Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metres

Held on 21 August

Wind:
Heat 1: +1.8 m/s, Heat 5: +1.2 m/s, Heat 6: +0.2 m/s, Heat 7: +0.8 m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	William Snoddy	United States	20.75	Q
2	5	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.76	Q
3	8	Peter Muster	Switzerland	20.98	Q[2]
4	5	Urs Gisler	Switzerland	21.00	Q[3]
5	6	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	21.06	Q
6	6	Pietro Farina	Italy	21.07	Q[3]
7	1	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.09	Q
8	8	Reno Roelandt	Belgium	21.12	Q
9	6	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	21.23	q
10	4	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.32	Q
11	2	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.33	Q
12	1	Thomas Schultheiss	West Germany	21.35	q
12	6	Andrzej Świerczyński	Poland	21.35	q
14	5	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.36	q
15	5	Alan Bell	Great Britain	21.36	q
16	6	Didier Brel	France	21.47	q[4]
17	8	Stefano Curini	Italy	21.51	q
18	2	Brahim Badi	Algeria	21.53	Q
19	4	Jeffrey Matahelemual	Indonesia	21.64	Q
20	3	Peter Matejka	Austria	21.66	Q
21	2	Endre Lépold	Hungary	21.74	q
22	8	Miguel Ángel Arnau	Spain	21.78	[5]
23	3	Jesús Cabrera	Puerto Rico	21.80
24	8	Maki Fadl Turki El Moula	Sudan	21.88
25	4	Henri Hermans	Belgium	21.89
26	2	Alex Fortelny	Austria	21.93
27	3	Mirolyub Petkov	Bulgaria	21.99
28	1	Güner Güngör	Turkey	22.05
29	7	Bernward Plenker	West Germany	22.10	Q
30	7	Eric Bigon	France	22.11	Q[4]
31	1	Omar Youssif Najib	Sudan	22.14
32	2	Nabil Nahri	Syria	22.48
33	8	Selim Ergun	Turkey	22.73
34	3	Ch. Arqbet	Tunisia	23.28
35	5	Mohamed Khlill	Jordan	24.74

Held on 22 August

Wind:
Heat 1: -2.2 m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s, Heat 3: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.94	Q
2	3	Clancy Edwards	United States	20.95	Q
3	2	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.23	Q
4	2	Urs Gisler	Switzerland	21.26	q
4	3	Reno Roelandt	Belgium	21.26	Q
4	3	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.26	q
7	1	William Snoddy	United States	21.40	Q
8	2	Andrzej Świerczyński	Poland	21.45
9	1	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.50	Q
10	1	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	21.59
11	3	Vilmundur Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	21.60
12	2	Yasuhiro Harada	Japan	21.66
13	2	Stefano Curini	Italy	21.68
14	1	Pietro Farina	Italy	21.71
15	3	Kazimierz Grubecki	Poland	21.72
16	2	Bernward Plenker	West Germany	21.78
16	3	Peter Matejka	Austria	21.78
18	3	Alan Bell	Great Britain	21.93
19	1	Thomas Schultheiss	West Germany	21.97
20	1	Jeffrey Matahelemual	Indonesia	22.00
21	1	Éric Bigon	France	22.03	[4]
22	1	Brahim Badi	Algeria	22.12
23	3	Endre Lépold	Hungary	22.23
24	2	Didier Brel	France	22.47	[4]

Held on 22 August[6][7]

Wind: -1.8 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Clancy Edwards	United States	20.46
	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.64
	William Snoddy	United States	21.17
4	Roland Bombardella	Luxembourg	21.20
5	Reno Roelandt	Belgium	21.25
6	Peter Muster	Switzerland	21.41
7	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.41
8	Urs Gisler	Switzerland	21.44