Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	2 August (heats and quarterfinals) 3 August (semifinals and final)
Competitors	12 from 8 nations
Medalists
Mel Patton  United States Barney Ewell  United States Lloyd La Beach  Panama

The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between 2 August and 3 August. The final was won by American Mel Patton.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record	Jesse Owens (USA)	20.3	Michigan, United States	1935
Olympic Record		20.7	Berlin, Germany	5 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 2 August 1948	14:30 16:15	Round 1 Round 2
Tuesday, 3 August 1948	15:30 17:15	Semifinals Finals

Results

Round 1

The fastest two runners in each of the twelve heats advanced to Round 2.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	21.3
2	Ted Haggis	Canada	22.2
3	Haukur Clausen	Iceland	22.2
4	Stanley Lines	Bermuda

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul Vallé	Great Britain	22.3
2	John De Saram	Ceylon	23.1
3	Bernabe Lovina	Philippines	23.2
4	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	21.9
2	Dennis Shore	South Africa	22.1
3	António Morais	Portugal	22.6

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Barney Ewell	United States	21.6
2	Abram van Heerden	South Africa	21.8
3	Angel García	Cuba	22.2
4	Fernand Linssen	Belgium
5	Hazzard Dill	Bermuda
6	Ali Salman	Iraq

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Julien Lebas	France	22.0
2	Rosalvo Ramos	Brazil	22.2
3	Basil McKenzie	Jamaica	22.4

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mel Patton	United States	21.6
2	Leslie Laing	Jamaica	21.8
3	Guillermo Geary	Argentina	23.0
4	Duncan White	Ceylon

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina	22.2
2	John Fairgrieve	Great Britain	22.2
3	Raúl Mazorra	Cuba	23.0
4	Kemal Aksur	Turkey
5	Guillermo Rodríguez	Mexico

Heat 8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cliff Bourland	United States	21.3
2	Aroldo da Silva	Brazil	21.9
3	Georgie Lewis	Trinidad and Tobago	22.4
4	Walter Pérez	Uruguay
5	Peter Bloch	Norway

Heat 9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Treloar	Australia	21.7
2	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan	22.8
3	Raşit Öztaş	Turkey	23.0
4	Perry Johnson	Bermuda

Heat 10

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alastair McCorquodale	Great Britain	22.3
2	Santiago Ferrando	Peru	22.5
3	Fernand Bourgaux	Belgium	22.9
4	Étienne Bally	France

Heat 11

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Juan López	Uruguay	22.1
2	Ivan Hausen	Brazil	22.2
3	Gabe Scholten	Netherlands	22.2
4	Maung Sein Pe	Burma

Heat 12

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lloyd La Beach	Panama	21.4
2	Jan Lammers	Netherlands	22.0
3	Don Pettie	Canada	22.0
4	Mario Fayos	Uruguay
5	Joseph Stéphan	France

Round 2

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	21.3
2	Barney Ewell	United States	21.8
3	Paul Vallé	Great Britain	22.1
4	Jan Lammers	Netherlands
5	Julien Lebas	France
6	Rosalvo Ramos	Brazil

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cliff Bourland	United States	21.3
2	John Treloar	Australia	21.5
3	Aroldo da Silva	Brazil	22.0
4	Gerardo Bönnhoff	Argentina
5	Dennis Shore	South Africa
6	John De Saram	Ceylon

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lloyd La Beach	Panama	21.7
2	Leslie Laing	Jamaica	21.8
3	Abram van Heerden	South Africa	22.9
4	John Fairgrieve	Great Britain
5	Santiago Ferrando	Peru

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mel Patton	United States	21.4
2	Alastair McCorquodale	Great Britain	21.8
3	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	22.0
4	Ivan Hausen	Brazil	22.3
5	Ted Haggis	Canada
6	Muhammad Sharif Butt	Pakistan

Semifinals

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

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	21.4
2	Mel Patton	United States	21.6
3	Barney Ewell	United States	21.8
4	Aroldo da Silva	Brazil
5	Abram van Heerden	South Africa
6	Paul Vallé	Great Britain

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Cliff Bourland	United States	21.5
2	Lloyd La Beach	Panama	21.6
3	Leslie Laing	Jamaica	21.6
4	John Treloar	Australia
5	Alastair McCorquodale	Great Britain
6	Rafael Fortún	Cuba

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Mel Patton	United States	21.1
	Barney Ewell	United States	21.1
	Lloyd La Beach	Panama	21.2
4	Herb McKenley	Jamaica	21.3	*
5	Cliff Bourland	United States	21.3	*
6	Leslie Laing	Jamaica	21.8	*

Key: * = Time is an estimate

External links

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.