Men 200m Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - -- November - Gold Medal:

Men 200m Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - -- November - Gold Medal:

Final		time
1. Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	20.6s
2. Andrew Stanfield	USA	20.7s
3. Thane Baker	USA	20.9s
4. Michael Agostini	TRI	21.1s
5. Boris Tokaryev	URS	21.2s
6. Jose Telles da Conceicao	BRA	21.3s

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Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000.

-- competitors from -- nations.

Round	date	H	Athl.
Semifinals		2	12
Round 2		4	24
Round 1		12	66

Heat 1	time
1. Thane Baker	USA	21.1s
2. Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	21.3s
3. Jose Telles da Conceicao	BRA	21.4s
4. Abdullah Salem Khaliq	PAK	21.5s
5. Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	21.5s
6. Maurice Rae	NZL	21.5s

Heat 2	time
1. Andrew Stanfield	USA	21.2s
2. Michael Agostini	TRI	21.3s
3. Boris Tokarev	URS	21.3s
4. Leonhard Pohl	GER	21.5s
5. Vilem Mandlik	TCH	21.6s
6. Brian Shenton	GBR	21.9s

Heat 1	time
1. Abdullah Salem Khaliq	PAK	21.1s
2. Michael Agostini	TRI	21.1s
3. Leonhard Pohl	GER	21.3s
4. Leonid Bartenev	URS	21.4s
5. Bela Goldovanyi	HUN	21.5s
6. Edward Schmidt	POL	21.6s

Heat 2	time
1. Andrew Stanfield	USA	21.1s
2. Boris Tokarev	URS	21.2s
3. Jose Telles da Conceicao	BRA	21.3s
4. Vincenzo Lombardo	ITA	21.4s
5. Kanji Akagi	JPN	21.9s
- Constantin Lissenko	FRA	DNS

Heat 3	time
1. Thane Baker	USA	21.2s
2. Vilem Mandlik	TCH	21.3s
3. Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	21.5s
4. Hector Hogan	AUS	21.7s
5. Ivan Rodriguez	PUR	21.9s
6. Sergio D'Asnasch	ITA	22.6s

Heat 4	time
1. Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	21.9s
2. Maurice Rae	NZL	22.0s
3. Brian Shenton	GBR	22.1s
4. Vaclav Janecek	TCH	22.2s
5. Jorge Machado de Barros	BRA	23.7s
-. Manfred Germar	GER	DNS

Heat 1	time
1. Jose Telles da Conceicao	BRA	21.5s
2. Manfred Germar	GER	21.8s
3. Rene Ahumada Rodriguez	MEX	21.9s
4. Melville Spence	JAM	21.9s
5. Jean-Pierre Goudeau	FRA	22.0s

Heat 2	time
1. Karl-Friedrich Haas	GER	21.4s
2. Vaclav Janecek	TCH	21.7s
3. Douglas Winston	AUS	22.0s
4. Milkha Singh	IND	22.3s
5. Kyohei Ushio	Jap	22.4s

Heat 3	time
1. Michael Agostini	TRI	21.6s
2. Vincenzo Lombardo	ITA	21.8s
3. Yury Konovalov	URS	22.0s
4. Josef Trousil	TCH	22.3s
5. Legesse Beyene	ETH	23.4s
6. Manum Bumroongpruck	THA	TNT
- James Roberts	LBR	DQ

Heat 4	time
1. Andrew Stanfield	USA	21.5s
2. Sergio D'Asnasch	ITA	22.2s
3. Muhamd Sharif But	PAK	22.2s
4. Fred Hammer	LUX	22.7s
5. Nigousse Robba	ETH	23.7s
- Apolinar Solorzano	Ven	DQ

Heat 5	time
1. Abdullah Salem Khaliq	PAK	21.1s
2. Maurice Rae	NZL	21.4s
3. Joao Pires Sobrinho	BRA	21.6s
4. Thomas Robinson	BAH	21.6s
5. Sandor Jakabfy	HUN	21.8s
6. Malcolm Spence	JAM	21.7s

Heat 6	time
1. Kanji Akagi	JPN	22.1s
2. Jorge Machado de Barros	BRA	22.2s

Heat 7	time
1. Thane Baker	USA	21.8s
2. Bela Goldovanyi	HUN	21.9s
3. Bjorn Nilsen	NOR	22.2s
4. Oliver Hunter	GUY	22.4s
5. Giovanni Ghiselli	ITA	22.5s
6. Hailou Abbebe	Eth	23.0s

Heat 8	time
1. Vilem Mandlik	TCH	21.6s
2. Hector Hogan	AUS	21.8s
3. David Segal	GBR	22.1s
4. Joseph Foreman	CAN	22.2s
5. Soon Kesavan	SIN	23.7s

Heat 9	time
1. Bobby Joe Morrow	USA	21.8s
2. Edward Schmidt	POL	21.9s
3. Graham Gipson	AUS	22.0s
4. Akira Kiyofuji	JPN	22.5s
5. Abdul Aziz	PAK	22.9s

Heat 10	time
1. Boris Tokarev	URS	21.6s
2. Brian Shenton	GBR	21.7s
3. Rafael Romero	Ven	21.8s
4. Janusz Jarzembowski	POL	21.9s
5. Joseph Goddard	TRI	22.3s
6. Eeero Kivela	FIN	22.5
7. Benjamin Kiyini Nduga	UGA	TNT

Heat 11	time
1. Constantin Lissenko	FRA	21.8s
2. Ivan Rodriguez	PUR	21.9s
3. Roy Sandsrom	GBR	22.1s
4. Pentti Rekola	FIN	22.1s
5. John Parrington	CAN	22.4s
6. Montri Srinaka	THA	TNT
7. Emmanuel Gbecy Putu	LBR	TNT

Heat 12	time
1. Leonhard Pohl	GER	21.6s
2. Leonid Bartenev	URS	21.8s
3. Yves Camus	FRA	22.2s
4. Phaibulya Vacharabhan	THA	23.8s
5. Richard Estick	JAM	25.5s

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