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

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.

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
← 1972
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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
  2 Don Quarrie   Jamaica 20.23
  4 Millard Hampton   United States 20.29
  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.