Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
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Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | 7–9 August | |||||||||
Competitors | 54 from 40 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 19.32 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's 200 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–9 August.[1] There were 54 competitors from 40 nations.[2] The event was won by Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the first man to repeat as champion in the 200 metres. His teammates Yohan Blake (silver) and Warren Weir (bronze) completed the medal sweep; it was the seventh sweep in the men's 200 metres and the first by a nation other than the United States. Bolt's gold medal was Jamaica's third in the event, moving out of a tie with Canada and Italy for second-most overall (behind the United States' 17 wins).
This was only the fourth time that the United States failed to win a medal in the men's 200 metres, Wallace Spearmon finishing fourth with a time of 19.90, 0.06 seconds outside of a medal placing (the others being the 1928 Olympics, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow which the country boycotted, and the 2000 Olympics).