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

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	Guyana	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	Falih Fahmi	Iraq	22.6 seconds
5	Dennis Tipping	Australia	22.9 seconds
-	Milkha Singh	India	DNS

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-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