Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

First round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.7 seconds
2	Andrzej Zieliński	Poland	21.2 seconds
3	Clifton Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago	21.3 seconds
4	Johan du Preez	Rhodesia	21.4 seconds
5	Jean-Louis Descloux	Switzerland	21.5 seconds
6	F. J. Gutierrez Hernandez	Colombia	21.8 seconds
7	Gerardo di Tolla	Peru	22.1 seconds
8	Somsak Thongsuk	Thailand	22.6 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Roger Bambuck	France	21.2 seconds
2	Arquímedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.3 seconds
3	Boris Zubov	Soviet Union	21.4 seconds
4	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.5 seconds
5	Erasmus Amukun	Uganda	21.5 seconds
6	Carlos Lorenzo Manueco	Mexico	21.6 seconds
—	Levy Psawkin	Israel	Did not start
	Iijima Hideo	Japan	Did not start

First round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.3 seconds
2	Serafino Antao	Kenya	21.5 seconds
3	Csaba Csutoras	Hungary	21.5 seconds
4	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	21.5 seconds
5	David Njitock	Cameroon	22.5 seconds
6	Wesley Johnson	Liberia	22.5 seconds
—	Eric James Bigby	Australia	Did not start
	Pablo McNeil	Jamaica	Did not start

First round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Marian Foik	Poland	21.1 seconds
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.2 seconds
3	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	21.3 seconds
4	Jeffery Smith	Northern Rhodesia	21.7 seconds
5	Jassim Karim Kuraishi	Iraq	22.6 seconds
6	Lee Ar Tu	Republic of China	23.0 seconds
—	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	Did not start

First round, heat 5

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	20.9 seconds
2	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	20.9 seconds
3	Paul Genevay	France	21.0 seconds
4	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.1 seconds
5	Heinz Erbstosser	United Team of Germany	21.4 seconds
6	Tegegn Bezabih	Ethiopia	22.0 seconds
7	Vahab Shahkhordeh	Iran	22.3 seconds
—	Borys Savchuk	Soviet Union	Disqualified

First round, heat 6

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.8 seconds
2	Bob Lay	Australia	21.3 seconds
3	Pedro Grajales	Colombia	21.4 seconds
4	David Ejoke	Nigeria	21.4 seconds
5	George Reginald Collie	Bahamas	21.9 seconds
6	Kenneth Lawrence Powell	India	21.9 seconds
7	Aggrey Sheroy Awori	Uganda	22.2 seconds
8	William Hill	Hong Kong	22.5 seconds

First round, heat 7

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.0 seconds
2	Henry Carr	United States	21.1 seconds
3	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.3 seconds
4	Ivan Moreno	Chile	21.5 seconds
5	Alioune Sow	Senegal	21.9 seconds
6	Michael Okantey	Ghana	21.9 seconds
7	Rogelio Onofre	Philippines	22.1 seconds
8	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	Did not start

First round, heat 8

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.1 seconds
2	Richard Stebbins	United States	21.1 seconds
3	Fritz Roderfeld	United Team of Germany	21.5 seconds
4	Gary Holdsworth	Australia	21.6 seconds
5	Jose Fernandes da Rocha	Portugal	21.7 seconds
6	Valeriu Jurcă	Romania	21.8 seconds
7	Chung Ki Sun	South Korea	22.3 seconds
8	Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa	Madagascar	22.4 seconds

Second round, heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.9 seconds
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.2 seconds
3	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	21.4 seconds
4	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.5 seconds
5	Andrzej Zielinski	Poland	21.5 seconds
6	Boris Zubov	Soviet Union	21.8 seconds
7	Jeffery Smith	Northern Rhodesia	22.0 seconds
8	Serafino Antao	Kenya	22.1 seconds

Second round, heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Henry Carr	United States	21.0 seconds
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.1 seconds
3	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.2 seconds
4	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.2 seconds
5	Bob Lay	Australia	21.4 seconds
6	Csaba Csutoras	Hungary	21.4 seconds
7	Ivan Moreno	Chile	21.7 seconds
8	Johan du Preez	Rhodesia	21.8 seconds

Second round, heat 3

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Harry Jerome	Canada	21.2 seconds
2	Richard Stebbins	United States	21.2 seconds
3	Roger Bambuck	France	21.4 seconds
4	B. El Maachi Boushaib	Morocco	21.6 seconds
5	Clifton Bertrand	Trinidad and Tobago	21.6 seconds
6	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.7 seconds
7	P. A. Grajales Escobar	Colombia	21.7 seconds
8	Friedrich Roderfeld	United Team of Germany	22.2 seconds

Second round, heat 4

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.9 seconds
2	Marian Foik	Poland	21.0 seconds
3	Paul Genevay	France	21.3 seconds
4	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.4 seconds
5	Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	21.4 seconds
6	Peter Radford	Great Britain	21.5 seconds
7	Gary Holdsworth	Australia	22.1 seconds
—	David Ejoke	Nigeria	Did not start

Semifinal 1

Drayton tied the Olympic record in this semifinal, three-tenths of a second short of the world record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Paul Drayton	United States	20.5 seconds =OR
2	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	20.7 seconds
3	Richard Stebbins	United States	20.8 seconds
4	Marian Foik	Poland	20.9 seconds
5	Paul Genevay	France	20.9 seconds
6	Arquimedes Herrera	Venezuela	21.0 seconds
7	Franciscus Luitjes	Netherlands	21.1 seconds
8	B. El Maachi Bouchaib	Morocco	21.6 seconds

Semifinal 2

The second semifinal was the fourth race of the 200 metres in which an American won and an Italian took second place.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Henry Carr	United States	20.6 seconds
2	Livio Berruti	Italy	20.7 seconds
3	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.8 seconds
4	Harry Jerome	Canada	21.0 seconds
5	Roger Bambuck	France	21.0 seconds
6	Heinz Schumann	United Team of Germany	21.1 seconds
7	Jocelyn Delecour	France	21.2 seconds
8	M. Jegathesan	Malaysia	21.2 seconds