World Athletics Championships 1991/200 m women

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 30th (semifinals / final)
Medalists Katrin Krabbe ( GER )   Gwen Torrence ( USA )   Merlene Ottey ( JAM )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's 200-meter run at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 30, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

On the medal ranks there was the same result as over 100 meters . The reigning European champion over 100 and 200 meters - in 1990 for the GDR - Katrin Krabbe from Germany became world champion . She won bronze twice with the two German relays on the final day. Second place went to the American Gwen Torrence . Bronze went to Merlene Ottey from Jamaica . She won gold on the final day with her country's 4 x 100 meter relay . In the years from 1980 onwards she had won three Olympic bronze medals over 100 and 200 meters, had become vice world champion over 200 meters and third with her relay in 1983 , and in 1987 she had again won the World Cup bronze over 100 and 200 meters.

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	OS Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
World championship record	21.74 s	Silke Gladisch	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	3rd September 1987

The wind conditions were not favorable in most of the races, the sprinters had to struggle with headwinds too often, in the final it was 2.4 meters per second. The World Cup record at these World Championships was neither set nor improved.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1991, 10:40 am

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 quarter-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	23.09
2	Valerie Jean-Charles	France	23.13
3	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.31
4th	Wang Huei-Chen	People's Republic of China	23.73
5	Govindasamy Shanti	Malaysia	24.09
6th	Rosanna Browne	Anguilla	24.80
7th	Deirdre Caruana	Malta	25.39
DNS	Mary Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu

Forward 2

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	23.25
2	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	23.44
3	Julia Duporty	Cuba	23.71
4th	Mariama Ouiminga	Burkina Faso	25.32
5	Vaciseva Tavaga	Fiji	25.48
6th	Denise Oubangui	Central African Republic	26.03
7th	Juliana Nzang Obieng	Equatorial Guinea	28.17

Forward 3

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Esther Jones	United States	23.32
2	Irina Privaleova	Soviet Union	23.39
3	Claudete Alves Piña	Brazil	23.83
4th	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	23.87
5	Agnes Kozáry	Hungary	23.99
6th	Jane Thondojee	Mauritius	25.46
7th	Jatamsuren Otgonchineg	Mongolia	25.48
8th	Feroza Khatton	Bangladesh	26.14

Forward 4

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Dannette Young	United States	22.74
2	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	22.93
3	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.09
4th	Maguy Nestoret	France	23.39
5	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.75
6th	Claudia Acerenza	Uruguay	24.66
7th	Mpoka Mokosi	Zaire	27.21
8th	Fathimath Fezleen	Maldives	28.30

Forward 5

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	23.12
2	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain	23.18
3	Katrin Krabbe	Germany	23.23
4th	Orit Kolodni	Israel	23.78
5	Gailey Dube	Zimbabwe	24.22
6th	Olga Conte	Argentina	24.97
7th	Aminata Konate	Guinea	25.12

Quarter finals

August 29, 1991, 5:25 pm

From each of the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Quarter-finals 1

Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	Germany	22.46
2	Dannette Young	United States	22.49
3	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.49
4th	Valerie Jean-Charles	France	23.23
5	Orit Kolodni	Israel	23.61
6th	Mariama Ouiminga	Burkina Faso	25.23
DNS	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain
	Gailey Dube	Zimbabwe

Quarter-finals 2

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.52
2	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	22.82
3	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	22.82
4th	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	23.17
5	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	23.37
6th	Julia Duporty	Cuba	23.46
7th	Wang Huei-Chen	People's Republic of China	23.63
8th	Govindasamy Shanti	Malaysia	24.19

Quarter-finals 3

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.64
2	Irina Privaleova	Soviet Union	22.89
3	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.97
4th	Esther Jones	United States	23.03
5	Maguy Nestoret	France	23.46
6th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.70
7th	Claudete Alves Piña	Brazil	23.80
8th	Agnes Kozáry	Hungary	23.99

Semifinals

August 30, 1991, 5:00 p.m.

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

Semi-final run 1

Wind: −3.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	Germany	22.30
2	Dannette Young	United States	22.69
3	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	22.80
4th	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	22.83
5	Esther Jones	United States	23.22
6th	Julia Duporty	Cuba	23.58
7th	Valerie Jean-Charles	France	23.64
8th	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	23.72

Semi-final run 2

Wind: −5.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.58
2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.59
3	Irina Privaleova	Soviet Union	22.70
4th	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.92
5	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.49
6th	Maguy Nestoret	France	23.79
7th	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	24.12
8th	Orit Kolodni	Israel	24.27

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  Double world champion Katrin Krabbe, reigning double European champion , won her second gold medal, she also received two bronze medals - the coming season already brought the end of her sports career due to doping}

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  Merlene Ottey, since 1980 multiple medalist at the Olympic Games / World Championships and the actual favorite, had to be content with bronze , as she had done over 100 meters , before she won gold on the final day in her country's 4 x 100 meter relay

final

August 30, 1991, 7:55 pm

Wind: −2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	Germany	22.09
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.16
3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.21
4th	Irina Privaleova	Soviet Union	22.28
5	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.66
6th	Dannette Young	United States	22.87
7th	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	22.90
8th	Elena Vinogradova	Soviet Union	23.10

Video

• 1991 World Champs 200m women on youtube.com, accessed April 28, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 28, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 28, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 200 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 255 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 28, 2020
• Katrin Krabbe sprints to gold at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo , Focus Online May 8, 2015 at focus.de, accessed on April 28, 2020
• Athletics: The World Cup highlights since 1983 , Katrin Krabbe on t-online.de, accessed on April 28, 2020
• Katrin Krabbe turns 50: "Wonderful" and "Really Bad Moments" , November 22, 2019 on t-online.de, accessed on April 28, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 28, 2020
2. ↑ Andreas Bellinger, Katrin Krabbe: Deep Fall of a Sprint Queen , December 3, 2019 on ndr.de, accessed on April 28, 2020