Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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

Abdoulaye Seye, Livio Berruti and Lester Carney
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates2–3 September
Competitors62 from 47 nations
Medalists
   Italy
   United States
   France
Athletics at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men
800 m men women
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
20 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 was held on 2 September and 3 September as part of the Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, which were held in Rome. 74 athletes from 54 nations entered, but only 62 athletes from 47 nations ultimately competed. Livio Berruti was the first male 200 m Olympic champion who was not from the USA or Canada.

Results

First round

The top two runners in each of the 12 heats advanced, as well as the next four fastest runners from across all heats.

First round, heat 1

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Paul Genevay France 21.2 seconds
2 Vadim Arkhipchuk Soviet Union 21.5 seconds
3 James Omagbemi Nigeria26.2 seconds
- Iftikhar Shah PakistanDNS
- Hailou EthiopiaDNS
- Enrique Figuerola CubaDNS

First round, heat 2

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Les Carney United States 21.1 seconds
2 David Segal Great Britain 21.3 seconds
3 Peter Laeng Switzerland 21.6 seconds
4 Shahrudin Mohamed Ali Malaya 22.3 seconds
- Hilmar Thorbjörnsson IcelandDNS

First round, heat 3

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Stone Johnson United States21.7 seconds
2 Nikolaos Georgopoulos Greece22.0 seconds
3 Clayton Glasgow British Guiana22.6 seconds
4 James Roberts Liberia23.1 seconds
- Harry Jerome CanadaDNS

First round, heat 4

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Marcel Wendelin Germany21.6 seconds
2 Leonid Bartenev Soviet Union21.8 seconds
3 Michael Okantey Ghana21.8 seconds
4 Santiago Plaza Mexico22.0 seconds
5 Huang Suh-Chuang Republic of China22.9 seconds
6 Abdul Khaliq Pakistan23.1 seconds

First round, heat 5

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Peter Radford Great Britain21.1 seconds
2 Erasmus Amukun Uganda21.3 seconds
3 Csaba Csutorás Hungary21.7 seconds
4 Sitiveni Moceidreke Fiji21.8 seconds
5 Elmar Kunauer Austria22.2 seconds
- Emmanuel Putu LiberiaDNS

First round, heat 6

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Ray Norton United States21.2 seconds
2 David Jones Great Britain21.2 seconds
3 Yuriy Konovalov Soviet Union21.4 seconds
4 Ramón Vega Puerto Rico21.8 seconds
5 Patrick Lowry Ireland22.1 seconds
- Vilém Mandlík CzechoslovakiaDNF

First round, heat 7

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Livio Berruti Italy21.0 seconds
2 Tom Robinson Bahamas21.4 seconds
3 Lloyd Murad Venezuela21.8 seconds
4 Pentti Rekola Finland22.2 seconds
5 Bouchaib El-Maachi Morocco22.3 seconds
- Jalal Gozal IndonesiaDNS

First round, heat 8

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Dennis Johnson British West Indies21.2 seconds
2 José da Conceição Telles Brazil21.3 seconds
3 Sebald Schnellmann Switzerland21.4 seconds
4 Jean-Pierre Barra Belgium22.3 seconds
5 Enrique Bautista Philippines23.0 seconds
6 Ali Yusuf Zaid Afghanistan23.1 seconds

First round, heat 9

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Abdoulaye Seye France21.1 seconds
2 Carl Fredrik Bunæs Norway21.3 seconds
3 Clifton Bertrand British West Indies21.3 seconds
4 Amos Grodzinowsky Israel21.8 seconds
5 Barry Robinson New Zealand22.2 seconds
6 Lennart Jonsson Sweden22.3 seconds

First round, heat 10

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Marian Foik Poland21.1 seconds
2 Jocelyn Delecour France21.3 seconds
3 Armando Sardi Italy21.6 seconds
4 Lynn Eves Canada21.9 seconds
5 Mikhail Bachvarov Bulgaria22.2 seconds
6 Roger Bofferding Luxembourg23.2 seconds

First round, heat 11

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Seraphino Antao Kenya21.3 seconds
2 Rafael Romero Venezuela21.4 seconds
3 Manfred Germar Germany21.6 seconds
4 Romain Poté Belgium22.1 seconds
5 Melanio Asensio Spain22.3 seconds
6 Aydin Onur Turkey22.5 seconds

First round, heat 12

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Edward Jefferys South Africa21.1 seconds
2 Salvatore Giannone Italy21.5 seconds
3 Kimitada Hayase Japan22.3 seconds
4 Fahmi Falih Iraq22.6 seconds
5 Dennis Tipping Australia22.9 seconds
- Milkha Singh IndiaDNS

Second round

The first three in each quarter-final qualified for the semi-finals.

Second round, heat 1

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Stone Johnson United States20.9 seconds
2 Edward Jefferys South Africa21.1 seconds
3 Tom Robinson Bahamas21.2 seconds
4 Erasmus Amukun Uganda21.3 seconds
5 Yuriy Konovalov Soviet Union21.3 seconds
6 Clifton Bertrand British West Indies21.4 seconds
7 Rafael Romero Venezuela21.4 seconds

Second round, heat 2

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Abdoulaye Seye France20.8 seconds
2 Ray Norton United States21.0 seconds
3 David Segal Great Britain 21.1 seconds
4 Seraphino Antao Kenya21.3 seconds
5 Vadim Arkhipchuk Soviet Union 21.5 seconds
6 José da Conceição Telles Brazil21.5 seconds
7 Nikolaos Georgopoulos Greece22.0 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Les Carney United States 20.9 seconds
2 Peter Radford Great Britain21.0 seconds
3 Dennis Johnson British West Indies21.1 seconds
4 Jocelyn Delecour France21.5 seconds
5 Leonid Bartenev Soviet Union21.5 seconds
6 Sebald Schnellmann Switzerland21.5 seconds
7 Salvatore Giannone Italy21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Paul Genevay and Livio Berruti in heat 4, interrupted by a pigeon
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Livio Berruti Italy20.8 seconds
2 Marian Foik Poland20.9 seconds
3 Paul Genevay France 21.1 seconds
4 David Jones Great Britain21.2 seconds
5 Carl Fredrik Bunæs Norway21.4 seconds
6 Marcel Wendelin Germany21.6 seconds

Semi-Finals

The first three in each semi-final qualified for the final.

Semi-final 1

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Abdoulaye Seye France20.8 seconds
2 Marian Foik Poland21.0 seconds
3 Les Carney United States 21.1 seconds
4 Edward Jefferys South Africa21.3 seconds
5 Tom Robinson Bahamas21.5 seconds
- David Segal Great Britain DSQ

Semi-final 2

Berruti tied the world record of 20.5 seconds.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Livio Berruti Italy20.5 seconds=EWR
2 Ray Norton United States20.7 seconds
3 Stone Johnson United States20.8 seconds
4 Peter Radford Great Britain20.9 seconds
5 Dennis Johnson British West Indies21.0 seconds
6 Paul Genevay France 21.0 seconds

Final

Berruti tied again the world record of 20.5 seconds

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Livio Berruti Italy20.5 seconds=EWR
2 Les Carney United States 20.6 seconds
3 Abdoulaye Seye France20.7 seconds
4 Marian Foik Poland20.8 seconds
5 Stone Johnson United States20.8 seconds
6 Ray Norton United States20.9 seconds

References

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