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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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Men's 200 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Don Quarrie (1972)
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date25 July 1976 (heats, quarterfinals)
26 July 1976 (semifinals, finals)
Competitors45 from 33 nations
Winning time20.23
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Don Quarrie
 Jamaica
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Millard Hampton
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dwayne Evans
 United States
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The men's 200 metres was an event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The competition was held on 25 July 1976 and 26 July 1976.[1] There were 45 competitors from 33 nations.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by 0.06 seconds by Don Quarrie of Jamaica.

Summary

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Starting in lane 2, co-world record holder Don Quarrie of Jamaica was out to the lead from the gun. Only American Millard Hampton was in near contact. Through the turn, Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago pulled up and eventually limped home almost a minute behind the field. Coming off the turn another American, Dwayne Evans on the outside in lane 7, and future world record holder Italian Pietro Mennea across the track in lane 1, were battling for bronze with Bogdan Grzejszczak of Poland the next pursuer. Quarrie won the gold medal, with Hampton finishing close second. Meanwhile, Evans had the stronger finish to hold off Mennea. The fastest finish of all was by Rui da Silva, who came off the turn in dead last but made up several metres to take fifth.

Quarrie's gold was Jamaica's first medal in the men's 200 metres. The United States extended its podium streak in the event to 10 Games.

Background

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This was the 17th appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. One of the eight finalists from the 1972 Games returned: bronze medalist Pietro Mennea of Italy. The favorite was Don Quarrie of Jamaica, who had also been favored four years earlier in Munich but pulled a hamstring in the semifinals. His biggest competitors in 1976 were Steve Williams of the United States, who was out injured, and James Gilkes of Guyana, who was not competing due to the African boycott.[2]

Antigua and Barbuda, the Ivory Coast, Kuwait, and Papua New Guinea each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 17th appearance, the only nation to have competed at each edition of the men's 200 metres to date.

Competition format

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The competition used the four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system introduced in 1960 was available but not used this Games due to the distribution of heats making it unnecessary.

There were 8 heats of between 6 and 7 runners each (before withdrawals), with the top 4 men in each advancing to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals consisted of 4 heats of 8 athletes each; the 4 fastest men in each heat advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals, each with 8 runners. Again, the top 4 athletes advanced. The final had 8 runners. The races were run on a 400 metre track.[2]

Records

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

World record  Tommie Smith (USA) 19.83 Mexico City, Mexico 16 October 1968
Olympic record  Tommie Smith (USA) 19.83 Mexico City, Mexico 16 October 1968

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 25 July 1976 10:30
18:05
Heats
Quarterfinals
Monday, 26 July 1976 14:45
16:50
Semifinals
Final

Results

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Heats

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Held on July 25, 1976.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Millard Hampton  United States 21.11 Q
2 Cuthbert Jacobs  Antigua and Barbuda 21.50 Q
3 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.57 Q
4 Armando Padilla  Nicaragua 23.07 Q
5 Hamed Ali  Saudi Arabia 23.37
Ainsley Armstrong  Trinidad and Tobago DNF
Hannu Mäkelä  Finland DNS

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Rick Mitchell  Australia 21.91 Q
2 Peter Muster  Switzerland 22.33 Q
3 Hasely Crawford  Trinidad and Tobago 22.35 Q
4 Calvin Dill  Bermuda 22.38 Q
Felix Lopez Matias  Dominican Republic DNS
Aleksandr Aksinin  Soviet Union DNS

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Dwayne Evans  United States 20.96 Q
2 Peter Fitzgerald  Australia 21.35 Q
3 Georges Kablan Degnan  Ivory Coast 21.57 Q
4 Abdul Aziz Abdul Kareem  Kuwait 22.44 Q
5 Rawle Clarke  Barbados 22.75
Colin Thurton  Belize DNS
Petar Petrov  Bulgaria DNS

Heat 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Guy Abrahams  Panama 20.95 Q
2 Thorsten Johansson  Sweden 21.05 Q
3 Pietro Farina  Italy 21.32 Q
4 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 21.33 Q
5 Mark Lutz  United States 21.50
6 Christian Dorosario  Senegal 21.96
Robert Martin  Canada DNS

Heat 5

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.93 Q
2 Zenon Nowosz  Poland 21.29 Q
3 Joseph Arame  France 21.34 Q
4 Sammy Monsels  Suriname 21.60 Q
5 Ramli Ahmad  Malaysia 21.92
Clive Sands  Bahamas DNF
Hermes Ramirez  Cuba DNS

Heat 6

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain 21.26 Q
2 Bogdan Grzejszczak  Poland 21.35 Q
3 Pedro Ferrer  Puerto Rico 21.60 Q
4 Tony Moore  Fiji 21.82 Q
5 Philippe Étienne  Haiti 22.57
Francisco Gómez  Cuba DNS
Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union DNS

Heat 7

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.85 Q
2 Rui da Silva  Brazil 20.99 Q
3 Endre Lépold  Hungary 21.50 Q
4 Walter Callander  Bahamas 21.79 Q
5 Marian Woronin  Poland 21.90
6 Ayoub Bodaghi  Iran 22.47
7 Wavala Kali  Papua New Guinea 22.64

Heat 8

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Roland Bombardella  Luxembourg 21.18 Q
2 Lambert Micha  Belgium 21.25 Q
3 Jean Mayer  France 21.25 Q
4 Hugh Fraser  Canada 21.54 Q
5 Barka Sy  Senegal 21.54
6 Vittorio Milanesio  Italy 21.94
Silvio Leonard  Cuba DNS

Quarterfinals

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Held on July 25, 1976.

Quarterfinal 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Dwayne Evans  United States 20.56 Q
2 Guy Abrahams  Panama 20.72 Q
3 Rui da Silva  Brazil 20.76 Q
4 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.03 Q
5 Peter Muster  Switzerland 21.09
6 Zenon Nowosz  Poland 21.22
7 Pietro Farina  Italy 21.31
8 Hugh Fraser  Canada 21.57

Quarterfinal 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.70 Q
2 Georges Kablan Degnan  Ivory Coast 20.91 Q
3 Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain 21.07 Q
4 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 21.08 Q
5 Thorsten Johansson  Sweden 21.08
6 Calvin Dill  Bermuda 21.40
7 Endre Lépold  Hungary 21.68
Richard Mitchell  Australia DNS

Quarterfinal 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.28 Q
2 Millard Hampton  United States 20.83 Q
3 Joseph Arame  France 21.04 Q
4 Lambert Micha  Belgium 21.09 Q
5 Sammy Monsels  Suriname 21.29
6 Cuthbert Jacobs  Antigua and Barbuda 21.33
7 Tony Moore  Fiji 21.75
8 Abdul Aziz Abdul Kareem  Kuwait 22.34

Quarterfinal 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Hasely Crawford  Trinidad and Tobago 20.95 Q
2 Bogdan Grzejszczak  Poland 21.02 Q
3 Roland Bombardella  Luxembourg 21.03 Q
4 Peter Fitzgerald  Australia 21.07 Q
5 Pedro Ferrer  Puerto Rico 21.33
6 Walter Callander  Bahamas 21.78
7 Armando Padilla  Nicaragua 22.74
8 Jean Mayer  France 24.27

Semifinals

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Held on July 26, 1976.

Semifinal 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.67 Q
2 Millard Hampton  United States 20.69 Q
3 Hasely Crawford  Trinidad and Tobago 20.99 Q
4 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.09 Q
5 Georges Kablan Degnan  Ivory Coast 21.14
6 Roland Bombardella  Luxembourg 21.16
7 Nikolay Kolesnikov  Soviet Union 21.25
8 Peter Fitzgerald  Australia 21.29

Semifinal 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.48 Q
2 Dwayne Evans  United States 20.83 Q
3 Rui da Silva  Brazil 21.01 Q
4 Bogdan Grzejszczak  Poland 21.14 Q
5 Guy Abrahams  Panama 21.15
6 Joseph Arame  France 21.29
7 Lambert Micha  Belgium 21.46
8 Ainsley Bennett  Great Britain 21.52

Final

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Held on July 26, 1976. The Official Report has Crawford listed as did not finish.

Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.23
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Millard Hampton  United States 20.29
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 Dwayne Evans  United States 20.43
4 1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.54
5 8 Rui da Silva  Brazil 20.84
6 6 Bogdan Grzejszczak  Poland 20.91
7 3 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.17
8 5 Hasely Crawford  Trinidad and Tobago 1:19.60

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Games: Men's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "200 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 January 2021.