1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

Final

1 August
Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.44
	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	20.92
	Russell Frye	United States	20.94
4	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	20.99
5	Scott Thom	Australia	21.00
6	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.02
7	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.08
8	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.39

Semifinals

1 August

Semifinal 1

Wind: -0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.92	Q
2	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.01	Q
3	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.16	Q
4	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.29	Q
5	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.38
6	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.59
7	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.88
8	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.88

Semifinal 2

Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.62	Q
2	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	20.97	Q
3	Scott Thom	Australia	21.05	Q
4	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.07	Q
5	Kevin Baker	United States	21.24
6	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.32
7	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.45
8	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.89

Quarterfinals

31 July

Quarterfinal 1

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.00	Q
2	Scott Thom	Australia	21.14	Q
3	Kevin Baker	United States	21.53	Q
4	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.54	Q
5	Jeremy Bobe	France	21.56
6	Attila Farkas	Hungary	21.57
7	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.58
	José Luis Herrera	Colombia	DNS

Quarterfinal 2

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.79	Q
2	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.07	Q
3	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.22	Q
4	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.31	Q
5	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.81
6	Julien Arame	France	21.87
7	Kenji Nara	Japan	22.19
	Matthias Mertens	Germany	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Quarterfinal 3

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.85	Q
2	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.26	Q
3	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.31	Q
4	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.36	Q
5	Anastasios Goúsis	Greece	21.48
6	Alexander Lakhanpal	Sweden	21.78
7	Alejandro Olivan	Spain	21.79
8	Stephen Hadfield	Australia	21.88

Quarterfinal 4

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.07	Q
2	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.27	Q
3	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.29	Q
4	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.38	Q
5	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.40
6	Uros Zver	Slovenia	21.66
7	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76
8	Ousman Jatta	Gambia	22.51

Heats

31 July

Heat 1

Wind: +0.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roy Bailey	Jamaica	21.32	Q
2	Hirofumi Nakagawa	Japan	21.32	Q
3	Attila Farkas	Hungary	21.59	Q
4	William To Wai Lok	Hong Kong	21.77	Q
5	Nelson Lucas	Seychelles	22.14
6	Dermot Rawlins	Saint Kitts and Nevis	22.46
	Marco Cuneo	Italy	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

Heat 2

Wind: -0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jairo Duzant	Netherlands Antilles	21.25	Q
2	Stefan Holz	Germany	21.33	Q
3	Dallas Roberts	New Zealand	21.52	Q
4	Uros Zver	Slovenia	21.57	Q
5	Heber Viera	Uruguay	21.59	q
6	Stephen Hadfield	Australia	21.79	q
7	Saula Roko	Fiji	22.24
8	Charles Shaw	Liberia	23.41

Heat 3

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Scott Thom	Australia	21.23	Q
2	Steve Slowly	Jamaica	21.34	Q
3	Julien Arame	France	21.51	Q
4	Matthias Mertens	Germany	21.56	Q
5	Kenji Nara	Japan	21.92	q
6	Rudy Colabella	Belgium	21.97
7	Gary Webb	Norfolk Island	23.61
8	Papy Stone Seke Moundele	Congo	23.66

Heat 4

Wind: +0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Massimiliano Donati	Italy	21.10	Q
2	Wynand Dempers	South Africa	21.25	Q
3	Benjamin Potter	New Zealand	21.26	Q
4	José Luis Herrera	Colombia	22.15	Q
5	Sean Lambert	Grenada	22.51
6	Xu Zizhou	China	22.69
7	Bashir Al-Khewani	Yemen	23.80
8	Philam Garcia	Guam	25.11

Heat 5

Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Russell Frye	United States	20.97	Q
2	Bradley Agnew	South Africa	21.43	Q
3	Raphael de Oliveira	Brazil	21.58	Q
4	Alejandro Olivan	Spain	21.69	Q
5	Helly Ollarves	Venezuela	21.76	q
6	Thomas Scheidl	Austria	22.11
7	Ernesto Elo	Equatorial Guinea	23.80

Heat 6

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	United Kingdom	20.73	Q
2	Jeremy Bobe	France	21.36	Q
3	Alexander Lakhanpal	Sweden	21.44	Q
4	Ousman Jatta	Gambia	21.89	Q
5	Ahmed Torkhani	Tunisia	21.94
6	Piotr Berestiuk	Poland	22.00
7	Robert Mugagga	Uganda	22.34

Heat 7

Wind: +1.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Baker	United States	21.16	Q
2	Tim Benjamin	United Kingdom	21.19	Q
3	Sherwin Vries	Namibia	21.25	Q
4	Anastasios Goúsis	Greece	21.61	Q
5	Isaac Yaya	Tahiti	22.64
	Rodney Pitts	U.S. Virgin Islands	DQ	IAAF rule 163.3

According to an unofficial count, 51 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.