1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 200 metres

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Kevin Little	United States	20.73	Q
2	4	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.77	Q, NR
3	1	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	20.85	Q
4	3	Christophe Cheval	France	20.94	Q, PB
5	2	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	20.99	Q
6	2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.99	Q
7	3	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	21.01	Q
8	4	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.02	Q
9	1	Iván García	Cuba	21.03	Q
10	4	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.13	q, NR
10	6	Geir Moen	Norway	21.13	Q
12	2	Angelo Cipolloni	Italy	21.15	q
12	3	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	21.15	q
14	5	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	21.17	Q, NR
15	6	Julian Golding	Great Britain	21.18	q
16	1	Ahmed Douhou	Ivory Coast	21.21	q, NR
17	6	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	21.29	q
18	1	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	21.32
18	5	Gaëtan Bernard	Belgium	21.32	q
20	1	Francisco Navarro	Spain	21.33
21	4	Marcelo Brivilati da Silva	Brazil	21.50
22	2	Claudinei da Silva	Brazil	21.58
23	5	Han Chaoming	China	21.61
24	3	Koji Ito	Japan	21.68
25	1	Ioannis Nafpliotis	Greece	21.76
26	5	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	21.88
27	4	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	21.90
28	6	Georgios Panagiotopoulos	Greece	21.97
29	4	Javier Verme	Peru	21.98	NR
30	3	Neil de Silva	Trinidad and Tobago	22.66
31	3	Doli Aligbane	Zaire	23.82
	6	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	DNF
	2	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	DNS
	2	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	DNS
	6	Carlos Santa	Dominican Republic	DNS

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	20.41	Q, CR
2	2	Kevin Little	United States	20.46	Q
3	3	Iván García	Cuba	20.48	Q, PB
4	3	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	20.52	Q
5	1	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	20.82	Q
6	3	Christophe Cheval	France	20.83	PB
7	1	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	20.89	Q
8	1	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	21.08
9	2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	21.15
10	1	Sebastián Keitel	Chile	21.17
11	3	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.33
12	1	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	21.61
12	2	Gaëtan Bernard	Belgium	21.61
14	3	Ahmed Douhou	Ivory Coast	21.81
15	2	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.84
16	3	Angelo Cipolloni	Italy	21.87
17	1	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	22.13
	2	Geir Moen	Norway	DNS

[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kevin Little	United States	20.40	CR
	Iván García	Cuba	20.46	PB
	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	21.10
4	Troy Douglas	Bermuda	21.22
5	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	21.27
	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	DNF