1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

Events at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 200 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 31 July and 1 August.

Medalists

Gold	Christian Malcolm United Kingdom
Silver	Jairo Duzant Netherlands Antilles
Bronze	Russell Frye United States

Results

Final

1 August
Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.44
	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	20.92
	Russell Frye	United States	20.94
4	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	20.99
5	Scott Thom	Australia	21.00
6	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.02
7	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.08
8	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.39

Semifinals

1 August

Semifinal 1

Wind: -0.7m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.92	Q
2	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.01	Q
3	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.16	Q
4	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.29	Q
5	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.38
6	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.59
7	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.88
8	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.88

Semifinal 2

Wind: +1.0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.62	Q
2	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	20.97	Q
3	Scott Thom	Australia	21.05	Q
4	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.07	Q
5	Kevin Baker	United States	21.24
6	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.32
7	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.45
8	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.89

Quarterfinals

31 July

Quarterfinal 1

Wind: -0.1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.00	Q
2	Scott Thom	Australia	21.14	Q
3	Kevin Baker	United States	21.53	Q
4	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.54	Q
5	Jeremy Bobe	France	21.56
6	Attila Farkas	Hungary	21.57
7	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.58
	José Luis Herrera	Colombia	DNS

Quarterfinal 2

Wind: 0.0m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.79	Q
2	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.07	Q
3	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.22	Q
4	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.31	Q
5	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.81
6	Julien Arame	France	21.87
7	Kenji Nara	Japan	22.19
	Matthias Mertens	Germany	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Quarterfinal 3

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.85	Q
2	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.26	Q
3	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.31	Q
4	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.36	Q
5	Anastasios Goúsis	Greece	21.48
6	Alexander Lakhanpal	Sweden	21.78
7	Alejandro Olivan	Spain	21.79
8	Stephen Hadfield	Australia	21.88

Quarterfinal 4

Wind: -0.9m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.07	Q
2	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.27	Q
3	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.29	Q
4	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.38	Q
5	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.40
6	Uros Zver	Slovenia	21.66
7	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76
8	Ousman Jatta	Gambia	22.51

Heats

31 July

Heat 1

Wind: +0.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.32	Q
2	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.32	Q
3	Attila Farkas	Hungary	21.59	Q
4	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.77	Q
5	Nelson Lucas	Seychelles	22.14
6	Dermot Rawlins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	22.46
	Marco Cuneo	Italy	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 2

Wind: -0.9m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.25	Q
2	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.33	Q
3	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.52	Q
4	Uros Zver	Slovenia	21.57	Q
5	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.59	q
6	Stephen Hadfield	Australia	21.79	q
7	Saula Roko	Fiji	22.24
8	Charles Shaw	Liberia	23.41

Heat 3

Wind: -0.2m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Scott Thom	Australia	21.23	Q
2	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.34	Q
3	Julien Arame	France	21.51	Q
4	Matthias Mertens	Germany	21.56	Q
5	Kenji Nara	Japan	21.92	q
6	Rudy Colabella	Belgium	21.97
7	Gary Webb	Norfolk Island	23.61
8	Papy Stone Seke Moundele	Congo	23.66

Heat 4

Wind: +0.4m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.10	Q
2	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.25	Q
3	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.26	Q
4	José Luis Herrera	Colombia	22.15	Q
5	Sean Lambert	Grenada	22.51
6	Xu Zizhou	China	22.69
7	Bashir Al-Khewani	Yemen	23.80
8	Philam Garcia	Guam	25.11

Heat 5

Wind: +0.1m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.97	Q
2	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.43	Q
3	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.58	Q
4	Alejandro Olivan	Spain	21.69	Q
5	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76	q
6	Thomas Scheidl	Austria	22.11
7	Ernesto Elo	Equatorial Guinea	23.80

Heat 6

Wind: +0.7m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.73	Q
2	Jeremy Bobe	France	21.36	Q
3	Alexander Lakhanpal	Sweden	21.44	Q
4	Ousman Jatta	Gambia	21.89	Q
5	Ahmed Torkhani	Tunisia	21.94
6	Piotr Berestiuk	Poland	22.00
7	Robert Mugagga	Uganda	22.34

Heat 7

Wind: +1.6m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Baker	United States	21.16	Q
2	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.19	Q
3	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.25	Q
4	Anastasios Goúsis	Greece	21.61	Q
5	Isaac Yaya	Tahiti	22.64
	Rodney Pitts	U.S. Virgin Islands	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 51 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.

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