Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games:

Men's 200 metres Round One

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Host City: Helsinki, Finland
Venue(s): Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
Date Started: July 22, 1952
Date Finished: July 22, 1952
Format: Top two in each heat advanced to the quarter-finals.

Gold:	Andy Stanfield
Silver:	Thane Baker
Bronze:	Jimmy Gathers

Round One Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Gerardo Bönnhoff	26	Argentina	ARG	21.6	21.72	QU
2	Étienne Bally	29	France	FRA	21.9	22.03	QU
3	Adolf Turakainen	20	Finland	FIN	22.4	22.55
4	Hörður Haraldsson	22	Iceland	ISL	22.4	22.56

Round One Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Thane Baker	20	United States	USA	21.4	21.62	QU
2	Levan Sanadze	23	Soviet Union	URS	22.1	22.26	QU
3	Stefanos Petrakis	27	Greece	GRE	22.4	22.64
4	Willy Eichenberger	24	Switzerland	SUI	22.6	22.98

Round One Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Don McFarlane	21	Canada	CAN	22.8	22.94	QU
2	Roman Budzyński	18	Poland	POL	23.1	23.37	QU

Round One Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Rafael Fortún	32	Cuba	CUB	21.8	21.98	QU
2	Nick Stacey	24	Great Britain	GBR	21.8	22.07	QU
3	Fernand Linssen	23	Belgium	BEL	22.3	22.37
4	Edward Ajado	23	Nigeria	NGR	22.7	22.92

Round One Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Theo Saat	24	Netherlands	NED	22.0	22.17	QU
2	Werner Zandt	24	Germany	GER	22.1	22.23	QU
3	Juan Leiva	19	Venezuela	VEN	22.3	22.38
4	Fawzi Chaaban	21	Egypt	EGY	22.7	22.90
5	Eugénio Eleutério	31	Portugal	POR	23.2	23.37

Round One Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	David Tabak	24	Israel	ISR	22.4	22.60	QU
2	Marcel Gerdil	24	France	FRA	22.5	22.71	QU

Round One Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Andy Stanfield	24	United States	USA	21.8	22.00	QU
2	Zdobysław Stawczyk	29	Poland	POL	22.0	22.22	QU
3	Enrique Beckles	24	Argentina	ARG	22.6	22.73
4	Youssef Ali Omar	24	Egypt	EGY	22.8	23.26
5	Adulya Vanastit	21	Thailand	THA	23.3	23.50

Round One Heat Eight

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Vladimir Sukharev	28	Soviet Union	URS	21.9	22.08	QU
2	Angel García	32	Cuba	CUB	21.9	22.14	QU
3	Hans Wehrli	25	Switzerland	SUI	22.2	22.35
4	Pauli Tavisalo	24	Finland	FIN	22.3	22.45
5	Abdul Aziz	27	Pakistan	PAK	22.7	23.02

Round One Heat Nine

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Václav Janeček	23	Czechoslovakia	TCH	21.9	21.99	QU
2	Peter Kraus	19	Germany	GER	22.0	22.06	QU
3	Muhammad Aslam	30	Pakistan	PAK	22.2	22.14
4	Fred Hammer	22	Luxembourg	LUX	22.4	22.63

Round One Heat Ten

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Brian Shenton	25	Great Britain	GBR	21.9	22.12	QU
2	Voitto Hellstén	20	Finland	FIN	22.2	22.41	QU
3	Roby Schaeffer	21	Luxembourg	LUX	22.4	22.76
4	Vasilios Sillis	23	Greece	GRE	22.7	22.88

Round One Heat Eleven

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Schalk Booysen	24	South Africa	RSA	21.8	22.03	QU
2	Gerard Mach	25	Poland	POL	22.1	22.16	QU
3	Muhammad Sharif Butt	26	Pakistan	PAK	22.3	22.34
4	Ásmundur Bjarnason	25	Iceland	ISL	22.4	22.51
5	Walter Sutton	19	Canada	CAN	22.4	22.53

Round One Heat Twelve

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Jimmy Gathers	22	United States	USA	21.2	21.42	QU
2	Tomio Hosoda	26	Japan	JPN	22.2	22.36	QU
3	Henry Brault	24	France	FRA	22.2	22.48
4	Luigi Grossi	27	Italy	ITA	22.2	22.49
5	Muslim Arogundade	26	Nigeria	NGR	22.3	22.71

Round One Heat Thirteen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	McDonald Bailey	31	Great Britain	GBR	21.4	21.66	QU
2	Miroslav Horčic	30	Czechoslovakia	TCH	22.4	22.52	QU
3	Giorgio Sobrero	22	Italy	ITA	22.4	22.66
4	Ernst Mühlethaler	30	Switzerland	SUI	23.0	23.26
5	Eom Par-Yong	21	South Korea	KOR	23.0	23.41

Round One Heat Fourteen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Rafiu Oluwa	21	Nigeria	NGR	22.8	22.89	QU
2	Boonterm Pakpuang	31	Thailand	THA	23.8	24.15	QU

Round One Heat Fifteen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Les Laing	27	Jamaica	JAM	21.8	21.97	QU
2	Paul Dolan	25	Ireland	IRL	21.9	22.04	QU
3	František Brož	23	Czechoslovakia	TCH	22.2	22.35
4	Fernando Casimiro	21	Portugal	POR	22.6	22.72
5	José Julio Barillas	20	Guatemala	GUA	22.7	22.88

Round One Heat Sixteen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Raúl Mazorra	23	Cuba	CUB	22.3	22.52	QU
2	Robert Hutchinson	21	Canada	CAN	22.4	22.66	QU
3	Emad El-Din Shafei	20	Egypt	EGY	22.5	22.75
4	Aroon Sankosik	27	Thailand	THA	23.5	23.64

Round One Heat Seventeen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	Edwin Carr, Jr.	23	Australia	AUS	22.0	22.19	QU
2	Angel Kolev	26	Bulgaria	BUL	22.0	22.24	QU

Round One Heat Eighteen

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	T(H)	T(A)
1	John Treloar	24	Australia	AUS	21.5	21.75	QU
2	Lavy Pinto	22	India	IND	21.6	21.83	QU
3	Péter Karádi	25	Hungary	HUN	22.1	22.24
4	Lucio Sangermano	19	Italy	ITA	22.1	22.38

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