2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres
# 2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 14 and 15 August.

The event was won by Great Britain's Adam Gemili in 19.98 seconds. Christophe Lemaitre of France, the defending champion, came second just as he did in the 100 metres, and Serhiy Smelyk of Ukraine came third.

## Medalists

| Gold | Adam Gemili Great Britain |
| - | - |
| Silver | Christophe Lemaître France |
| Bronze | Serhiy Smelyk Ukraine |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Usain Bolt (JAM) | 19.19 | Berlin, Germany | 20 August 2009 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 19.72 | Mexico City, Mexico | 12 September 1979 |
| Championship record | Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE) | 19.85 | Munich, Germany | 9 August 2002 |
| World Leading | Justin Gatlin (USA) | 19.68 | Monaco | 18 July 2014 |
| European Leading | Christophe Lemaître (FRA) | 20.08 | Monaco | 18 July 2014 |
| Broken records during the 2014 European Athletics Championships |||||
| European Leading | Adam Gemili (GBR) | 19.98 | Zürich, Switzerland | 15 August 2014 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 14 August 2014 | 12:05 | Round 1 |
| 14 August 2014 | 20:15 | Semifinals |
| 15 August 2014 | 21:50 | Final |

## Results

### Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 6 | Adam Gemili | Great Britain | 20.39 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 20.43 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Serhiy Smelyk | Ukraine | 20.49 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Eseosa Desalu | Italy | 20.55 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | James Ellington | Great Britain | 20.55 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 6 | Ramil Guliyev | Turkey | 20.59 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 8 | Churandy Martina | Netherlands | 20.60 | Q, SB |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Alex Wilson | Switzerland | 20.61 | Q, SB |
| 9 | 3 | 6 | Daniel Talbot | Great Britain | 20.63 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas | Greece | 20.64 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 8 | Diego Marani | Italy | 20.65 | Q |
| 12 | 1 | 8 | Ben Bassaw | France | 20.68 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | Alex-Platini Menga | Germany | 20.71 | q |
| 14 | 1 | 3 | Robin Erewa | Germany | 20.72 | q |
| 15 | 1 | 4 | Sergio Ruiz | Spain | 20.73 | q, SB |
| 16 | 3 | 4 | Karol Zalewski | Poland | 20.76 | q |
| 17 | 4 | 7 | Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | Norway | 20.78 | |
| 18 | 2 | 8 | Johan Wissman | Sweden | 20.82 | |
| 19 | 1 | 7 | Enrico Demonte | Italy | 20.90 | |
| 20 | 3 | 3 | Nil de Oliveira | Sweden | 20.93 | |
| 21 | 4 | 5 | Jonathan Åstrand | Finland | 21.03 | |
| 21 | 3 | 5 | Kevin Moore | Malta | 21.03 | NR |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Marek Niit | Estonia | 21.04 | |
| 24 | 2 | 3 | İzzet Safer | Turkey | 21.06 | |
| 25 | 4 | 3 | Joel Burgunder | Switzerland | 21.24 | |
| 26 | 2 | 6 | David Lima | Portugal | 21.25 | |
| 27 | 3 | 7 | Jan Žumer | Slovenia | 21.47 | |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | Petar Kremenski | Bulgaria | 21.75 | |
| 29 | 1 | 2 | Riste Pandev | Macedonia | 21.96 | |
| 30 | 4 | 2 | Mikel de Sa | Andorra | 22.54 | |
| 31 | 2 | 5 | Fabian Haldner | Liechtenstein | 23.06 | |
| | 2 | 1 | Julian Reus | Germany | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | Adam Gemili | Great Britain | 20.23 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 20.26 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | Serhiy Smelyk | Ukraine | 20.32 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 1 | 7 | Diego Marani | Italy | 20.36 | Q, PB |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | Ramil Guliyev | Turkey | 20.38 | q, NR |
| 6 | 2 | 7 | Churandy Martina | Netherlands | 20.40 | Q, SB |
| 7 | 2 | 5 | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas | Greece | 20.40 | Q, PB |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Karol Zalewski | Poland | 20.52 | q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | James Ellington | Great Britain | 20.52 | |
| 10 | 2 | 8 | Ben Bassaw | France | 20.62 | |
| 11 | 2 | 3 | Daniel Talbot | Great Britain | 20.62 | |
| 12 | 2 | 4 | Eseosa Desalu | Italy | 20.73 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Alex Wilson | Switzerland | 20.76 | |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | Robin Erewa | Germany | 20.82 | |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Sergio Ruiz | Spain | 20.85 | |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | Alex-Platini Menga | Germany | 20.89 | |

### Final

Wind: -1.6 m/s

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Adam Gemili | Great Britain | 19.98 | EL |
| | 3 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 20.15 | |
| | 6 | Serhiy Smelyk | Ukraine | 20.30 | PB |
| 4 | 5 | Churandy Martina | Netherlands | 20.37 | SB |
| 5 | 7 | Diego Marani | Italy | 20.43 | |
| 6 | 1 | Ramil Guliyev | Turkey | 20.48 | |
| 7 | 8 | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas | Greece | 20.53 | |
| 8 | 2 | Karol Zalewski | Poland | 20.58 | |
