1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) qualified for the quarterfinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	Iván García	Cuba	20.41	Q
2	4	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.45	Q
3	9	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.46	Q
4	9	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.47	Q
5	1	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.48	Q
6	1	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.49	Q, PB
6	4	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.49	Q
8	9	Sergey Osovich	Ukraine	20.56	q
9	7	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.59	Q
10	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	20.60	Q
11	1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.60	q
12	6	Kevin Little	United States	20.68	Q
13	6	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.69	Q, NR
14	6	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	20.70	Q, SB
15	1	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	20.71	q, SB
15	2	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	20.71	Q, SB
17	1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	20.72	q, SB
17	3	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	20.72	Q, SB
17	9	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	20.72	q
20	5	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	20.73	Q
21	2	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.74	Q
22	3	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.75	Q
22	5	Joseph Loua	Guinea	20.75	Q
22	6	Steve Brimacombe	Australia	20.75
22	7	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.75	Q
26	5	Jon Drummond	United States	20.76	Q
27	3	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.77	Q
27	5	Christoph Postinger	Austria	20.77
29	5	Antoine Boussombo	Gabon	20.79	NR
29	8	Geir Moen	Norway	20.79	Q
31	8	Gentry Bradley	United States	20.80	Q
31	5	Thierry Lubin	France	20.80
33	3	Koji Ito	Japan	20.82
34	7	Ioannis Nafpliotis	Greece	20.84	Q
35	8	Carlos Gats	Argentina	20.86	Q
36	2	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	20.88	Q
36	2	Phillip Mukomana	Zimbabwe	20.88	SB
36	7	Andrey Fedoriv	Russia	20.88
39	4	Carlo Occhiena	Italy	20.90	Q
40	6	Alessandro Attene	Italy	20.92
41	4	Gilles Quénéhervé	France	20.93
42	8	Thomas Sbokos	Greece	20.94
43	8	Oumar Loum	Senegal	20.95
44	2	Justice Dipeba	Botswana	20.96	SB
45	4	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	20.98
46	7	Jordi Mayoral	Spain	20.99
47	6	Andrew Tynes	Bahamas	21.00
48	3	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	21.03
49	8	Ahmed Douhou	Ivory Coast	21.08
50	3	Lars Hedner	Sweden	21.30
51	9	Malik-Khaled Louahla	Algeria	21.31
52	1	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami	Oman	21.45
52	2	Patrick Johnson	Australia	21.45
52	8	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	21.45
55	4	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	21.58
56	8	Djaffar Hadhari	Comoros	21.59	NR
57	4	Kendon Maynard	United States Virgin Islands	21.64
58	3	Tao Wu-Shiun	Chinese Taipei	21.85
59	5	Arif Ahundov	Azerbaijan	22.08
60	6	Mohammad Bin Haji	Brunei	22.37
61	7	Kwame Galloway	Montserrat	22.45
62	9	Khongdy Amnouayphone	Laos	22.86
63	9	Mohd Mahbub Alam	Bangladesh	23.54
	2	Christophe Cheval	France	DNS
	7	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	DNS

First 3 of each Heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.13	Q
2	3	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.27	Q, PB
3	2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.28	Q
4	3	Kevin Little	United States	20.38	Q
5	4	Iván García	Cuba	20.48	Q
6	3	Sergey Osovich	Ukraine	20.54	Q, SB
7	3	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.56	q
8	3	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	20.57	q
9	2	Jon Drummond	United States	20.59	Q
10	4	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.62	Q
11	3	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.65	q
12	2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.69	q
13	2	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	20.73
14	1	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.77	Q
14	3	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.77
16	1	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.78	Q
16	2	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	20.78
18	2	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.83
18	3	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.83
20	4	Carlos Gats	Argentina	20.87	Q
21	4	Joseph Loua	Guinea	20.91
22	4	Ioannis Nafpliotis	Greece	20.94
23	4	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	20.96
24	1	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	21.04	Q
25	1	Gentry Bradley	United States	21.08
26	2	Carlo Occhiena	Italy	21.14
27	1	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	21.22
28	1	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	21.25
29	1	Sayon Cooper	Liberia	21.39
30	1	Owusu Dako	Great Britain	21.52
31	4	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	22.77
	4	Geir Moen	Norway	DNS

First 4 of each Semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.09	Q
2	2	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.18	Q
3	2	Jon Drummond	United States	20.29	Q
4	1	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.35	Q
5	1	Iván García	Cuba	20.39	Q
6	2	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.42	Q
7	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	20.43	Q, PB
7	2	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.43	SB
9	1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.46	Q
10	1	Sergey Osovich	Ukraine	20.51
11	1	Kevin Little	United States	20.57
12	1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.61
12	2	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.61
14	2	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	20.78
15	2	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.92
16	1	Carlos Gats	Argentina	21.44

Wind: 2.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.03
	4	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.23
	5	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	20.26
4	6	Iván García	Cuba	20.31
5	7	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	20.32
6	2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.37
7	1	Jon Drummond	United States	20.44
8	8	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.44