World Athletics Championships 1991/200 m women
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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}
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) |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 28, 2020
- ↑ Andreas Bellinger, Katrin Krabbe: Deep Fall of a Sprint Queen , December 3, 2019 on ndr.de, accessed on April 28, 2020