200 meter run
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The 200-meter run is an Olympic sprint discipline in athletics . Half a lap of the stadium is run with the start in front of the curve. The start is usually made in a low start with starting blocks . Every athlete runs in his own lane. Straight runs are not included in the record lists.
The fastest men achieve a time of almost 20 seconds (approx. 10 m / s = 36 km / h), the fastest women a time of almost 22 seconds.
The men's world record of 19.19 s set by Usain Bolt at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 corresponds to an average speed of 10.42 m / s or 37.52 km / h.
The women's world record of 21.34 s set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 corresponds to an average speed of 9.37 m / s or 33.73 km / h.
Records with tailwind support are only recognized if the wind speed did not exceed 2.0 meters per second. For this purpose, the wind speed is measured for ten seconds as soon as the first runner reaches the home straight ( IAAF rule 163.8).
The 200-meter race is the fourth sub-discipline of all-rounders in the heptathlon women.
In addition to the 200-meter individual route, the International Athletics Federation IAAF also registers world records for the 4 x 200-meter relay race.
history
The 200-meter course has the longest history as a short-distance competition, since the run over a stadium at the ancient Olympic Games was similarly long at 192.28 meters.
In modern times, the route was first run in the 19th century as an eighth mile ( furlong ), 201.12 meters, in English-speaking countries.
At the Olympic Games , men have been running the 200 meters since 1900 , and women since 1948 .
200 meter run on a straight track
Until 1959, record runs were also recognized on tracks other than the 400-meter tracks standardized for the official championships. For this reason, a number of records were set on 600-meter lanes, which had a straight 200-meter route without a curve, which resulted in a time gain of around three to four tenths of a second compared to the curve route. From 1960, retrospectively to 1951, separate record lists were kept.
Usain Bolt holds the current world record over 200 meters on a 400-meter track with curves with 19.19 s. Previous world records were 19.32 s by the American Michael Johnson , run in 1996 and before that 19.72 s by the Italian Pietro Mennea , run in 1979. Before that, Tommie Smith had held the record since 1968 with 19.83 s.
200-meter run in the hall
In the hall, the 200-meter route is also run, it corresponds to a stadium lap. Since the runners are severely disadvantaged on the narrow inner lanes, this route has not been held at the World Indoor Championships since 2006 .
Age groups
The competitions in age groups are given little attention. In the over-95 age group, the men's indoor world record is 55.48 seconds.
Milestones
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- First world record officially held by the IAAF: 21.6 s, Archie Hahn , 1904 (later deleted)
- First run under 22 seconds: 21.8 s, Luther Cary , 1891
- First run under 21 seconds: 20.7 s, Jesse Owens , 1936
- First run under 20 seconds: 19.83 s, Tommie Smith , 1968
- First runner under 24 seconds: 23.6 s, Stanisława Walasiewicz , 1935
- First runner under 23 seconds: 22.9 s, Wilma Rudolph , 1960
- First runner under 22 seconds: 21.71 s, Marita Koch , 1979
Most successful athlete
- Three Olympic victories
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Usain Bolt : 2008 , 2012 and 2016
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- Two Olympic victories
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Bärbel Wöckel : 1976 and 1980
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Veronica Campbell : 2004 and 2008
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- Once Olympic gold and twice silver
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Allyson Felix : 2012 gold, 2004 , 2008 silver
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- One Olympic gold and one silver each
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Andy Stanfield : 1952 gold, 1956 silver
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Carl Lewis : 1984 gold, 1988 silver
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- Four world championship titles
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Usain Bolt : 2009 , 2011 , 2013, and 2015
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- Three world championship titles
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Allyson Felix : 2005 , 2007 and 2009
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- Two world championship titles
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Calvin Smith : 1983 and 1987
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Michael Johnson : 1991 and 1995
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Merlene Ottey : 1993 and 1995
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- Most successful German
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Bärbel Wöckel : Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980
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Renate Stecher : Olympic champion 1972 , Olympic third party 1976
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Marita Koch : World Champion 1983
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Silke Gladisch : World Champion 1987
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Katrin Krabbe : World Champion 1991
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Helmut Körnig : Olympic Knight in 1928 , the only German 200-meter runner with an Olympic medal
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statistics
Olympic Games medalist
Men
Women
World Championships medalist
Men
Women
See also
- Olympic medalist
- Medalist at world championships
- Olympic medalists
- Medal winners at world championships
World record development
Men
y: Time was achieved in a 220 yard run (220 yds. = 201.168 m).
Time (s) | Surname | date | place |
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21.2 y |
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4th July 1914 | London |
21.0 |
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August 26, 1928 | Bochum |
21.0 |
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August 6, 1933 | Berlin |
21.0 |
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July 12, 1936 | New York City |
20.7 |
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August 5, 1936 | Berlin |
21.1 y |
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June 22, 1940 | Minneapolis |
20.9 y |
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May 9, 1942 | Pittsburgh |
20.7 |
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July 10, 1948 | Evanston |
20.9 y |
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September 5, 1946 | Kingston |
20.7 |
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July 10, 1948 | Evanston |
20.6 y |
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May 26, 1951 | Philadelphia |
20.6 |
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June 28, 1952 | los Angeles |
20.6 |
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June 16, 1956 | Berkeley |
20.6 |
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June 23, 1956 | Bakersfield |
20.6 |
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June 23, 1956 | Bakersfield |
20.6 |
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June 30, 1956 | los Angeles |
20.6 |
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October 27, 1956 | Santa Ana |
20.6 |
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November 27, 1956 | Melbourne |
20.6 |
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October 1, 1958 | Wuppertal |
20.6 |
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May 2, 1959 | San Jose |
20.6 |
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4th August 1959 | Gothenburg |
20.6 |
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March 19, 1960 | Berkeley |
20.6 |
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April 30, 1960 | Philadelphia |
20.5 y |
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May 28, 1960 | Wolverhampton |
20.5 |
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July 2nd, 1960 | Stanford |
20.5 |
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July 2nd, 1960 | Stanford |
20.5 y |
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June 23, 1962 | Walnut |
20.5 |
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February 10, 1963 | Pointe-Pierre |
20.5 y |
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March 2, 1963 | Coral Gables |
20.4 y |
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March 19, 1963 | Tempe |
20.3 y |
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March 23, 1963 | Tempe |
20.2 y |
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April 4th 1964 | Tempe |
20.0 y |
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June 11, 1968 | Sacramento |
19.92 |
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September 12, 1968 | Echo Summit |
19.83 |
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October 16, 1968 | Mexico city |
19.8 (19.86) |
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3rd August 1971 | Cali |
19.72 |
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September 12, 1979 | Mexico city |
19.66 |
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June 23, 1996 | Atlanta |
19.32 |
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August 1, 1996 | Atlanta |
19.30 |
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August 20, 2008 | Beijing |
19.19 |
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August 20, 2009 | Berlin |
Women
The earliest recorded best time comes from Maria Viinikainen , Finland : She needed 48.0 s for a 201.8 meter long distance on the icy lake Peuranka near Laukaa .
From 1885 to 1903, the United States improved the time for the 220 yards (201.17 m) distance from 36 1/4 s to 30 3/5 s.
The first 200 meter time was recorded in Finland on June 7, 1908 ( Eufrosyne Simola , FIN , 30.3 s).
The last best times before the official recognition of world records by the women's sports organization FSFI were achieved by the German runner Grossmann (first name unknown; 28.7 s on May 22, 1921 in Berlin ) and the Czech Marie Mejzlíková (28 3/5 s on May 21, 1922 in Paris on a 500 meter train).
The first official 200-meter world record with the time of 23.6 s was set in 1935 by Stanisława Walasiewicz in a mixed race with men, moreover Stanisława Walasiewicz was possibly intersexual (see article on the person). After the Women's World Games in 1934, 200-meter runs were not part of an international highlight again until the 1948 Olympic Games in London , and it was not until the 1952 Olympic Games that Fanny Blankers-Koen set the current world record of 23.6 seconds to reach again.
Stanisława Walasiewicz succeeded on June 12 and 18, 1938 in Cleveland ( USA ) to improve her time on the yards distance to 23.9 s, but the results were not ratified as world records.
Comments on the table:
- y: Time has been recognized as a 220-yard world record and is reported here if it is better than the previous 200-meter world record
- st: time was achieved on a straight line ( st for straight )
- *: World record was recognized by the FSFI before the IAAF registered women's world records
- Information in brackets: automatic timekeeping, but hand-stopped times were recognized
Time (s) | Surname | date | place |
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27 4/5 * |
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August 20, 1922 | Paris |
26 4/5 y * |
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September 23, 1922 | Waddon |
26 1/5 y * |
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August 20, 1924 | London |
26.0 * |
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October 3, 1926 | Paris |
25 2/5 y * |
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June 12, 1927 | Berlin |
24.7 st * |
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May 19, 1929 | Miyoshima |
24.1 st * |
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August 18, 1932 | Chicago |
24.6 * |
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August 13, 1933 | Brussels |
24.3 y * |
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June 9, 1935 | Cleveland |
23.6 y |
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4th August 1935 | Warsaw |
23.6 (23.74) |
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July 25, 1952 | Helsinki |
23.4 (23.59) |
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July 25, 1952 | Helsinki |
23.2 |
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September 16, 1956 | Sydney |
23.2 |
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March 7, 1960 | Hobart |
22.9 |
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July 7, 1960 | Corpus Christi |
22.7 |
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August 8, 1965 | Warsaw |
22.5 (22.58) |
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October 18, 1968 | Mexico city |
22.4 |
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July 12, 1970 | Munich |
22.4 (22.40) |
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7th September 1972 | Munich |
22.1 (22.38) |
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July 21, 1973 | Dresden |
Electronically timed times | |||
22.21 |
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June 13, 1974 | Potsdam |
22.06 |
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May 28, 1978 | Erfurt |
22.02 |
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3rd June 1979 | Leipzig |
21.71 |
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June 10, 1979 | Karl Marx City |
21.71 |
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July 21, 1984 | Potsdam |
21.71 |
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June 29, 1986 | Jena |
21.71 |
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August 29, 1986 | Stuttgart |
21.56 |
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September 29, 1988 | Seoul |
21.34 |
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September 29, 1988 | Seoul |
World best list
Men
All runners with a time of 19.88 seconds or faster. In brackets: wind in m / s. A = time achieved under altitude conditions. Last change: August 12, 2020
- 19.19 s (−0.3) Usain Bolt , Berlin , August 20, 2009
- 19.26 s (0.7) Yohan Blake , Brussels , September 16, 2011
- 19.32 s (0.4) Michael Johnson , Atlanta , Aug. 1, 1996
- 19.50 s (−0.1) Noah Lyles , Lausanne , July 5, 2019
- 19.53 s (0.7) Walter Dix , Brussels , September 16, 2011
- 19.57s (0.4) Justin Gatlin , Eugene , June 28, 2015
- 19.58s (1.3) Tyson Gay , New York City , May 30, 2009
- 19.63 s (0.4) Xavier Carter , Lausanne , July 11, 2006
- 19.65 s (0.0) Wallace Spearmon , Daegu , September 28, 2006
- 19.68s (0.4) Frank Fredericks , Atlanta , August 1, 1996
- 19.69 s A (−0.5) Clarence Munyai , Pretoria , March 16, 2018
- 19.70 s (0.7) Michael Norman , Rome , June 6, 2019
- 19.72s A (1.8) Pietro Mennea , Mexico City , September 12, 1979
- 19.73 s (−0.2) Michael Marsh , Barcelona , August 5, 1992
- 19.73s (0.7) Divine Oduduru , Austin , June 7, 2019
- 19.74s (0.9) LaShawn Merritt , Eugene , July 8, 2016
- 19.75s (1.5) Carl Lewis , Indianapolis , June 19, 1983
- 19.75s (1.7) Joe DeLoach , Seoul , September 28, 1988
- 19.75s (0.3) Steven Gardiner , Coral Gables , April 7, 2018
- 19.76 s (0.7) Ramil Guliyev , Berlin , August 9, 2018
- 19.77 s (0.7) Ato Boldon , Stuttgart , July 13, 1997
- 19.77 s (0.0) Isaac Makwala , Madrid , July 14, 2017
- 19.79s (1,2) Shawn Crawford , Athens , August 26, 2004
- 19.79s (0.9) Warren Weir , Kingston , June 23, 2013
- 19.80 s (0.8) Christophe Lemaitre , Daegu , September 3, 2011
- 19.80 s (2.0) Rasheed Dwyer , Toronto , July 23, 2015
- 19.80 s (−0.3) Andre De Grasse , Rio de Janeiro , August 17, 2016
- 19.80 s (1.0) Kenneth Bednarek , Montverde , August 10, 2020
- 19.81s (0.1) Akeem Bloomfield , London , July 22, 2018
- 19.81 s (−0.3) Alonso Edward , Berlin , August 20, 2009
- 19.81 s (0.4) Churandy Martina , Lausanne , August 25, 2016
- 19.83s A (0.9) Tommie Smith , Mexico City , October 16, 1968
- 19.84 s (1.7) Francis Obikwelu , Seville , August 25, 1999
- 19.84s (1,2) Wayde van Niekerk , Kingston , June 10, 2017
- 19.85 s (−0.3) John Capel , Sacramento , July 23, 2000
- 19.85 s (−0.5) Konstantinos Kenteris , Munich , August 9, 2002
- 19.85 s (0.0) Nickel Ashmeade , Zurich , August 30, 2012
- 19.85 s (1.9) Ameer Webb , Doha , May 6, 2016
- 19.85 s (−0.5) Christian Coleman , Lexington , May 27, 2017
- 19.86s A (1.0) Donald Quarrie , Cali , August 3, 1971
- 19.86 s (1.6) Maurice Greene , Stockholm , July 7, 1997
- 19.86 s A (1.0) Jason Young , Lucerne , July 17, 2012
- 19.86s A (1.6) Isiah Young , Des Moines , June 23, 2013
- 19.87 s (0.8) Lorenzo Daniel , Eugene , June 3, 1988
- 19.87 s A (1.8) John Regis , Sestriere , July 31, 1994
- 19.87 s (1,2) Jeff Williams , Fresno , April 13, 1996
- 19.87 s (−0.1) Anaso Jobodwana , Beijing , August 27, 2015
- 19.87 s (−0.1) Álex Quiñónez , Lausanne , July 5, 2019
- 19.88 s (−0.3) Floyd Heard , Sacramento , July 23, 2000
- 19.88 s (0.1) Joshua J. Johnson , Brussels , August 24, 2001
- 19.88s (1,2) Miguel Francis , Kingston , June 11, 2016
- German record: Tobias Unger - 20.20 s on July 3, 2005 in Wattenscheid
- Austrian record: Christoph Pöstinger - 20.45 s on June 8, 1996 in Ebensee
- Swiss record: Alex Wilson - 19.98s on June 30, 2019 in La Chaux-de-Fonds
Women
All runners with a time of 22.15 seconds or faster. In brackets: wind in m / s. A = time achieved under altitude conditions.
Last change: August 11, 2020
- 21.34 s (1.3) Florence Griffith-Joyner , Seoul , September 29, 1988
- 21.62 s A (−0.6) Marion Jones , Johannesburg , September 11, 1998
- 21.63 s (0.2) Dafne Schippers , Beijing , August 28, 2015
- 21.64 s (0.8) Merlene Ottey , Brussels , September 13, 1991
- 21.66s (0.2) Elaine Thompson , Beijing , August 28, 2015
- 21.69s (1.0) Allyson Felix , Eugene , June 30, 2012
- 21.71 s (0.7) Marita Koch , Karl-Marx-Stadt , June 10, 1979
- 21.71 s (1.2) Heike Drechsler , Jena , June 29, 1986
- 21.72 s (1.3) Grace Jackson , Seoul , September 29, 1988
- 21.72 s (−0.1) Gwen Torrence , Barcelona , August 5, 1992
- 21.74 s (0.4) Marlies Göhr , Erfurt , June 3, 1984
- 21.74 s (1.2) Silke Gladisch-Möller , Rome , September 3, 1987
- 21.74 s (0.6) Veronica Campbell-Brown , Beijing , August 21, 2008
- 21.75 s (−0.1) Juliet Cuthbert , Barcelona , August 5, 1992
- 21.77 s (0.6) Inger Miller , Seville , August 27, 1999
- 21.77s (1.5) Tori Bowie , Eugene , May 27, 2017
- 21.81 s (−0.1) Valerie Brisco-Hooks , Los Angeles , August 9, 1984
- 21.83 s (−0.2) Evelyn Ashford , Montréal , August 24, 1979
- 21.85 s (0.3) Bärbel Wöckel , Potsdam , July 21, 1984
- 21.87 s (0.0) Irina Priwalowa , Monaco , July 25, 1995
- 21.88s (0.9) Dina Asher-Smith , Doha , October 2, 2019
- 21.91s (1.5) Shaunae Miller-Uibo , Eugene , May 27, 2017
- 21.93 s (1.3) Pam Marshall , Indianapolis , July 23, 1988
- 21.95 s (0.3) Katrin Krabbe , Split , August 30, 1990
- 21.97 s (1.9) Jarmila Kratochvílová , Bratislava , June 6, 1981
- 21.99 s (0.9) Chandra Cheeseborough , Indianapolis , June 19, 1983
- 21.99 s (1.1) Marie-José Perec , Villeneuve-d'Ascq , July 2, 1993
- 21.99 s (1.1) Kerron Stewart , Kingston , June 29, 2008
- 22.00 s (1.3) Sherone Simpson , Kingston , June 25, 2006
- 22.00 s (1.3) Sha'Carri Richardson , Montverde , August 10, 2020
- 22.01 s (−0.5) Anelija Nunewa , Sofia , August 16, 1987
- 22.01 s (0.0) Li Xuemei , Shanghai , October 22, 1997
- 22.01 s (0.6) Muna Lee , Beijing , August 21, 2008
- 22.01 s (0.2) Candyce McGrone , Beijing , August 28, 2015
- 22.02 s (1.1) Kyra Jefferson , Eugene , June 10, 2017
- 22.04s A (0.7) Dawn Sowell , Provo , June 2, 1989
- 22.04 s (0.5) Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor , Abilene , March 24, 2018
- 22.05 s (0.9) Shericka Jackson , Paris , June 30, 2018
- 22.06 s A (0.7) Evette de Klerk , Pietersburg , April 8, 1989
- 22.07 s (−0.1) Mary Onyali-Omagbemi , Zurich , August 14, 1996
- 22.08 s (0.8) Marie-Josée Ta Lou , London , 11 August 2017
- 22.09 s (−0.3) Sanya Richards-Ross , New York , June 9, 2012
- 22.09 s (−0.2) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , London , August 8, 2012
- 22.09 s (1.5) Deajah Stevens , Eugene , May 14, 2017
- 22.10 s (−0.1) Kathy Smallwood-Cook , Los Angeles , August 9, 1984
- 22.11s (1.0) Carmelita Jeter , Eugene , June 30, 2012
- 22.11 s (0.1) Myriam Soumaré , Brussels , 5 September 2014
- 22.13 s (1,2) Ewa Kasprzyk , Moscow , July 8, 1986
- 22.14 s (−0.6) Carlette Guidry-White , Atlanta , June 23, 1996
- 22.15 s (+1.0) Shalonda Solomon , Eugene , June 26, 2011
- German record: Marita Koch (June 10, 1979 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) and Heike Drechsler (June 29, 1986 in Jena ) with 21.71 s each
- Swiss record: Mujinga Kambundji - 22.26 s on August 24, 2019 in Basel
- Austrian record: Karin Mayr - 22.70 s on July 7, 2002 in Linz
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Competition Rules ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 2012–2013, p. 148.
- ↑ Ambitious into old age , NZZ, April 29, 2017
- ↑ Eternal list of the IAAF's best . Last comparison: April 22, 2017. Continuous updates from tilastopaja.org .
swell
- Eternal world best list of the IAAF, 200 m men (English)
- Eternal world best list of the IAAF, 200 m women (English)
- Progression of World best performances and official IAAF World Records, 2003 Edition, Monaco, 2003, p. 34 ff. And P. 248 ff. (English)