World Athletics Championships 1987/200 m for women

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary) September 3rd (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Silke Gladisch ( GDR )   Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA )   Inge Exner ( JAM )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome in 2009

The women's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 1 and 3, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

Silke Gladisch became world champion in the European Championship third in 1986 . She had also won the 100 meter race four days earlier and won the silver medal with the GDR sprint relay on the final day. Silver went to the American Florence Griffith-Joyner , who won the gold medal with her sprint relay on the final day. Third, like over 100 meters, was the two-time Olympic third ( 1980/1984 ) and vice world champion in 1983 Merlene Ottey from Jamaica , who was also Olympic third over 100 meters in 1984 .

Records

Existing records

World record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	July 29, 1986
			EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany (today Germany )	August 29, 1986
World championship record	22.13 s	Marita Koch	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Record improvement

The wind conditions were not favorable, apart from the finals, the sprinters had to struggle with strong headwinds in all races. Nevertheless, the times achieved were high class.
In the final on September 3, improved world champion Silke Gladisch from the GDR to the World Cup -record with a tailwind of 1.16 m / s by 39 hundredths of a second in 21.74 s.

Preliminary round

September 1, 1987

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: -3.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke Gladisch	GDR	22.44
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.61
3	Angela Bailey	Canada	22.94
4th	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	23.12
5	Natalia Herman	Soviet Union	23.26
6th	Zoila Stewart	Costa Rica	24.75
7th	Jabou Jawo	Gambia	25.50
8th	Elizabeth Arteaga	Bolivia	26.11

Forward 2

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	22.77
2	Pam Marshall	United States	22.84
3	Vineta Ikauniece	Soviet Union	22.98
4th	Ulrike Sarvari	BR Germany	23.02
5	Heike Morgenstern	GDR	23.04
6th	Claudia Acerenza	Uruguay	24.24
7th	Sheila Vyapoury	Mauritius	25.32
8th	Ahmed Hana Aly	North Yemen	29.00

Forward 3

Wind: –2.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.87
2	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.98
3	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.08
4th	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	23.12
5	Silke-Beate Knoll	BR Germany	23.40
6th	Aminata Diarra	Mali	26.46
7th	Denise Oubangui	Central African Republic	28.37
DNS	Blanca Lacambra	Spain

Forward 4

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	22.56
2	Maya Azarashvili	Soviet Union	22.94
3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	23.19
4th	Ingrid Verbruggen	Belgium	23.77
5	Amparo Caicedo	Colombia	24.30
6th	Guilhermina Cruz	Angola	25.74
DNS	Angella Issajenko	Canada

Semifinals

3rd September 1987

The first four athletes from each of the two semi-finals qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue.

Semi-final run 1

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.43
2	Silke Gladisch	GDR	22.54
3	Pam Marshall	United States	22.67
4th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	22.72
5	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	22.89
6th	Angela Bailey	Canada	22.97
7th	Vineta Ikauniece	Soviet Union	23.25
8th	Falilat Ogunkoya	Nigeria	23.71

Semi-final run 2

Heike Morgenstern (far right) was eliminated in eighth place in her semi-final run - next to her: Silke Gladisch (far left) and Heike Drechsler

Wind: -1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	22.38
2	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.54
3	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.60
4th	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.51
5	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.89
6th	Maya Azarashvili	Soviet Union	22.91
7th	Ulrike Sarvari	BR Germany	23.04
8th	Heike Morgenstern	GDR	23.06

final

Silke Gladisch, later Silke Möller, 1986 EM -Third, won her second title here in the sprints

3rd September 1987

Wind: +1.16 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke Gladisch	GDR	21.74 CR
2	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	21.96
3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.06
4th	Pam Marshall	United States	22.18
5	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.40
6th	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.52
7th	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.52
8th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	22.55

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  Vice world champion
  Florence Griffith-Joyner

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  Bronze medalist Merlene Ottey, two-time Olympic third ( 1980/1984 ) and 1983 vice world champion, also in 1984 Olympic third over 100 meters , had already won bronze over 100 meters

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  Mary Onyali (here in 2017) took sixth place

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 31, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 31, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 200 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 255), English, accessed on March 31, 2020

Video

• 1987 World Champs 200m women on youtube.com, accessed March 31, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 31, 2020
2. ↑ Angella Issajenko, former Angella Taylor, initially fifth over 100 meters and initially sixth with the Canadian sprint relay, was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations. She first reported her participation over 200 meters , but then withdrew. - see Angella Taylor-Issajenko on haltraum.com, accessed on March 30, 2020 / John Barnes, Recent Developments in Canadian Sports Law on commentary.canlii.org, 1991, English (PDF, 5554 KB), accessed on March 30, 2020