# 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 200 metres

The boys' 200 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 8, 9 and 10 July. The event was won by Stephen Newbold of The Bahamas. Arman Hall, who ran the 2011 world youth leading over 200 metres, was switched to the 400 metres before the championship.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Stephen Newbold Bahamas | Odail Todd Jamaica | Ronald Darby United States |

## 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 | Arman Hall (USA) | 20.82 | Miami, United States | 5 March 2011 |
No new records were set during the competition.

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Hendrik Khumalo | South Africa | 21.58 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Joshua Hawkins | New Zealand | 21.75 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Zenebe Madfu | Ethiopia | 22.20 | PB |
| 4 | 8 | Dávid Bartha | Hungary | 22.39 | |
| 5 | 4 | Juan Alanis | Mexico | 22.51 | |
| 6 | 5 | Hamza Bendoukkalia | Morocco | 22.87 | |
| 7 | 2 | Cliford Charuka | Zimbabwe | 23.13 | PB |
| 8 | 3 | Julien Meunier | Mauritius | 23.21 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 21.60 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Adam Jabłoński | Poland | 21.74 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Jeon Hyeok-jin | South Korea | 22.13 | |
| 4 | 7 | Luka Janežič | Slovenia | 22.49 | |
| 5 | 1 | Oluwarotimi Adebayo | Nigeria | 22.88 | |
| 6 | 4 | Andrea Ercolani Volta | San Marino | 24.69 | |
| | 6 | Sajith de Silva | Sri Lanka | DNS | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Andre Azonwanna | Canada | 21.51 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Marcus Lawler | Ireland | 21.63 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 8 | Jonathan Permal | Mauritius | 22.01 | |
| 4 | 4 | Jean-Yves Esparon | Seychelles | 22.57 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | Mohmmed Al-Shueili | Oman | 22.58 | |
| 6 | 7 | Ştefan Găinuşă | Romania | 22.80 | |
| 7 | 3 | Chu Wai In | Macau | 24.37 | PB |
| | 6 | Deon Hope | Barbados | DNS | |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Zhang Mingming | China | 21.87 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Bernardo Baloyes | Colombia | 21.89 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Mohammad Sico Ibrahim | Saudi Arabia | 21.89 | q, PB |
| 4 | 1 | Gautier Dautremer | France | 22.05 | |
| 5 | 2 | Harry Chukwudike | Nigeria | 22.11 | |
| 6 | 7 | Choi Dong-baek | South Korea | 22.38 | |
| 7 | 5 | Kyle Webb | Bermuda | 22.49 | PB |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Jereem Richards | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.85 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Tatsuro Suwa | Japan | 21.94 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Luka Žontar | Slovenia | 22.43 | |
| 4 | 2 | Anthony Adderley | Bahamas | 22.64 | |
| 5 | 6 | Marden Alves | Brazil | 22.97 | |
| 6 | 7 | Haithan Al-Saadi | Oman | 23.49 | |
| 7 | 3 | Thomas Farrugia | Malta | 23.60 | |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 21.47 | Q, SB |
| 2 | 2 | Akiyuki Hashimoto | Japan | 21.58 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Cejhae Greene | Antigua and Barbuda | 21.81 | |
| 4 | 7 | Oleh Polovytsya | Ukraine | 22.21 | |
| 5 | 3 | Jatin Jain | India | 23.31 | |
| 6 | 5 | Haythem Aissa | Tunisia | 23.35 | |
| | 6 | Houcine Abdelkaoui | Algeria | DNF | |

### Heat 7

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 21.42 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Ruttanapon Sowan | Thailand | 21.86 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Sapwaturrahman | Indonesia | 22.13 | |
| 4 | 4 | Volodymyr Suprun | Ukraine | 22.15 | |
| 5 | 5 | Adrián Pérez | Spain | 22.45 | |
| 6 | 3 | Alexandru Terpezan | Romania | 22.46 | PB |
| 7 | 2 | Ali Seif El Islam Agab | Algeria | 22.86 | |

### Heat 8

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Stephen Newbold | Bahamas | 21.40 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Mike Nyang'au | Kenya | 21.55 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Chan Yan Lam | Hong Kong | 22.01 | |
| 4 | 7 | Sondre Nyvold Lid | Norway | 22.14 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | César Holguín | Dominican Republic | 22.78 | |
| 6 | 5 | Abdelrahman Abu Al-Hummos | Jordan | 23.22 | PB |
| 7 | 3 | Lawrence Muyambo | Zimbabwe | 24.59 | PB |
| | 6 | Carlos Nascimento | Portugal | DNS | |

### Heat 9

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Aldrich Bailey | United States | 21.46 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Wesley Best | Canada | 21.91 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Fahhad Al-Subaie | Saudi Arabia | 22.19 | |
| 4 | 1 | Tan Zong Yang | Singapore | 22.67 | |
| 5 | 6 | Lukáš Meszáros | Slovakia | 22.74 | |
| 6 | 2 | Jerai Torres | Gibraltar | 23.16 | PB |
| 7 | 5 | Brian Thomas | Grenada | 23.81 | PB |
| | 7 | Ever Carranza | Mexico | DQ | |

### Heat 10

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Odean Skeen | Jamaica | 21.75 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Jeneko Place | Bermuda | 21.89 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Tahir Walsh | Antigua and Barbuda | 21.97 | |
| 4 | 8 | Marek Bakalár | Czech Republic | 22.23 | |
| 5 | 5 | Gerald Drummond | Costa Rica | 22.55 | PB |
| 6 | 2 | Ng Chin Hui | Singapore | 22.72 | |
| 7 | 7 | Vitalii Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 23.13 | |
| 8 | 1 | Giga Tchikadze | Georgia | 23.69 | PB |

### Heat 11

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Ronald Darby | United States | 21.50 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | Great Britain | 21.67 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Fana Mofokeng | South Africa | 21.78 | q |
| 4 | 3 | Kacha Sawangyen | Thailand | 22.52 | |
| 5 | 1 | Rait Veesalu | Estonia | 22.57 | |
| 6 | 4 | Kolbeinn Höður Gunnarsson | Iceland | 22.61 | PB |
| 7 | 5 | Álvaro Toledo | Bolivia | 23.81 | |

## 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 | 4 | Stephen Newbold | Bahamas | 21.08 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 7 | Akiyuki Hashimoto | Japan | 21.20 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Andre Azonwanna | Canada | 21.21 | q, PB |
| 4 | 3 | Hendrik Khumalo | South Africa | 21.47 | |
| 5 | 1 | Bernardo Baloyes | Colombia | 21.59 | |
| 6 | 5 | Mike Nyang'au | Kenya | 21.62 | |
| 7 | 8 | Ruttanapon Sowan | Thailand | 21.84 | |
| 8 | 2 | Jeneko Place | Bermuda | 22.03 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 21.02 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 6 | Ronald Darby | United States | 21.08 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 21.21 | q |
| 4 | 2 | Tatsuro Suwa | Japan | 21.48 | |
| 5 | 1 | Mohammad Sico Ibrahim | Saudi Arabia | 21.48 | PB |
| 6 | 7 | Joshua Hawkins | New Zealand | 21.49 | |
| 7 | 8 | Marcus Lawler | Ireland | 21.81 | |
| | 5 | Zhang Mingming | China | DQ | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Aldrich Bailey | United States | 21.29 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 6 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 21.46 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 5 | Jereem Richards | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.47 | PB |
| 4 | 7 | Adam Jabłoński | Poland | 21.56 | |
| 5 | 8 | Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | Great Britain | 21.61 | |
| 6 | 2 | Fana Mofokeng | South Africa | 21.79 | |
| 7 | 1 | Wesley Best | Canada | 21.91 | |
| | 4 | Odean Skeen | Jamaica | DQ | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 6 | Stephen Newbold | Bahamas | 20.89 | PB |
| | 4 | Odail Todd | Jamaica | 21.00 | PB |
| | 5 | Ronald Darby | United States | 21.08 | |
| 4 | 8 | Akiyuki Hashimoto | Japan | 21.21 | |
| 5 | 1 | Méba-Mickaël Zeze | France | 21.30 | |
| 6 | 3 | Aldrich Bailey | United States | 21.36 | |
| 7 | 2 | Andre Azonwanna | Canada | 21.40 | |
| 8 | 7 | Hugh Donovan | Australia | 21.46 | SB |