European Athletics Championships 2012/200 m women

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 29th (preliminary / semi-finals) June 30th (final)
Medalists Marija Rjemjen ( UKR )   Chrystyna Stuj ( UKR )   Myriam Soumaré ( FRA )

The women's 200-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 29 and 30, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition, the Ukrainian female sprinters achieved a double victory. European champion was Marija Rjemjen . She won ahead of Chrystyna Stuj . Bronze went to the French defending champion and third place in the 2010 European Championship over 100 meters Myriam Soumaré .

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 Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The EM record that had been in place since 1986 continued to exist after these European championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals. Overall, only six of the thirty participants dropped out. In fact, in the first four of the five preliminary runs, one sprinter did not reach the next lap. Two athletes failed in the last run.

Forward 1

June 29, 2012, 1:35 pm

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Myriam Soumaré	France	23.10
2	Jamile Samuel	Netherlands	23.35
3	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.55
4th	Marika Popowicz	Poland	23.64
5	Éva Kaptur	Hungary	23.95
6th	Anna Hämäläinen	Finland	24.14

Forward 2

Diane Borg, who was last in the second round, was eliminated

June 29, 2012, 1:43 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Viktoria Pyatachenko	Ukraine	22.96
2	Léa Sprunger	Switzerland	23.08 NU23R
3	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	France	23.09
4th	Ekaterina Voronenkova	Russia	23.37
5	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	23.78
6th	Diane Borg	Malta	24.68

Forward 3

June 29, 2012, 1:51 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	23.11
2	Chrystyna Stuj	Ukraine	23.30
3	Andreea Ogrăzeanu	Romania	23.54
4th	Olivia Borlée	Belgium	23.77
5	Kristina Žumer	Slovenia	23.95
6th	Sonia Tavares	Portugal	24.00

Forward 4

June 29, 2012, 1:59 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Rjemjen	Ukraine	22.77
2	Gloria Hooper	Italy	22.95
3	Hanne Claes	Belgium	23.26
4th	Johanna Danois	France	23.42
5	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey	23.50 NU23Re
6th	Amy Foster	Ireland	24.04

Forward 5

June 29, 2012, 2:07 pm

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	23.05
2	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	23.35
3	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	23.58
4th	Inna Weit	Germany	23.89
5	Jacqueline Gasser	Switzerland	24.18
6th	Sònia Villacampa	Andorra	27.90

Semifinals

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

Run 1

June 29, 2012, 8:55 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.70
2	Viktoria Pyatachenko	Ukraine	23.04
3	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	23.21
4th	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.31
5	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	France	23.45
6th	Marika Popowicz	Poland	23.58
7th	Olivia Borlée	Belgium	23.66
8th	Kristina Žumer	Slovenia	24.20

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  Maria Belimbasaki missed qualifying for the final by one place

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  Lina Jacques-Sébastien was eliminated as fifth in her semifinal run

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  Marika Popowicz finished sixth in the first semifinals, which was not enough for the final

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  Seventh place was not enough for Olivia Borlée to be in the final

Run 2

June 29, 2012, 9:03 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Rjemjen	Ukraine	22.82
2	Johanna Danois	France	23.40
3	Léa Sprunger	Switzerland	23.45
4th	Andreea Ogrăzeanu	Romania	23.66
5	Hanne Claes	Belgium	23.68
6th	Inna Weit	Germany	23.95
7th	Éva Kaptur	Hungary	24.44
DSQ	Gloria Hooper	Italy	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Crossing the Track

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  Despite a third place in the second semifinals, Léa Sprunger was not quite enough to make it to the final after setting a junior record for Switzerland in the preliminary stages

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  Andreea Ogrăzeanu - fourth place in the second semifinals and thus eliminated

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  Her fifth place was not enough for Hanne Claes to take part in the final

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  With a time of just under 24 seconds, Inna Weit had no chance of being in the final

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  Gloria Hooper - disqualified for breaking the lane limit

Run 3

June 29, 2012, 9:11 pm

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Myriam Soumaré	France	23.04
2	Chrystyna Stuj	Ukraine	23.08
3	Jamile Samuel	Netherlands	23.13
4th	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	23.22
5	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	23.26
6th	Ekaterina Voronenkova	Russia	23.61
7th	Kateřina Čechová	Czech Republic	23.64
DNS	Nimet Karakuş	Turkey

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  Abiodun Oyepitan was missing a hundredth of a second to be one of the fastest in the final

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  Iwet Lalowa, the European champion over 100 meters , did not reach the finals in fourth of her semi-finals

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  Kateřina Čechová - seventh in the third semifinals and eliminated

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  Nimet Karakuş did not take part in her semifinal race

final

European champion Marija Rjemjen

June 30, 2012, 8:50 pm

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marija Rjemjen	Ukraine	23.05
2	Chrystyna Stuj	Ukraine	23.17
3	Myriam Soumaré	France	23.21
4th	Viktoria Pyatachenko	Ukraine	23.25
5	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	23.53
6th	Jamile Samuel	Netherlands	23.55
7th	Eleni Artymata	Cyprus	23.59
8th	Johanna Danois	France	23.61

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  Vice European Champion Chrystyna Stuj

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  Myriam Soumaré, defending champion and 2010 European Championship third over 100 meters , won bronze this time

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  Dafne Schippers could not repeat her strong performance from the semifinals and finished fifth

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  Jamile Samuel came in sixth place

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  Eleni Artymata came in seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 21, 2020
• Women 200m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 21, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 21, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 515 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 21, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 21, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 21, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed January 21, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 50 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 21, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules , page 91 PDF (4364KB), accessed on January 21, 2020