European Athletics Championships 2010/200 m women

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 30th (preliminary / semi-finals) July 31st (final)
Medalists Myriam Soumaré ( FRA )   Jelysaveta Bryshina ( UKR )   Alexandra Fedoriwa ( RUS )

The women's 200-meter run at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 30 and 31, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

The European champion was the French Myriam Soumaré . The Ukrainian Jelysaveta Bryshina won the silver medal. The Russian Alexandra Fedoriwa came in third place .

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

The since 1986 existing EM -record remained unmatched even at these European Championships.

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

doping

Two doping cases occurred in this competition. In both cases it was Russian women who cheated:

• Anastassija Kapatschinskaja , initially in fourth place, was convicted of taking two prohibited substances: Turinabol and Stanozolol .
• The abuse of these two substances was also proven to Julija Tschermoschanskaja , who initially came seventh .

The main victims were four athletes:

• Two sprinters were deprived of their starting authorization in the semifinals:
  • Sabina Veit , Slovenia
  • Alena Neumjarschyzkaja , Belarus
• Two runners were deprived of their starting authorization in the final:
  • Emily Freeman , UK
  • Weronika Wedler , Poland

Preliminary round

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

The eliminated Sabina Veit was deprived of
the semifinal participation by the doping fraudsters who were only subsequently disqualified

July 30, 2010, 12:20 p.m.

Wind: –2.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eelysaveta Bryshina	Ukraine	23.10
2	Myriam Soumaré	France	23.22
3	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	23.75
4th	Niamh Whelan	Ireland	23.78
5	Sabina Veit	Slovenia	23.78 actually qualified for the semifinals
6th	Elin Backman	Sweden	24.13

Forward 2

July 30, 2010, 12:28 p.m.

Wind: –2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	23.41
2	Emily Freeman	Great Britain	23.44
3	Weronika Wedler	Poland	23.62
4th	Sonia Tavares	Portugal	24.14
5	Doris Röser	Austria	24.32
DOP	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Russia	admitted to the semifinals
DNS	Klodiana Shala	Albania

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  Alena Neumjarschyzkaja - she failed in the run-up, but would actually have been eligible for the semi-finals

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  Andreea Ogrăzeanu did not reach the semifinals with her 23.89 s

Forward 3

July 30, 2010, 12:36 pm

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	France	23.21
2	Ewelina Ptak	Poland	23.66
3	Alena Neumjarschyzkaja	Belarus	23.82 actually qualified for the semifinals
4th	Andreea Ogrăzeanu	Romania	23.89
5	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary	24.07
DOP	Yulia Chermoshanskaya	Russia	admitted to the semifinals

Forward 4

Meliz Redif had no chance with her time of well over 24 seconds

July 30, 2010, 12:44 p.m.

Wind: -3.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alexandra Fedoriwa	Russia	23.47
2	Véronique Mang	France	23.57
3	Olivia Borlée	Belgium	23.59
4th	Marta Jeschke	Poland	23.60
5	Giulia Arcioni	Italy	23.63
6th	Tina Jureš	Slovenia	24.41
7th	Meliz Redif	Turkey	24.53

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

July 30, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alexandra Fedoriwa	Russia	22.63
2	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	France	22.84
3	Véronique Mang	France	23.21
4th	Emily Freeman	Great Britain	23.21 actually qualified for the final
5	Niamh Whelan	Ireland	23.31
6th	Marta Jeschke	Poland	23.36
DSQ	Ksenija Balta	Estonia
DOP	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Russia	admitted to the finals

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  Emily Freeman had to watch the final because of the doping fraudsters who were only subsequently disqualified

• 

  Marta Jeschke did not reach the final as sixth of her semifinal run

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  Ksenija Balta was disqualified in the first semifinal race

Run 2

July 30, 2010, 7:08 pm

Wind: -1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Eelysaveta Bryshina	Ukraine	22.86
2	Myriam Soumaré	France	23.02
3	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	23.14
4th	Weronika Wedler	Poland	23.30 actually qualified for the final
5	Olivia Borlée	Belgium	23.44
6th	Ewelina Ptak	Poland	23.48
7th	Giulia Arcioni	Italy	23.77
DOP	Yulia Chermoshanskaya	Russia	admitted to the finals

• 

  Weronika Wedler had actually qualified for the final, but could not take part there, hindered by the doping offenders

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  Olivia Borlée finished fifth in the second semi-final run and was eliminated

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  Ewelina Ptak (far left) , who was sixth in her semifinal race , did not reach the final

final

A happy European champion Myriam Soumaré

July 31, 2010, 7:50 p.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

After the bronze medal in the 100 meter run , the French Myriam Soumaré won gold over 200 meters . The co-favorite Russian Alexandra Fedoriwa took third place behind the Ukrainian Jelysaweta Bryshina.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Myriam Soumaré	France	22.32
2	Eelysaveta Bryshina	Ukraine	22.44 ONLY23
3	Alexandra Fedoriwa	Russia	22.44
4th	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	France	22.59
5	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	22.61 NO
DSQ	Véronique Mang	France
DOP	Anastassija Kapachinskaya	Russia
	Yulia Chermoshanskaya	Russia

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  Vice European Champion Jelysaweta Bryshina

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  Bronze medalist Alexandra Fedoriwa

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  Lina Jacques-Sébastien finished fourth

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  Eleni Artymata - with a national record for Cyprus in fifth place

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  Véronique Mang, second over 100 meters , was disqualified in the final

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  Anastassija Kapatschinskaja - subsequently disqualified for doping fraud

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  Julija Tschermoschanskaja - second doping offender in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 29, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 2010 Barcelona on todor66.com, accessed December 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on December 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 505 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on December 29, 2019
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 29, 2019

Video

• European Championship Barcelona 2010. 200m women final on youtube.com (English), accessed on December 29, 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
3. ↑ Doping: Russians block Olympic trio on sport.de, June 21, 2017, accessed on December 29, 2019
4. ↑ Russian loses women's relay gold from '08 in doping case on eu.usatoday.com, August 16, 2016, accessed on December 29, 2019