200 meter run

200-meter run ( 2007 World Championship final , Tyson Gay (3rd from right) wins in 19.76 s ahead of Usain Bolt (4th from right) and Wallace Spearmon (5th from right))

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.

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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

200 meters forerunners at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki

• 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
  •  Usain Bolt : 2008 , 2012 and 2016
• Two Olympic victories
  •  Bärbel Wöckel : 1976 and 1980
  •  Veronica Campbell : 2004 and 2008
• Once Olympic gold and twice silver
  •  Allyson Felix : 2012 gold, 2004 , 2008 silver
• One Olympic gold and one silver each
  •  Andy Stanfield : 1952 gold, 1956 silver
  •  Carl Lewis : 1984 gold, 1988 silver
• Four world championship titles
  •  Usain Bolt : 2009 , 2011 , 2013, and 2015
• Three world championship titles
  •  Allyson Felix : 2005 , 2007 and 2009
• Two world championship titles
  •  Calvin Smith : 1983 and 1987
  •  Michael Johnson : 1991 and 1995
  •  Merlene Ottey : 1993 and 1995
• Most successful German
  •  Bärbel Wöckel : Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980
  •  Renate Stecher : Olympic champion 1972 , Olympic third party 1976
  •  Marita Koch : World Champion 1983
  •  Silke Gladisch : World Champion 1987
  •  Katrin Krabbe : World Champion 1991
  •  Helmut Körnig : Olympic Knight in 1928 , the only German 200-meter runner with an Olympic medal

statistics

Olympic Games medalist

Men

year	gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
1900	Walter Tewksbury	Norman Pritchard	Stan Rowley
1904	Archie Hahn	Nate Cartmell	William Hogenson
1908	Bobby Kerr	Robert Cloughen	Nate Cartmell
1912	Ralph Craig	Donald Lippincott	Willie Applegarth
1920	Allen Woodring	Charles Paddock	Harry Edward
1924	Jackson Scholz	Charles Paddock	Eric Liddell
1928	Percy Williams	Walter Rangeley	Helmut Körnig
1932	Eddie Tolan	George Simpson	Ralph Metcalfe
1936	Jesse Owens	Mack Robinson	Martinus Osendarp
1948	Mel Patton	Barney Ewell	Lloyd LaBeach
1952	Andy Stanfield	Thane Baker	James Gathers
1956	Bobby Morrow	Andy Stanfield	Thane Baker
1960	Livio Berruti	Lester Carney	Abdoulaye Seye
1964	Henry Carr	Paul Drayton	Edwin Roberts
1968	Tommie Smith	Peter Norman	John Carlos
1972	Valery Borsov	Larry Black	Pietro Mennea
1976	Donald Quarrie	Billard Hampton	Dwayne Evans
1980	Pietro Mennea	Allan Wells	Donald Quarrie
1984	Carl Lewis	Kirk Baptiste	Thomas Jefferson
1988	Joe DeLoach	Carl Lewis	Robson da Silva
1992	Michael Marsh	Frank Fredericks	Michael Bates
1996	Michael Johnson	Frank Fredericks	Ato Boldon
2000	Konstantinos Kenteris	Darren Campbell	Ato Boldon
2004	Shawn Crawford	Bernard Williams	Justin Gatlin
2008	Usain Bolt	Shawn Crawford	Walter Dix
2012	Usain Bolt	Yohan Blake	Warren Weir
2016	Usain Bolt	Andre De Grasse	Christophe Lemaitre

Women

year	gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
1948	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Audrey Williamson	Audrey Patterson
1952	Marjorie Jackson	Bertha Brouwer	Nadezhda Chnykina
1956	Betty Cuthbert	Christa Stubnick	Marlene Mathews
1960	Wilma Rudolph	Jutta Heine	Dorothy Hyman
1964	Edith McGuire	Irena Kirszenstein	Marilyn Black
1968	Irena Szewińska	Raelene Boyle	Jenny Lamy
1972	Renate Stecher	Raelene Boyle	Irena Szewińska
1976	Bärbel Eckert	Annegret Richter	Renate Stecher
1980	Bärbel Wöckel	Natalia Botschina	Merlene Ottey
1984	Valerie Brisco-Hooks	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Merlene Ottey
1988	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Grace Jackson	Heike Drechsler
1992	Gwen Torrence	Juliet Cuthbert	Merlene Ottey
1996	Marie-José Pérec	Merlene Ottey	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi
2000	Pauline Davis	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Beverly McDonald
2004	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Allyson Felix	Debbie Ferguson
2008	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Allyson Felix	Kerron Stewart
2012	Allyson Felix	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Carmelita Jeter
2016	Elaine Thompson	Dafne Schippers	Tori Bowie

World Championships medalist

Men

year	gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
1983	Calvin Smith	Elliott Quow	Pietro Mennea
1987	Calvin Smith	Gilles Quenéhervé	John Regis
1991	Michael Johnson	Frank Fredericks	Atlee Mahorn
1993	Frank Fredericks	John Regis	Carl Lewis
1995	Michael Johnson	Frank Fredericks	Jeff Williams
1997	Ato Boldon	Frank Fredericks	Claudinei da Silva
1999	Maurice Greene	Claudinei da Silva	Francis Obikwelu
2001	Konstantinos Kenteris	Christopher Williams	Shawn Crawford
2003	John Capel	Darvis Patton	Shingo Suetsugu
2005	Justin Gatlin	Wallace Spearmon	John Capel
2007	Tyson Gay	Usain Bolt	Wallace Spearmon
2009	Usain Bolt	Alonso Edward	Wallace Spearmon
2011	Usain Bolt	Walter Dix	Christophe Lemaitre
2013	Usain Bolt	Warren Weir	Curtis Mitchell
2015	Usain Bolt	Justin Gatlin	Anaso Jobodwana
2017	Ramil Guliyev	Wayde van Niekerk	Jereem Richards
2019	Noah Lyles	Andre De Grasse	Álex Quiñónez

Women

year	gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
1983	Marita Koch	Merlene Ottey	Kathy Smallwood-Cook
1987	Silke Möller	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Merlene Ottey
1991	Katrin Krabbe	Gwen Torrence	Merlene Ottey
1993	Merlene Ottey	Gwen Torrence	Irina Privaleova
1995	Merlene Ottey	Irina Privaleova	Galina Malschugina
1997	Shanna Pinusevych	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Merlene Ottey
1999	Inger Miller	Beverly McDonald	Merlene Frazer  Andrea Philipp
2001	Debbie Ferguson	LaTasha Jenkins	Cydonie Mothersille
2003	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Torri Edwards	Muriel Hurtis
2005	Allyson Felix	Rachelle Boone-Smith	Christine Arron
2007	Allyson Felix	Veronica Campbell	Susanthika Jayasinghe
2009	Allyson Felix	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie
2011	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Carmelita Jeter	Allyson Felix
2013	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	Murielle Ahouré	Blessing Okagbare
2015	Dafne Schippers	Elaine Thompson	Veronica Campbell-Brown
2017	Dafne Schippers	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Shaunae Miller-Uibo
2019	Dina Asher-Smith	Brittany Brown	Mujinga Kambundji

See also

• Olympic medalist
• Medalist at world championships
• Olympic medalists
• Medal winners at world championships

World record development

Men

Timeline of records

y: Time was achieved in a 220 yard run (220 yds. = 201.168 m).

Time (s)	Surname	date	place
21.2 y	Willie Applegarth	4th July 1914	London
21.0	Helmut Körnig	August 26, 1928	Bochum
21.0	Ralph Metcalfe	August 6, 1933	Berlin
21.0	Jesse Owens	July 12, 1936	New York City
20.7	Jesse Owens	August 5, 1936	Berlin
21.1 y	Barney Ewell	June 22, 1940	Minneapolis
20.9 y	Barney Ewell	May 9, 1942	Pittsburgh
20.7	Mel Patton	July 10, 1948	Evanston
20.9 y	Lloyd LaBeach	September 5, 1946	Kingston
20.7	Barney Ewell	July 10, 1948	Evanston
20.6 y	Andy Stanfield	May 26, 1951	Philadelphia
20.6	Andy Stanfield	June 28, 1952	los Angeles
20.6	Bobby Morrow	June 16, 1956	Berkeley
20.6	Thane Baker	June 23, 1956	Bakersfield
20.6	Andy Stanfield	June 23, 1956	Bakersfield
20.6	Bobby Morrow	June 30, 1956	los Angeles
20.6	Thane Baker	October 27, 1956	Santa Ana
20.6	Bobby Morrow	November 27, 1956	Melbourne
20.6	Manfred Germar	October 1, 1958	Wuppertal
20.6	Ray Norton	May 2, 1959	San Jose
20.6	Ray Norton	4th August 1959	Gothenburg
20.6	Ray Norton	March 19, 1960	Berkeley
20.6	Ray Norton	April 30, 1960	Philadelphia
20.5 y	Peter Radford	May 28, 1960	Wolverhampton
20.5	Stone Johnson	July 2nd, 1960	Stanford
20.5	Ray Norton	July 2nd, 1960	Stanford
20.5 y	Paul Drayton	June 23, 1962	Walnut
20.5	Bob Hayes	February 10, 1963	Pointe-Pierre
20.5 y	Bob Hayes	March 2, 1963	Coral Gables
20.4 y	Henry Carr	March 19, 1963	Tempe
20.3 y	Henry Carr	March 23, 1963	Tempe
20.2 y	Henry Carr	April 4th 1964	Tempe
20.0 y	Tommie Smith	June 11, 1968	Sacramento
19.92	John Carlos	September 12, 1968	Echo Summit
19.83	Tommie Smith	October 16, 1968	Mexico city
19.8 (19.86)	Donald Quarrie	3rd August 1971	Cali
19.72	Pietro Mennea	September 12, 1979	Mexico city
19.66	Michael Johnson	June 23, 1996	Atlanta
19.32	Michael Johnson	August 1, 1996	Atlanta
19.30	Usain Bolt	August 20, 2008	Beijing
19.19	Usain Bolt	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
Hand-timed times
27 4/5 *	Alice Cast	August 20, 1922	Paris
26 4/5 y *	Mary Lines	September 23, 1922	Waddon
26 1/5 y *	Eileen Edwards	August 20, 1924	London
26.0 *	Eileen Edwards	October 3, 1926	Paris
25 2/5 y *	Eileen Edwards	June 12, 1927	Berlin
24.7 st *	Kinue Hitomi	May 19, 1929	Miyoshima
24.1 st *	Stanisława Walasiewicz	August 18, 1932	Chicago
24.6 *	Tollina Schuurman	August 13, 1933	Brussels
24.3 y *	Stanisława Walasiewicz	June 9, 1935	Cleveland
23.6 y	Stanisława Walasiewicz	4th August 1935	Warsaw
23.6 (23.74)	Marjorie Jackson	July 25, 1952	Helsinki
23.4 (23.59)	Marjorie Jackson	July 25, 1952	Helsinki
23.2	Betty Cuthbert	September 16, 1956	Sydney
23.2	Betty Cuthbert	March 7, 1960	Hobart
22.9	Wilma Rudolph	July 7, 1960	Corpus Christi
22.7	Irena Kirszenstein	August 8, 1965	Warsaw
22.5 (22.58)	Irena Szewińska	October 18, 1968	Mexico city
22.4	Chi Cheng	July 12, 1970	Munich
22.4 (22.40)	Renate Stecher	7th September 1972	Munich
22.1 (22.38)	Renate Stecher	July 21, 1973	Dresden
Electronically timed times
22.21	Irena Szewińska	June 13, 1974	Potsdam
22.06	Marita Koch	May 28, 1978	Erfurt
22.02	Marita Koch	3rd June 1979	Leipzig
21.71	Marita Koch	June 10, 1979	Karl Marx City
21.71	Marita Koch	July 21, 1984	Potsdam
21.71	Heike Drechsler	June 29, 1986	Jena
21.71	Heike Drechsler	August 29, 1986	Stuttgart
21.56	Florence Griffith-Joyner	September 29, 1988	Seoul
21.34	Florence Griffith-Joyner	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

1. 19.19 s (−0.3) Usain Bolt , Berlin , August 20, 2009 
2. 19.26 s (0.7) Yohan Blake , Brussels , September 16, 2011 
3. 19.32 s (0.4) Michael Johnson , Atlanta , Aug. 1, 1996 
4. 19.50 s (−0.1) Noah Lyles , Lausanne , July 5, 2019 
5. 19.53 s (0.7) Walter Dix , Brussels , September 16, 2011 
6. 19.57s (0.4) Justin Gatlin , Eugene , June 28, 2015 
7. 19.58s (1.3) Tyson Gay , New York City , May 30, 2009 
8. 19.63 s (0.4) Xavier Carter , Lausanne , July 11, 2006 
9. 19.65 s (0.0) Wallace Spearmon , Daegu , September 28, 2006 
10. 19.68s (0.4) Frank Fredericks , Atlanta , August 1, 1996 
11. 19.69 s A (−0.5) Clarence Munyai , Pretoria , March 16, 2018 
12. 19.70 s (0.7) Michael Norman , Rome , June 6, 2019 
13. 19.72s A (1.8) Pietro Mennea , Mexico City , September 12, 1979 
14. 19.73 s (−0.2) Michael Marsh , Barcelona , August 5, 1992 
15. 19.73s (0.7) Divine Oduduru , Austin , June 7, 2019 
16. 19.74s (0.9) LaShawn Merritt , Eugene , July 8, 2016 
17. 19.75s (1.5) Carl Lewis , Indianapolis , June 19, 1983 
18. 19.75s (1.7) Joe DeLoach , Seoul , September 28, 1988 
19. 19.75s (0.3) Steven Gardiner , Coral Gables , April 7, 2018 
20. 19.76 s (0.7) Ramil Guliyev , Berlin , August 9, 2018 
21. 19.77 s (0.7) Ato Boldon , Stuttgart , July 13, 1997 
22. 19.77 s (0.0) Isaac Makwala , Madrid , July 14, 2017 
23. 19.79s (1,2) Shawn Crawford , Athens , August 26, 2004 
24. 19.79s (0.9) Warren Weir , Kingston , June 23, 2013 
25. 19.80 s (0.8) Christophe Lemaitre , Daegu , September 3, 2011 
26. 19.80 s (2.0) Rasheed Dwyer , Toronto , July 23, 2015 
27. 19.80 s (−0.3) Andre De Grasse , Rio de Janeiro , August 17, 2016 
28. 19.80 s (1.0) Kenneth Bednarek , Montverde , August 10, 2020 
29. 19.81s (0.1) Akeem Bloomfield , London , July 22, 2018 
30. 19.81 s (−0.3) Alonso Edward , Berlin , August 20, 2009 
31. 19.81 s (0.4) Churandy Martina , Lausanne , August 25, 2016 
32. 19.83s A (0.9) Tommie Smith , Mexico City , October 16, 1968 
33. 19.84 s (1.7) Francis Obikwelu , Seville , August 25, 1999 
34. 19.84s (1,2) Wayde van Niekerk , Kingston , June 10, 2017 
35. 19.85 s (−0.3) John Capel , Sacramento , July 23, 2000 
36. 19.85 s (−0.5) Konstantinos Kenteris , Munich , August 9, 2002 
37. 19.85 s (0.0) Nickel Ashmeade , Zurich , August 30, 2012 
38. 19.85 s (1.9) Ameer Webb , Doha , May 6, 2016 
39. 19.85 s (−0.5) Christian Coleman , Lexington , May 27, 2017 
40. 19.86s A (1.0) Donald Quarrie , Cali , August 3, 1971 
41. 19.86 s (1.6) Maurice Greene , Stockholm , July 7, 1997 
42. 19.86 s A (1.0) Jason Young , Lucerne , July 17, 2012 
43. 19.86s A (1.6) Isiah Young , Des Moines , June 23, 2013 
44. 19.87 s (0.8) Lorenzo Daniel , Eugene , June 3, 1988 
45. 19.87 s A (1.8) John Regis , Sestriere , July 31, 1994 
46. 19.87 s (1,2) Jeff Williams , Fresno , April 13, 1996 
47. 19.87 s (−0.1) Anaso Jobodwana , Beijing , August 27, 2015 
48. 19.87 s (−0.1) Álex Quiñónez , Lausanne , July 5, 2019 
49. 19.88 s (−0.3) Floyd Heard , Sacramento , July 23, 2000 
50. 19.88 s (0.1) Joshua J. Johnson , Brussels , August 24, 2001 
51. 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

1. 21.34 s (1.3) Florence Griffith-Joyner , Seoul , September 29, 1988 
2. 21.62 s A (−0.6) Marion Jones , Johannesburg , September 11, 1998 
3. 21.63 s (0.2) Dafne Schippers , Beijing , August 28, 2015 
4. 21.64 s (0.8) Merlene Ottey , Brussels , September 13, 1991 
5. 21.66s (0.2) Elaine Thompson , Beijing , August 28, 2015 
6. 21.69s (1.0) Allyson Felix , Eugene , June 30, 2012 
7. 21.71 s (0.7) Marita Koch , Karl-Marx-Stadt , June 10, 1979 
8. 21.71 s (1.2) Heike Drechsler , Jena , June 29, 1986 
9. 21.72 s (1.3) Grace Jackson , Seoul , September 29, 1988 
10. 21.72 s (−0.1) Gwen Torrence , Barcelona , August 5, 1992 
11. 21.74 s (0.4) Marlies Göhr , Erfurt , June 3, 1984 
12. 21.74 s (1.2) Silke Gladisch-Möller , Rome , September 3, 1987 
13. 21.74 s (0.6) Veronica Campbell-Brown , Beijing , August 21, 2008 
14. 21.75 s (−0.1) Juliet Cuthbert , Barcelona , August 5, 1992 
15. 21.77 s (0.6) Inger Miller , Seville , August 27, 1999 
16. 21.77s (1.5) Tori Bowie , Eugene , May 27, 2017 
17. 21.81 s (−0.1) Valerie Brisco-Hooks , Los Angeles , August 9, 1984 
18. 21.83 s (−0.2) Evelyn Ashford , Montréal , August 24, 1979 
19. 21.85 s (0.3) Bärbel Wöckel , Potsdam , July 21, 1984 
20. 21.87 s (0.0) Irina Priwalowa , Monaco , July 25, 1995 
21. 21.88s (0.9) Dina Asher-Smith , Doha , October 2, 2019 
22. 21.91s (1.5) Shaunae Miller-Uibo , Eugene , May 27, 2017 
23. 21.93 s (1.3) Pam Marshall , Indianapolis , July 23, 1988 
24. 21.95 s (0.3) Katrin Krabbe , Split , August 30, 1990 
25. 21.97 s (1.9) Jarmila Kratochvílová , Bratislava , June 6, 1981 
26. 21.99 s (0.9) Chandra Cheeseborough , Indianapolis , June 19, 1983 
27. 21.99 s (1.1) Marie-José Perec , Villeneuve-d'Ascq , July 2, 1993 
28. 21.99 s (1.1) Kerron Stewart , Kingston , June 29, 2008 
29. 22.00 s (1.3) Sherone Simpson , Kingston , June 25, 2006 
30. 22.00 s (1.3) Sha'Carri Richardson , Montverde , August 10, 2020 
31. 22.01 s (−0.5) Anelija Nunewa , Sofia , August 16, 1987 
32. 22.01 s (0.0) Li Xuemei , Shanghai , October 22, 1997 
33. 22.01 s (0.6) Muna Lee , Beijing , August 21, 2008 
34. 22.01 s (0.2) Candyce McGrone , Beijing , August 28, 2015 
35. 22.02 s (1.1) Kyra Jefferson , Eugene , June 10, 2017 
36. 22.04s A (0.7) Dawn Sowell , Provo , June 2, 1989 
37. 22.04 s (0.5) Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor , Abilene , March 24, 2018 
38. 22.05 s (0.9) Shericka Jackson , Paris , June 30, 2018 
39. 22.06 s A (0.7) Evette de Klerk , Pietersburg , April 8, 1989 
40. 22.07 s (−0.1) Mary Onyali-Omagbemi , Zurich , August 14, 1996 
41. 22.08 s (0.8) Marie-Josée Ta Lou , London , 11 August 2017 
42. 22.09 s (−0.3) Sanya Richards-Ross , New York , June 9, 2012 
43. 22.09 s (−0.2) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , London , August 8, 2012 
44. 22.09 s (1.5) Deajah Stevens , Eugene , May 14, 2017 
45. 22.10 s (−0.1) Kathy Smallwood-Cook , Los Angeles , August 9, 1984 
46. 22.11s (1.0) Carmelita Jeter , Eugene , June 30, 2012 
47. 22.11 s (0.1) Myriam Soumaré , Brussels , 5 September 2014 
48. 22.13 s (1,2) Ewa Kasprzyk , Moscow , July 8, 1986 
49. 22.14 s (−0.6) Carlette Guidry-White , Atlanta , June 23, 1996 
50. 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

1. ^ IAAF Competition Rules ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 2012–2013, p. 148.
2. ↑ Ambitious into old age , NZZ, April 29, 2017
3. ↑ 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)

See also

• List of Olympic team abbreviations