The men's 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 9 August.

Records Standing records prior to the 2018 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record19.19Berlin, Germany20 August 2009European record19.72Mexico City, Mexico12 September 1979Championship record19.85Munich, Germany9 August 2002World Leading19.65Monaco20 July 2018European Leading19.90Oslo, Norway7 June 2018Broken records during the 2018 European Athletics ChampionshipsChampionship record19.76Berlin, Germany9 August 2018European Leading19.76Berlin, Germany9 August 2018

Schedule Date Time Round8 August 2018 10:50 Round 18 August 2018 20:15 Semi-finals9 August 2018 21:05 Final

Competition format The top ten ranked athletes by time during the season who entered the championships were given a bye into the semi-finals.

Results

Round 1 First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the semi-finals. Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes15Robin Vanderbemden20.5022Andrew Howe20.6038Taymir Burnet20.6743Robin Erewa20.6951Pol Retamal20.9267Emil Ibrahimov21.2974Alexandru Terpezan21.3982Denis Dimitrov21.43 Wind: +0.1 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes18Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas20.4924Mickaël-Méba Zeze20.65, 33Davide Manenti20.7047Jonathan Quarcoo20.7752Marcus Lawler20.8065Ionut Andrei Neagoe21.2176Sergio Juárez21.33 Wind: -0.1 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes17Eseosa Desalu20.39, 28Stuart Dutamby20.6436Delano Williams20.8942Felix Svensson20.9555Oskari Lehtonen21.0664Jan Jirka21.1573Šimon Bujna21.26 Wind: +0.2 m/s

Heat 4 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes11Solomon Bockarie20.6628Steven Müller20.7834Daniel Rodríguez20.8145Silvan Wicki20.9356Gediminas Truskauskas21.1163Panayiótis Trivizás21.1877Markus Fuchs21.2982Paisios Dimiatriades21.31 Wind: +0.2 m/s

Semi-finals First 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final. Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes14Ramil Guliyev*20.3323Leon Reid*20.3835Ján Volko*20.5847Steven Müller20.7658Davide Manenti20.8162Taymir Burnet20.846Stuart Dutamby1Delano Williams Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes14Bruno Hortelano*20.2926Eseosa Desalu20.35, 35Adam Gemili*20.4642Mickaël-Méba Zeze20.4953Churandy Martina*20.5168Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas20.5477Robin Vanderbemden20.6281Robin Erewa20.79 Wind: +0.3 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes14Alex Wilson*20.1625Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake*20.3537Solomon Bockarie20.41, 43Serhiy Smelyk*20.5452Daniel Rodríguez20.7768Andrew Howe20.7876Aleixo-Platini Menga*20.8381Jonathan Quarcoo21.07 Wind: +0.3 m/s *Athletes who received a bye to the semi-finalsList of directly qualified athletes in Semi-Finals

Final Rank Lane Athlete Nation Time Notes 6 Ramil Guliyev 19.76 , , 4 Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 20.04 5 Alex Wilson 20.04 4 3 Bruno Hortelano 20.05 5 2 Adam Gemili 20.10 6 7 Eseosa Desalu 20.13 7 8 Leon Reid 20.37 8 1 Solomon Bockarie 20.39 Wind: +0.7 m/s

References 200m Men European Athletic Association