1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 200 metres

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.72	Q
2	5	Serhiy Osovych	Ukraine	20.85	Q
3	1	Allyn Condon	Great Britain	20.87	Q
4	2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.90	Q
4	6	Thomas Sbokos	Greece	20.90	Q
6	4	Yeoryios Panayiotopoulos	Greece	20.92	Q
7	3	Martin Lachkovics	Austria	20.93	Q
8	4	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	21.04	q
9	6	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	21.06	Q
10	7	Doug Turner	Great Britain	21.08	Q
11	7	Marc Foucan	France	21.09	Q
12	1	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	21.10	Q
13	2	Alexios Alexopoulos	Greece	21.15	Q
14	3	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	21.18	Q
15	7	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	21.21
16	3	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.23
17	2	Andrey Fedoriv	Russia	21.32
18	5	Tommy Kafri	Israel	21.37	Q, NR
19	5	Olivier Ernst	Belgium	21.40
20	6	Sergejs Inšakovs	Latvia	21.41
21	1	Tom Comyns	Ireland	21.42
22	6	Patrick Snoek	Netherlands	21.49
23	7	Stéphane Diriwächter	Switzerland	21.50
24	1	Venancio José	Spain	21.51
25	2	Juan Vicente Trull	Spain	21.52
26	4	Francisco Javier Navarro	Spain	21.58
27	4	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	21.62
28	1	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	21.80
28	2	Reşat Oğuz	Turkey	21.80
30	7	Mario Bonello	Malta	22.30	NR
	3	John Ertzgaard	Norway	DNS
	5	Rodrigue Nordin	France	DNS
	5	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	DNS

First 2 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Serhiy Osovych	Ukraine	20.53	Q
2	1	Allyn Condon	Great Britain	20.69	Q
3	3	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.81	Q
4	1	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	20.88	Q
5	1	Thomas Sbokos	Greece	20.91
6	3	Doug Turner	Great Britain	20.93	Q
7	2	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.94	Q
8	3	Martin Lachkovics	Austria	20.96
9	2	Yeoryios Panayiotopoulos	Greece	21.11
10	1	Marc Foucan	France	21.31
11	3	Alexios Alexopoulos	Greece	21.44
12	3	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	21.49
13	2	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	21.56
14	1	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	21.57
15	2	Tommy Kafri	Israel	21.65