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The men's 200 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 10, 11 and 12 September 1979.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pietro Mennea Italy	Leszek Dunecki Poland	Ainsley Bennett Great Britain

Results

Heats

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.6 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s, Heat 4: +0.5 m/s, Heat 5: +1.3 m/s
Heat 6: +0.7 m/s, Heat 7: +0.1 m/s, Heat 8: +2.3 m/s, Heat 9: +0.2 m/s^[3]^[4]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	Pietro Mennea	Italy	19.96	Q, UR, AR
2	4	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.55	Q
2	5	Otis Melvin	United States	20.55	Q
4	8	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.66	Q
5	4	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.71	Q
6	2	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.76	Q
7	4	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.83	q
8	8	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	20.84	Q
9	8	Tomás González	Cuba	20.89	q
10	2	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	20.91	Q
11	1	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	20.94	Q
12	1	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	20.95	Q
13	9	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.01	Q
14	7	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	21.04	Q^[5]
15	5	Frank van Doorn	Canada	21.05	Q
16	6	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	21.06	Q
17	9	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.09	q
18	2	Patrice Ouré	Ivory Coast	21.11	q
19	3	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	21.14	Q
20	5	István Nagy	Hungary	21.15	q
21	7	Patrick Wamister	Switzerland	21.16	Q^[5]
22	3	Charles Pickens	United States	21.21	Q
23	1	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.33	q
24	6	Ángel Cruz	Spain	21.48	Q^[6]
25	7	Marcel Klarenbeek	Netherlands	21.49	PB^[5]
26	3	Akira Harada	Japan	21.54
27	7	Jean Gracia	France	21.56	^[7]
28	6	Daniel Biocchi	Canada	21.58
29	3	Sabidou Touré	Senegal	21.64
30	8	Lucien Ralaivita	Madagascar	21.65
31	8	Nicos Hadjinicolau	Cyprus	21.65
32	9	Benjamín González	Spain	21.71	^[8]
33	7	Alan Bell	Great Britain	21.74
34	5	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	21.82
35	6	Antonis Georgallidis	Cyprus	22.01
36	8	Francisco Ramírez	Mexico	22.02
37	9	Marco Mautinho	Peru	22.11
38	3	Sergio Barajas	Mexico	22.15
39	6	José Luis Valverde	Peru	22.22
39	9	Jean-Jacques Randrianasolo	Madagascar	22.22
41	5	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	22.23
42	1	Konlan Martelot	Togo	22.37
43	5	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia	22.41
44	2	Kossi Adolo Djobokou	Togo	22.43
45	2	Cheung Lai Chi	Hong Kong	22.56
45	8	Javier Fernández	Guatemala	22.56
47	4	Sulayman Faye	Gambia	22.76
48	2	Nelson González	Guatemala	22.87
49	5	Oscar Muñoz	Honduras	22.89
50	4	Roberto Prado	Bolivia	22.91
51	1	Ehsan Salih	Saudi Arabia	23.05
52	6	Marco Luque	Bolivia	23.05
53	1	José Flores	Honduras	23.28
54	6	Mordhi Abdulhakim	Saudi Arabia	23.75
55	3	Clifford Maseko	Swaziland	24.05
	9	Louis Nkanza	Congo	DNS

Semifinals

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s^[3]^[9]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.04	Q
2	2	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.46	Q
3	1	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.48	Q, NR
4	1	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.67	q
5	3	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.69	Q
6	3	Otis Melvin	United States	20.74	Q
7	2	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.78	Q
8	2	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.90	q
9	2	Su Mal-guh	South Korea	20.91
10	2	Floyd Brown	Jamaica	20.92
11	1	Andrey Shlyapnikov	Soviet Union	20.95	^[10]
12	1	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.04
13	3	Patrice Ouré	Ivory Coast	21.07
14	2	István Nagy	Hungary	21.09
14	3	Frank van Doorn	Canada	21.09
16	3	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.10
17	1	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	21.13
18	3	Patrick Wamister	Switzerland	21.14
19	1	Charles Pickens	United States	21.18
19	3	Tomás González	Cuba	21.18
21	1	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	21.23
21	2	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.33
23	2	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.37
24	3	Ángel Cruz	Spain	21.56

Final

^[11]^[12]

Wind: +1.8 m/s

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Pietro Mennea	Italy	19.72	WR
	1	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.24	NR
	8	Ainsley Bennett	Great Britain	20.42
4	6	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	20.43	NR
5	5	Jens Smedegaard	Denmark	20.52	NR
6	2	Viktor Burakov	Soviet Union	20.74
7	3	Georges Kablan Degnan	Ivory Coast	20.88
8	7	Otis Melvin	United States	22.97

References

^ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b [atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Athletics-Annual-1981.pdf Year top list]
^ "Universiade, atletiek" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 11 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Lange aanloop Mennea" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 12 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ Spanish top list
^ French results
^ "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.
^ "Na hordenexplosie bij Universiade Pont tiende ter wereld" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 13 September 1979. p. 19. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p33)
^ "Final results". The News-Press. 13 September 1979. p. 30. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". Victoria Advocate. 13 September 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 22 March 2020.