Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metres
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Round 1

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the Round 2.
RankHeatAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 2 Muna Lee  22.71 Q
2 2 Muriel Hurtis-Houairi  22.72 Q
3 2 Cydonie Mothersille  22.76 Q, SB
4 4 Roqaya Al-Gassra  22.81 Q
5 6 Nataliya Pyhyda  22.91 Q, =PB
6 6 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
7 4 Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....

 
22.95 Q
8 2 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Igorevna Chermoshanskaya is a Russian athlete and daughter of Galina Malchugina.Chermoshanskaya represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova...

 
22.98 Q
9 1 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...

 
23.02 Q
10 4 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...

 
23.03 Q
11 5 Veronica Campbell-Brown  23.04 Q
11 1 Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres....

 
23.04 Q
13 5 Kadiatou Camara
Kadiatou Camara
Kadiatou Camara is a Malian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She formerly competed in the long jump.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*60 metres - 7.35 s *100 metres - 11.48 s *200 metres - 22.70 s...

 
23.06 Q
14 3 Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Myers is a professional sprinter, competing internationally for the United States and sponsored by adidas...

 
23.07 Q
15 6 Roxana Díaz  23.09 Q
16 6 LaVerne Jones-Ferrette  23.12 Q
17 2 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...

 
23.13 q, SB
18 1 Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Basseterre....

 
23.14 Q
19 5 Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

 
23.21 Q
20 3 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  23.22 Q
21 4 Ionela Târlea  23.24 Q
22 1 Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva is a Russian athlete.Fedoriva represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica,...

 
23.29 Q
23 3 Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
23.31 Q
24 5 Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. She was born in Nassau....

 
23.33 Q
24 4 Darlenis Obregón  23.33 q
26 5 Adrienne Power  23.40 q
27 6 Evelyn dos Santos  23.43 q
28 5 Vincenza Calì
Vincenza Calì
Vincenza Calì is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.Calì represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Anita Pistone, Giulia Arcioni and Audrey Alloh. In their first round heat they were however...

 
23.44 q
28 4 Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva is an Uzbekistani sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Khubbieva represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Muna Lee and Anita Pistone in a time of 11.44 to advance...

 
23.44 q
30 6 Allison George  23.45 q
31 1 Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Bulgaria.Eftimova represented Bulgaria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 4th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
23.50 q
32 3 Eleni Artymata
Eleni Artymata
Eleni Artymata is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Cyprus.Artymata represented Cyprus at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 200 metres, where she reached the second round. She won two medals, a gold in the 200 m and a bronze in the 100 m at...

 
23.58 Q, SB
33 6 Marta Jeschke
Marta Jeschke
Marta Jeschke is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time is 23.41 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum. She has 11.79 seconds in the 100 metres....

 
23.59
34 4 Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey
Jade Bailey is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Barbados.Bailey lives in Barbados and is coached by Keith Thornhill,her agent is Andre Thomas of [Athletes.first Sports Management http://www.athletes-first.de/]She won the bronze medal in 200 metres at the [2006...

 
23.62
34 3 Sabina Veit  23.62
36 5 Isabel Le Roux
Isabel Le Roux
Isabel Le Roux is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.At the 2008 African Championships she won the 200 metres race in a personal best time of 22.69 seconds. She also won a bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay....

 
23.67
37 3 Gloria Kemasuode
Gloria Kemasuode
Gloria Kemasuode Ubiebor is a female track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Nigeria....

 
23.72
38 3 Meritzer Williams
Meritzer Williams
Meritzer Williams is a Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Charlestown.Her personal best times are 11.57 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Provo; and 22.96 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 2008 in...

 
23.83
39 2 Marielis Sánchez  24.05
40 3 Fabienne Feraez
Fabienne Feraez
Fabienne Feraez is a Beninese sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She switched nationality from her native France on August 12, 2003.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 11.55 s *200 metres - 22.81 s...

 
24.07
40 2 Carol Rodríguez
Carol Rodríguez
Carol Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican sprinter.She competed in both 200 and 400 metres at the 2008 Olympic Games, but without reaching the final round....

 
24.07
42 1 Kia Davis  24.31
43 4 Lai Lai Win  24.37
44 1 Kirsten Nieuwendam  24.46 NR
Surinamese records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Suriname maintained by its national athletics federation: Surinaamse Athletiek Bond .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:ht = hand timingOT = oversized track-External links:...

45 6 Gretta Taslakian
Gretta Taslakian
Gretta Taslakian is a Lebanese sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. A member of the Lebanese Armenians, she was born in Ghazir.Taslakian won two gold medals for Lebanon in the 2007 Pan Arab Games in Egypt....

 
25.32 SB
46 5 Samia Yusuf Omar  32.16
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Vida Anim
Vida Anim is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. Together with Mavis Akoto, Monica Twum and Vida Nsiah she holds the Ghanaian record in 4 x 100 metres relay with 43.19 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Anim represented Ghana at the...

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Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

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Round 2

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.
RankHeatAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 4 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...

 
22.60 Q
2 3 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Igorevna Chermoshanskaya is a Russian athlete and daughter of Galina Malchugina.Chermoshanskaya represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova...

 
22.63 Q, PB
3 1 Veronica Campbell-Brown  22.64 Q
4 1 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...

 
22.74 Q
4 3 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...

 
22.74 Q
6 2 Roqaya Al-Gassra  22.76 Q
6 3 Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Myers is a professional sprinter, competing internationally for the United States and sponsored by adidas...

 
22.76 Q
8 1 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  22.77 Q
9 4 Muna Lee  22.83 Q
9 1 Cydonie Mothersille  22.83 q
11 2 Muriel Hurtis-Houairi  22.89 Q
12 2 Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres....

 
22.94 Q
13 4 Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....

 
22.95 Q
14 2 Roxana Díaz  22.98 q
15 3 Nataliya Pyhyda  23.03 q
16 2 Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva is a Russian athlete.Fedoriva represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica,...

 
23.04 q
17 3 Kadiatou Camara
Kadiatou Camara
Kadiatou Camara is a Malian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She formerly competed in the long jump.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*60 metres - 7.35 s *100 metres - 11.48 s *200 metres - 22.70 s...

 
23.06
18 4 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...

 
23.15
19 4 Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge
Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Basseterre....

 
23.17
20 1 Ionela Târlea  23.22
21 2 Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Osayomi
Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 metres relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

 
23.27
22 4 Natalia Rusakova
Natalia Rusakova
Nataliya Mikhaylovna Kresova-Rusakova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Russia.She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....

 
23.28
23 1 Evelyn dos Santos  23.35
24 1 LaVerne Jones-Ferrette  23.37
25 2 Darlenis Obregón  23.40
26 2 Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova
Inna Eftimova is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Bulgaria.Eftimova represented Bulgaria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 4th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time...

 
23.48
27 3 Adrienne Power  23.51
28 3 Vincenza Calì
Vincenza Calì
Vincenza Calì is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.Calì represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Anita Pistone, Giulia Arcioni and Audrey Alloh. In their first round heat they were however...

 
23.56
29 3 Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson
Sheniqua Ferguson is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. She was born in Nassau....

 
23.61
30 4 Eleni Artymata
Eleni Artymata
Eleni Artymata is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Cyprus.Artymata represented Cyprus at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 200 metres, where she reached the second round. She won two medals, a gold in the 200 m and a bronze in the 100 m at...

 
23.77
31 4 Allison George  23.77
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Guzel Khubbieva
Guzel Khubbieva is an Uzbekistani sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres.Khubbieva represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed third behind Muna Lee and Anita Pistone in a time of 11.44 to advance...

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Semifinal 1

20 August 2008 - 21:55 Wind: 0.0 m/s
RankLaneAthleteCountryTimeNotesReact
1 5 Veronica Campbell-Brown  22.19 Q 0.187
2 7 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...

 
22.29 Q 0.217
3 4 Muna Lee  22.29 Q, PB 0.186
4 9 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  22.51 Q 0.165
5 6 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Yuliya Igorevna Chermoshanskaya is a Russian athlete and daughter of Galina Malchugina.Chermoshanskaya represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova...

 
22.57 PB 0.204
6 3 Nataliya Pyhyda  22.95 0.160
7 8 Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe
Susanthika Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan sprint athlete specializing in the 100 and 200 metres....

 
22.98 0.245
8 2 Roxana Díaz  23.12 0.177

Semifinal 2

20 August 2008 - 22:04 Wind: -0.2 m/s
RankLaneAthleteCountryTimeNotesReact
1 7 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...

 
22.33 Q 0.181
2 9 Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Myers is a professional sprinter, competing internationally for the United States and sponsored by adidas...

 
22.50 Q 0.196
3 5 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...

 
22.50 Q 0.175
4 3 Cydonie Mothersille  22.61 Q, SB 0.212
5 4 Muriel Hurtis-Houairi  22.71 0.188
6 6 Roqaya Al-Gassra  22.72 0.259
7 8 Emily Freeman
Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman is a British senior female runner. She is currently associated with the Yorkshire / Wakefield Harriers & AC....

 
22.83 0.201
8 2 Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Fedoriva
Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva is a Russian athlete.Fedoriva represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 4x100 metres relay, together with Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica,...

 
23.22 0.202

Final

21 August 2008 - Wind: 0.6 m/s
Rank Lane Name Country Reaction Time Time Notes
4 Veronica Campbell-Brown  0.172 21.69 PB
5 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...

 
0.193 21.88 SB
6 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...

 
0.199 21.95 PB
4 9 Muna Lee  0.176 21.96 PB
5 7 Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Hooker
Marshevet Myers is a professional sprinter, competing internationally for the United States and sponsored by adidas...

 
0.200 22.09 PB
6 8 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...

 
0.167 22.11 SB
7 2 Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie  0.175 22.46 SB
8 3 Cydonie Mothersille 0.206 22.53 SB
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