Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
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These are the official results of the women's 200 metres
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 44 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 20 by women. There were a total number of 2053 participating athletes from 191 countries.-Men:...

event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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. There were a total number of 47 participating athletes (and three-finishers), with two rounds (six heats in round 1, four heats in round 2), two semifinals and a final.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.
World Record 21.34   Florence Griffith Joyner Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
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United States
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16 July 1988
Olympic Record 21.34   Florence Griffith Joyner Seoul
Seoul
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29 September 1988

Heats

Top four in each heat and next eight fastest advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat one
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Carlette Guidry 22.37 5
2 Mary Onyali 22.42 8
3 Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen...

22.93 3
4 Patricia Rodríguez 23.13 2
5 Yan Jiankui
Yan Jiankui
Yan Jiankui is a retired female sprinter from PR China.In 1998 she won both the 100 metres and 200 metres the Asian Championships and as well as a bronze medal in the 200 m at the Asian Games. She was selected to represent Asia at the 1998 World Cup, but finished eighth and last in both events...

23.21 1
6 Myra Mayberry 23.23 7
7 Zlatka Georgieva
Zlatka Georgieva
Zlatka Georgieva is a retired Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

24.05 4
8 Laure Kuetey 25.57 6


Heat two
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Dannette Young
Dannette Young
Dannette Louise Young is a former American athlete. Young won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, she won a silver medal....

22.65 2
2 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events.In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m...

22.70 7
3 Lucrécia Jardim
Lucrécia Jardim
Maria Lucrécia Jardim is a retired Portuguese sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

22.95 5
4 Viktoriya Fomenko
Viktoriya Fomenko
Viktoriya Fomenko is a retired Ukrainian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.She competed at the 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Indoor Championships, and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she finished fourth at the 1994 European...

23.18 1
5 Sandy Myers
Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States. She became US champion in 400 metres in 1981, but received Spanish nationality in 1987 and competed for Spain since...

23.18 6
6 Calister Ubah 23.34 3
7 Dora Kyriakou 23.85 4
8 Sylla M'Mah Touré 26.64 8


Heat three
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert is a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the sprints ....

23.03 6
2 Irina Privalova
Irina Privalova
Irina Anatoljewna Privalova is a Russian athlete.She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but had not yet won an...

23.16 2
3 Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal...

23.25 1
4 Sanna Hernesniemi 23.35 7
5 Mireille Donders 23.52 8
6 Maia Azarashvili
Maia Azarashvili
Maia Azarashvili is a retired Georgian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres, representing the USSR and Georgia .She finished seventh at the 1988 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki. She competed at the World Championships in 1987, 1993 and 1995 without...

23.63 5
7 Felipa Palacios
Felipa Palacios
Felipa Alicia Palacios Hinestroza is a retired female track and field athlete from Colombia, who competed in the sprint events.She represented her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996...

24.12 4
8 Lineo Shoai 26.25 3


Heat four
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...

22.92 7
2 Katharine Merry
Katharine Merry
Katharine Merry is a former English female sprinter.-Career:A member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club, Merry won a bronze medal in the 400 metre sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Merry had a career that spanned 20 years. Aged 12 she topped the UK Under 13 Rankings in...

23.14 1
3 Monika Gachevska 23.30 6
4 Heather Samuel
Heather Samuel
Heather Barbara Samuel is a retired sprinter from Antigua and Barbuda who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. In 1990 she won two medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games with a silver medal in the 100 metres and a bronze medal in the 200 metres.Samuel was a sprinter/jumper at Murray...

23.34 5
5 Ameerah Bello 23.45 4
6 Du Xiujie 23.69 3
7 Guilhermina da Cruz 24.92 8
8 Marina Trandenkova
Marina Trandenkova
Marina Evgenevna Trandenkova is a Russian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the silver medal with her team mates Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Malchugina and Irina...

DNS 2


Heat five
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics...

22.63 1
2 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

22.63 7
3 Beverly McDonald
Beverly McDonald
Beverly McDonald is a Jamaican sprinter. Her accomplishments include winning the silver medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2000 Olympics and the gold medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics...

23.04 6
4 Zhanna Pintusevych 23.15 5
5 Simone Jacobs
Simone Jacobs
Simmone Jacobs is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Simone began her career at Reading Athletic Club, where she was encouraged by two senior members, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Beverley Goddard.She competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in...

23.36 2
6 Tara Perry 23.46 3
7 Marina Živković 23.51 4
8 Kaltouma Nadjina
Kaltouma Nadjina
Kaltouma Nadjina is a Chadian sprinter. Her specialities are the 200 and 400 metres.Born in Bol by a modest family, her sportif career began when she participated in 1993 at Moundou to the National Sport Week...

24.47 8


Heat six
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion....

22.62 5
2 Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

22.74 3
3 Alenka Bikar
Alenka Bikar
Alenka Bikar is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia who specialised in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:*...

22.88 7
4 Katherina Koffa 23.09 4
5 Nataliya Safronnikova 23.14 8
6 Sevatheda Fynes
Sevatheda Fynes
Savatheda Fynes is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race...

23.39 2
7 Georgette N’Koma 23.68 1
8 Lyudmila Dmitriady 24.88 6


Quarterfinals

Top four in each heat advanced to the semifinals.

Heat one
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Carlette Guidry 22.51 3
2 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

22.81 6
3 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events.In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m...

22.91 4
4 Nataliya Safronnikova 23.15 2
5 Sanna Hernesniemi 23.38 1
6 Monika Gachevska 23.44 8
7 Ameerah Bello 23.66 7
8 Beverly McDonald
Beverly McDonald
Beverly McDonald is a Jamaican sprinter. Her accomplishments include winning the silver medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2000 Olympics and the gold medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics...

DNS 5

Heat two
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...

22.61 4
2 Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics...

22.69 3
3 Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen...

22.84 5
4 Katerina Koffa 23.04 7
5 Katharine Merry
Katharine Merry
Katharine Merry is a former English female sprinter.-Career:A member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club, Merry won a bronze medal in the 400 metre sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Merry had a career that spanned 20 years. Aged 12 she topped the UK Under 13 Rankings in...

23.17 6
6 Sevatheda Fynes
Sevatheda Fynes
Savatheda Fynes is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Bahamas. She is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 x 100 meter relay race...

23.26 8
7 Yan Jiankui
Yan Jiankui
Yan Jiankui is a retired female sprinter from PR China.In 1998 she won both the 100 metres and 200 metres the Asian Championships and as well as a bronze medal in the 200 m at the Asian Games. She was selected to represent Asia at the 1998 World Cup, but finished eighth and last in both events...

23.30 1
8 Viktoriya Fomenko
Viktoriya Fomenko
Viktoriya Fomenko is a retired Ukrainian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.She competed at the 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Indoor Championships, and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she finished fourth at the 1994 European...

23.44 2


Heat three
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion....

22.24 3
2 Mary Onyali 22.37 5
3 Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

22.57 6
4 Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal...

22.74 1
5 Lucrécia Jardim
Lucrécia Jardim
Maria Lucrécia Jardim is a retired Portuguese sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

22.88 4
6 Simone Jacobs
Simone Jacobs
Simmone Jacobs is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Simone began her career at Reading Athletic Club, where she was encouraged by two senior members, Kathy Smallwood-Cook and Beverley Goddard.She competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in...

22.96 7
7 Sandy Myers 23.20 2
8 Heather Samuel
Heather Samuel
Heather Barbara Samuel is a retired sprinter from Antigua and Barbuda who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. In 1990 she won two medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games with a silver medal in the 100 metres and a bronze medal in the 200 metres.Samuel was a sprinter/jumper at Murray...

23.54 8


Heat four
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Dannette Young
Dannette Young
Dannette Louise Young is a former American athlete. Young won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, she won a silver medal....

22.53 6
2 Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert is a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the sprints ....

22.62 4
3 Irina Privalova
Irina Privalova
Irina Anatoljewna Privalova is a Russian athlete.She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but had not yet won an...

22.82 3
4 AlenkaBikar 22.89 5
5 Myra Mayberry 23.48 8
6 Patricia Rodríguez 23.50 1
7 Calister Ubah 23.62 7
8 Zhanna Pintusevych 23.68 2

Semifinals

Top four from each heat advanced to the finals.

Heat one
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion....

22.07 4
2 Mary Onyali 22.16 3
3 Juliet Cuthhbert 22.24 5
4 Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

22.33 7
5 Dannette Young
Dannette Young
Dannette Louise Young is a former American athlete. Young won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics, in Barcelona, she won a silver medal....

22.49 6
6 Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal...

22.78 2
7 Nataliya Safronnikova 22.98 1
8 Irina Privalova
Irina Privalova
Irina Anatoljewna Privalova is a Russian athlete.She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but had not yet won an...

DNS 8


Heat two
Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
1 Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...

22.08 4
2 Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics...

22.35 6
3 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

22.54 5
4 Carlette Guidry 22.56 3
5 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events.In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m...

22.76 2
6 Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke
Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen...

22.81 7
7 Alenka Bikar
Alenka Bikar
Alenka Bikar is a retired female sprinter from Slovenia who specialised in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:*...

22.82 8
8 Katerina Koffa 23.20 1


Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Lane
Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec
Marie-José Pérec is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and a triple Olympic champion....

22.12 3
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...

22.24 5
Mary Onyali 22.38 4
4 Inger Miller
Inger Miller
Inger Miller is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....

22.41 7
5 Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina
Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics...

22.45 6
6 Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup
Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

22.54 8
7 Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert
Juliet Cuthbert is a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the sprints ....

22.60 1
8 Carlette Guidry 22.61 2


Wind
Wind
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 in the finals = 0.3 m/s
Metre per second
Metre per second is an SI derived unit of both speed and velocity , defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds....


Notes: DNS = did not start
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