Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Abdoulaye Seye, Livio Berruti and Lester Carney
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	2–3 September
Competitors	62 from 47 nations
Medalists
Livio Berruti   Italy   Lester Carney   United States   Abdoulaye Seye   France

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 200 metres was held on 2 September and 3 September as part of the Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics, which were held in Rome. 74 athletes from 54 nations entered, but only 62 athletes from 47 nations ultimately competed. Livio Berruti was the first male 200 m Olympic champion who was not from the United States or Canada.

Results

First round

The top two runners in each of the 12 heats advanced, as well as the next four fastest runners from across all heats.

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Genevay	France	21.2 seconds
2	Vadim Arkhipchuk	Soviet Union	21.5 seconds
3	James Omagbemi	Nigeria	26.2 seconds
-	Iftikhar Shah	Pakistan	DNS
-	Hailou	Ethiopia	DNS
-	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	DNS

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Les Carney	United States	21.1 seconds
2	David Segal	Great Britain	21.3 seconds
3	Peter Laeng	Switzerland	21.6 seconds
4	Shahrudin Mohamed Ali	Malaya	22.3 seconds
-	Hilmar Thorbjörnsson	Iceland	DNS

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Stone Johnson	United States	21.7 seconds
2	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	22.0 seconds
3	Clayton Glasgow	British Guiana	22.6 seconds
4	James Roberts	Liberia	23.1 seconds
-	Harry Jerome	Canada	DNS

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marcel Wendelin	United Team of Germany	21.6 seconds
2	Leonid Bartenev	Soviet Union	21.8 seconds
3	Michael Okantey	Ghana	21.8 seconds
4	Santiago Plaza	Mexico	22.0 seconds
5	Huang Suh-Chuang	Republic of China	22.9 seconds
6	Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	23.1 seconds

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.1 seconds
2	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	21.3 seconds
3	Csaba Csutorás	Hungary	21.7 seconds
4	Sitiveni Moceidreke	Fiji	21.8 seconds
5	Elmar Kunauer	Austria	22.2 seconds
-	Emmanuel Putu	Liberia	DNS

First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ray Norton	United States	21.2 seconds
2	David Jones	Great Britain	21.2 seconds
3	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.4 seconds
4	Ramón Vega	Puerto Rico	21.8 seconds
5	Patrick Lowry	Ireland	22.1 seconds
-	Vilém Mandlík	Czechoslovakia	DNF

First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.0 seconds
2	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	21.4 seconds
3	Lloyd Murad	Venezuela	21.8 seconds
4	Pentti Rekola	Finland	22.2 seconds
5	Bouchaib El-Maachi	Morocco	22.3 seconds
-	Jalal Gozal	Indonesia	DNS

First round, heat 8

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	21.2 seconds
2	José da Conceição Telles	Brazil	21.3 seconds
3	Sebald Schnellmann	Switzerland	21.4 seconds
4	Jean-Pierre Barra	Belgium	22.3 seconds
5	Enrique Bautista	Philippines	23.0 seconds
6	Ali Yusuf Zaid	Afghanistan	23.1 seconds

First round, heat 9

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdoulaye Seye	France	21.1 seconds
2	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	21.3 seconds
3	Clifton Bertrand	British West Indies	21.3 seconds
4	Amos Grodzinowsky	Israel	21.8 seconds
5	Barry Robinson	New Zealand	22.2 seconds
6	Lennart Jonsson	Sweden	22.3 seconds

First round, heat 10

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Foik	Poland	21.1 seconds
2	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.3 seconds
3	Armando Sardi	Italy	21.6 seconds
4	Lynn Eves	Canada	21.9 seconds
5	Mikhail Bachvarov	Bulgaria	22.2 seconds
6	Roger Bofferding	Luxembourg	23.2 seconds

First round, heat 11

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	21.3 seconds
2	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	21.4 seconds
3	Manfred Germar	United Team of Germany	21.6 seconds
4	Romain Poté	Belgium	22.1 seconds
5	Melanio Asensio	Spain	22.3 seconds
6	Aydin Onur	Turkey	22.5 seconds

First round, heat 12

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	21.1 seconds
2	Salvatore Giannone	Italy	21.5 seconds
3	Kimitada Hayase	Japan	22.3 seconds
4	Fahmi Falih	Iraq	22.6 seconds
5	Dennis Tipping	Australia	22.9 seconds
-	Milkha Singh	India	DNS

Second round

The first three in each quarter-final qualified for the semi-finals.

Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Stone Johnson	United States	20.9 seconds
2	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	21.1 seconds
3	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	21.2 seconds
4	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	21.3 seconds
5	Yuriy Konovalov	Soviet Union	21.3 seconds
6	Clifton Bertrand	British West Indies	21.4 seconds
7	Rafael Romero	Venezuela	21.4 seconds

Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdoulaye Seye	France	20.8 seconds
2	Ray Norton	United States	21.0 seconds
3	David Segal	Great Britain	21.1 seconds
4	Seraphino Antao	Kenya	21.3 seconds
5	Vadim Arkhipchuk	Soviet Union	21.5 seconds
6	José da Conceição Telles	Brazil	21.5 seconds
7	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	22.0 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Les Carney	United States	20.9 seconds
2	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.0 seconds
3	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	21.1 seconds
4	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.5 seconds
5	Leonid Bartenev	Soviet Union	21.5 seconds
6	Sebald Schnellmann	Switzerland	21.5 seconds
7	Salvatore Giannone	Italy	21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Paul Genevay and Livio Berruti in heat 4, interrupted by a pigeon

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.8 seconds
2	Marian Foik	Poland	20.9 seconds
3	Paul Genevay	France	21.1 seconds
4	David Jones	Great Britain	21.2 seconds
5	Carl Fredrik Bunæs	Norway	21.4 seconds
6	Marcel Wendelin	United Team of Germany	21.6 seconds

Semi-Finals

The first three in each semi-final qualified for the final.

Semi-final 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdoulaye Seye	France	20.8 seconds
2	Marian Foik	Poland	21.0 seconds
3	Les Carney	United States	21.1 seconds
4	Edward Jefferys	South Africa	21.3 seconds
5	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	21.5 seconds
-	David Segal	Great Britain	DSQ

Semi-final 2

Berruti tied the world record of 20.5 seconds.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.5 seconds=EWR
2	Ray Norton	United States	20.7 seconds
3	Stone Johnson	United States	20.8 seconds
4	Peter Radford	Great Britain	20.9 seconds
5	Dennis Johnson	British West Indies	21.0 seconds
6	Paul Genevay	France	21.0 seconds

Final

Berruti tied again the world record of 20.5 seconds

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.5 seconds=EWR
2	Les Carney	United States	20.6 seconds
3	Abdoulaye Seye	France	20.7 seconds
4	Marian Foik	Poland	20.8 seconds
5	Stone Johnson	United States	20.8 seconds
6	Ray Norton	United States	20.9 seconds

References

• Olympic Report 1960 Volume 2
• Sports Reference 1960 200m