| Final 22:10 wind -0.5m/s | time | L | | 1. Justin Gatlin |  USA | 20.04s | 6 | | 2. Wallace Spearmon | USA | 20.20s | 3 | | 3. John Capel | USA | 20.31s | 4 | | 4. Tyson Gay | USA | 20.34s | 5 | | 5. Stephane Buckland |  MRI | 20.41s | 7 | | 6. Patrick Johnson |  AUS | 20.58s | 8 | | 7. Tobias Unger |  GER | 20.81s | 2 | | 8. Usain Bolt |  JAM | 26.27s | 1 |
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Tyson Gay was the most impressive runner in the preliminaries, particularly in the first round where he cruised to a 19.99w (4.3) clocking ahead of a field all of whom progressed to round two. Wind conditions varied enormously. Only two races after the 19.99, Spearmon won his heat in 20.51 into a 2.7 wind. Gay was fastest next day in both the second round and semis. The four Americans – including defending champion Capel competing as a “wild card” – ran 1-2 in the two semi-finals, garnering the best lanes in the final.
With the temperature down to 11°C the final was not going to be won in an exceptional time. Gatlin, in the outside of the seeded lanes (3-6), got a good start, and “running scared”, as he later put it, was never headed. Spearmon and the fast-finishing Capel took the other medals. The only perceived threat to the US hegemony was Bolt, whose long legs were unable to cope with lane 1, and he suffered a muscle pull 50m from the finish while in fifth place. Prior to 2005 there had been 11 clean sweeps in the 382 individual World championship finals, but here we were seeing a 1-4 sweep for the first time.
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Semi-Finals> - Wednesday 10.08 |
| Semi 1 18:40h | time | L | | 1. John Capel | USA | 20.45s | 6 | | 2. Wallace Spearmon | USA | 20.49s | 3 | | 3. Tobias Unger | GER | 20.63s | 5 | | 4. Usain Bolt | JAM | 20.68s | 4 | | 5. Ndure Jaysuma Saidy |  GAM | 20.75s | 2 | | 6. Daniel Batman | AUS | 20.98s | 1 | | 7. Christian Malcolm |  GBR | 21.09s | 8 | | -. Aaron Armstrong |  TRI | DNS | 7 |
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| Semi 1 18:48h | time | L | | 1. Tyson Gay | USA | 20.27s | 6 | | 2. Justin Gatlin | USA | 20.47s | 4 | | 3. Stephane Buckland | MRI | 20.54s | 5 | | 4. Patrick Johnson | AUS | 20.65s | 7 | | 5. Christopher Williams | JAM | 20.72s | 3 | | 6. Shingo Suetsugu |  JPN | 20.84s | 1 | | 7. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.93s | 2 | | 8. Marcin Jedrusinski |  POL | 20.99s | 8 |
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| Quarter 1 13:45h | time | L | | 1. Tobias Unger | GER | 20.91s | 5 | | 2. Wallace Spearmon | USA | 20.91s | 3 | | 3. Patrick Johnson | AUS | 20.94s | 7 | | 4. Joseph Batangdon |  CMR | 21.38s | 8 | | 5. Paul Hession |  IRL | 21.69s | 1 | | 6. Yordan Ilinov |  BUL | 21.94s | 2 | | 7. Brian Dzingai |  ZIM | 22.32s | 4 | | -. Juan Pedro Toledo |  MEX | DQ | 6 |
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| Quarter 2 13:52h | time | L | | 1. Tyson Gay | USA | 20.64s | 6 | | 2. Stephane Buckland | MRI | 20.66s | 4 | | 3. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | GAM | 20.95s | 2 | | 4. Marcin Jedrusinski | POL | 21.07s | 3 | | 5. Johan Wissman |  SWE | 21.16s | 7 | | 6. Andrew Howe |  ITA | 21.19s | 5 | | 7. Dominic Demeritte |  BAH | 21.25s | 8 | | -. Uchenna Emedolu |  NGR | DNF | 1 |
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| Quarter 3 13:59h | time | L | | 1. John Capel | USA | 20.78s | 4 | | 2. Usain Bolt | JAM | 20.87s | 3 | | 3. Aaron Armstrong | TRI | 20.94s | 8 | | 4. Christian Malcolm | GBR | 21.02s | 6 | | 5. Shingo Suetsugu | JPN | 21.11s | 5 | | 6. Leigh Julius |  RSA | 21.45s | 1 | | 7. Sebastian Ernst | GER | 21.54s | 7 | | 8. Olusoji A. Fasuba | NGR | 21.92s | 2 |
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| Quarter 4 14:06h | time | L | | 1. Christopher Williams | JAM | 20.93s | 5 | | 2. Justin Gatlin | USA | 20.94s | 2 | | 3. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.95s | 8 | | 4. Daniel Batman | AUS | 20.95s | 6 | | 5. Ronald Pognon |  FRA | 21.26s | 3 | | 6. Guus Hoogmoed |  NED | 21.26s | 4 | | 7. Kristof Beyens |  BEL | 21.43s | 1 | | 8. Tommi Hartonen |  FIN | 21.54s | 7 |
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| Heat 1 12:20h | time | L | | 1. Stephane Buckland | MRI | 20.94s | 7 | | 2. Andrew Howe | ITA | 21.08s | 4 | | 3. Aaron Armstrong | TRI | 21.10s | 5 | | 4. Panayiotis Sarris |  GRE | 21.43s | 6 | | 5. Andre Domingos |  BRA | 21.44s | 1 | | 6. Heber Viera |  URU | 21.71s | 8 | | 7. Foday Fofana Nabie |  GUI | 22.16s | 2 | | 8. Afzal Baig |  PAK | 22.54s | 3 |
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| Heat 2 12:28h | time | L | | 1. Ronald Pognon | FRA | 20.37s | 6 | | 2. Brian Dzingai | ZIM | 20.76s | 1 | | 3. Yordan Ilinov | BUL | 20.85s | 7 | | 4. Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi |  KSA | 21.03s | 3 | | 5. Julieon Raeburn | TRI | 21.12s | 8 | | 6. Evans Marie |  SEY | 21.65s | 5 | | 7. Adi bin Rostam Noor |  BRU | 24.05s | 4 | | -. Obadele Thompson |  BAR | DNS | 2 |
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| Heat 3 12:36h | time | L | | 1. Christian Malcolm | GBR | 20.36s | 5 | | 2. John Capel | USA | 20.40s | 2 | | 3. Sebastian Ernst | GER | 20.45s | 4 | | 4. Patrick Johnson | AUS | 20.56s | 1 | | 5. Tommi Hartonen | FIN | 20.59s | 8 | | 6. Daniel Abenzoar-Foule |  LUX | 21.10s | 7 | | 7. Nicholas Mangham |  PLW | 24.39s | 6 | | -. Omar Brown | JAM | DNF | 3 |
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| Heat 4 12:44h | time | L | | 1. Tobias Unger | GER | 20.45s | 3 | | 2. Christopher Williams | JAM | 20.64s | 4 | | 3. Marlon Devonish | GBR | 20.75s | 2 | | 4. Olusoji A. Fasuba | NGR | 20.88s | 5 | | 5. Matic Osovnikar |  SLO | 20.94s | 7 | | 6. Basilio de Moraes | BRA | 20.99s | 6 | | 7. Abubaker El Tawerghi |  LBA | 21.72s | 1 | | -. Darian Forbes |  TKS | DNS | 8 |
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| Heat 5 12:52h | time | L | | 1. Usain Bolt | JAM | 20.80s | 2 | | 2. Shingo Suetsugu | JPN | 20.85s | 6 | | 3. Kristof Beyens | BEL | 20.88s | 7 | | 4. Koura Kaba Fantoni | ITA | 21.10s | 5 | | 5. Kevon Pierre | TRI | 21.24s | 8 | | 6. Oumar Loum |  SEN | 21.37s | 3 | | 7. Beranger Bosse |  CAF | 22.02s | 4 |
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| Heat 6 13:00h | time | L | | 1. Tyson Gay | USA | 19.99s | 2 | | 2. Marcin Jedrusinski | POL | 20.14s | 4 | | 3. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | GAM | 20.14s | 3 | | 4. Uchenna Emedolu | NGR | 20.22s | 8 | | 5. Johan Wissman | SWE | 20.26s | 7 | | 6. Leigh Julius | RSA | 20.37s | 5 | | 7. Paul Hession | IRL | 20.40s | 6 |
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| Heat 7 13:08h | time | L | | 1. Daniel Batman | AUS | 20.68s | 1 | | 2. Guus Hoogmoed | NED | 20.80s | 8 | | 3. Justin Gatlin | USA | 20.90s | 3 | | 4. Shinji Takahira | JPN | 21.03s | 4 | | 5. Dmytro Hlushchenko |  UKR | 21.15s | 5 | | 6. Mphelave Dlamin |  SWZ | 21.79s | 7 | | 7. Dion Crabbe |  IVB | 21.82s | 2 | | -. Francis Obikwelu |  POR | DNS | 6 |
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| Heat 8 13:16h | time | L | | 1. Wallace Spearmon | USA | 20.51s | 7 | | 2. Juan Pedro Toledo | MEX | 20.78s | 6 | | 3. Joseph Batangdon | CMR | 20.84s | 3 | | 4. Dominic Demeritte | BAH | 20.90s | 2 | | 5. Yaozu Yang |  CHN | 21.03s | 8 | | 6. Bruno Pacheco | BRA | 21.05s | 5 | | -. David Alerte | FRA | DNF | 4 |
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| Athlete | Team | S | L | 2005 | Best | | Wallace Spearmon | USA | 8 | 7 | 19.89s | 19.89s | | Tyson Gay | USA | 6 | 2 | 19.93s | 19.93s | | Usain Bolt | JAM | 5 | 2 | 19.99s | 19.93s | | Justin Gatlin | USA | 7 | 3 | 20.00s | 19.86s | | Christian Malcolm | GBR | 3 | 5 | 20.15s | 20.08s | | Tobias Unger | GER | 4 | 3 | 20.20s | 20.20s | | Stephane Buckland | MRI | 1 | 7 | 20.28s | 20.06s | | Brian Dzingai | ZIM | 2 | 1 | 20.33s | 20.12s | | Ronald Pognon | FRA | 2 | 6 | 20.34s | 20.34s | | Aaron Armstrong | TRI | 1 | 5 | 20.35s | 20.08s | | Marlon Devonish | GBR | 4 | 2 | 20.41s | 20.19s | | Omar Brown | JAM | 3 | 3 | 20.43s | 20.43s | | Daniel Batman | AUS | 7 | 1 | 20.44s | 20.44s | | Kristof Beyens | BEL | 5 | 7 | 20.45s | 20.45s | | Johan Wissman | SWE | 6 | 7 | 20.46s | 20.43s | | John Capel | USA | 3 | 2 | 20.47s | 19.85s | | Dominic Demeritte | BAH | 8 | 2 | 20.47s | 20.21s | | Leigh Julius | RSA | 6 | 5 | 20.47s | 20.44s | | Kevon Pierre | TRI | 5 | 8 | 20.47s | 20.47s | | David Alerte | FRA | 8 | 4 | 20.47s | 20.47s | | Francis Obikwelu | POR | 7 | 6 | 20.48s | 19.84s | | Christopher Williams | JAM | 4 | 4 | 20.51s | 20.02s | | Andrew Howe | ITA | 1 | 4 | 20.52s | 20.28s | | Julieon Raeburn | TRI | 2 | 8 | 20.52s | 20.52s | | Obadele Thompson | BAR | 2 | 2 | 20.53s | 19.97s | | Andre Domingos | BRA | 1 | 1 | 20.53s | 20.15s | | Sebastian Ernst | GER | 3 | 4 | 20.54s | 20.36s | | Shingo Suetsugu | JPN | 5 | 6 | 20.55s | 20.03s | | Uchenna Emedolu | NGR | 6 | 8 | 20.55s | 20.31s | | Basilio de Moraes | BRA | 4 | 6 | 20.55s | 20.55s | | Shinji Takahira | JPN | 7 | 4 | 20.55s | 20.55s | | Joseph Batangdon | CMR | 8 | 3 | 20.56s | 20.31s | | Bruno Pacheco | BRA | 8 | 5 | 20.57s | 20.54s | | Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | GAM | 6 | 3 | 20.57s | 20.57s | | Koura Kaba Fantoni | ITA | 5 | 5 | 20.58s | 20.58s | | Guus Hoogmoed | NED | 7 | 8 | 20.58s | 20.58s | | Patrick Johnson | AUS | 3 | 1 | 20.59s | 20.50s |
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| Athlete | Team | S | L | 2005 | Best | | Olusoji A. Fasuba | NGR | 4 | 5 | 20.60s | 20.52s | | Panayiotis Sarris | GRE | 1 | 6 | 20.69s | 20.48s | | Heber Viera | URU | 1 | 8 | 20.72s | 20.46s | | Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi | KSA | 2 | 3 | 20.72s | 20.55 | | Yordan Ilinov | BUL | 2 | 7 | 20.72s | 20.72s | | Matic Osovnikar | SLO | 4 | 7 | 20.75s | 20.47s |
| Athlete | Team | S | L | 2005 | Best | | Tommi Hartonen | FIN | 3 | 8 | 20.77s | 20.47s | | Dmytro Hlushchenko | UKR | 7 | 5 | 20.79s | 20.75s | | Paul Hession | IRL | 6 | 6 | 20.80s | 20.61s | | Oumar Loum | SEN | 5 | 3 | 20.81s | 20.21s | | Marcin Jedrusinski | POL | 6 | 4 | 20.82s | 20.31s | | Juan Pedro Toledo | MEX | 8 | 6 | 20.84s | 20.40s | | Yaozu Yang | CHN | 8 | 8 | 20.88s | 20.58s | | Beranger Bosse | CAF | 5 | 4 | 21.19s | 21.19s | | Dion Crabbe | IVB | 7 | 2 | 21.21s | 20.30s | | Daniel Abenzoar-Foule | LUX | 3 | 7 | 21.32s | 21.11s | | Darian Forbes | TKS | 4 | 8 | 21.49s | 21.49s | | Afzal Baig | PAK | 1 | 3 | 21.71s | 21.36s | | Evans Marie | SEY | 2 | 5 | 21.82s | 21.82s | | Foday Fofana Nabie | GUI | 1 | 2 | - | 21.45s | | Abubaker El Tawerghi | LBA | 4 | 1 | - | 21.49s | | Mphelave Dlamin | SWZ | 7 | 7 | - | 21.82s | | Adi bin Rostam Noor | BRU | 2 | 4 | - | 23.47s | | Nicholas Mangham | PLW | 3 | 6 | - | - |
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