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Date: 1 August 1996
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Michael Johnson | USA | 19.32 |
| 2 | Frankie Fredericks | NAM | 19.68 |
| 3 | Ato Boldon | TTO | 19.80 |
| 4 | Obadele Thompson | BAR | 20.14 |
| 5 | Jeff Williams | USA | 20.17 |
| 6 | Ivan Garcia | CUB | 20.21 |
| 7 | Patrick Stevens | BEL | 20.27 |
| 8 | Mike Marsh | USA | 20.48 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Steve Brimacombe | AUS | 20.38 |
| 10 | Koji Ito | JPN | 20.45 |
| 11 | Sergejs Insakovs | LAT | 20.48 |
| 12 | Francis Obikwelu | NGR | 20.56 |
| 13 | John Regis | GBR | 20.58 |
| 14 | Emmanuel Tuffour | GHA | 20.61 |
| 15 | Geir Moen | NOR | 20.96 |
| 16 | Neil De Silva | TTO | 21.26 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 17 | Erik Wymeersch | BEL | 20.59 |
| 17 | Percy Spencer | JAM | 20.59 |
| 17 | Linford Christie | GBR | 20.59 |
| 20 | Edson Ribeiro | BRA | 20.60 |
| 21 | Robert Mackowiak | POL | 20.61 |
| 22 | Anninos Marcoullides | CYP | 20.63 |
| 22 | Troy Douglas | BER | 20.63 |
| 24 | Slava Dologodin | UKR | 20.65 |
| 24 | Robson da Silva | BRA | 20.65 |
| 26 | Jordi Mayoral | ESP | 20.68 |
| 27 | Elston Cawley | JAM | 20.75 |
| 28 | Torbjorn Eriksson | SWE | 20.83 |
| 29 | Carlos Gats | ARG | 20.84 |
| 30 | George Panayiotopoulos | GRE | 20.86 |
| 31 | Albert Agyemang | GHA | 20.87 |
| 32 | Gary Ryan | IRL | 20.89 |
| 33 | Seun Ogunkoya | NGR | 21.00 |
| 34 | Joseph Loua | GUI | 21.01 |
| 35 | Dean Capobianco | AUS | 21.03 |
| 36 | Francisco Navarro | ESP | 21.06 |
| 37 | Franck Waota | CIV | 21.14 |
| 38 | Oumar Loum | SEN | 21.31 |
| 39 | Claudinei da Silva | BRA | |
| 40 | O'Brian Gibbons | CAN | |
| Heats | |||
| 41 | Owusu Dako | GBR | 20.83 |
| 42 | Pierre Lisk | SLE | 20.86 |
| 43 | Thomas Sbokos | GRE | 20.88 |
| 43 | Joseph Gikonyo | KEN | 20.88 |
| 45 | Mark Keddell | NZL | 20.93 |
| 46 | Andrey Fedoriv | RUS | 20.95 |
| 47 | Sebastian Keitel | CHI | 20.96 |
| 47 | Chris Donaldson | NZL | 20.96 |
| 49 | Lars Hedner | SWE | 20.97 |
| 50 | Christoph Postinger | AUT | 20.98 |
| 51 | Alain Reimann | SUI | 20.99 |
| 51 | Boevi Lawson | TOG | 20.99 |
| 53 | Benjamin Sirimou | CMR | 21.00 |
| 54 | Sandro Floris | ITA | 21.01 |
| 55 | Chen Wenzhong | CHN | 21.05 |
| 56 | Antoine Boussombo | GAB | 21.06 |
| 57 | Justice Dipeba | BOT | 21.09 |
| 58 | Mohamed al-Hooti | OMA | 21.10 |
| 58 | Alfred Visagie | RSA | 21.10 |
| 60 | Takahiro Mazuka | JPN | 21.13 |
| 61 | Ousmane Diarra | MLI | 21.20 |
| 61 | Anton Ivanov | BUL | 21.20 |
| 61 | Thomas Griesser | AUT | 21.20 |
| 64 | Matthew Coad | NZL | 21.25 |
| 64 | Tao Wu-Shiun | TPE | 21.25 |
| 66 | Carlton Chambers | CAN | 21.32 |
| 67 | Amos Ali | PNG | 21.37 |
| 68 | Anderson Vilien | HAI | 21.62 |
| 69 | Pascal Dangbo | BEN | 21.65 |
| 70 | Brahim Abdoulaye | CHA | 21.67 |
| 71 | Miguel Janssen | ARU | 21.72 |
| 72 | Mohamed al-Aswad | UAE | 21.77 |
| 73 | David Wilson | GUM | 21.85 |
| 74 | Laurence Jack | VAN | 21.94 |
| 75 | Peter Ogilvie | CAN | 22.00 |
| 76 | Gustavo Envela | GEQ | 22.09 |
| 77 | Hadhari Djaffar | COM | 22.68 |
| 78 | Mohamed Brahim Ould | MTN | 22.71 |
| Did not start | |||
| Ibrahim Ismail | QAT | ||
| Venancio Jose | ESP | ||
| Olapade Adeniken | NGR | ||