2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 200 metres

The Boys' 200 metres at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Brixen-Bressanone Sport Arena on 10, 11, and 12 July.[1] The event was won by Kirani James of the Grenada, who also won the 400 metres.[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kirani James  Grenada	Alberto Gavaldá  Spain	Keenan Brock  United States

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Usain Bolt (JAM)	20.13	Bridgetown, Barbados	20 July 2003
Championship Record		20.40	Sherbrooke, Canada	13 July 2003
World Youth Leading	Dedric Dukes (USA)	20.94	Altamonte Springs, USA	20 June 2009

No new records were set during the competition.

Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 4 fastest times (q) qualified.

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Keenan Brock	United States	21.36	Q, PB
2	1	Tomasz Kluczynski	Poland	21.43	Q, PB
3	4	Sam Watts	Great Britain	21.50	q, PB
4	6	Johannes de Klerk	South Africa	21.52	q
5	8	Kazunori Katsuyama	Japan	21.69
6	2	Marlon Laidlaw-Allen	Canada	21.93
7	7	Carlos Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	22.01
8	5	Comfort Olugbemi	Nigeria	22.13

Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

Wind: 0.6 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Dedric Dukes	United States	21.22	Q
2	3	Leandro De Araújo	Brazil	21.76	Q
3	2	Demetri Knowles	Bahamas	21.76
4	6	Tan Juquan	China	21.78
5	8	Masato Hayashi	Japan	21.79
6	1	José Antonio Vizuete	Spain	22.08
7	4	Adam Pawlowski	Poland	22.41
8	7	Yateya Kambepera	Botswana	22.45

Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

Wind: 0.9 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Kirani James	Grenada	21.23	Q
2	3	Alberto Gavaldá	Spain	21.43	Q, SB
3	4	Moriba Morain	Trinidad and Tobago	21.56
4	1	Nicholas Deshong	Barbados	21.57
5	7	Alex Jordan	New Zealand	21.91	PB
6	6	Huang Xiang	China	21.99
7	2	Lester Ryan	Montserrat	22.01	PB
8	8	Kemar Bailey-Cole	Jamaica	22.11

Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

Wind: 1.4 m/s

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Kirani James	Grenada	21.05	PB
	7	Alberto Gavaldá	Spain	21.33	SB
	4	Keenan Brock	United States	21.39
4	5	Dedric Dukes	United States	21.61
5	6	Tomasz Kluczynski	Poland	21.70
6	8	Leandro De Araújo	Brazil	21.78
7	1	Sam Watts	Great Britain	22.00
8	2	Johannes de Klerk	South Africa	22.04

Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

Wind: −0.9 m/s

References

1. iaaf.org - International Association of Athletics Federations
2. Williams and James achieve unprecedented doubles as Kenya steals the show in middle distance

• World Youth Championships 2009