Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 10, 11 and 12 September 1979.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pietro Mennea Italy	Leszek Dunecki Poland	Ainsley Bennett Great Britain

Results

Heats

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.6 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s, Heat 4: +0.5 m/s, Heat 5: +1.3 m/s
Heat 6: +0.7 m/s, Heat 7: +0.1 m/s, Heat 8: +2.3 m/s, Heat 9: +0.2 m/s^[3]^[4]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	Pietro Mennea	Italy	19.96	Q, UR, AR
2	4	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.55	Q
2	5	Otis Melvin	United States	20.55	Q
4	8	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.66	Q
5	4	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.71	Q
6	2	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.76	Q
7	4	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.83	q
8	8	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	20.84	Q
9	8	Tomás González	Cuba	20.89	q
10	2	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	20.91	Q
11	1	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	20.94	Q
12	1	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	20.95	Q
13	9	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.01	Q
14	7	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	21.04	Q^[5]
15	5	Frank van Doorn	Canada	21.05	Q
16	6	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	21.06	Q
17	9	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.09	q
18	2	Patrice Ouré	Ivory Coast	21.11	q
19	3	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	21.14	Q
20	5	István Nagy	Hungary	21.15	q
21	7	Patrick Wamister	Switzerland	21.16	Q^[5]
22	3	Charles Pickens	United States	21.21	Q
23	1	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.33	q
24	6	Ángel Cruz	Spain	21.48	Q^[6]
25	7	Marcel Klarenbeek	Netherlands	21.49	PB^[5]
26	3	Akira Harada	Japan	21.54
27	7	Jean Gracia	France	21.56	^[7]
28	6	Daniel Biocchi	Canada	21.58
29	3	Sabidou Touré	Senegal	21.64
30	8	Lucien Ralaivita	Madagascar	21.65
31	8	Nicos Hadjinicolau	Cyprus	21.65
32	9	Benjamín González	Spain	21.71	^[8]
33	7	Alan Bell	Great Britain	21.74
34	5	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	21.82
35	6	Antonis Georgallidis	Cyprus	22.01
36	8	Francisco Ramírez	Mexico	22.02
37	9	Marco Mautinho	Peru	22.11
38	3	Sergio Barajas	Mexico	22.15
39	6	José Luis Valverde	Peru	22.22
39	9	Jean-Jacques Randrianasolo	Madagascar	22.22
41	5	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	22.23
42	1	Konlan Martelot	Togo	22.37
43	5	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia	22.41
44	2	Kossi Adolo Djobokou	Togo	22.43
45	2	Cheung Lai Chi	Hong Kong	22.56
45	8	Javier Fernández	Guatemala	22.56
47	4	Sulayman Faye	Gambia	22.76
48	2	Nelson González	Guatemala	22.87
49	5	Oscar Muñoz	Honduras	22.89
50	4	Roberto Prado	Bolivia	22.91
51	1	Ehsan Salih	Saudi Arabia	23.05
52	6	Marco Luque	Bolivia	23.05
53	1	José Flores	Honduras	23.28
54	6	Mordhi Abdulhakim	Saudi Arabia	23.75
55	3	Clifford Maseko	Swaziland	24.05
	9	Louis Nkanza	Congo	DNS

Semifinals

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s^[3]^[9]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.04	Q
2	2	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.46	Q
3	1	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.48	Q, NR
4	1	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.67	q
5	3	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.69	Q
6	3	Otis Melvin	United States	20.74	Q
7	2	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.78	Q
8	2	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.90	q
9	2	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	20.91
10	2	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	20.92
11	1	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	20.95	^[10]
12	1	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.04
13	3	Patrice Ouré	Ivory Coast	21.07
14	2	István Nagy	Hungary	21.09
14	3	Frank van Doorn	Canada	21.09
16	3	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.10
17	1	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	21.13
18	3	Patrick Wamister	Switzerland	21.14
19	1	Charles Pickens	United States	21.18
19	3	Tomás González	Cuba	21.18
21	1	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	21.23
21	2	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.33
23	2	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.37
24	3	Ángel Cruz	Spain	21.56

Final

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Wind: +1.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Pietro Mennea	Italy	19.72	WR
	1	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.24	NR
	8	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.42
4	6	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.43	NR
5	5	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.52	NR
6	2	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.74
7	3	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.88
8	7	Otis Melvin	United States	22.97

References

↑ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
↑ Results at Tilastopaja
1 2 [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]
↑ "Universiade, atletiek" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 11 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
1 2 3 "Lange aanloop Mennea" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 12 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
↑ Spanish top list
↑ French results
↑ "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.
↑ "Na hordenexplosie bij Universiade Pont tiende ter wereld" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 13 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
↑ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p33)
↑ "Final results". The News-Press. 13 September 1979. p. 30. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
↑ "Final results". Victoria Advocate. 13 September 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[1] Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.

[2] Results at Tilastopaja

[Year-3] 1 2 [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]

[Volkskrant-4] "Universiade, atletiek" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 11 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

[Volkskrant1-5] 1 2 3 "Lange aanloop Mennea" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 12 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[6] Spanish top list

[7] French results

[8] "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.

[9] "Na hordenexplosie bij Universiade Pont tiende ter wereld" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 13 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[URS-10] Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p33)

[11] "Final results". The News-Press. 13 September 1979. p. 30. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[12] "Final results". Victoria Advocate. 13 September 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

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Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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