1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 200 metres

The men's 200 metres event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 5–6.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Frankie Fredericks Namibia	Obadele Thompson Barbados	Kevin Little United States

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 5 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Koji Ito	Japan	20.73	Q, AR
2	1	Kevin Little	United States	20.83	Q
2	6	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	20.83	Q
4	2	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.84	Q, SB
4	4	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.84	Q
6	3	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	20.87	Q
6	5	Alexios Alexopoulos	Greece	20.87	Q, SB
8	7	Iván García	Cuba	20.89	Q
9	2	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	20.94	Q, NR
10	6	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	20.98	Q
11	5	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	21.01	Q, NR
11	6	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	21.01	q, PB
13	3	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	21.02	Q, NR
13	5	Anninos Markoullides	Cyprus	21.02	q
13	7	Christophe Cheval	France	21.02	q
16	1	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	21.06	Q
17	4	Carlos Gats	Argentina	21.08	Q, NR
18	3	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	21.10	q
18	4	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	21.10
20	2	John Regis	Great Britain	21.23
21	7	Malik Louahla	Algeria	21.24	NR
22	5	Marc Foucan	France	21.28
23	6	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	21.31
24	2	Boštjan Horvat	Slovenia	21.35
24	5	Kazuhiro Takahashi	Japan	21.35
26	1	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.74
27	4	Chen Tien-Wen	Chinese Taipei	21.82
28	3	Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami	Oman	21.99
29	4	Menzi Dlamini	Swaziland	22.57
30	6	Silas Helo	Solomon Islands	23.13
31	7	Kwame Galloway	Montserrat	24.32
	1	Prodromos Katsantonis	Cyprus	DNS

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.18	Q, CR
2	3	Kevin Little	United States	20.32	Q, AR
3	1	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.55	Q, SB
3	2	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	20.55	Q
5	2	Koji Ito	Japan	20.63	Q, AR
6	1	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	20.81	Q
7	2	Alexios Alexopoulos	Greece	20.98
8	1	Marcin Urbaś	Poland	21.01	=PB
9	3	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	21.02
10	2	Juan Pedro Toledo	Mexico	21.13
11	1	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	21.15
12	3	Iván García	Cuba	21.24
13	1	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	21.37
13	3	Christophe Cheval	France	21.37
15	3	Carlos Gats	Argentina	21.50
16	2	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	21.57
17	1	Anninos Markoullides	Cyprus	22.30
	2	Ryszard Pilarczyk	Poland	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Frankie Fredericks	Namibia	20.10	CR
	5	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	20.26	AR
	4	Kevin Little	United States	20.48
4	3	Francis Obikwelu	Nigeria	20.85
5	2	Koji Ito	Japan	20.95
6	1	Rohsaan Griffin	United States	22.06