| Final 20:00 | time | L | | 1. Maurice Greene |  USA | 19.90s | 3 | | 2. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva |  BRA | 20.00s | 6 | | 3. Francis Obikwelu |  NGR | 20.11s | 4 | | 4. Obadele Thompson |  BAR | 20.23s | 7 | | 5. Marcin Urbas |  POL | 20.30s | 5 | | 6. Kevin Little | USA | 20.37s | 8 | | 7. Julian Golding |  GBR | 20.48s | 1 | | -. Frank Fredericks |  NAM | DNS | 2 |
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Running his eighth race of the meeting, Greene took the final by a clear metre in 19.90 (10.25 at 100m) to become the first man to complete a World Championships 100m & 200m sprint double. His task was made easier as title holder Ato Boldon was out for the season and injury caused Fredericks to scratch from the final, but it was still a strong field as the second semi-final threw up two new sub-20 sec men.
While Greene eased to victory in his race in 20.10 followed by da Silva in a personal best, the other, aided by a wind vector went to Obikwelu in a startling 19.84. Behind him, Urba improved from 20.32 to 19.98, an unanticipated Polish record which made him the third fastest ever European. Devonish ran a lifetime best of 20.25 in that race but couldn’t make the final, in which da Silva overtook a tiring Obikwelu for the silver, improving again to 20 flat, while Urba was also unable to reproduce his semi-final form. Kentéris, destined to bring off a sensational Olympic victory a year later, won his heat but withdrew injured from his quarter-final.
| Semi 1 19.50h | time | L | | 1. Maurice Greene | USA | 20.10s | 4 | | 2. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva | BRA | 20.13s | 5 | | 3. Julian Golding | GBR | 20.28s | 6 | | 4. Obadele Thompson | BAR | 20.36s | 3 | | 5. Christopher Williams |  JAM | 20.48s | 1 | | 6. Koji Ito |  JPN | 20.51s | 8 | | 7. John Ertzgard |  NOR | 20.72s | 2 | | 8. Stefan Holz |  GER | 21.89s | 7 |
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| Semi 2 19.58h | time | L | | 1. Francis Obikwelu | NGR | 19.84s | 3 | | 2. Marcin Urbas | POL | 19.98s | 7 | | 3. Kevin Little | USA | 20.10s | 8 | | 4. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 20.10s | 4 | | 5. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.25s | 5 | | 6. Ivan Garcia |  CUB | 20.38s | 6 | | 7. Glenn Smith |  CAN | 20.72s | 2 | | -. Patrick Stevens |  BEL | DNS | 1 |
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| Heat 1 19.05h | time | L | | 1. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva | BRA | 20.22s | 4 | | 2. Obadele Thompson | BAR | 20.26s | 6 | | 3. Kevin Little | USA | 20.38s | 3 | | 4. Stefan Holz | GER | 20.59s | 8 | | 5. Panagiotis Sarris |  GRE | 20.65s | 7 | | 6. Renward Wells |  BAH | 20.66s | 1 | | 7. Matt Shirvington |  AUS | 20.67s | 2 | | 8. Douglas Turner | GBR | 21.08s | 5 |
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| Heat 2 19.11h | time | L | | 1. Maurice Greene | USA | 20.23s | 7 | | 2. Julian Golding | GBR | 20.32s | 5 | | 3. John Ertzgard | NOR | 20.61s | 2 | | 4. Glenn Smith | CAN | 20.65s | 4 | | 5. Marcus LaGrange |  RSA | 20.81s | 6 | | 6. Martin Lachkovics |  AUT | 20.89s | 1 | | -. Anninos Markoullides |  CYP | DQ | 8 | | -. Konstantinos Kenderis | GRE | DNS | 3 |
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| Heat 3 19.17h | time | L | | 1. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.51s | 3 | | 2. Ivan Garcia | CUB | 20.57s | 5 | | 3. Christopher Williams | JAM | 20.59s | 2 | | 4. Koji Ito | JPN | 20.62s | 4 | | 5. Torbjorn Eriksson |  SWE | 20.74s | 6 | | 6. Curtis Perry | USA | 20.76s | 1 | | 7. Joseph Loua |  GUI | 20.83s | 7 | | 8. Chris Donaldson |  NZL | 20.96s | 8 |
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| Heat 4 19.23h | time | L | | 1. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 20.11s | 6 | | 2. Francis Obikwelu | NGR | 20.15s | 5 | | 3. Marcin Urbas | POL | 20.32s | 2 | | 4. Patrick Stevens | BEL | 20.49s | 4 | | 5. Patrick Van Balkom |  NED | 20.59s | 3 | | 6. Joseph Batangdon |  CMR | 20.70s | 7 | | 7. Antoine Boussombo |  GAB | 20.74s | 8 | | 8. Sergey Osovich |  UKR | 20.93s | 1 |
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| Heat 1 11.30h | time | L | | 1. Francis Obikwelu | NGR | 20.54s | 8 | | 2. Glenn Smith | CAN | 20.68s | 7 | | 3. Joseph Batangdon | CMR | 20.76s | 5 | | 4. Panagiotis Sarris | GRE | 20.78s | 2 | | 5. Sergey Slukin |  RUS | 20.92s | 4 | | 6. Kim Collins |  STK | 20.95s | 3 | | 7. Salem Mubarak Al-Yami |  KSA | 21.27s | 6 |
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| Heat 2 11.36h | time | L | | 1. Frank Fredericks | NAM | 20.60s | 2 | | 2. John Ertzgard | NOR | 20.74s | 4 | | 3. Matt Shirvington | AUS | 20.75s | 5 | | 4. Martin Lachkovics | AUT | 20.77s | 3 | | 5. Ricardo Roach |  CHI | 21.13s | 8 | | 6. Asli Haseri |  BRU | 22.91s | 6 | | -. Carlos Gats |  ARG | DQ | 7 |
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| Heat 3 11.42h | time | L | | 1. Torbjorn Eriksson | SWE | 20.58s | 4 | | 2. Koji Ito | JPN | 20.59s | 3 | | 3. Anninos Markoullides | CYP | 20.73s | 8 | | 4. Andre Domingos Da Silva | BRA | 21.04s | 5 | | -. Heber Viera |  URU | DQ | 2 | | -. Petko Yankov |  BUL | DQ | 7 | | -. Robert M. Dennis |  LBR | DNS | 6 |
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| Heat 4 11.48h | time | L | | 1. Julian Golding | GBR | 20.48s | 8 | | 2. Patrick Stevens | BEL | 20.54s | 2 | | 3. Christopher Williams | JAM | 20.68s | 3 | | 4. Mohammed AlHooti |  OMN | 20.80s | 6 | | 5. Tommy Kafri |  ISR | 20.89s | 7 | | 6. Albert Agyeman |  GHA | 20.94s | 4 | | 7. Francisco Javier Navarro |  ESP | 20.97s | 5 |
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| Heat 5 11.54h | time | L | | 1. Konstantinos Kenderis | GRE | 20.68s | 4 | | 2. Douglas Turner | GBR | 20.72s | 2 | | 3. Maurice Greene | USA | 20.76s | 8 | | 4. Paul Brizzell |  IRL | 21.02s | 6 | | 5. Dean Capobianco | AUS | 21.48s | 5 | | 6. Keita Cline |  BVI | 21.69s | 3 | | -. ChristopherSilas Adolf |  PLW | DQ | 7 |
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| Heat 6 12.00h | time | L | | 1. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.56s | 7 | | 2. Patrick Van Balkom | NED | 20.65s | 6 | | 3. Renward Wells | BAH | 20.73s | 3 | | 4. Darryl Wohlsen | AUS | 20.79s | 8 | | 5. Paul Gorries | RSA | 20.94s | 5 | | 6. Malik-Khaled Louahla |  ALG | 21.21s | 4 | | 7. Christie Van Wyk | NAM | 21.27s | 2 | | 8. Robert Craig |  NFI | 24.10s | 1 |
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| Heat 7 12.06h | time | L | | 1. Marcus La Grange | RSA | 20.78s | 7 | | 2. Marcin Urbas | POL | 20.80s | 6 | | 3. Curtis Perry | USA | 20.86s | 3 | | 4. Joel Mascoll |  STV | 21.25s | 2 | | 5. Sittichai Suwonprateep |  THA | 21.32s | 5 | | 6. Christian Nsiah | GHA | 21.36s | 4 | | 7. Kwame Galloway |  MNT | 22.88s | 1 | | -. Nathanael Esprit |  AHO | DNS | 8 |
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| Heat 8 12.12h | time | L | | 1. Claudinei Quirino Da Silva | BRA | 20.38s | 5 | | 2. Ivan Garcia | CUB | 20.59s | 6 | | 3. Antoine Boussombo | GAB | 20.72s | 2 | | 4. Erik Wijmeersch | BEL | 20.89s | 4 | | 5. Sebastian Keitel | CHI | 20.90s | 3 | | 6. Wu-Shiun Tao |  TPE | 21.38s | 7 | | 7. Sherwin James |  DMN | 21.54s | 8 |
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| Heat 9 12.18h | time | L | | 1. Kevin Little | USA | 20.76s | 4 | | 2. Chris Donaldson | NZL | 20.87s | 3 | | 3. Sergey Osovich | UKR | 20.91s | 6 | | 4. Juan Pedro Toledo |  MEX | 21.00s | 5 | | 5. Gennadiy Chernovol |  KAZ | 21.05s | 7 | | 6. Kenneth Andam | GHA | 21.31s | 2 | | 7. Dominic Demeritte | BAH | 21.41s | 8 |
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| Heat 10 12.24h | time | L | | 1. Obadele Thompson | BAR | 20.70s | 5 | | 2. Stefan Holz | GER | 20.74s | 8 | | 3. Joseph Loua | GUI | 20.80s | 7 | | 4. Georgios Panagiotopoulos | GRE | 20.82s | 2 | | 5. Gary Ryan | IRL | 20.86s | 4 | | 6. Sunday Emmanuel | NGR | 21.12s | 3 | | 7. Djaffar Hadhari |  COM | 21.39s | 6 |
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