| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Slowly |  JAM | 21.00 Q | 0.014 | 
| 2 | Scott Thom |  AUS | 21.14 Q | 0.014 | 
| 3 | Kevin Baker |  USA | 21.53 Q | 0.014 | 
| 4 | Raphael de Oliveira |  BRA | 21.54 Q | 0.016 | 
| 5 | Jeremy Bobe |  FRA | 21.56 | 0.015 | 
| 6 | Attila Farkas |  HUN | 21.57 | 0.014 | 
| 7 | Heber Viera |  URU | 21.58 | 0.015 | 
| José Luis Herrera |  COL | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russell Frye |  USA | 20.79 Q | 0.018 | 
| 2 | Roy Bailey |  JAM | 21.07 Q | 0.015 | 
| 3 | Timothy Benjamin |  GBR | 21.22 Q | 0.012 | 
| 4 | Sherwin Vries |  NAM | 21.31 Q | 0.015 | 
| 5 | To Wai Lok |  HKG | 21.81 | 0.020 | 
| 6 | Julien Arame |  FRA | 21.87 | 0.019 | 
| 7 | Kenji Nara |  JPN | 22.19 | 0.021 | 
| Matthias Mertens |  GER | DQ | 0.027 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Malcolm |  GBR | 20.85 Q | 0.017 | 
| 2 | Benjamin Potter |  NZL | 21.26 Q | 0.016 | 
| 3 | Hirofumi Nakagawa |  JPN | 21.31 Q | 0.014 | 
| 4 | Wynand Dempers |  RSA | 21.36 Q | 0.014 | 
| 5 | Anastásios Goúsis |  GRE | 21.48 | 0.013 | 
| 6 | Alexander Lakhandal |  SWE | 21.78 | 0.016 | 
| 7 | Alejandro Olivan |  ESP | 21.79 | 0.018 | 
| 8 | Stephen Hadfield |  AUS | 21.88 | 0.017 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jairo Duzant |  AHO | 21.07 Q | 0.015 | 
| 2 | Stefan Holz |  GER | 21.27 Q | 0.015 | 
| 3 | Massimiliano Donati |  ITA | 21.29 Q | 0.015 | 
| 4 | Bradley Agnew |  RSA | 21.38 Q | 0.017 | 
| 5 | Dallas Roberts |  NZL | 21.40 PB | 0.014 | 
| 6 | Uros Zver |  SLO | 21.66 | 0.016 | 
| 7 | Elly Ollarves |  VEN | 21.76 | 0.015 | 
| 8 | Ousman Jatta |  GAM | 22.51 | 0.014 |