The women's 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

sprint event at the 1960 Olympic Games

1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

took place between September 3 and September 5.

Heats

The top two runners in each of the six heats (blue), plus the next two fastest (pink) advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina "Giusy" Leone is an Italian athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres.She competed for Italy in the 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the bronze medal, .06 seconds ahead of Maria Leontyavna Itkina of the Soviet Union.In 1954 in the European...		23.90
2	Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...		24.10
3	Hannelore Raepke		24.32
4	Pat Duggan		24.80

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer		24.32
2	Catherine Capdevielle		24.46
3	Ulla-Britt Wieslander		24.82
4	Jean Hiscock		24.85
5	Ilana Karaszyk		26.69

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jutta Heine Jutta Heine Judith Heine is a West German athlete who mainly competed in the sprint events.She competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won a silver medal in the women's 200 metres...		24.04
2	Norma Croker-Fleming		24.35
3	Alena Stolzová		24.85
4	Lyudmila Ignatyeva		24.90
5	Val Morgan		25.39

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta		24.08
2	Mariya Itkina		24.20
3	Antónia Munkácsi		24.53
4	Mona Sulaiman		25.98

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres....		23.82
2	Celina Jesionowska Celina Jesionowska Celina Jesionowska is a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres, during the last part of her career in 400 metres...		24.45
3	Eleanor Haslam		24.63
4	Ernestine Pollards		24.64
5	Olga Šikovec		24.95

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960....		23.30	OR
2	Valentina Maslovskaya		24.12
3	Jenny Smart		24.12
4	Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann		24.31
5	Maeve Kyle Maeve Kyle Maeve Esther Enid Kyle, OBE, née Shankey, , is an Irish Olympic athlete and hockey player. She competed in the 100m and 200m in the Melbourne Olympics and subsequently in the Rome Olympics and Tokyo Olympics...		25.06
6	Erzsébet Heldtné Bartos		25.50

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960....		23.79
2	Jutta Heine Jutta Heine Judith Heine is a West German athlete who mainly competed in the sprint events.She competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won a silver medal in the women's 200 metres...		24.15
3	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta		24.36
4	Norma Croker-Fleming		24.44
5	Jenny Smart		24.74
6	Valentina Maslovskaya		24.77
7	Catherine Capdevielle		25.04

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina "Giusy" Leone is an Italian athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres.She competed for Italy in the 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the bronze medal, .06 seconds ahead of Maria Leontyavna Itkina of the Soviet Union.In 1954 in the European...		24.69
2	Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres....		24.78
3	Mariya Itkina		24.81
4	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer		25.05
5	Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...		25.14
6	Celina Jesionowska Celina Jesionowska Celina Jesionowska is a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres, during the last part of her career in 400 metres...		25.45

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960....		24.13
	Jutta Heine Jutta Heine Judith Heine is a West German athlete who mainly competed in the sprint events.She competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won a silver medal in the women's 200 metres...		24.58
	Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman Dorothy Hyman is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres....		24.82
4	Mariya Itkina		24.85
5	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta		24.96
6	Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina Leone Giuseppina "Giusy" Leone is an Italian athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres.She competed for Italy in the 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the bronze medal, .06 seconds ahead of Maria Leontyavna Itkina of the Soviet Union.In 1954 in the European...		25.01

Key: OR = Olympic record