Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

Men's 200 metres at the Games of the V Olympiad
The finish of the final.
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 10 (heats, semifinals) July 11 (final)
Competitors	61 from 19 nations
Medalists
Ralph Craig   United States   Donald Lippincott   United States   Willie Applegarth   Great Britain

Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
4×100 m relay		men
4×400 m relay		men
3000 m team race		men
10 km walk		men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men
2-hand shot put	men
2-hand discus	men
2-hand javelin	men
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
Decathlon	men
Cross-country events
Individual	men
Team	men

The men's 200 metres was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which has appeared at every edition of the Summer Olympics since the 1900 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 10, 1912, and on July 11, 1912.

61 runners from 19 nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World Record	21.3(*)	Jack Donaldson	Glasgow (GBR)	July 26, 1911
Olympic Record	21.6(**)	Archie Hahn	St. Louis (USA)	August 31, 1904

(*) unofficial 220 yards (= 201.17 m)

(**) straight course

Ralph Craig's 21.7 second performance was  ¹⁄₁₀ of a second off the Olympic record of 21.6 seconds, set in 1904.

Results

Heats

All heats were held on Wednesday, July 10, 1912.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Charles Reidpath (USA)	22.6	QS
2	Georges Rolot (FRA)	22.7	QS
3	Knut Stenborg (SWE)
4	Václav Labík (BOH)

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	22.8	QS
2	Richard Rice (GBR)	23.0	QS
3	Charles Poulenard (FRA)
4	Karl Lindblom (SWE)

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1.	Ira Courtney (USA)	22.7	QS
2	Duncan Macmillan (GBR)		QS
3	Léon Aelter (BEL)
4	Haralds Hahne (RUS)
—	Herberts Baumanis (RUS)	Did not finish

Heat 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Charles Luther (SWE)	23.6	QS
2	Jan Grijseels (NED)		QS

Heat 5

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Willie Applegarth (GBR)	24.7	QS
2	Harold Heiland (USA)	(24.7)	QS

Heat 6

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Richard Rau (GER)	22.5	QS
2	Arthur Anderson (GBR)		QS
3	Rudolf Rauch (AUT)

Heat 7

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Carl Cooke (USA)	22.5	QS
2	Reuben Povey (RSA)		QS
3	Joseph Wells (GBR)
4	Harry Beasley (CAN)
5	Georges Malfait (FRA)

Heat 8

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	John Howard (CAN)	25.0	QS
2	Franco Giongo (ITA)	(25.0)	QS

Heat 9

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Knut Lindberg (SWE)	23.1	QS
2	Frigyes Wiesner (HUN)		QS
3	Charles Lelong (FRA)

Heat 10

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Peter Gerhardt (USA)	22.9	QS
2	Victor d'Arcy (GBR)	22.9	QS
3	Gustav Möller (SWE)

Heat 11

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Donald Lippincott (USA)	22.8	QS
2	Ivan Möller (SWE)		QS
3	Pierre Failliot (FRA)
4	Ernest Haley (GBR)
5	Pablo Eitel (CHI)

Heat 12

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Alvah Meyer (USA)	24.1	QS
2	Robert Duncan (GBR)		QS

Heat 13

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Donnell Young (USA)	22.8	QS
2	Cyril Seedhouse (GBR)		QS
3	Fritz Fleischer (AUT)
4	Heinrich Wenseler (GER)
5	Yahiko Mishima (JPN)

Heat 14

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	George Patching (RSA)	22.3	QS
2	Clement Wilson (USA)		QS
3	Frank McConnell (CAN)
4	Ervin Szerelemhegyi (HUN)
5	Emil Grandell (SWE)

Heat 15

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Max Herrmann (GER)	22.9	QS
2	István Déván (HUN)		QS
3	Herman Sotaaen (NOR)
4	Wladyslaw Ponurski (AUT)

Heat 16

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	William Stewart (ANZ)	26.0	QS
2	Henry Macintosh (GBR)		QS

Heat 17

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	David Jacobs (GBR)	23.2	QS
2	Skotte Jacobsson (SWE)	(23.2)	QS

Heat 18

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ture Person (SWE)	23.2	QS
2	Robert Schurrer (FRA)		QS
3	António Stromp (POR)

Semifinals

All semi-finals were held on Wednesday, July 10, 1912.

Semifinal 1

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	21.9	QF
2	David Jacobs (GBR)
3	Ira Courtney (USA)
4	Ture Person (SWE)
5	Frigyes Wiesner (HUN)
—	Arthur Anderson (GBR)	Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Willie Applegarth (GBR)	21.9 seconds	QF
2	Clement Wilson (USA)
3	Cyril Seedhouse (GBR)
4	Harold Heiland (USA)
5	Skotte Jacobsson (SWE)
—	William Stewart (ANZ)	Did not finish

Semifinal 3

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Donnell Young (USA)	21.9	QF
2	Carl Cooke (USA)
3	Georges Rolot (FRA)
4	Max Herrmann (GER)
—	Henry Macintosh (GBR)	Did not finish
	George Patching (RSA)	Did not finish

Semifinal 4

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Donald Lippincott (USA)	21.8	QF
2	Alvah Meyer (USA)
3	John Howard (CAN)
4	Ivan Möller (SWE)	22.4
5	Duncan Macmillan (GBR)
6	Jan Grijseels (NED)

Semifinal 5

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Richard Rau (GER)	22.1	QF
2	Peter Gerhardt (USA)
3	Charles Luther (SWE)	22.3
4	Franco Giongo (ITA)
5	Reuben Povey (RSA)
—	Richard Rice (GBR)	Did not finish

Semifinal 6

Place	Athlete	Time	Qual.
1	Charles Reidpath (USA)	22.1	QF
2	Victor d'Arcy (GBR)
3	Knut Lindberg (SWE)	22.5
4	István Déván (HUN)
5	Robert Schurrer (FRA)
—	Robert Duncan (GBR)	Did not finish

Final

The final was held on Thursday, July 11, 1912.

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Ralph Craig (USA)	21.7
2	Donald Lippincott (USA)	21.8
3	Willie Applegarth (GBR)	22.0
4	Richard Rau (GER)	22.2
5	Charles Reidpath (USA)	22.3
6	Donnell Young (USA)	22.3

References

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.)., ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. 
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 26 August 2006.