European Athletics Championships 2018/200 m women

discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	34 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2018 (preliminary / semi-finals) August 11, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Dina Asher-Smith ( GBR )
silver	Dafne Schippers ( NED )
bronze	Jamile Samuel ( NED )

Award ceremony over 200 meters ( from left to right ): Dafne Schippers, Dina Asher-Smith, Jamile Samuel

The women's 200 meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10 and 11 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The British Dina Asher-Smith won . Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands was vice European champion ahead of her compatriot Jamile Samuel .

Records

WR	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21.34 s	Olympic Games in Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
HE	Dafne Schippers	21.63 s	World Cup in Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 28, 2015
CR	Heike Drechsler	21.71 s	EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany (today Germany )	August 29, 1986

Conducting the competition

The ten fastest sprinters on the year's best list - marked with ‡ in the semi-final results - did not have to compete in the preliminary runs. They were automatically qualified for the semi-finals and only then intervened in the competition.

Prelims

Seventh place was not enough for Ukrainian Jelysaveta Bryshina to reach the semi-finals

The Czech Marcela Pírková was eliminated as fifth in her preliminary run

As eighth of the third heat, the Norwegian Helene Rønningen had no chance of participating in the semi-finals

From the three preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 10, 2018, 11:25 a.m. CEST Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Laura Müller	Germany	23.06 SB
2	7th	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland	23.20
3	1	Sindija Bukša	Latvia	23.36
4th	2	Manon Depuydt	Belgium	23.59
5	6th	Cornelia Half Army	Switzerland	23.63
6th	4th	Paula Seville	Spain	23.91
7th	3	Eelysaveta Bryshina	Ukraine	24.21
8th	8th	Charlotte Wingfield	Malta	24.40

Run 2

August 10, 2018, 11:32 a.m. CEST Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Rebekka Haase	Germany	23.44
2	1	Irene Siragusa	Italy	23.60
3	5	Martyna Kotwiła	Poland	23.62
4th	2	Estela García	Spain	23.64
5	4th	Marcela Pírková	Czech Republic	23.72
6th	3	Ezinne Okparaebo	Norway	23.84
7th	6th	Alexandra Bezeková	Slovakia	23.93
8th	8th	Jana Katschur	Ukraine	24.00

Run 3

August 10, 2018, 11:39 a.m. CEST Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	1	Kryszina Zimanouskaja	Belarus	23.07
2	6th	Gloria Hooper	Italy	23.28
3	4th	Phil Healy	Ireland	23.34
4th	7th	Inna Eftimowa	Bulgaria	23.56
5	2	Lorène Bazolo	Portugal	23.60
6th	5	Alina Kalistratova	Ukraine	23.79
7th	8th	Jaël Bestué	Spain	23.92
8th	3	Helene Rønningen	Norway	23.96

Semifinals

Martyna Kotwiła from Poland was eliminated in fifth place in her semi-final run

Second semi-final run ( from left to right ): Beth Dobbin, Dafne Schippers, Sarah Atcho

Third semi-final run ( from left to right ): Mujinga Kambundji, Jamile Samuel, Jodie Williams, Kryszina Zimanouskaja

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The ten fastest of the year - marked with ‡, who were automatically qualified for the semi-finals, now intervened in the action.

Run 1

August 10, 2018, 7:48 p.m. CEST Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Dina Asher-Smith ‡	Great Britain	22.33
2	3	Iwet Lalowa-Collio ‡	Bulgaria	22.65
3	5	Bianca Williams ‡	Great Britain	22.83
4th	7th	Laura Müller	Germany	22.87 SB
5	6th	Martyna Kotwiła	Poland	23.41
6th	2	Estela García	Spain	23.46
7th	1	Lorène Bazolo	Portugal	23.80
8th	8th	Cornelia Half Army	Switzerland	23.98

Run 2

August 10, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Dafne Schippers ‡	Netherlands	22.69
2	5	Beth Dobbin ‡	Great Britain	22.84
3	3	Sarah Atcho ‡	Switzerland	22.88
4th	6th	Phil Healy	Ireland	23.23
5	7th	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland	23.29
6th	2	Rebekka Haase	Germany	23.42
7th	8th	Gloria Hooper	Italy	23.43
8th	1	Manon Depuydt	Belgium	23.60

Run 3

August 10, 2018, 8:02 p.m. CEST Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Jamile Samuel ‡	Netherlands	22.58
2	5	Mujinga Kambundji ‡	Switzerland	22.84
3	2	Kryszina Zimanouskaja	Belarus	23.03 NU23R
4th	6th	Jessica-Bianca Wessolly ‡	Germany	23.26
5	3	Jodie Williams ‡	Great Britain	23.28
6th	7th	Irene Siragusa	Italy	23.30
7th	1	Inna Eftimowa	Bulgaria	23.62
DNS	8th	Sindija Bukša	Latvia

final

August 11, 2018, 8:45 p.m. CEST
Wind: +0.2 m / s

Two sprinters in particular were seen as favorites for this race. The Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers had a world champion in 2015 / 2017 , Olympic silver medalist from 2016 and European Champion of 2014 have the greatest success. The British Dina Asher-Smith competed as European champion in 2016 , had already won the 100-meter run here in Berlin and set the fastest time in the semifinals. Other medal candidates after the impressions from the semi-finals were the Dutchman Jamile Samuel and the Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa-Collio. But the Swiss Mujinga Kambundji also belonged to the wider circle of favorites.

Dina Asher-Smith presented herself as clearly the strongest runner, who won this race with great stamina and a clear lead. With 21.89 s she was the only one to stay under 22 seconds and set a new British national record with her time. At the same time it was a new world annual record. Also behind her there were excellent results with two medals for the Netherlands. European record holder Dafne Schippers set a new personal best time of the season with 22.14 s and Jamile Samuel equalized her personal best with 22.37 s. Mujinga Kambundji climbed fourth to 22.47 s and was also the best time of the season. Iwet Lalowa-Collio took fifth place ahead of the two Britons Bianca Williams and Beth Dobbin. The German Laura Müller was eighth in this final.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	5	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	21.89 WL / NO
	4th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.14 SB
	6th	Jamile Samuel	Netherlands	22.37 PBe
4th	8th	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	22.45 SB
5	3	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	22.82
6th	2	Bianca Williams	Great Britain	22.88
7th	7th	Beth Dobbin	Great Britain	22.93
8th	1	Laura Müller	Germany	23.08

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  The 200-meter runners on the home straight

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  Crossing the finish line over 200 meters ( from left to right ): Jamile Samuel, Dina Asher-Smith, Dafne Schippers

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  European Champion Dina Asher-Smith, Great Britain

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  The two Dutch medalists Jamile Samuel, bronze ( left ) and Dafne Schippers, silver

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  The Swiss Mujinga Kambundji came fourth

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  Fifth place for Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa-Collio

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  Briton Bianca Williams took sixth place

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  Beth Dobbin, third British woman in the final, finished seventh

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  The German Laura Müller reached eighth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 11, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 11, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 11, 2019