Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 200 metres event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held 18–19 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Julian Golding  England	Christian Malcolm  Wales	John Regis  England

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest qualified for the quarterfinals.^[1]

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 7: +0.3 m/s^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	20.68	Q
2	6	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.69	Q
3	2	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.70	Q
4	8	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	20.72	Q
5	8	Douglas Walker	Scotland	20.77	Q
6	2	John Regis	England	20.78	Q, SB
7	3	Douglas Turner	Wales	20.83	Q
8	2	Stephen Brimacombe	Australia	20.89	Q
9	3	Tanko Braimah	Ghana	20.90	Q
10	5	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	20.92	Q
10	6	Christian Malcolm	Wales	20.92	Q
12	5	Julian Golding	England	20.94	Q
13	6	Michael Nicolini	Canada	20.95	Q
14	7	Matt Shirvington	Australia	20.96	Q
15	6	Garth Robinson	Jamaica	21.09	q
15	8	Allyn Condon	England	21.09	Q
17	1	Marcus la Grange	South Africa	21.11	Q
18	5	James Henthorn	Wales	21.13	Q
19	4	Eric Milazar	Mauritius	21.20	Q
20	8	Matthew Coad	New Zealand	21.26	q
21	1	Philip Mukomana	Zimbabwe	21.28	Q
22	7	Mojalefa Mosili	Lesotho	21.37	Q
23	3	Justice Dipeba	Botswana	21.44	Q
24	2	Nazmizan Muhamad	Malaysia	21.47	q, PB
25	8	Ian Craig	Northern Ireland	21.49	q
26	1	Soloveni Nakaunicina	Fiji	21.50	q
27	7	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	21.53	Q
28	3	Azmi Ibrahim	Malaysia	21.60	q
29	5	Paul McBurney	Northern Ireland	21.65	q
30	2	Jone Delai	Fiji	21.68	q
31	3	Hamkah Afik	Singapore	21.73
32	8	Raman Ganeshwaran	Malaysia	21.78
33	4	Moses Mila Mayat	Uganda	21.82	Q
34	7	Nigel Jones	Grenada	21.96
35	4	Aminiasi Babitu	Fiji	21.99	Q
35	5	Alieu Kamara	Sierra Leone	21.99
37	1	Alpha B. Kamara	Sierra Leone	22.02
38	1	Kwame Galloway	Montserrat	22.07
39	6	Dalle Delor	Cameroon	22.12
39	7	Tobias Akwenye	Namibia	22.12
41	5	Jackson Ngumbi	Zambia	22.21
42	3	Laurence Jack	Vanuatu	22.32
43	2	Cusman Jatta	Gambia	22.34
44	5	Ismaila Jammeh	Gambia	22.54
45	4	Matarr Njie	Gambia	22.59
46	7	Silas Helo	Solomon Islands	22.92
47	2	Leron Francis	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	23.05
48	6	Aneri Canon	Nauru	23.17	PB
49	6	Dale Aymer	Montserrat	23.46
50	7	Thyroid Smith	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.48
51	3	David Lightbourne	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.94
	1	Ibrahim Manik	Maldives	DNS
	4	Mohamed Amir	Maldives	DNS
	4	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	DNS
	4	Obadele Thompson	Barbados	DNS
	7	N'kosie Barnes	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS
	8	Mark Phills	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS

Qualification: First 4 of each heat qualified directly (Q) for the semifinals.^[3]

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +0.1 m/s^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.48	Q
2	4	Julian Golding	England	20.51	Q
3	4	Christian Malcolm	Wales	20.53	Q
4	2	John Regis	England	20.58	Q, SB
5	3	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.61	Q
6	4	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	20.64	Q
7	1	Douglas Walker	Scotland	20.67	Q
8	1	Douglas Turner	Wales	20.68	Q
9	1	Stephen Brimacombe	Australia	20.77	Q
10	2	Matt Shirvington	Australia	20.78	Q
11	4	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	20.84	Q
12	3	Marcus la Grange	South Africa	20.85	Q
13	3	Allyn Condon	England	20.90	Q
14	1	Garth Robinson	Jamaica	20.93	Q
15	3	Tanko Braimah	Ghana	20.97	Q
16	2	Michael Nicolini	Canada	21.01	Q
17	3	James Henthorn	Wales	21.02	PB
18	1	Moses Mila Mayat	Uganda	21.05
19	2	Matthew Coad	New Zealand	21.12
19	3	O'Brian Gibbons	Canada	21.12
21	4	Philip Mukomana	Zimbabwe	21.14
22	1	Eric Milazar	Mauritius	21.16
23	2	Benjamin Sirimou	Cameroon	21.28
24	3	Nazmizan Muhamad	Malaysia	21.46
25	4	Ian Craig	Northern Ireland	21.51
26	4	Soloveni Nakaunicina	Fiji	21.52
27	4	Azmi Ibrahim	Malaysia	21.65
28	3	Justice Dipeba	Botswana	21.72
29	1	Jone Delai	Fiji	21.74
30	2	Aminiasi Babitu	Fiji	21.76
31	2	Mojalefa Mosili	Lesotho	21.85
	1	Paul McBurney	Northern Ireland	DNS

Qualification: First 4 of each heat qualified directly (Q) for the final.^[4]

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -0.7 m/s^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Julian Golding	England	20.34	Q, PB
2	1	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.48	Q
3	2	John Regis	England	20.49	Q, SB
4	2	Matt Shirvington	Australia	20.55	Q
5	2	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.55	Q
6	1	Christian Malcolm	Wales	20.56	Q
7	1	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	20.59	Q
8	2	Douglas Turner	Wales	20.64
9	1	Douglas Walker	Scotland	20.68	Q
10	1	Aziz Zakari	Ghana	20.70
11	2	Stephen Brimacombe	Australia	20.80
12	1	Michael Nicolini	Canada	20.95
13	2	Garth Robinson	Jamaica	21.04
14	1	Marcus la Grange	South Africa	21.05
15	1	Allyn Condon	England	21.06
16	2	Tanko Braimah	Ghana	21.25

Wind: -0.2 m/s^[2][5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Julian Golding	England	20.18
	3	Christian Malcolm	Wales	20.29
	4	John Regis	England	20.40
4	6	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	20.43
5	8	Darryl Wohlsen	Australia	20.48
6	7	Matt Shirvington	Australia	20.53
7	1	Chris Donaldson	New Zealand	20.62
8	2	Douglas Walker	Scotland	20.69