Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Paul Drayton, Henry Carr and Edwin Roberts
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	16–17 October
Competitors	63 from 48 nations
Medalists
Henry Carr   United States   Paul Drayton   United States   Edwin Roberts   Trinidad and Tobago

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
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
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 200 metres was the second-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 16 October and 17 October 1964. 63 athletes from 48 nations entered, with 6 not starting in the first round. The first two rounds were held on 16 October, with the semifinals and the final on 17 October.

Results

First round

The top four runners in each of the 8 heats advanced.

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.7 seconds
2	Andrzeg Zielinski	Poland	21.2 seconds
3	Clifton Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago	21.3 seconds
4	Johan du Preez	Rhodesia	21.4 seconds
5	Jean-Louis Descloux	Switzerland	21.5 seconds
6	F. J. Gutierrez Hernandez	Colombia	21.8 seconds
7	Gerardo di Tolla	Peru	22.1 seconds
8	Somsakdi Tongsuke	Thailand	22.6 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Roger Bambuck	France	21.2 seconds
2	Arquímedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.3 seconds
3	Boris Zubov	Soviet Union	21.4 seconds
4	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.5 seconds
5	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	21.5 seconds
6	Carlos Lorenzo Manueco	Mexico	21.6 seconds
—	Levy Psawkin	Israel	Did not start
	Iijima Hideo	Japan	Did not start

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.3 seconds
2	Serafino Antao	Kenya	21.5 seconds
3	Csaba Csutoras	Hungary	21.5 seconds
4	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	21.5 seconds
5	David Njitock	Cameroon	22.5 seconds
6	Wesley Johnson	Liberia	22.5 seconds
—	Eric James Bigby	Australia	Did not start
	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	Did not start

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Foik	Poland	21.1 seconds
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.2 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	21.3 seconds
4	Jeffery Smith	Northern Rhodesia	21.7 seconds
5	Jasim Karim Kuraishi	Iraq	22.6 seconds
6	Lee Ar Tu	Taiwan	23.0 seconds
—	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	Did not start

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	20.9 seconds
2	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	20.9 seconds
3	Paul Genevay	France	21.0 seconds
4	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.1 seconds
5	Heinz Erbstosser	United Team of Germany	21.4 seconds
6	Tegegn Bezabih	Ethiopia	22.0 seconds
7	Abdolvahab Shahkhoreh	Iran	22.3 seconds
—	Boris Savchuk	Soviet Union	Disqualified

First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.8 seconds
2	Bob Lay	Australia	21.3 seconds
3	P. A. Grajales Escobar	Colombia	21.4 seconds
4	David Ejoke	Nigeria	21.4 seconds
5	George Reginald Collie	Bahamas	21.9 seconds
6	Kenneth Lawrence Powell	India	21.9 seconds
7	Aggrey Sheroy Awori	Uganda	22.2 seconds
8	William Hill	Hong Kong	22.5 seconds

First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.0 seconds
2	Henry Carr	United States	21.1 seconds
3	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.3 seconds
4	Ivan Moreno	Chile	21.5 seconds
5	Alioune Sow	Senegal	21.9 seconds
6	Michael Okantey	Ghana	21.9 seconds
7	Rogelio Onofre	Philippines	22.1 seconds
8	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	Did not start

First round, heat 8

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.1 seconds
2	Richard Stebbins	United States	21.1 seconds
3	Friedrich Roderfield	United Team of Germany	21.5 seconds
4	Gary Holdsworth	Australia	21.6 seconds
5	Jose Fernandes da Rocha	Portugal	21.7 seconds
6	Valeriu Jurca	Romania	21.8 seconds
7	Chung Ki Sun	South Korea	22.3 seconds
8	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	22.4 seconds

Second round

The four fastest runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinals.

Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.9 seconds
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.2 seconds
3	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	21.4 seconds
4	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.5 seconds
5	Andrzej Zielinski	Poland	21.5 seconds
6	Boris Zubov	Soviet Union	21.8 seconds
7	Jeffery Smith	Northern Rhodesia	22.0 seconds
8	Serafino Antao	Kenya	22.1 seconds

Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Henry Carr	United States	21.0 seconds
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.1 seconds
3	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.2 seconds
4	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.2 seconds
5	Bob Lay	Australia	21.4 seconds
6	Csaba Csutoras	Hungary	21.4 seconds
7	Ivan Moreno	Chile	21.7 seconds
8	Johan du Preez	Rhodesia	21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	21.2 seconds
2	Richard Stebbins	United States	21.2 seconds
3	Roger Bambuck	France	21.4 seconds
4	B. El Maachi Boushaib	Morocco	21.6 seconds
5	Clifton Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago	21.6 seconds
6	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.7 seconds
7	P. A. Grajales Escobar	Colombia	21.7 seconds
8	Friedrich Roderfeld	United Team of Germany	22.2 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.9 seconds
2	Marian Foik	Poland	21.0 seconds
3	Paul Genevay	France	21.3 seconds
4	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.4 seconds
5	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	21.4 seconds
6	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.5 seconds
7	Gary Holdsworth	Australia	22.1 seconds
—	David Ejoke	Nigeria	Did not start

Semifinals

The top four runners in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final.

Semifinal 1

Drayton tied the Olympic record in this semifinal, three-tenths of a second short of the world record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.5 seconds =OR
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	20.7 seconds
3	Richard Stebbins	United States	20.8 seconds
4	Marian Foik	Poland	20.9 seconds
5	Paul Genevay	France	20.9 seconds
6	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.0 seconds
7	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.1 seconds
8	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	21.6 seconds

Semifinal 2

The second semifinal was the fourth race of the 200 metres in which an American won and an Italian took second place.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Henry Carr	United States	20.6 seconds
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.7 seconds
3	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.8 seconds
4	Harry Jerome	Canada	21.0 seconds
5	Roger Bambuck	France	21.0 seconds
6	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.1 seconds
7	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.2 seconds
8	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	21.2 seconds

Final

Drayton matched his semifinal time, which had tied the Olympic record at 20.5 seconds, but Carr did even better, setting a new Olympic record of 20.3 seconds to bump Drayton to the silver medal. Carr's time was only one-tenth of a second off the world record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Henry Carr	United States	20.3 seconds OR
2	Paul Drayton	United States	20.5 seconds
3	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.6 seconds
4	Harry Jerome	Canada	20.7 seconds
5	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.8 seconds
6	Marian Foik	Poland	20.8 seconds
7	Richard Stebbins	United States	20.8 seconds
8	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	20.9 seconds

References

• Official Report