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Fastest Men's 200 m in the World (2026)
These are legal men's outdoor 200 m personal bests. World Athletics is the rank. Athletic Stats, refreshed 5 October 2026, and Track & Field News, with marks verified by 3 September 2026, print the same nine times and dates. Usain Bolt's 19.19, wind −0.3 m/s, in Berlin on 20 August 2009, leads. Yohan Blake, Noah Lyles, Michael Johnson, Letsile Tebogo, Erriyon Knighton, Walter Dix, Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay follow, through 19.58.
9 men's 200 m, ties share a rank.
- 1Usain Bolt
men's 200 m · Jamaica
19.19s - 2Yohan Blake
men's 200 m · Jamaica
19.26s - 3Noah Lyles
men's 200 m · United States
19.31s - 4Michael Johnson
men's 200 m · United States
19.32s - 5Letsile Tebogo
men's 200 m · Botswana
19.46s - 6Erriyon Knighton
men's 200 m · United States
19.49s - 7Walter Dix
men's 200 m · United States
19.53s - 8Justin Gatlin
men's 200 m · United States
19.57s - 9Tyson Gay
men's 200 m · United States
19.58s
Kenny Bednarek's 19.52 in Budapest on 13 September 2026 is on the World Athletics list and on Athletic Stats. Track & Field News had closed its compilation on 3 September 2026 and still prints an older 19.57. That is one independent confirmation of the new mark, not two, so the row waits. The same rule kept the list at nine.
Nine is short of the ten-entry index gate. A 100 m or a 400 m by the same athlete uses another slug, because one person can have only one primary race time on a list.
The lineup · 9 on file
Meet the men's 200 m
One card per entry, with its headline figure and where it ranks.
Ranked by race time
Fastest Men's 200 m
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