Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 200 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 2 and 3 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Don Quarrie  Jamaica	Marshall Dill  United States	Edwin Roberts  Trinidad and Tobago

Held on 2 August

Wind:
Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: 0.0 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Willie Deckard	United States	20.88	Q
2	4	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.91	Q
3	3	Marshall Dill	United States	20.95	Q
4	2	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	21.08	Q
4	4	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	21.08	Q
6	3	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	21.22	Q
7	3	Trevor James	Trinidad and Tobago	21.34	Q
8	4	Carl Lawson	Jamaica	21.35	Q
9	4	Charlie Francis	Canada	21.42	Q
10	2	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	21.44	Q
11	2	Alberto Marchán	Venezuela	21.48	Q
12	3	Craig Blackman	Canada	21.62	Q
13	2	Pedro Grajales	Colombia	21.67	Q
14	3	Kevin Johnson	Bahamas	21.70
15	3	Jorge Matias	Brazil	21.89
16	1	Luis da Silva	Brazil	21.93	Q
16	2	Enrique Almarante	Dominican Republic	21.93
18	4	Roberto Hoger	Argentina	21.96
19	1	Walter Callander	Bahamas	22.16	Q
20	1	Julio Meade	Dominican Republic	22.17	Q
21	4	Santiago Antonetti	Puerto Rico	22.22
22	2	Carlos Abbott	Costa Rica	22.23
23	3	Julio Martinich	Peru	22.25
24	1	Jesús Rico	Venezuela	22.26
25	1	Junior Trotman	Barbados	22.44
26	1	Carmelo Reyes	Mexico	22.64

Held on 3 August

Wind:
Heat 1: +3.1 m/s, Heat 2: +2.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Marshall Dill	United States	20.34	Q, GR
2	1	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	20.64	Q
3	1	Willie Deckard	United States	20.66	Q
4	2	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.71	Q
5	2	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	20.87	Q
6	2	Carl Lawson	Jamaica	20.94	Q
7	1	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	21.16	Q
8	2	Charlie Francis	Canada	21.22
9	1	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	21.27	Q
10	1	Alberto Marchán	Venezuela	21.39
11	2	Luis da Silva	Brazil	21.46
12	1	Trevor James	Trinidad and Tobago	21.48
13	2	Pedro Grajales	Colombia	21.58
14	1	Craig Blackman	Canada	21.62
15	1	Walter Callander	Bahamas	21.75
	2	Julio Meade	Dominican Republic	DNS

Held on 3 August

Wind: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	19.86	GR
	Marshall Dill	United States	20.39
	Edwin Roberts	Trinidad and Tobago	20.39
4	Fernando Acevedo	Peru	20.69
5	Carl Lawson	Jamaica	20.98
6	Guillermo González	Puerto Rico	21.12
7	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	21.13
	Willie Deckard	United States	DNF