Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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

Venue

Dates

July 22 (heats and quarterfinals)
July 23 (semifinals and final)

Medalists

	Andy Stanfield United States
	Thane Baker United States
	Jim Gathers United States

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 22 and July 23. The final was won by American Andy Stanfield.

Results

Heats

The fastest two runners in each of the eighteen heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina	21.72
2	Étienne Bally	France	22.03
3	Adolf Turakainen	Finland	22.55
4	Hörður Haraldsson	Iceland	22.56

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Thane Baker	United States	21.62
2	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.26
3	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	22.64
4	Willy Eichenberger	Switzerland	22.98

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Don McFarlane	Canada	22.94
2	Roman Budzyński	Poland	23.37

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	21.98
2	Nick Stacey	Great Britain	22.07
3	Fernand Linssen	Belgium	22.37
4	Edward Ajado	Nigeria	22.92

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Theo Saat	Netherlands	22.17
2	Werner Zandt	Germany	22.23
3	Juan Leiva	Venezuela	22.38
4	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	22.90
5	Eugénio Eleutério	Portugal	23.37

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Tabak	Israel	22.60
2	Marcel Gerdil	France	22.71

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Andy Stanfield	United States	22.00
2	Zdobysław Stawczyk	Poland	22.22
3	Enrique Beckles	Argentina	22.73
4	Youssef Ali Omar	Egypt	23.26
5	Adulya Vanastit	Thailand	23.50

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	22.08
2	Angel García	Cuba	22.14
3	Hans Wehrli	Switzerland	22.35
4	Pauli Tavisalo	Finland	22.45
5	Abdul Aziz	Pakistan	23.02

Heat nine

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	21.99
2	Peter Kraus	Germany	22.06
3	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistan	22.14
4	Fred Hammer	Luxembourg	22.63

Heat ten

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	22.12
2	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	22.41
3	Roby Schaeffer	Luxembourg	22.76
4	Vasilios Sillis	Greece	22.88

Heat eleven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Schalk Booysen	South Africa	22.03
2	Gerard Mach	Poland	22.16
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan	22.34
4	Ásmundur Bjarnason	Iceland	22.51
5	Walter Sutton	Canada	22.53

Heat twelve

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jim Gathers	United States	21.42
2	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	22.36
3	Henry Brault	France	22.48
4	Luigi Grossi	Italy	22.49
5	Muslim Arogundade	Nigeria	22.71

Heat thirteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	21.66
2	Miroslav Horčic	Czechoslovakia	22.52
3	Giorgio Sobrero	Italy	22.66
4	Ernst Mühlethaler	Switzerland	23.26
5	Eom Par-Yong	South Korea	23.41

Heat fourteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rafiu Oluwa	Nigeria	22.89
2	Boonterm Pakpuang	Thailand	24.15

Heat fifteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Les Laing	Jamaica	21.97
2	Paul Dolan	Ireland	22.04
3	František Brož	Czechoslovakia	22.35
4	Fernando Casimiro	Portugal	22.72
5	José Julio Barillas	Guatemala	22.88

Heat sixteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Raúl Mazorra	Cuba	22.52
2	Robert Hutchinson	Canada	22.66
3	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	22.75
4	Aroon Sankosik	Thailand	23.64

Heat Seventeen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edwin Carr, Jr.	Australia	22.19
2	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria	22.24

Heat eighteen

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	John Treloar	Australia	21.75
2	Lavy Pinto	India	21.83
3	Péter Karádi	Hungary	22.24
4	Lucio Sangermano	Italy	22.38

Quarterfinals

The fastest two runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jim Gathers	United States	21.64
2	Lavy Pinto	India	21.80
3	Theo Saat	Netherlands	21.87
4	Zdobysław Stawczyk	Poland	22.12
5	Miroslav Horčic	Czechoslovakia	22.44
6	Raúl Mazorra	Cuba	31.00

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Thane Baker	United States	21.64
2	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	21.98
3	Paul Dolan	Ireland	22.15
4	Peter Kraus	Germany	22.19
5	Voitto Hellstén	Finland	22.61
6	Rafiu Oluwa	Nigeria	22.69

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	21.27
2	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	21.93
3	Edwin Carr, Jr.	Australia	21.98
4	Schalk Booysen	South Africa	22.09
5	Marcel Gerdil	France	22.37
6	Robert Hutchinson	Canada	22.55

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina	21.67
2	Nick Stacey	Great Britain	21.79
3	Angel Kolev	Bulgaria	22.07
4	Angel García	Cuba	22.11
5	David Tabak	Israel	22.34
6	Roman Budzyński	Poland	22.51

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Andy Stanfield	United States	21.21
2	Les Laing	Jamaica	21.74
3	Étienne Bally	France	22.02
4	Levan Sanadze	Soviet Union	22.26
5	Don McFarlane	Canada	22.33

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	John Treloar	Australia	21.86
2	Werner Zandt	Germany	21.87
3	Vladimir Sukharev	Soviet Union	21.88
4	Gerard Mach	Poland	22.12
5	Brian Shenton	Great Britain	22.24
6	Tomio Hosoda	Japan	22.49

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Andy Stanfield	United States	21.23
2	Jim Gathers	United States	21.58
3	Les Laing	Jamaica	21.80
4	Werner Zandt	Germany	21.92
5	Nick Stacey	Great Britain	21.95
6	Václav Janeček	Czechoslovakia	22.12

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	21.46
2	Thane Baker	United States	21.50
3	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina	21.75
4	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	21.93
5	Lavy Pinto	India	22.01
-	John Treloar	Australia		DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Andy Stanfield	United States	20.81	OR
02 !	Thane Baker	United States	20.97
03 !	James Gathers	United States	21.08
4	McDonald Bailey	Great Britain	21.14
5	Les Laing	Jamaica	21.45
6	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina	21.59

Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = Did not finish

References

1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-28.

200 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

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