World Athletics Championships 1993/200 m for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	47 athletes from 37 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 17th (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 19th (semifinals / final)
Medalists Merlene Ottey ( JAM )   Gwen Torrence ( USA )   Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's 200-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 17 and 19, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World Champion was the Jamaican Merlene Ottey , the twice World Cup -Bronze ( 1987 /1991), three bronze medals at the Olympic Games ( 1980 / 1984 /1992) and one World Cup -Silver ( 1983 had won). In addition, she had won bronze over 100 meters at the 1984 Olympic Games and the 1987 and 1991 World Championships . She was finally able to bring a single gold medal to her collection after winning relay gold in 1991 with the Jamaica team. Here in Stuttgart she had also finished second over 100 meters three days earlier.
The vice world champion over 100 and 200 meters from 1991 and Olympic champion from 1992 over 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters Gwen Torrence , who had also won Olympic silver over 4 × 400 meters in 1992, was again vice world champion. Here in Stuttgart she won more medals with gold over 4 × 400 meters, silver and 4 × 100 meters after she had already won bronze over 100 meters.
The Russian Irina Priwalowa , who started in 1992 for the United Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States and finished third over 100 meters, now came third over 200 meters. On the final day, she also won gold with her country's 4 x 100 meter relay.

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 existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in seven 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

August 17, 1993, 10:10 a.m.

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	23.39
2	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.49
3	Yolanda Steyn	South Africa	23.80
4th	Yana Burtasenkova	Moldova	23.94
5	Lusia Puleanga	Tonga	26.40
6th	Ruth Mangue	Equatorial Guinea	28.89
DNS	Lydia De Vega	Philippines

Forward 2

August 17, 1993, 10:18 am

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.94
2	Cathy Freeman	Australia	23.28
3	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	23.43
4th	Stacey Bowen	Canada	23.66
5	Hermin Joseph	Dominica	24.29
6th	Deirdre Caruana	Malta	25.96
7th	Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai	Vietnam	26.55

Forward 3

August 17, 1993, 10:26 am

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.21
2	Sabine Tröger	Austria	23.66
3	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.69
4th	Georgette Nkoma	Cameroon	23.97
5	Guilhermina Da Cruz	Angola	25.16
6th	Natalie Martindale	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	26.77
DNS	Melinda Gainsford	Australia

Forward 4

August 17, 1993, 10:34 am

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.45
2	Natalia Voronova	Russia	23.45
3	Gwen Torrence	United States	23.46
4th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.53
5	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain	23.83
6th	Mirna El-Laz	Lebanon	26.97
7th	Aminath Nasheeda	Maldives	30.24

Forward 5

August 17, 1993, 10:42 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marie-José Pérec	France	23.04
2	Dahlia Duhaney	Jamaica	23.29
3	Dannette Young	United States	23.43
4th	Philomena Mensah	Ghana	23.67
5	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	24.01
6th	Rita Pattipeilohy	Indonesia	25.59
DNS	Mpoka Mokosi	Zaire

Forward 6

August 17, 1993, 10:50 am

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	23.21
2	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	23.39
3	Michelle Finn	United States	23.83
4th	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	24.10
5	Dora Kyriakou	Cyprus	24.47
6th	Oumou Sow	Guinea	25.81
7th	Melvina Wulah	Liberia	26.11
8th	Shabana Akhtar	Pakistan	26.39

Forward 7

August 17, 1993, 10:58 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Huei-Chen Wang	Chinese Taipei	23.30
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	23.39
3	Evette de Klerk	South Africa	23.43
4th	Maia Azarashvili	Georgia	23.68
5	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	26.15
6th	Lasnet Nkouka	Republic of the Congo	26.64
DNS	Shanna Tarnopolska	Ukraine

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

Katharine Merry (here as an interviewer at a sports festival in 2013) was eliminated in the semi-finals as sixth of her race

August 17, 1993, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.74
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.80
3	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.01
4th	Michelle Finn	United States	23.24
5	Huei-Chen Wang	Chinese Taipei	23.32
6th	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.46
7th	Yolanda Steyn	South Africa	23.60
8th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	24.32

Quarter-finals 2

August 17, 1993, 7:05 pm

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.81
2	Evette de Klerk	South Africa	22.88
3	Natalia Voronova	Russia	22.94
4th	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.04
5	Sabine Tröger	Austria	23.17
6th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.24
7th	Georgette Nkoma	Cameroon	23.66
8th	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain	23.95

Quarter-finals 3

August 17, 1993, 7:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marie-José Pérec	France	22.73
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.87
3	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	22.94
4th	Dahlia Duhaney	Jamaica	23.11
5	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.16
6th	Stacey Bowen	Canada	23.62
7th	Yana Burtasenkova	Moldova	23.99
8th	Hermin Joseph	Dominica	24.13

Quarter-finals 4

Jacqueline Poelman did not reach her sixth place in the last quarter-finals to reach the semi-finals

August 17, 1993, 7:15 pm

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.51
2	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.80
3	Dannette Young	United States	22.92
4th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	23.07
5	Maia Azarashvili	Georgia	23.33
6th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.64
7th	Philomena Mensah	Ghana	24.05
DNS	Dora Kyriakou	Cyprus

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

Cathy Freeman - 2000 Olympic champion over 400 meters - missed the final by one place

August 19, 1993, 5:30 p.m.

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.20
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.20
3	Natalia Voronova	Russia	22.35
4th	Marie-José Pérec	France	22.49
5	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.58
6th	Elinda Vorster	South Africa	22.83
7th	Dahlia Duhaney	Jamaica	22.97
8th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	23.06

Semi-final run 2

August 19, 1993, 5:38 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.12
2	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.22
3	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.35
4th	Dannette Young	United States	22.51
5	Evette de Klerk	South Africa	22.76
6th	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	22.94
7th	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.07
8th	Michelle Finn	United States	23.26

After many bronze medals and a silver one, Merlene Ottey finally won her first individual title here

final

August 19, 1993, 8:45 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	21.98
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.00
3	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.13
4th	Marie-José Pérec	France	22.20
5	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.32
6th	Natalia Voronova	Russia	22.50
7th	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.50
8th	Dannette Young	United States	23.04

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  Over 400 meters, Olympic champion in 1992 and world champion in 1991 , Marie-José Pérec was fourth without a medal over 200 meters

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  Mary Onyali (here in 2017) reached fifth place over 100 meters as she did three days earlier

Video

• Women's 200m Final World Champs Stuttgart 1993 , video published December 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed May 16, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 16, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 16, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 200 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 255f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 16, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 16, 2020