| | | Final |  | time |  | React. |  | 1. Christian Malcolm |  Great Britain | 20.54s |  | 0.171s |  | 2. Patrick Stevens |  Belgium | 20.70s |  | 0.158s |  | 3. Julian Golding |  Great Britain | 21.02s |  | 0.161s |  | 4. Christophe Cheval |  France | 21.37s |  | 0.148s |  | 5. Konstantinos Kenteris |  Greece | 21.79s |  | 0.192s |  | -. Anninos Marcoullides |  Cyprus | DNF |  | 0.135s | 
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 |  |  | First 2 from each Semi advanced to Final. | 
 | | Semi 1 |  | time |  |  | 2. Christian Malcolm |  Great Britain | 20.77s | Q |  | 5. Christophe Cheval |  France | 20.94s | Q |  | 10.Ronny Ostwald |  Germany | 21.32s |  |  | -. Roland Németh |  Hungary | DQ |  |  | -. John Ertzgaard |  Norway | DNS |  | 
 |  | | Semi 2 |  | time |  |  | 2. Anninos Marcoullides |  Cyprus | 20.77s | Q, SB |  | 4. Julian Golding |  Great Britain | 20.87s | Q |  | 7. Petko Yankov |  Bulgaria | 20.98s |  |  | 12.Holger Blume |  Germany | 21.63s |  |  | 13.Maurizio Checcucci |  Italy | 21.64s |  | 
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 | | Semi 3 |  | time |  |  | 1. Patrick Stevens |  Belgium | 20.66s | Q, =NR |  | 5. Konstantinos Kenteris |  Greece | 20.94s | Q |  | 8. Marc Foucan |  France | 21.19s |  |  | 9. Serhiy Osovych |  Ukraine | 21.27s |  |  | 11.Timothy Benjamin |  Great Britain | 21.54s |  | 
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 | Heats - Frifay, 1st March  |  | First 3 from each Heat and next Best 3 advanced to Semi-Finals. | 
 | | Heat 1 |  | time |  |  | 3. Patrick Stevens |  Belgium | 20.87s | Q |  | 19.Maurizio Checcucci |  Italy | 21.60s | Q |  | 20.Resat Oguz |  Turkey | 21.68s |  |  | 23.Valeriy Kirdyashev |  Russia | 21.92s |  |  | -. Marcin Urbaś |  Poland | DNF |  | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time |  |  | 6. Christophe Cheval |  France | 20.96s | Q |  | 13.Ronny Ostwald |  Germany | 21.20s | Q |  | 15.Christos Magos |  Greece | 21.30s |  |  | 18.Prodromos Katsantonis |  Greece | 21.51s |  | 
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 | | Heat 3 |  | time |  |  | 1. Anninos Marcoullides |  Cyprus | 20.81s | Q, SB |  | 6. Julian Golding |  Great Britain | 20.96s | Q |  | 22.Cédric Gold-Dalg |  France | 21.74s |  |  | -. Erik Wymeersch |  Belgium | DNS |  | 
 |  | | Heat 4 |  | time |  |  | 9. Petko Yankov |  Bulgaria | 21.01s | Q |  | 10.Serhiy Osovych |  Ukraine | 21.06s | Q |  | 14.Timothy Benjamin |  Great Britain | 21.27s | q |  | 17.Ryszard Pilarczyk |  Poland | 21.45s |  | 
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 | | Heat 5 |  | time |  |  | 4. Konstantinos Kenteris |  Greece | 20.93s | Q |  | 8. Marc Foucan |  France | 21.00s | Q |  | 16.Patrick van Balkom |  Netherlands | 21.31s |  |  | 20.Marco Torrieri |  Italy | 21.68s |  | 
 |  | | Heat 6 |  | time |  |  | 2. Christian Malcolm |  Great Britain | 20.85s | Q |  | 5. Roland Németh |  Hungary | 20.95s | Q, PB |  | 11.Holger Blume |  Germany | 21.19s | q |  | 12.John Ertzgaard |  Norway | 21.19s | q | 
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