris	Greece	21.04
21	3	Dmytro Hlushchenko	Ukraine	21.07
22	4	Josué Mena	Spain	21.09
23	2	Tim Abeyie	United Kingdom	21.17
24	4	Caimin Douglas	Netherlands	21.18
25	4	Vojtěch Šulc	Czech Republic	21.21
26	1	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	21.39
27	3	Patrick van Luijk	Netherlands	21.46
28	3	Morten Jensen	Denmark	21.56
	2	Marc Schneeberger	Switzerland		DNS
	3	Daniel Schnelting	Germany		DNS
	4	Paul Brizzel	Ireland		DNF
	1	Stefano Anceschi	Italy		DSQ

Semifinals

First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified (Q) for the Final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	3	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	0.208	20.36	Q
2	6	Johan Wissman	Sweden	0.180	20.38	Q, NR
3	7	Eddy De Lépine	France	0.207	20.70	Q, SB
4	5	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	0.163	20.76	Q
5	8	Guus Hoogmoed	Netherlands	0.193	20.80
6	4	Rikki Fifton	United Kingdom	0.154	20.85
7	2	Yordan Ilinov	Bulgaria	0.165	21.00
8	1	Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	0.201	21.08

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
1	4	Marlon Devonish	United Kingdom	0.146	20.60	Q
2	3	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	0.150	20.62	Q
3	5	David Alerte	France	0.198	20.69	Q
4	1	Ivan Teplykh	Russia	0.154	20.82	Q
5	7	Jiří Vojtík	Czech Republic	0.191	20.83
6	6	Sebastian Ernst	Germany	0.172	21.04
7	2	Paul Hession	Ireland	0.280	21.09
8	8	Alessandro Cavallaro	Italy	0.170	21.19

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	React	Time	Notes
	5	Francis Obikwelu	Portugal	0.166	20.01	NR, EL
	4	Johan Wissman	Sweden	0.178	20.38	=NR
	3	Marlon Devonish	United Kingdom	0.149	20.54
4	6	Kristof Beyens	Belgium	0.170	20.57	SB
5	1	Ivan Teplykh	Russia	0.174	20.76
6	7	Eddy De Lépine	France	0.209	20.77
7	2	David Alerte	France	0.193	20.93
8	8	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	0.153	20.94

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