The men's 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 29 September to 1 October 2019. The winning margin was 0.12 seconds.

Summary Out of the blocks in the final, Adam Gemili took a slight lead through the turn with Andre De Grasse then Noah Lyles giving up as much as a meter. Coming off the turn, Lyles accelerated past Gemili. Once Lyles hit his top end speed, there was no catching him. Behind him, Álex Quiñónez was gaining on De Grasse and both were edging closer to Gemili. 20 metres out, both went by. Lyles won by 2 metres, De Grasse held off Quiñónez for silver.

Lyles' victory capped an evening of 3 men's gold medals for USA also including Sam Kendricks in the pole vault and Donavan Brazier in the 800 metres.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthleteLocationDate World19.19Berlin, Germany20 August 2009ChampionshipWorld Leading19.50 Lausanne, Switzerland5 July 2019African19.68Atlanta, United States1 August 1996Asian19.88 London, Great Britain21 July 2019North, Central American and Caribbean19.19 Berlin, Germany20 August 2009South American19.81 Berlin, Germany20 August 2009European19.72 Mexico City, Mexico12 September 1979Oceanian20.06 Mexico City, Mexico16 October 1968

The following records were set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date Lebanese20.84Noureddine Hadid29 Sep 2019Yemeni22.37Ahmed Al-Yaari

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 20.40.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows: Date Time Round29 September 20:05 Heats30 September 20:50 Semi-finals1 October 22:40 Final

Results Heats The first three in each heat (Q) and the next three fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.Heats results (Archived version)

Wind:Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: +1.0 m/s, Heat 6: +0.9 m/s, Heat 7: +0.2 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 7 Adam Gemili 20.06 Q, 2 3 4 Álex Quiñónez 20.08 Q 3 5 4 Aaron Brown 20.10 Q 4 5 5 Miguel Francis 20.11 Q 5 4 6 Kyle Greaux 20.19 Q 6 2 4 Xie Zhenye 20.20 Q 7 6 7 Andre De Grasse 20.20 Q 8 7 8 Jereem Richards 20.23 Q 8 3 8 Yohan Blake 20.23 Q, 10 2 3 Zharnel Hughes 20.24 Q, 11 7 3 Noah Lyles 20.26 Q 12 1 2 Ramil Guliyev 20.27 Q 13 6 9 Clarence Munyai 20.29 Q 14 2 5 Anaso Jobodwana 20.35 Q, 15 5 6 Rasheed Dwyer 20.37 Q 16 1 6 Taymir Burnet 20.37 Q 17 7 2 Brendon Rodney 20.38 Q 18 6 6 Serhiy Smelyk 20.39 Q 19 1 9 Divine Oduduru 20.40 q 20 3 6 Alex Wilson 20.40 Q 21 7 7 Andre Ewers 20.41 q 22 5 3 Fausto Desalu 20.43 q 23 3 7 Aldemir da Silva Júnior 20.44 24 2 8 Yuki Koike 20.46 25 4 2 Yancarlos Martínez 20.47 Q 26 2 7 Fahhad Al-Subaie 20.51 27 4 4 Reynier Mena 20.52 Q 28 6 3 Sydney Siame 20.58 29 4 7 Jeremy Dodson 20.60 30 6 4 Kirara Shiraishi 20.62 31 5 8 Jun Yamashita 20.62 32 7 6 Mouhamadou Fall 20.63 33 4 3 Bernardo Baloyes 20.64 34 6 8 Steven Müller 20.69 35 7 4 Guy Maganga Gorra 20.74 36 1 5 Paulo André de Oliveira 20.75 37 5 7 Abdelaziz Mohamed 20.75 38 3 2 Yang Chun-han 20.80 39 3 5 Noureddine Hadid 20.84 40 6 5 Sibusiso Matsenjwa 20.85 41 4 8 Emmanuel Eseme 20.87 42 3 9 Antonio Infantino 20.89 43 1 8 Rodney Rowe 20.92 44 5 9 Emmanuel Arowolo 21.07 45 1 3 Fodé Sissoko 21.30 46 4 5 Kenneth Bednarek 21.50 47 2 6 José Andrés Salazar 21.64 48 2 9 Muhd Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid 21.99 49 6 2 Ahmed Al-Yaari 22.37 50 3 3 Grégory Bradai 22.79 1 4 Terrance Jones 5 2 Jeffrey Vanan 7 5 Alonso Edward

Semi-finals

The first 2 in each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Wind:Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Noah Lyles 19.86 Q 2 2 4 Álex Quiñónez 19.95 Q 3 2 6 Xie Zhenye 20.03 q 4 1 5 Adam Gemili 20.03 Q, 5 3 6 Andre De Grasse 20.08 Q 6 1 4 Ramil Guliyev 20.16 Q 7 1 6 Aaron Brown 20.20 q 8 3 7 Kyle Greaux 20.24 Q 9 2 8 Yancarlos Martínez 20.28 10 1 7 Jereem Richards 20.28 11 3 5 Zharnel Hughes 20.30 12 3 8 Taymir Burnet 20.34 13 2 9 Brendon Rodney 20.34 14 3 9 Anaso Jobodwana 20.34 15 3 4 Yohan Blake 20.37 16 1 8 Rasheed Dwyer 20.54 17 1 9 Clarence Munyai 20.55 18 1 2 Serhiy Smelyk 20.55 19 2 3 Andre Ewers 20.61 20 3 3 Reynier Mena 20.61 21 2 2 Fausto Desalu 20.73 22 3 2 Divine Oduduru 20.84 1 3 Alex Wilson 2 7 Miguel Francis

Final The final was started on 1 October at 22:40.

Wind: +0.3 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Noah Lyles 19.83 7 Andre De Grasse 19.95 4 Álex Quiñónez 19.98 4 6 Adam Gemili 20.03 5 9 Ramil Guliyev 20.07 6 3 Aaron Brown 20.10 7 2 Xie Zhenye 20.14 8 8 Kyle Greaux 20.39

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