2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 14 and 15 August.

The event was won by Great Britain's Adam Gemili in 19.98 seconds. Christophe Lemaitre of France, the defending champion, came second just as he did in the 100 metres, and Serhiy Smelyk of Ukraine came third.

Medalists

Gold	Adam Gemili Great Britain
Silver	Christophe Lemaître France
Bronze	Serhiy Smelyk Ukraine

Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships
World record	Usain Bolt (JAM)	19.19	Berlin, Germany	20 August 2009
European record	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.72	Mexico City, Mexico	12 September 1979
Championship record	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	19.85	Munich, Germany	9 August 2002
World Leading	Justin Gatlin (USA)	19.68	Monaco	18 July 2014
European Leading	Christophe Lemaître (FRA)	20.08	Monaco	18 July 2014
Broken records during the 2014 European Athletics Championships
European Leading	Adam Gemili (GBR)	19.98	Zürich, Switzerland	15 August 2014

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
14 August 2014	12:05	Round 1
14 August 2014	20:15	Semifinals
15 August 2014	21:50	Final

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	4	6	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	20.39	Q
2	2	4	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.43	Q
3	1	5	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.49	Q
4	4	4	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.55	Q, PB
4	2	2	James Ellington	Great Britain	20.55	Q
6	1	6	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.59	Q
7	4	8	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.60	Q, SB
8	2	7	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.61	Q, SB
9	3	6	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.63	Q
10	3	2	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.64	Q
11	3	8	Diego Marani	Italy	20.65	Q
12	1	8	Ben Bassaw	France	20.68	Q
13	4	1	Alex-Platini Menga	Germany	20.71	q
14	1	3	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.72	q
15	1	4	Sergio Ruiz	Spain	20.73	q, SB
16	3	4	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.76	q
17	4	7	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	Norway	20.78
18	2	8	Johan Wissman	Sweden	20.82
19	1	7	Enrico Demonte	Italy	20.90
20	3	3	Nil de Oliveira	Sweden	20.93
21	4	5	Jonathan Åstrand	Finland	21.03
21	3	5	Kevin Moore	Malta	21.03	NR
23	3	1	Marek Niit	Estonia	21.04
24	2	3	İzzet Safer	Turkey	21.06
25	4	3	Joel Burgunder	Switzerland	21.24
26	2	6	David Lima	Portugal	21.25
27	3	7	Jan Žumer	Slovenia	21.47
28	1	1	Petar Kremenski	Bulgaria	21.75
29	1	2	Riste Pandev	Macedonia	21.96
30	4	2	Mikel de Sa	Andorra	22.54
31	2	5	Fabian Haldner	Liechtenstein	23.06
	2	1	Julian Reus	Germany	DNS

Semifinals

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	6	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	20.23	Q
2	1	5	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.26	Q
3	1	3	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.32	Q, PB
4	1	7	Diego Marani	Italy	20.36	Q, PB
5	1	4	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.38	q, NR
6	2	7	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.40	Q, SB
7	2	5	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.40	Q, PB
8	2	1	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.52	q
8	1	6	James Ellington	Great Britain	20.52
10	2	8	Ben Bassaw	France	20.62
11	2	3	Daniel Talbot	Great Britain	20.62
12	2	4	Eseosa Desalu	Italy	20.73
13	1	8	Alex Wilson	Switzerland	20.76
14	1	1	Robin Erewa	Germany	20.82
15	1	2	Sergio Ruiz	Spain	20.85
16	2	2	Alex-Platini Menga	Germany	20.89

Final

Wind: -1.6 m/s

The final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	4	Adam Gemili	Great Britain	19.98	EL
	3	Christophe Lemaitre	France	20.15
	6	Serhiy Smelyk	Ukraine	20.30	PB
4	5	Churandy Martina	Netherlands	20.37	SB
5	7	Diego Marani	Italy	20.43
6	1	Ramil Guliyev	Turkey	20.48
7	8	Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	Greece	20.53
8	2	Karol Zalewski	Poland	20.58

References

• Round 1 Results
• Semifinal Results
• Final Results