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The Women's 200 metres at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

2011 World Championships in Athletics

The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 3.

The defending three time world champion Allyson Felix

Allyson Felix

Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...

 and reigning two time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown were the principal contenders, although both were aiming for sprint doubles of 200/400 m and 100/200 m, respectively. Shalonda Solomon

Shalonda Solomon

Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...

 was the world-leader before the championships with her run of 22.15 seconds which made her the 2011 US champion. Other contenders included Carmelita Jeter

Carmelita Jeter

Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...

, who was second in the rankings, and Jeneba Tarmoh

Jeneba Tarmoh

Jeneba Tarmoh is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She was a All-American for Texas A&M University helping them with back to back to back wins in the NCAA Track & Field Outdoor Championships 2009–2011 seasons...

 (the fourth American runner) who was ranked fifth.

The results of the three semi finals placed three Jamaicans and three Southern California athletes as the automatic qualifiers. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Hrystyna Stuy

Hrystyna Stuy

Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...

 were the time qualifiers.

In the final, Campbell-Brown burst out of the blocks, making up the stagger on Solomon to her outside. Campbell-Brown had a sizable lead with the inexperienced (at this distance) Jeter the only one to make a serious run at her, but this race being double her normal distance, Jeter couldn't hold it and started to fall back awkwardly. Defending champion Felix, who looked sluggish throughout the season, closed fast to challenge Jeter near the line.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Veronica Campbell-Brown '	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze... '	Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances... '

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record		21.34	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world... , South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	29 September 1988
Championship record		21.74	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	3 September 1987
World Leading		22.15	Eugene, OR, United States	26 June 2011
African Record		22.07	Zürich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	14 August 1996
Asian Record		22.01	Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010... , China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...	22 October 1997
North, Central American and Caribbean record		21.34	Seoul, South Korea	29 September 1988
South American record		22.48	São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	6 August 2011
European Record		21.71	Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle... , East Germany	10 June 1979
			Potsdam Potsdam Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre.... , East Germany	21 July 1984
			Jena Jena Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document... , East Germany	29 June 1986
			Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....	29 August 1986
Oceanian record		22.23	Stuttgart, Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	13 July 1997

Qualification standards

A time	B time
11.29	11.38

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 1, 2011	10:50	Heats
September 1, 2011	19:25	Semifinals
September 2, 2011	20:55	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +0.3 m/s, Heat 5: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Veronica Campbell-Brown		22.46	Q
2	5	Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...		22.62	Q, SB
3	2	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		22.68	Q
4	3	Dafne Schippers Dafne Schippers Dafne Schippers is a Dutch athlete competing in heptathlon and the 200 metres.Schippers won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships.-References:...		22.69	Q, NR Dutch records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in the Netherlands maintained by its national athletics federation: Koninklijke Nederlandse Atletiek Unie .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:+ = en route to a longer distance...
4	4	Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...		22.69	Q
6	1	Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...		22.71	Q, SB
6	3	Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...		22.71	Q
8	4	Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...		22.77	Q
9	1	Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...		22.83	Q
10	5	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie		22.86	Q
11	1	Yuliya Gushchina Yuliya Gushchina Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...		22.88	Q, SB
12	4	Kai Selvon		22.89	Q, PB
13	5	Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...		22.92	Q, PB
14	5	Anyika Onuora Anyika Onuora Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...		22.93	q, PB
15	2	Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...		22.94	Q
16	3	Ana Cláudia Lemos Silva		22.96	Q
17	1	Nivea Smith Nivea Smith Nivea Smith is a sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She grew up in Freeport, attended Mary Star of the Sea Primary School, and later graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic High School.-Career:...		23.09	Q
17	2	Elizabeta Savlinis		23.09	Q
19	3	Janelle Redhead Janelle Redhead Janelle Redhead in Gouyave, Saint John, is a Grenadian sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres.She won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships....		23.11	Q
20	3	Allison Peter		23.17	q
21	4	Anthonique Strachan Anthonique Strachan Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter. She attends St. Augustine’s College in Nassau, Bahamas.Strachan won gold medals over 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Her 200 metres time of 22.70 was a new World Junior Leading and a new...		23.20	Q
22	4	Nelkis Casabona		23.21	q
23	1	Chisato Fukushima Chisato Fukushima Chisato Fukushima is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan. She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres....		23.25	q
24	5	Moa Hjelmer Moa Hjelmer Moa Hjelmer is a Swedish athlete on 200 metres and 400 metres. Hjelmer won a silver medal in the Junior European Championships in 2011 in Ostrava. She beat the Swedish record time on 400 metres on August 14, 2011....		23.31
25	4	Anna Kielbasinska		23.34
26	3	Endurance Abinuwa		23.53
27	1	Jeneba Tarmoh Jeneba Tarmoh Jeneba Tarmoh is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She was a All-American for Texas A&M University helping them with back to back to back wins in the NCAA Track & Field Outdoor Championships 2009–2011 seasons...		23.60
28	2	Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelizaveta Bryzhina is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.Her personal best times are 11.44 seconds in the 100 metres , achieved in June 2007 in Kiev; and 22.44 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona.-Biography:Bryzhina is the daughter of the...		23.70	Q
28	2	Vanda Gomes		23.70
30	4	Kimberly Hyacinthe		23.83
31	2	Viktoriya Zyabkina		24.09
32	3	Phumlile Ndzinisa		24.15	NR Swazi records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Swaziland maintained by Swaziland's national athletics federation: Swaziland Athletics Association .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:OT = oversized track-External links:...
33	5	Maryam Tousi		24.17
34	4	Hinikissia Albertine Ndikert Hinikissia Albertine Ndikert Hinikissia Albertine Ndikert is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Chad.Ndikert represented Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed seventh in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance...		24.81	PB
35	2	Mary Jane Vincent		25.20	SB
36	5	Fanny Shonobi		25.55	SB
37	1	Seyha Chan		26.34	PB
38	3	Afa Ismail		26.48
	1	Ramona van der Vloot
	2	Blessing Okagbare Blessing Okagbare Blessing Okagbare is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the...

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.7 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -1.8 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...		22.46	Q
2	1	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		22.47	Q
3	3	Veronica Campbell-Brown		22.53	Q
4	3	Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...		22.67	Q
5	2	Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...		22.77	Q
6	2	Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...		22.79	q, PB
7	2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie		22.85	q
8	1	Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...		22.88	Q
9	2	Dafne Schippers Dafne Schippers Dafne Schippers is a Dutch athlete competing in heptathlon and the 200 metres.Schippers won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships.-References:...		22.92
10	1	Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...		22.94
11	1	Ana Cláudia Lemos Silva		22.97
12	1	Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...		23.02
13	3	Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...		23.03
14	2	Elizabeta Savlinis		23.04
15	1	Nivea Smith Nivea Smith Nivea Smith is a sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She grew up in Freeport, attended Mary Star of the Sea Primary School, and later graduated from Grand Bahama Catholic High School.-Career:...		23.06
16	2	Anyika Onuora Anyika Onuora Anyika Onuora is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres, and also the 4×100 metres relay.Her first major junior international competition was the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she finished fifth in the 100 m event and won a silver medal with...		23.08
17	2	Kai Selvon		23.11
18	3	Yuliya Gushchina Yuliya Gushchina Yuliya Aleksandrovna Gushchina is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Gushchina represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round...		23.26
19	1	Nelkis Casabona		23.32
20	1	Chisato Fukushima Chisato Fukushima Chisato Fukushima is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Japan. She is the Japanese record holder in the women's 100 metres and 200 metres....		23.52
21	2	Allison Peter		23.56
22	3	Janelle Redhead Janelle Redhead Janelle Redhead in Gouyave, Saint John, is a Grenadian sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres.She won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships....		23.57
23	3	Anthonique Strachan Anthonique Strachan Anthonique Strachan is a Bahamian sprinter. She attends St. Augustine’s College in Nassau, Bahamas.Strachan won gold medals over 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Her 200 metres time of 22.70 was a new World Junior Leading and a new...		23.85
	3	Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelizaveta Bryzhina is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.Her personal best times are 11.44 seconds in the 100 metres , achieved in June 2007 in Kiev; and 22.44 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona.-Biography:Bryzhina is the daughter of the...

Final

Wind: -1.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Veronica Campbell-Brown		22.22	SB
	4	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		22.37
	3	Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...		22.42
4	6	Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon Shalonda Solomon is an American Track and Field sprinter. Her greatest International accomplishment currently is a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup while representing the Americas team. She qualified for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics by winning the 200...		22.61
5	8	Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she...		22.70
6	1	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie		22.96
7	2	Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy Hrystyna Stuy is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres.In the 4 x 100 metres relay she competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final...		23.02
8	7	Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson Sherone Simpson is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She is a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay from the 2004 Olympics and silver medalist in 2005 World Championships and now is the silver medalist in the individual event at the 2008 Summer Olympics...		23.17

External links

• 200 metres results at IAAF website