The Men's 200 metres T44 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium on 1 and 2 September.
The race was also open to category T43 double amputees, and in the final T43 contestants took all 3 medals.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows:
T43World record 21.585 April 2007Johannesburg, South AfricaParalympic record21.6713 September 2008Beijing, ChinaBroken records during the 2012 Summer ParalympicsWorld record 21.30 1 September 2012 T44World & Paralympic record22.6213 September 2008Beijing, ChinaBroken records during the 2012 Summer ParalympicsWorld record 22.57 1 September 2012 World record 22.49 2 September 2012
Results
Round 1 Competed 1 September 2012 from 20:22. Qual. rule: first 2 in each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest other times (q) qualified.
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Class Time Notes1 Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira T43 21.88 Q, PB2 Jerome Singleton T44 23.23 Q3 Alister McQueen T44 24.25 4 Ivan Prokopyev T43 24.26 PB5 Jean-Baptiste Alaize T44 24.42 6 Jack Swift T44 24.88 Wind: -0.3 m/s
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Class Time Notes1 Blake Leeper T43 22.23 Q2 Arnu Fourie T44 22.57 Q, WR(T44)3 David Behre T43 23.65 q, SB4 Christoph Bausch T44 24.22 q5 Robert Mayer T44 24.67 6 Jia Tianlei T44 25.62 SB Wind: -0.8 m/s
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Class Time Notes1 Oscar Pistorius T43 21.30 Q, WR(T43)2 Jim Bob Bizzell T44 23.64 Q3 Keita Sato T44 24.34 RR4 Riccardo Scendoni T44 24.51 5 Marcio Fernandes T44 24.84 6 D.M.A. Pituwala Kankanange T44 26.23 Wind: -0.1 m/s
Final Competed 2 September 2012 at 21:15. Rank Athlete Country Class Time Notes Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira T43 21.45 RR Oscar Pistorius T43 21.52 Blake Leeper T43 22.46 4 Arnu Fourie T44 22.49 WR(T44)5 Jerome Singleton T44 23.58 6 Christoph Bausch T44 23.70 PB7 David Behre T43 23.71 8 Jim Bob Bizzell T44 28.19 Wind: -0.1 m/s
Q = qualified by place. q = qualified by time. WR = World Record. RR = Regional Record. PB = Personal Best. SB = Seasonal Best.
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