Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 4 (heats and quarterfinals)
August 5 (semifinals and final)

Competitors

44 from 23 nations

Medalists

	Jesse Owens United States
	Mack Robinson United States
	Tinus Osendarp Netherlands

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 4 and August 5. The final was won by American Jesse Owens.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the eight heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.4
2	Tomás Beswick	Argentina	22.1
3	Mutsuo Taniguchi	Japan	22.2
4	Antonio Salcedo	Philippines
5	José de Almeida	Brazil
6	Aristidis Sakellariou	Greece

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.7
2	Egon Schein	Germany	22.0
3	Alan Pennington	Great Britain	22.1
4	Masao Yazawa	Japan	22.4
5	Pierre Dondelinger	France
6	Xaver Frick	Liechtenstein

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Lee Orr	Canada	21.6
3	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.8
4	Arthur Sweeney	Great Britain	22.1
5	Nemesio de Guzman	Philippines	22.9
6	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	23.1

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.1
2	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary	22.1
3	Felix Rinner	Austria	22.4
4	Paul Bronner	France	22.6
5	Chen Kingkwan	China

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.9
2	Renos Frangoudis	Greece	22.1
3	József Sir	Hungary	22.2
4	Poh Kimseng	China
5	Pat Dannaher	South Africa

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.7
2	Howie McPhee	Canada	21.8
3	Börje Strandvall	Finland	22.6
4	George Fahoum	Egypt
5	Liu Changchun	China
6	Antonio Fondevilla	Argentina

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bob Packard	United States	21.2
2	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	21.8
3	Albert Steinmetz	Germany	21.9
4	Eric Whiteside	India

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.6
2	Aki Tammisto	Finland	22.2
3	Carlos Hofmeister	Argentina	22.3
4	Dieudonné Devrindt	Belgium
5	Mario Minai	Hungary
6	Alfred König	Austria

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Lee Orr	Canada	21.2
2	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.3
3	Bob Packard	United States	21.3
4	József Sir	Hungary	21.6
5	Egon Schein	Germany	21.7
6	Tomás Beswick	Argentina

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.7
2	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.9
3	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.1
4	Renos Frangoudis	Greece
5	Mutsuo Taniguchi	Japan
6	Carlos Hofmeister	Argentina

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Howie McPhee	Canada	21.8
3	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	21.9
4	Aki Tammisto	Finland	22.0
5	Felix Rinner	Austria
	Albert Steinmetz	Germany		DQ

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.2
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.3
3	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.6
4	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary
5	Börje Strandvall	Finland

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Lee Orr	Canada	21.3
3	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.5
4	Bob Packard	United States	21.6
5	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.8
6	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	22.2

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.3
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.5
3	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.6
4	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.8
5	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.0
6	Howie McPhee	Canada	22.0

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Jesse Owens	United States	20.7	WR
02 !	Mack Robinson	United States	21.1
03 !	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.3
4	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.6
5	Lee Orr	Canada	21.6
6	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.9

Key: WR = World record

References

1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-27.

200 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

Women	1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

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