200-Meter Dash
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1900 | John Tewksbury, United States | 22.20 | |
| 1904 | Archie Hahn, United States | 21.60 | |
| 1908 | Robert Kerr, Canada | 22.60 | |
| 1912 | Ralph Craig, United States | 21.70 | |
| 1920 | Allan Woodring, United States | 22.00 | |
| 1924 | Jackson Scholz, United States | 21.60 | |
| 1928 | Percy Williams, Canada | 21.80 | |
| 1932 | Eddie Tolan, United States | 21.20 | |
| 1936 | Jesse Owens, United States | 20.70 | |
| 1948 | Melvin E. Patton, United States | 21.10 | |
| 1952 | Andrew Stanfield, United States | 20.70 | |
| 1956 | Bobby Morrow, United States | 20.60 | |
| 1960 | Livio Berruti, Italy | 20.50 | |
| 1964 | Henry Carr, United States | 20.30 | |
| 1968 | Tommie Smith, United States | 19.80 | |
| 1972 | Vallery Borzov, USSR | 20.00 | |
| 1976 | Don Quarrie, Jamaica | 20.23 | |
| 1980 | Pietro Mennea, Italy | 20.19 | |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis, United States | 19.80 | |
| 1988 | Joe DeLoach, United States | 19.75 | |
| 1992 | Mike Marsh, United States | 20.01 | |
| 1996 | Michael Johnson, United States | 19.32 | |
| 2000 | Konstantinos Kenteris, Greece | 20.09 | |
| 2004 | Shawn Crawford, United States | 19.79 | |
| 2008 | Usain Bolt, Jamaica | 19.30 | 1 |
1. World record.
