Olympic News

Ecuador’s Quinonez wins 200m heats over Spearmon

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

KINGSTON, Jamaica — America’s best hope at a medal in the 200m, Wallace Spearmon, had to run hard to qualify in second for a semifinal berth this morning.

Spearmon ran 20.47 but was beaten by Ecuador’s Alex Quinonez who ran a national record of 20.28.

Japan’s Shinji Takahira (20.57) was third.

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Reac. T	Time		Record
1	7	QUINONEZ Alex	0.186	20.28	Q	NR
2	1	SPEARMON Wallace	0.162	20.47	Q
3	8	TAKAHIRA Shinji	0.169	20.57	Q
4	2	CHRISTIAN Brendan	0.165	20.63		SB
5	3	ASTRAND Jonathan	0.172	20.73		SB
6	6	OUHADI Aziz	0.168	20.8
7	5	VIANA Sandro	0.18	21.05
-	4	MEITE Ben Youssef	-	DNS