Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres
# Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 5 and 6 September 1959.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Livio Berruti Italy | Nikolaos Georgopoulos Greece | Fritz Helfrich West Germany |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Livio Berruti | Italy | 22.2 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Archie MacDonald | Great Britain | 22.4 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | T. Ludwig | Luxembourg | 23.8 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Mohamed Haddad | Tunisia | 23.9 | |
| 1 | 2 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 21.9 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Brian Anson | Great Britain | 22.2 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Guy Lagorce | France | 22.5 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Paul Sahl | Luxembourg | 22.7 | |
| 5 | 2 | Hahir | Pakistan | 23.0 | |
| 1 | 3 | Salvatore Giannone | Italy | 21.9 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Rainald Bohnhoff | West Germany | 22.2 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Meyer | Pakistan | 23.7 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Mounir Zeitoun | Lebanon | 24.1 | |
| 1 | 4 | Jan Cholewa | Poland | 23.0 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Hayder | Tunisia | 23.7 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Molarinho Carmo | Portugal | 24.2 | Q |
| 1 | 5 | Fritz Helfrich | West Germany | 22.1 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Jerzy Pilaczyński | Poland | 22.5 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Giorgos Katsibardis | Greece | 22.6 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Chen Jiaquan | China | 22.6 | |
| 1 | 6 | Guy Robert | France | 22.3 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Norihiko Kubo | Japan | 22.4 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Kim | South Korea | 22.4 | Q |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Livio Berruti | Italy | 21.5 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Fritz Helfrich | West Germany | 22.0 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Giorgos Katsibardis | Greece | 22.5 | |
| 4 | 1 | Molarinho Carmo | Portugal | 23.4 | |
| 5 | 1 | Kim | South Korea | 23.9 | |
| 1 | 2 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 22.0 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Guy Lagorce | France | 22.1 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Archie MacDonald | Great Britain | 22.3 | |
| 4 | 2 | Rainald Bohnhoff | West Germany | 22.3 | |
| 5 | 2 | Norihiko Kubo | Japan | 22.5 | |
| 6 | 2 | Hayder | Tunisia | 23.4 | |
| 1 | 3 | Salvatore Giannone | Italy | 21.9 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Brian Anson | Great Britain | 22.0 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Andrzej Pilaczyński | Poland | 22.2 | |
| 4 | 3 | Guy Robert | France | 22.9 | |
| 5 | 3 | Meyer | Pakistan | 23.5 | |
| | ? | T. Ludwig | Luxembourg | ? | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Livio Berruti | Italy | 20.9 |
| | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 21.6 |
| | Fritz Helfrich | West Germany | 21.7 |
| 4 | Salvatore Giannone | Italy | 21.7 |
| 5 | Guy Lagorce | France | 21.7 |
| 6 | Brian Anson | Great Britain | 21.8 |
