European Athletics Championships 2002/200 m women

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (preliminary) August 9th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Muriel Hurtis ( FRA )   Kim Gevaert ( BEL )   Manuela Levorato ( ITA )

The women's 200-meter run at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 8th and 9th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the French woman Muriel Hurtis . The ranks two and three were distributed in the same way as two days before over 100 meters : Silver went to the Belgian Kim Gevaert , bronze to the Italian Manuela Levorato .

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Olympic Games Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
European record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
			EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986
EM record	21.71 s	Heike Drechsler	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986

Munich Olympic Stadium

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

With her 23.71 seconds, Zuzanna Radecka did not survive the preliminary round

Jenny Kallur was eliminated as sixth of her preliminary run

August 8, 2002

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.86
2	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.24
3	Ciara Sheehy	Ireland	23.25
4th	Shani Anderson	Great Britain	23.42
5	Zuzanna Radecka	Poland	23.71
6th	Jenny Kallur	Sweden	23.96
7th	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary	24.31

Forward 2

Like over 100 meters , Johanna Manninen did not reach the semi-finals

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	23.03
2	Daniela Graglia	Italy	23.33
3	Fabé Dia	France	23.39
4th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.41
5	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.47
6th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.69
7th	Enikő Szabó	Hungary	23.78

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sylviane Félix	France	23.03
2	Manuela Levorato	Italy	23.10
3	Julia Tabakova	Russia	23.24
4th	Ekaterina Maschowa	Bulgaria	23.33
5	Ólga Kaidantzí	Greece	23.37
6th	Sarah Reilly	Ireland	24.03
7th	Klodiana Shala	Albania	24.93

Forward 4

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.97
2	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.35
3	Irina Khabarova	Russia	23.53
4th	Monika Gachevska	Bulgaria	23.62
DNF	Ionela Târlea	Romania
DNS	Jovana Miljković	Yugoslavia

Semifinals

August 9, 2002

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.46
2	Manuela Levorato	Italy	22.93
3	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	22.99
4th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.18
5	Ciara Sheehy	Ireland	23.47
6th	Ekaterina Maschowa	Bulgaria	23.48
7th	Irina Khabarova	Russia	23.59
8th	Shani Anderson	Great Britain	23.60

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.73
2	Sylviane Félix	France	22.78
3	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.07
4th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.14
5	Daniela Graglia	Italy	23.20
6th	Julia Tabakova	Russia	23.32
7th	Ólga Kaidantzí	Greece	23.39
8th	Fabé Dia	France	23.50

final

European champion Muriel Hurtis

August 9, 2002

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.43
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.53
3	Manuela Levorato	Italy	22.75
4th	Sylviane Félix	France	22.89
5	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.00
6th	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	23.06
7th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.31
8th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.37

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  Kim Gevaert became vice European champion over 100 and 200 meters

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  Jacqueline Poelman came in seventh

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  Alenka Bikar reached the finals over 100 and 200 meters with the same result in eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed November 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 485 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 1, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed December 29, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 50 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 29, 2019