# 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 29 and 30 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Kevin Braunskill United States |
| Silver | Olapade Adeniken Nigeria |
| Bronze | Dmitriy Bartenyev Soviet Union |

## Results
### Final

30 July Wind: +4.2 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 20.87 w |
| | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 20.88 w |
| | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 20.92 w |
| 4 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 20.99 w |
| 5 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 21.00 w |
| 6 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 21.12 w |
| 7 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.16 w |
| 8 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.23 w |

### Semifinals

29 July

#### Semifinal 1

Wind: +2.4 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 20.83 w | Q |
| 2 | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 20.92 w | Q |
| 3 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.08 w | q |
| 4 | Masahiro Nagura | Japan | 21.39 w | |
| 5 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 21.57 w | |
| 6 | Maurizio Federici | Italy | 21.60 w | |
| 7 | Torbjörn Eriksson | Sweden | 21.74 w | |
| 8 | Rodrigue Ceryl | France | 21.75 w | |

#### Semifinal 2

Wind: +2.0 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.02 | Q |
| 2 | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 21.04 | Q |
| 3 | Mark Garner | Australia | 21.21 | |
| 4 | Victor Nwankwo | Nigeria | 21.38 | |
| 5 | Didac Mañas | Spain | 21.66 | |
| 6 | Johan Pierre | Canada | 21.68 | |
| 7 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 21.77 | |
| 8 | Wolfgang Montag | West Germany | 21.97 | |

#### Semifinal 3

Wind: +3.1 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 20.81 w | Q |
| 2 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 20.90 w | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 20.98 w | q |
| 4 | Brad McCuaig | Canada | 21.37 w | |
| 5 | Lloyd Stapleton | United Kingdom | 21.49 w | |
| 6 | Roman Reiter | West Germany | 21.60 w | |
| 7 | Yoshihiro Kato | Japan | 21.61 w | |
| 8 | Maurizio De Masi | Italy | 21.78 w | |

### Heats

29 July

#### Heat 1

Wind: +1.7 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Masahiro Nagura | Japan | 21.40 | Q |
| 2 | Brad McCuaig | Canada | 21.47 | Q |
| 3 | Roman Reiter | West Germany | 21.63 | q |
| 4 | Jimmy Stafford | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.95 | |
| 5 | Ally Nyonyi | Tanzania | 22.38 | |
| 6 | William Archer | British Virgin Islands | 22.76 | |
| 7 | Mohamed Abdulghani | Bangladesh | 23.10 | |
| | Liu Yao | China | DQ | |

#### Heat 2

Wind: +1.4 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Dean Capobianco | Australia | 21.67 | Q |
| 2 | Didac Mañas | Spain | 21.73 | Q |
| 3 | Milan Petaković | Yugoslavia | 22.09 | |
| 4 | Yehuda Moreli | Israel | 22.54 | |
| 5 | Paul Young | Western Samoa | 24.02 | |
| | Óscar Fernández | Peru | DQ | |
| | Francis Amuzu | Ghana | DQ | |

#### Heat 3

Wind: +1.5 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Aleksandr Goremykin | Soviet Union | 21.06 | Q |
| 2 | Rodrigue Ceryl | France | 21.60 | Q |
| 3 | Torbjörn Eriksson | Sweden | 21.60 | q |
| 4 | Leonardo Prevot | Cuba | 21.92 | |

#### Heat 4

Wind: +1.0 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Kevin Braunskill | United States | 21.03 | Q |
| 2 | Lloyd Stapleton | United Kingdom | 21.53 | Q |
| 3 | Wolfgang Montag | West Germany | 21.66 | q |
| 4 | Joseph Dias | Senegal | 21.91 | |
| 5 | José Hernández | Puerto Rico | 22.43 | |
| 6 | Jorge Castellón | Bolivia | 22.50 | |
| | Robert Loua | Guinea | DQ | |

#### Heat 5

Wind: +0.9 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Dmitriy Bartenyev | Soviet Union | 21.11 | Q |
| 2 | Mark Garner | Australia | 21.16 | Q |
| 3 | Johan Pierre | Canada | 21.49 | q |
| 4 | Maurizio Federici | Italy | 21.67 | q |
| 5 | Aurelio Mancheno | Ecuador | 22.19 | |
| 6 | Henry Sebbale | Uganda | 22.75 | |
| | Francisco Brenes | Costa Rica | DQ | |

#### Heat 6

Wind: +2.5 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Victor Nwankwo | Nigeria | 21.40 w | Q |
| 2 | Maurizio De Masi | Italy | 21.99 w | Q |
| 3 | Joel Otim-Bua | Uganda | 22.32 w | |
| 4 | Sriyantha Dissanayake | Sri Lanka | 22.87 w | |
| 5 | Alfredo Trujillo | Honduras | 23.90 w | |
| | Leif Jonsson | Sweden | DQ | |

#### Heat 7

Wind: +0.7 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Sven Matthes | East Germany | 21.19 | Q |
| 2 | Neil de Silva | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.26 | Q |
| 3 | Fabien Muyaba | Zimbabwe | 21.62 | q |
| | Dennis Mowatt | Jamaica | DQ | |
| | Ebenezer Lawson | Ghana | DQ | |

#### Heat 8

Wind: +2.3 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olapade Adeniken | Nigeria | 21.13 w | Q |
| 2 | Christopher Barnes | United States | 21.16 w | Q |
| 3 | Csaba Zajovics | Hungary | 21.34 w | q |
| 4 | Yoshihiro Kato | Japan | 21.63 w | q |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.
* Australia (2)
* Bangladesh (1)
* Bolivia (1)
* British Virgin Islands (1)
* Canada (2)
* China (1)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Cuba (1)
* East Germany (1)
* Ecuador (1)
* France (1)
* Ghana (2)
* Guinea (1)
* Honduras (1)
* Hungary (1)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (2)
* Jamaica (1)
* Japan (2)
* Nigeria (2)
* Peru (1)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Senegal (1)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Spain (1)
* Sri Lanka (1)
* Sweden (2)
* Tanzania (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (2)
* Uganda (2)
* United Kingdom (1)
* United States (2)
* West Germany (2)
* Western Samoa (1)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)