1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.39	Q, SB
2	4	Rodrigue Nordin	France	20.52	Q
3	1	Troy Douglas	Netherlands	20.55	Q, NR
4	1	Christophe Cheval	France	20.59	Q
5	3	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	20.63	Q
6	4	Geir Moen	Norway	20.64	Q
7	4	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.67	Q
8	3	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.74	Q
9	2	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.76	Q
9	3	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.76	Q, SB
11	4	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	20.85	q, SB
12	3	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	20.88	q
13	4	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	20.89	q
14	2	Alessandro Attene	Italy	20.95	Q
15	2	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.02	Q
16	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	21.05	q
17	2	Manuel Milde	Germany	21.08
18	1	Daniel Bittner	Germany	21.09
18	2	Tommy Kafri	Israel	21.09
20	3	Reşat Oğuz	Turkey	21.10
21	1	Martin Morkes	Czech Republic	21.14
21	2	Harri Kivelä	Finland	21.14
23	1	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	21.22
23	4	Javier Navarro	Spain	21.22
25	3	Panagiotis Sarris	Greece	21.24
26	4	Paul Brizzel	Ireland	21.25
27	2	Martin Brinarský	Slovakia	21.32
28	1	Martin Plesnicar	Slovenia	21.35
29	2	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	21.37
30	3	Mario Bonello	Malta	21.65
	3	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	DNF

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.61	Q
2	1	Troy Douglas	Netherlands	20.65	Q
3	2	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.74	Q
4	1	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.80	Q
5	1	Christophe Cheval	France	20.87	Q
6	2	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	20.89	Q
7	2	Rodrigue Nordin	France	21.00	Q
7	1	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.00
9	2	Geir Moen	Norway	21.01	Q
10	1	Alessandro Attene	Italy	21.04
10	2	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	21.04
12	2	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	21.08
13	2	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	21.14
14	1	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	21.15
15	2	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.28
	1	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	DSQ