Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 4 (heats and quarterfinals) August 5 (semifinals and final)
Competitors	44 from 23 nations
Medalists
Jesse Owens United States   Mack Robinson United States   Tinus Osendarp Netherlands

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 4 and August 5. The final was won by American Jesse Owens.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the eight heats advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.4
2	Tomás Beswick	Argentina	22.1
3	Mutsuo Taniguchi	Japan	22.2
4	Antonio Salcedo	Philippines
5	José de Almeida	Brazil
6	Aristidis Sakellariou	Greece

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.7
2	Egon Schein	Germany	22.0
3	Alan Pennington	Great Britain	22.1
4	Masao Yazawa	Japan	22.4
5	Pierre Dondelinger	France
6	Xaver Frick	Liechtenstein

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Lee Orr	Canada	21.6
3	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.8
4	Arthur Sweeney	Great Britain	22.1
5	Nemesio de Guzman	Philippines	22.9
6	Gunnar Christensen	Denmark	23.1

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.1
2	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary	22.1
3	Felix Rinner	Austria	22.4
4	Paul Bronner	France	22.6
5	Chen Kingkwan	Republic of China

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.9
2	Renos Frangoudis	Greece	22.1
3	József Sir	Hungary	22.2
4	Poh Kimseng	Republic of China
5	Pat Dannaher	South Africa

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.7
2	Howie McPhee	Canada	21.8
3	Börje Strandvall	Finland	22.6
4	George Fahoum	Egypt
5	Liu Changchun	Republic of China
6	Antonio Fondevilla	Argentina

Heat seven

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Packard	United States	21.2
2	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	21.8
3	Albert Steinmetz	Germany	21.9
4	Eric Whiteside	India

Heat eight

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.6
2	Aki Tammisto	Finland	22.2
3	Carlos Hofmeister	Argentina	22.3
4	Dieudonné Devrindt	Belgium
5	Mario Minai	Hungary
6	Alfred König	Austria

Quarterfinals

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lee Orr	Canada	21.2
2	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.3
3	Bob Packard	United States	21.3
4	József Sir	Hungary	21.6
5	Egon Schein	Germany	21.7
6	Tomás Beswick	Argentina

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.7
2	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.9
3	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.1
4	Renos Frangoudis	Greece
5	Mutsuo Taniguchi	Japan
6	Carlos Hofmeister	Argentina

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Howie McPhee	Canada	21.8
3	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	21.9
4	Aki Tammisto	Finland	22.0
5	Felix Rinner	Austria
	Albert Steinmetz	Germany		DQ

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.2
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.3
3	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.6
4	Gyula Gyenes	Hungary
5	Börje Strandvall	Finland

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mack Robinson	United States	21.1	=OR
2	Lee Orr	Canada	21.3
3	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.5
4	Bob Packard	United States	21.6
5	Karl Neckermann	Germany	21.8
6	Eric Grimbeek	South Africa	22.2

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jesse Owens	United States	21.3
2	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.5
3	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.6
4	Marthinus Theunissen	South Africa	21.8
5	Bruce Humber	Canada	22.0
6	Howie McPhee	Canada	22.0

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jesse Owens	United States	20.7	WR
	Mack Robinson	United States	21.1
	Tinus Osendarp	Netherlands	21.3
4	Paul Hänni	Switzerland	21.6
5	Lee Orr	Canada	21.6
6	Wil van Beveren	Netherlands	21.9

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-27.