1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 200 metres

1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m		women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m walk		women
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The men's 200 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 8 March.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kirk Baptiste  United States	Bruno Marie-Rose  France	Robson da Silva  Brazil

The first 2 of each heat (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Gilles Quénéhervé	France	21.05	Q
2	1	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	21.15	Q
3	5	Nikolay Razgonov	Soviet Union	21.19	Q
4	3	James Butler	United States	21.27	Q
5	3	Cyprian Enweani	Canada	21.32	Q
6	6	Kirk Baptiste	United States	21.36	Q
7	5	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	21.40	q
8	1	Attila Kovács	Hungary	21.58	Q
9	4	Clive Wright	Jamaica	21.61	Q
10	4	Robson da Silva	Brazil	21.63	Q
11	6	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany	21.64	Q
12	2	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	21.65	Q
13	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	21.77	q
14	2	Dazel Jules	Trinidad and Tobago	21.79	Q
15	3	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	21.81	q
16	6	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	21.83	q, NR
17	3	Harouna Palé	Burkina Faso	21.95	q, NR
18	6	Marco Mautinho	Peru	22.17	q, NR
19	5	Jimmy Flemming	United States Virgin Islands	22.36
20	4	John Anzrah	Kenya	22.40	NR
21	1	Esteban Carpio	Dominican Republic	22.53	NR
22	3	Lenford O'Garro	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.65	NR
23	4	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	22.72	NR
24	5	Carl Chicksen	Zimbabwe	22.84	NR
25	4	Sunday Olweny	Uganda	23.02	NR
26	6	Rodney Cox	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.05	NR
27	2	William George	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.59	NR
	1	Cyril Brioche	Seychelles	DQ
	1	Mustapha Kamel Selmi	Algeria	DNS
	2	Victor Edet	Nigeria	DNS
	2	David Kitur	Kenya	DNS
	3	Fabian Whymns	Bahamas	DNS
	4	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	DNS
	5	Gregory Meghoo	Jamaica	DNS
	6	Gabriel Okon	Nigeria	DNS

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Kirk Baptiste	United States	20.91	Q
2	3	James Butler	United States	20.97	Q
3	2	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	21.12	Q
4	3	Robson da Silva	Brazil	21.21	Q
5	2	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	21.30	Q
6	1	Gilles Quénéhervé	France	21.39	Q
7	3	Nikolay Razgonov	Soviet Union	21.42
8	1	Cyprian Enweani	Canada	21.48
8	2	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany	21.48
10	1	Dazel Jules	Trinidad and Tobago	21.57
11	3	Clive Wright	Jamaica	21.73
12	2	Attila Kovács	Hungary	21.79
13	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	21.95
14	2	Harouna Palé	Burkina Faso	22.20
15	3	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	22.26
	3	Antonio Sánchez	Spain	DNF
	1	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	DNS
	2	Marco Mautinho	Peru	DNS

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kirk Baptiste	United States	20.73	CR, PB
	5	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.89
	2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.92
4	6	Gilles Quénéhervé	France	20.97
5	3	James Butler	United States	21.05
6	1	Donovan Reid	Great Britain	21.53