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Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games:
Men's 200 metres
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Host City: London, Great Britain
Venue(s): Empire Stadium, Wembley, London
Date Started: August 2, 1948
Date Finished: August 3, 1948
| Gold: |  Mel Patton |
| Silver: | Barney Ewell |
| Bronze: |  Lloyd LaBeach |
Summary
Mel Patton had expected to win the 100 metres in London but placed only fifth in that final. He had never won an American title at 200/220 and faced Barney Ewell, the 1946-47 AAU Champion. In the final, Ewell started the fastest and led off the curve, but Patton moved ahead at the top of the stretch and maintained a slight lead to the finish. In third place was Panama’s Lloyd LaBeach, who had also finished third in the 100. The 1946 European Champion was Soviet Nikolay Karakulov, who could not compete because the USSR declined to enter the Olympics.
Final Standings
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mel Patton | 23 | United States | USA | Gold | |
| 2 | Barney Ewell | 30 | United States | USA | Silver | |
| 3 | Lloyd LaBeach | 26 | Panama | PAN | Bronze | |
| 4 | Herb McKenley | 26 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 5 | Cliff Bourland | 27 | United States | USA | ||
| 6 | Les Laing | 23 | Jamaica | JAM | ||
| 4 h1 r3/4 | Aroldo da Silva | 18 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 4 h2 r3/4 | John Treloar | 20 | Australia | AUS | ||
| 5 h1 r3/4 | Abram van Heerden | 20 | South Africa | RSA | ||
| 5 h2 r3/4 | Alastair McCorquodale | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 6 h1 r3/4 | Paul Vallé | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 6 h2 r3/4 | Rafael Fortún | 28 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 4 h1 r2/4 | Jan Lammers | 21 | Netherlands | NED | ||
| 4 h2 r2/4 | Gerardo Bönnhoff | 22 | Argentina | ARG | ||
| 4 h3 r2/4 | John Fairgrieve | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
| 4 h4 r2/4 | Ivan Hausen | 20 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 5 h1 r2/4 | Julien Lebas | 24 | France | FRA | ||
| 5 h2 r2/4 | Dennis Shore | 33 | South Africa | RSA | ||
| 5 h3 r2/4 | Santiago Ferrando | 20 | Peru | PER | ||
| 5 h4 r2/4 | Ted Haggis | Canada | CAN | |||
| 6 h1 r2/4 | Rosalvo Ramos | 34 | Brazil | BRA | ||
| 6 h2 r2/4 | John De Saram | 19 | Sri Lanka | SRI | ||
| 6 h4 r2/4 | Muhammad Sharif Butt | 22 | Pakistan | PAK | ||
| 1 h11r1/4 | Juan López | 22 | Uruguay | URU | ||
| 3 h1 r1/4 | Haukur Clausen | 19 | Iceland | ISL | ||
| 3 h2 r1/4 | Bernabe Lovina | 27 | Philippines | PHI | ||
| 3 h3 r1/4 | António Morais | 25 | Portugal | POR | ||
| 3 h4 r1/4 | Angel García | 28 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 3 h5 r1/4 | Basil McKenzie | Jamaica | JAM | |||
| 3 h6 r1/4 | Guillermo Geary | 22 | Argentina | ARG | ||
| 3 h7 r1/4 | Raúl Mazorra | 19 | Cuba | CUB | ||
| 3 h8 r1/4 | Georgie Lewis | 31 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | ||
| 3 h9 r1/4 | Raşit Öztaş | Turkey | TUR | |||
| 3 h10r1/4 | Fernand Bourgaux | 28 | Belgium | BEL | ||
| 3 h11r1/4 | Gabe Scholten | 27 | Netherlands | NED | ||
| 3 h12r1/4 | Don Pettie | Canada | CAN | |||
| 4 h1 r1/4 | Stanley Lines | Bermuda | BER | |||
| 4 h2 r1/4 | Stefanos Petrakis | 23 | Greece | GRE | ||
| 4 h4 r1/4 | Fernand Linssen | 19 | Belgium | BEL | ||
| 4 h6 r1/4 | Duncan White | 30 | Sri Lanka | SRI | ||
| 4 h7 r1/4 | Kemal Aksur | 24 | Turkey | TUR | ||
| 4 h8 r1/4 | Walter Pérez | 23 | Uruguay | URU | ||
| 4 h9 r1/4 | Perry Johnson | Bermuda | BER | |||
| 4 h10r1/4 | Étienne Bally | 25 | France | FRA | ||
| 4 h11r1/4 | Maung Sein Pe | Myanmar | MYA | |||
| 4 h12r1/4 | Mario Fayos | 21 | Uruguay | URU | ||
| 5 h4 r1/4 | Hazzard Dill | 29 | Bermuda | BER | ||
| 5 h7 r1/4 | Guillermo Rodríguez | Mexico | MEX | |||
| 5 h8 r1/4 | Peter Bloch | 25 | Norway | NOR | ||
| 5 h12r1/4 | Joseph Stéphan | 20 | France | FRA | ||
| 6 h4 r1/4 | Ali Salman | Iraq | IRQ |
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