title: 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
text: # 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
  
  The men's 200 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 29 and 30 July.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Kevin Braunskill United States |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Olapade Adeniken Nigeria |
  | Bronze | Dmitriy Bartenyev Soviet Union |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  30 July Wind: +4.2 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 20.87 w |
  | | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 20.88 w |
  | | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 20.92 w |
  | 4 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 20.99 w |
  | 5 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 21.00 w |
  | 6 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 21.12 w |
  | 7 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.16 w |
  | 8 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.23 w |
  
  ### Semifinals
  
  29 July
  
  **Semifinal 1**
  
  Wind: +2.4 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 20.83 w | Q |
  | 2 | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 20.92 w | Q |
  | 3 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.08 w | q |
  | 4 | Masahiro Nagura | Japan | 21.39 w | |
  | 5 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 21.57 w | |
  | 6 | Maurizio Federici | Italy | 21.60 w | |
  | 7 | Torbjörn Eriksson | Sweden | 21.74 w | |
  | 8 | Rodrigue Ceryl | France | 21.75 w | |
  
  **Semifinal 2**
  
  Wind: +2.0 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.02 | Q |
  | 2 | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 21.04 | Q |
  | 3 | Mark Garner | Australia | 21.21 | |
  | 4 | Victor Nwankwo | Nigeria | 21.38 | |
  | 5 | Didac Mañas | Spain | 21.66 | |
  | 6 | Johan Pierre | Canada | 21.68 | |
  | 7 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 21.77 | |
  | 8 | Wolfgang Montag | West Germany | 21.97 | |
  
  **Semifinal 3**
  
  Wind: +3.1 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 20.81 w | Q |
  | 2 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 20.90 w | Q |
  | 3 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 20.98 w | q |
  | 4 | Brad McCuaig | Canada | 21.37 w | |
  | 5 | Lloyd Stapleton | United Kingdom | 21.49 w | |
  | 6 | Roman Reiter | West Germany | 21.60 w | |
  | 7 | Yoshihiro Kato | Japan | 21.61 w | |
  | 8 | Maurizio De Masi | Italy | 21.78 w | |
  
  ### Heats
  
  29 July
  
  **Heat 1**
  
  Wind: +1.7 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Masahiro Nagura | Japan | 21.40 | Q |
  | 2 | Brad McCuaig | Canada | 21.47 | Q |
  | 3 | Roman Reiter | West Germany | 21.63 | q |
  | 4 | Jimmy Stafford | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.95 | |
  | 5 | Ally Nyonyi | Tanzania | 22.38 | |
  | 6 | William Archer | British Virgin Islands | 22.76 | |
  | 7 | Mohamed Abdulghani | Bangladesh | 23.10 | |
  | | Liu Yao | China | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 2**
  
  Wind: +1.4 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 21.67 | Q |
  | 2 | Didac Mañas | Spain | 21.73 | Q |
  | 3 | Milan Petaković | Yugoslavia | 22.09 | |
  | 4 | Yehuda Moreli | Israel | 22.54 | |
  | 5 | Paul Young | Western Samoa | 24.02 | |
  | | Óscar Fernández | Peru | DQ | |
  | | Francis Amuzu | Ghana | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 3**
  
  Wind: +1.5 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 21.06 | Q |
  | 2 | Rodrigue Ceryl | France | 21.60 | Q |
  | 3 | Torbjörn Eriksson | Sweden | 21.60 | q |
  | 4 | Leonardo Prevot | Cuba | 21.92 | |
  
  **Heat 4**
  
  Wind: +1.0 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 21.03 | Q |
  | 2 | Lloyd Stapleton | United Kingdom | 21.53 | Q |
  | 3 | Wolfgang Montag | West Germany | 21.66 | q |
  | 4 | Joseph Dias | Senegal | 21.91 | |
  | 5 | José Hernández | Puerto Rico | 22.43 | |
  | 6 | Jorge Castellón | Bolivia | 22.50 | |
  | | Robert Loua | Guinea | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 5**
  
  Wind: +0.9 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 21.11 | Q |
  | 2 | Mark Garner | Australia | 21.16 | Q |
  | 3 | Johan Pierre | Canada | 21.49 | q |
  | 4 | Maurizio Federici | Italy | 21.67 | q |
  | 5 | Aurelio Mancheno | Ecuador | 22.19 | |
  | 6 | Henry Sebbale | Uganda | 22.75 | |
  | | Francisco Brenes | Costa Rica | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 6**
  
  Wind: +2.5 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Victor Nwankwo | Nigeria | 21.40 w | Q |
  | 2 | Maurizio De Masi | Italy | 21.99 w | Q |
  | 3 | Joel Otim-Bua | Uganda | 22.32 w | |
  | 4 | Sriyantha Dissanayake | Sri Lanka | 22.87 w | |
  | 5 | Alfredo Trujillo | Honduras | 23.90 w | |
  | | Leif Jonsson | Sweden | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 7**
  
  Wind: +0.7 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 21.19 | Q |
  | 2 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.26 | Q |
  | 3 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 21.62 | q |
  | | Dennis Mowatt | Jamaica | DQ | |
  | | Ebenezer Lawson | Ghana | DQ | |
  
  **Heat 8**
  
  Wind: +2.3 m/s
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 21.13 w | Q |
  | 2 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 21.16 w | Q |
  | 3 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.34 w | q |
  | 4 | Yoshihiro Kato | Japan | 21.63 w | q |
  
  ## Participation
  
  According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.
  
  * Australia (2)
  * Bangladesh (1)
  * Bolivia (1)
  * British Virgin Islands (1)
  * Canada (2)
  * China (1)
  * Costa Rica (1)
  * Cuba (1)
  * East Germany (1)
  * Ecuador (1)
  * France (1)
  * Ghana (2)
  * Guinea (1)
  * Honduras (1)
  * Hungary (1)
  * Israel (1)
  * Italy (2)
  * Jamaica (1)
  * Japan (2)
  * Nigeria (2)
  * Peru (1)
  * Puerto Rico (1)
  * Senegal (1)
  * Soviet Union (2)
  * Spain (1)
  * Sri Lanka (1)
  * Sweden (2)
  * Tanzania (1)
  * Trinidad and Tobago (2)
  * Uganda (2)
  * United Kingdom (1)
  * United States (2)
  * West Germany (2)
  * Western Samoa (1)
  * Yugoslavia (1)
  * Zimbabwe (1)
  