Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Stéphane Diagana	France	20.81	Q
2	2	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.98	Q
3	5	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.99	Q
4	3	Daniel Sangouma	France	21.08	Q
5	4	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	21.10	Q
6	3	Giorgio Marras	Italy	21.11	Q
7	3	Marek Zalewski	Poland	21.14	q
8	4	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	21.18	q
9	1	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	21.20	Q
10	1	Aleksandr Goremykin	Unified Team	21.20	Q
11	5	Geir Moen	Norway	21.21	Q
12	5	Alexander Lack	Germany	21.32
13	5	Andreas Berger	Austria	21.33
14	1	Michael Huke	Germany	21.38
14	2	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	21.38	Q
16	4	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.40
17	2	Pascal Thurnherr	Switzerland	21.46
18	3	Luís Cunha	Portugal	21.62
19	3	Kastytis Klimas	Lithuania	21.68
20	1	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	21.81
21	4	Frank Perri	Netherlands	21.88
22	5	Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu	Turkey	21.93
23	1	Aldo Canti	San Marino	21.95	NR
	2	Sandro Floris	Italy	DNS	[2]
	2	Thomas Renner	Austria	DNS	[2]

Semifinals

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.72	Q
2	1	Aleksandr Goremykin	Unified Team	20.82	Q
3	1	Daniel Sangouma	France	20.98	Q
4	2	Stéphane Diagana	France	21.06	Q
5	1	Stefano Tilli	Italy	21.10
6	2	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	21.24	Q
7	2	Giorgio Marras	Italy	21.26	Q
8	2	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	21.41
9	1	Daniel Cojocaru	Romania	21.61
10	1	Marek Zalewski	Poland	21.66
11	2	Geir Moen	Norway	21.68
12	2	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	22.29

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.41	NR
	Daniel Sangouma	France	20.64
	Aleksandr Goremykin	Unified Team	21.09
4	Giorgio Marras	Italy	21.15
5	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	21.38
6	Stéphane Diagana	France	21.53