Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 18, 19 and 20 August.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pietro Mennea Italy	Chris Monk Great Britain	Wardell Gilbreath United States

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s, Heat 4: -1.5 m/s, Heat 5: -0.5 m/s, Heat 6: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.87	Q^[4]
2	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.09	Q
3	1	Charles Ducasse	France	21.31	q^[5]
4	1	Selendorj Oimandahk	Mongolia	22.1
5	1	Georg Regner	Austria	22.6
	1	Eduardo González	Mexico	DNF
1	2	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.4	Q
2	2	Gheorghe Dulgheru	Romania	22.0	Q
3	2	Andrew Ratcliffe	Australia	22.08	^[6]
4	2	Susumu Shimizu	Japan	22.4
5	2	José Antônio Rabaca	Brazil	22.8
6	2	Houshemy Yar Arshadi	Iran	22.95
7	2	Sam Musoke	Uganda	23.1
1	3	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	21.03	Q
2	3	Bernd Borth	East Germany	21.7	Q
3	3	Witold Ziendalski	Poland	21.8	q
4	3	Toma Petrescu	Romania	21.9
5	3	Mohamed Hassan	Iraq	23.1
6	3	Younis Abdallah Rabee	Kuwait	23.40
1	4	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.31	Q
2	4	Mark Lutz	United States	21.39	Q
3	4	Vladimir Lovetskiy	Soviet Union	21.66	q^[7]
4	4	Lambert Micha	Belgium	21.8
5	4	Uwe Schläfer	West Germany	22.09
6	4	Wolfgang Rabe	East Germany	22.10
7	4	Said Marvez Mir	Pakistan	23.8
1	5	Klaus-Dieter Bieler	West Germany	21.5	Q
2	5	René Metz	France	21.52	Q,^[5]
3	5	Aleksandr Zhidkikh	Soviet Union	21.5	q
4	5	Pablo Bandomo	Cuba	21.8
5	5	Jesús Rohena	Puerto Rico	22.2
6	5	Doljinsouren Ganbat	Mongolia	23.5
1	6	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.43	Q^[8]
2	6	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	21.9	Q
3	6	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	21.9
4	6	Günther Würfel	Austria	22.0
5	6	Yussif Issa Al-Hasawi	Kuwait	23.1
6	6	Carlos Abbott	Costa Rica	23.2
7	6	Michele Komane	Central African Republic	23.6

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.88	Q^[4]
2	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.10	Q
3	1	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	21.12	Q
4	1	René Metz	France	21.36	Q^[5]
5	1	Reto Diezi	Switzerland	21.62	^[9]
6	1	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	21.6
7	1	Vladimir Lovetskiy	Soviet Union	21.84	^[7]
1	2	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.97	Q
2	2	Charles Ducasse	France	21.05	Q^[5]
3	2	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	21.13	Q
4	2	Mark Lutz	United States	21.25	Q^[10]
5	2	Aleksandr Zhidkikh	Soviet Union	21.46	^[7]
6	2	Bernd Borth	East Germany	21.62
7	2	Witold Ziendalski	Poland	21.8
8	2	Gheorghe Dulgheru	Romania	21.9

Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	4	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.56
	5	Chris Monk	Great Britain	20.70
	2	Wardell Gilbreath	United States	20.80
4	3	Charles Ducasse	France	20.82
5	6	Mark Lutz	United States	20.88
6	7	Luigi Benedetti	Italy	20.97
7	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	21.11
8	8	René Metz	France	21.32

^ "Zweite Plätze für Schiitenhelm und Karst" [Second places for Schiitenhelm und Karst]. Leichtathletik (in German). 34/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1202–1204. 21 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). 35/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Year list
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d French results
^ Australian results
^ ^a ^b ^c Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p32)
^ "Alle Schweizer vorzeitig ausgeschieden" (in German). Brig Glis Walliser Volksfreund. 20 August 1973. p. 8. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
^ "Die Universiade" (in German). Brig Glis Walliser Bote. 21 August 1973. p. 5. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
^ "Semifinals results". The Boston Globe. 20 August 1973. p. 25. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". The Central New Jersey Home News. 21 August 1973. p. 18. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
^ "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 1973. p. 43. Retrieved 8 April 2020.