# 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 200 metres

The boys' 200 metres at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12, 13 and 14 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Michael O'Hara Jamaica | Vítor Hugo dos Santos Brazil | Reynier Mena Cuba |

## 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 | Usain Bolt (JAM) | 20.40 | Sherbrooke, Canada | 13 July 2003 |
| World Youth Leading | Reynier Mena (CUB) | 20.72 | Havana, Cuba | 28 June 2013 |

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) next 11 fastest (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Llewellyn Hein | South Africa | 21.66 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Cameron Nurse | Canada | 22.03 | |
| 3 | 3 | Sadiki Tyson | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 22.27 | PB |
| 4 | 7 | Josneyber Ramírez | Venezuela | 22.38 | |
| 5 | 2 | Mahmoud Hammoudi | Algeria | 22.45 | |
| 6 | 6 | Vincent Karger | Luxembourg | 22.54 | |
| 7 | 5 | Douglas Orellana | Guatemala | 22.67 | PB |
| 8 | 4 | Wong Wai Kin | Hong Kong | 23.27 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Vitor Hugo dos Santos | Brazil | 21.62 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Zak Irwin | Ireland | 21.68 | q, PB |
| 3 | 7 | Even Meinseth | Norway | 22.25 | |
| 4 | 5 | Michele Nabacino | Italy | 22.37 | |
| 5 | 3 | Abdesselam Bouchamia | Algeria | 22.61 | |
| 6 | 1 | Sean Banda | Zimbabwe | 22.70 | PB |
| 7 | 6 | Jean Lozereau | Mauritius | 22.75 | |
| 8 | 2 | Blaž Murn | Slovenia | 22.97 | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Arturo Deliser | Panama | 21.62 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ian Kerr | Bahamas | 21.68 | q |
| 3 | 7 | Reberto Boyde | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 21.78 | q, PB |
| 4 | 5 | Mohamed Saad Ghali | Bahrain | 22.41 | PB |
| 5 | 6 | Milorad Stevović | Serbia | 22.61 | |
| 6 | 2 | Sudirman Hadi | Indonesia | 22.65 | |
| 7 | 4 | Zayid Al-Siyabi | Oman | 22.78 | PB |
| 8 | 8 | Kristers Kalniņš | Latvia | 22.90 | |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Mo Youxue | China | 21.53 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Khalifa Bakhit Bin Jarn | United Arab Emirates | 22.06 | PB |
| 3 | 1 | Denys Tsven | Ukraine | 22.09 | PB |
| 4 | 8 | Leonel Carrizo | Argentina | 22.55 | PB |
| 5 | 3 | Paulus Nghixulu | Namibia | 22.76 | |
| 6 | 5 | Óscar Sánchez | Spain | 22.83 | |
| | 7 | Jorge Sánchez | Peru | DQ | |
| | 6 | Mario Burke | Barbados | DNS | |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Reuberth Boyde | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 21.88 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 4 | Marek Šefránek | Slovakia | 21.94 | |
| 3 | 2 | Lee Jeong-tae | South Korea | 22.15 | |
| 4 | 8 | Alagie Sonko | Gambia | 22.30 | PB |
| 5 | 5 | Alexis Aguilar | Argentina | 22.99 | |
| 6 | 1 | Asa Lionel | Saint Lucia | 23.02 | |
| | 3 | Mohamed Fares Jlassi | Tunisia | DNS | |
| | 6 | Kenzo Cotton | United States | DNS | |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Janeko Cartwright | Bahamas | 21.57 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Lê Trọng Hinh | Vietnam | 21.80 | q |
| 3 | 7 | Vincent Basima | Botswana | 22.11 | |
| 4 | 8 | Haji Ture Beker | Ethiopia | 22.35 | PB |
| 5 | 3 | Mikhail Litvin | Kazakhstan | 22.44 | |
| 6 | 1 | Daniel Martínez | Mexico | 22.46 | |
| 7 | 2 | Mohit | India | 22.57 | |
| 8 | 4 | Christophe Boulos | Lebanon | 22.79 | |

### Heat 7

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Jonathan Farinha | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.46 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Odane Bernard | Jamaica | 21.71 | q |
| 3 | 1 | Jacob Waqanivalu | Fiji | 22.39 | |
| 4 | 6 | Leonardo Claro | Venezuela | 22.42 | |
| 5 | 4 | Antony Mikael | Lebanon | 22.68 | |
| 6 | 7 | Luis Iriarte | Peru | 23.08 | |
| 7 | 5 | Abdullah Mohammed Makhreb | Yemen | 23.83 | PB |
| | 8 | Sidiki Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso | DNS | |

### Heat 8

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Divine Oduduru | Nigeria | 21.24 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 1 | Noah Lyles | United States | 21.28 | q, PB |
| 3 | 6 | Brian Kasinda | Zambia | 22.12 | PB |
| 4 | 3 | Frederik Schou-Nielsen | Denmark | 22.34 | |
| 5 | 2 | Yahor Papou | Belarus | 22.44 | |
| 6 | 4 | Ashish Chhikara | India | 23.22 | |
| 7 | 8 | Tornike Kvantaliani | Georgia | 23.34 | |
| | 7 | Marko Kovačević | Croatia | DNS | |

### Heat 9

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Thomas Somers | Great Britain | 21.09 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 1 | Daniel Mazón | Spain | 21.80 | q |
| 3 | 5 | Mantas Šeštokas | Lithuania | 22.09 | |
| 4 | 8 | Shermar Paul | Canada | 22.22 | |
| 5 | 7 | Zaid Sadun | Saudi Arabia | 22.35 | PB |
| 6 | 2 | Kyron McMaster | British Virgin Islands | 22.55 | |
| 7 | 3 | Saif Khalfan Al-Obaidani | Oman | 22.58 | SB |
| 8 | 6 | Gregor Kovše | Slovenia | 22.86 | |

### Heat 10

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Michael O'Hara | Jamaica | 20.96 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Michael Songore | Zimbabwe | 21.60 | q, PB |
| 3 | 7 | Lee-Anzo Losper | Namibia | 22.19 | PB |
| 4 | 3 | Abdulaziz Al-Jadani | Saudi Arabia | 22.35 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | Samith Arachchige | Sri Lanka | 22.62 | PB |
| 6 | 6 | Ilya Musatov | Kazakhstan | 23.17 | |
| | 8 | Stanley Mutunga | Kenya | DQ | |
| | 2 | Mishal Al-Mutairi | Kuwait | DNS | |

### Heat 11

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Reynier Mena | Cuba | 20.91 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Aaron Powell | Fiji | 21.87 | q, PB |
| 3 | 6 | Alkronus Bridgewater | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 21.92 | q |
| 4 | 2 | Daniel Avendaño | Colombia | 22.04 | |
| 5 | 8 | Peter Trajkovski | Denmark | 22.10 | PB |
| 6 | 7 | Viktor Senchuk | Ukraine | 22.31 | PB |
| 7 | 3 | Carlos Perlaza | Ecuador | 22.39 | PB |
| 8 | 1 | Nisal Mudiyanselage | Sri Lanka | 23.25 | |

### Heat 12

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Li Zhe | China | 21.63 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Richárd Köcse | Hungary | 22.09 | |
| 3 | 2 | Karabo Mothibi | Botswana | 22.47 | |
| 4 | 3 | Assan Faye | Gambia | 22.48 | |
| 5 | 6 | Cristian Radu | Romania | 22.58 | |
| 6 | 5 | Jean-Eve-Roseline | Seychelles | 22.93 | |
| 7 | 4 | Roger Sosa | Paraguay | 23.26 | |
| | 7 | Kazuya Yano | Japan | DQ | |

### Heat 13

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | Ricardo Feliciano | Puerto Rico | 21.76 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Ricardo Pereira | Portugal | 21.93 | q, PB |
| 3 | 1 | Babacar Diop | France | 21.99 | |
| 4 | 6 | Gabriele Gargano | Italy | 22.27 | |
| 5 | 3 | Nicolae Gorcea | Romania | 22.34 | PB |
| 6 | 5 | Tomer Shapira | Israel | 22.81 | |
| 7 | 2 | Alejandro Araya | Costa Rica | 23.44 | |
| | 7 | Sebastien Clarice | Mauritius | DNS | |

## 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 | 5 | Thomas Somers | Great Britain | 21.05 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 3 | Divine Oduduru | Nigeria | 21.13 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 4 | Li Zhe | China | 21.49 | q, PB |
| 4 | 1 | Daniel Mazón | Spain | 21.63 | |
| 5 | 7 | Zak Irwin | Ireland | 21.76 | |
| 6 | 8 | Michael Songore | Zimbabwe | 21.81 | |
| 7 | 2 | Aaron Powell | Fiji | 21.96 | |
| | 6 | Arturo Deliser | Panama | DQ | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Michael O'Hara | Jamaica | 21.17 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Vítor Hugo dos Santos | Brazil | 21.20 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Jonathan Farinha | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.36 | q |
| 4 | 7 | Noah Lyles | United States | 21.58 | |
| 5 | 8 | Ian Kerr | Bahamas | 21.91 | |
| 6 | 5 | Llewellyn Hein | South Africa | 21.97 | |
| 7 | 2 | Reberto Boyde | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 22.16 | |
| 8 | 1 | Alkronus Bridgewater | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 22.60 | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Reynier Mena | Cuba | 21.38 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Mo Youxue | China | 21.59 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Odane Bernard | Jamaica | 21.66 | PB |
| 4 | 8 | Reuberth Boyde | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 22.02 | |
| 5 | 1 | Lê Trọng Hinh | Vietnam | 22.12 | |
| 6 | 2 | Ricardo Pereira | Portugal | 22.20 | |
| 7 | 5 | Ricardo Feliciano | Puerto Rico | 22.25 | |
| | 6 | Janeko Cartwright | Bahamas | DNF | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 6 | Michael O'Hara | Jamaica | 20.63 | WYL |
| | 7 | Vítor Hugo dos Santos | Brazil | 20.67 | PB |
| | 5 | Reynier Mena | Cuba | 20.79 | |
| 4 | 4 | Thomas Somers | Great Britain | 20.84 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | Jonathan Farinha | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.00 | PB |
| 6 | 3 | Ejowvokoghene Oduduru | Nigeria | 21.37 | |
| 7 | 8 | Mo Youxue | China | 21.37 | |
| 8 | 2 | Li Zhe | China | 21.54 | |