European Athletics Championships 1938/200 m women

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Attendees	16 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 18 (preliminary / final)
Medalists
gold	Stanisława Walasiewicz ( POL )
silver	Käthe Krauss ( GER )
bronze	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( NED )

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The 200-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 18, 1938 in Vienna's Prater Stadium.

European champion was Stanisława Walasiewicz from Poland . She won ahead of the German Käthe Krauss . Bronze went to Fanny Blankers-Koen from the Netherlands . The order in which the medals were distributed was the same as in the 100-meter run .

Existing records

World record	23.6 s	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Warsaw , Poland	4th August 1935
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Preliminary round

September 18, 1938

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

The team from Poland with Otylia Kałuża ( fourth from left ) - eliminated fourth in her preliminary run - and Jadwiga Gawrońska ( second from left ) - also eliminated fourth in her preliminary heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	24.2 CR
2	Ida Kühnel	German Empire	24.7
3	Audrey Brown	Great Britain	25.6
4th	Alida Niklase	Latvia	26.2
5	Rózalia Nagy	Hungary	27.0 NO
6th	Solveig Toms	Norway	NT

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	25.0
2	Lillian Chalmers	Great Britain	25.1
3	Dorle Voigt	German Empire	25.2
4th	Otylia Kałuża	Poland	26.6
5	Anna Van Rossum	Belgium	28.1

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Dorothy Saunders	Great Britain	25.3
2	Käthe Krauss	German Empire	25.4
3	Martha Wretman	Sweden	26.0
4th	Jadwiga Gawrońska	Poland	27.2
5	Jeanne Pousset	Belgium	27.5

final

September 18, 1938

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	23.8 CR
2	Käthe Krauss	German Empire	24.4 DR
3	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.9
4th	Ida Kühnel	German Empire	25.0
5	Dorothy Saunders	Great Britain	25.0
6th	Lillian Chalmers	Great Britain	25.0

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  Double European champion Stanisława Walasiewicz - after emigrating to the United States she called herself Stella Walsh - won both sprint courses and took silver with the 4 x 100 meter relay

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  Käthe Krauss - vice European champion over 100 and 200 meters - also won gold in the 4 x 100 meter relay

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  Fanny Blankers-Koen - bronze medalist on both sprint courses

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 14, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 14, 2019
• II European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
• 1st European Women's Athletics Championships 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ After the annexation of Austria by Germany at the time of these European championships, the German flag from that time must be used as a symbol. For a limited period of time, the Republic of Austria did not exist and was part of the German Empire. In Vienna itself, the corresponding flag was waved everywhere, and it is now being used here - even if, as in all other cases, with a certain degree of discomfort.
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed March 14, 2019