Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
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
10,000 m walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 200 metres event at the 1987 Pan American Games was held in Indianapolis, United States on 12, 13 and 15 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Floyd Heard  United States	Robson da Silva  Brazil	Wallace Spearmon Sr.  United States

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Wind:
Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.8 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Floyd Heard	United States	20.70	Q
2	2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.79	Q
3	2	Wallace Spearmon Sr.	United States	20.89	Q
4	3	Clive Wright	Jamaica	21.02	Q
5	2	John Mair	Jamaica	21.08	Q
6	2	Edgardo Guilbe	Puerto Rico	21.10	Q
7	2	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	21.11	q
8	3	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	21.12	Q
9	1	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	21.27	Q
9	3	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	21.27	Q
11	1	Félix Stevens	Cuba	21.30	Q
12	3	Dazel Jules	Trinidad and Tobago	21.39	Q
13	3	Carlos Moreno	Chile	21.82	q
14	3	Rafael Mejía	Colombia	21.93	q
15	3	Damel Flowers	Belize	22.14	q
16	3	Bernard Whyte	Antigua and Barbuda	22.17
17	1	Lindel Hodge	British Virgin Islands	22.53	Q
18	2	Ulric Jackson	United States Virgin Islands	23.08
19	1	Claude Roumain	Haiti	23.30
	1	Luis Morales	Puerto Rico	DNS
	1	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	DNS
	2	Lawrence Smith	Belize	DNS
	2	St. Clair Soleyne	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS

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Wind:
Heat 1: -1.0 m/s, Heat 2: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.59	Q
2	2	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	20.71	Q
3	1	Floyd Heard	United States	20.72	Q
4	2	Clive Wright	Jamaica	20.81	Q
5	1	Wallace Spearmon Sr.	United States	20.89	Q
6	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	20.96	Q
7	2	John Mair	Jamaica	21.01	Q
8	2	Edgardo Guilbe	Puerto Rico	21.19
9	1	Félix Stevens	Cuba	21.22	Q
10	2	Dazel Jules	Trinidad and Tobago	21.26
11	1	Alvin Daniel	Trinidad and Tobago	21.41
12	1	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	21.61
13	2	Carlos Moreno	Chile	21.78
14	2	Rafael Mejía	Colombia	21.99
15	1	Damel Flowers	Belize	22.05
16	1	Lindel Hodge	British Virgin Islands	22.36

Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Floyd Heard	United States	20.25
	5	Robson da Silva	Brazil	20.49
	7	Wallace Spearmon Sr.	United States	20.53
4	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	20.73
5	6	Clive Wright	Jamaica	20.73
6	3	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	20.81
7	8	Félix Stevens	Cuba	21.11
8	2	John Mair	Jamaica	21.22