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The Men’s 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 18–20 August at the Beijing National Stadium.The qualifying standards were 20.59 s (A standard) and 20.75 s (B standard).Usain Bolt set a new world record of 19.30 s in the medal race and won by the largest margin of victory (0.52 s; after disqualifications 0.64 s) in an Olympic 200 m (Walter Tewksbury had a ca. 0.6 seconds margin in his victory in the first Olympic 200 m race in 1900).
