World Athletics Championships 1995/200 m for women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Merlene Ottey ( JAM )   Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )   Galina Maltschugina ( RUS )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 200-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 9 and 10, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The Russian sprinters won two medals in this competition, silver and bronze.
World Champion was the defending champion, two-time World Cup -Bronzemedaillengewinnerin ( 1987 /1991), three-time bronze medalist at the Olympic Games ( 1980 / 1984 /1992) and World Cup -Silbermedaillengewinnerin of 1983 Merlene Ottey of Jamaica . In addition, she had 100 meters at the 1984 Olympic Games and the World Championships 1987 / 1991 respectively bronze and 1993 World Cup won -Silber. In 1991 she had already won the World Cup relay gold in the Jamaica team and had also finished second in the 100 meters here in Gothenburg three days earlier.
At the same time, down to a hundredth of a second, the third place in the World Cup in 1993 was Irina Priwalowa , who was third in the Olympic Games in 1992 - starting for the United Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States - over 100 meters. In 1993, Irina Priwalowa also won gold in the World Cup with her country's 4 x 100 meter relay .
Bronze went to the two-time European Championship -Third ( 1990 / 1994 ) Galina Malt Schu Gina . She too had won numerous medals with the sprint relay: 1992 Olympic silver (with the United Team), 1988 Olympic bronze (for the Soviet Union ), 1993 World Cup gold (for Russia), 1991 World Cup silver (Russia), EM - Silver 1994 (Russia).

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 five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 9, 1995, 6:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.55
2	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	22.69
3	Carlette Guidry	United States	22.71
4th	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.13
5	Viktoria Fomenko	Ukraine	23.18
6th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	23.64
7th	Wang Huei-Chen	Chinese Taipei	23.77

Forward 2

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  The 100 meter vice European champion from 1994 Schanna Pintussewytsch, later Schanna Block, was eliminated in the preliminary round as fourth of her race

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  Susanthika Jayasinghe, who later won the World Championships bronze medal, was disqualified for breaking the track

August 9, 1995, 6:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.59
2	Celena Mondie-Milner	United States	22.90
3	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.90
4th	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	23.30
5	Patricia Rodríguez	Colombia	23.67
6th	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.98
7th	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	24.57
DSQ	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 3

August 9, 1995, 6:50 p.m.

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.23
2	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.46
3	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	22.95
4th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	22.96
5	Savatheda Fynes	Bahamas	23.01
6th	Maguy Nestoret	France	23.16
DSQ	Heide Seyerling	South Africa	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 4

Debbie Ferguson was sixth in the fourth heat not enough to advance

August 9, 1995, 6:55 pm

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.46
2	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	22.71
3	Silke Lichtenhagen	Germany	23.19
4th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.20
5	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.33
6th	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	23.33
7th	Dora Kyriakou	Cyprus	23.77
8th	Marcela Tiscornia	Uruguay	24.39

Forward 5

August 9, 1995, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.61
2	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.74
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.81
4th	Zlatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	22.95
5	Ekaterini Koffa	Greece	23.16
6th	Maia Azarashvili	Georgia	23.18
7th	Damayanthi darsha	Sri Lanka	23.45

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

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  Melinda Gainsford missed the final by one place as fifth of her semi-final run

August 10, 1995, 4:05 pm

Wind: +2.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.18
2	Gwen Torrence	United States	22.25
3	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.58
4th	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.60
5	Melinda Gainsford	Australia	22.61
6th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.91
7th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	22.92
8th	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	23.03

Semi-final run 2

Despite her time of 22.82 s, the later 400-meter Olympic champion Cathy Freeman failed in the semifinals

August 10, 1995, 4:11 pm

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.25
2	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.45
3	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.57
4th	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	22.71
5	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.82
6th	Carlette Guidry	United States	22.91
7th	Zlatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	22.98
8th	Celena Mondie-Milner	United States	23.33

final

August 10, 1995, 6:35 p.m.

Wind: −2.2 m / s

The US 100 meter world champion Gwen Torrence started the race as the favorite . In the end, she was clearly ahead. Her time of 21.77 seconds was exceptionally good given a headwind of 2.2 meters per second. However, she was immediately disqualified - a camera had recorded that she had violated the inner limit of her lane with some steps.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.12
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.12
3	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.37
4th	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.60
5	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.66
6th	Mary Onyali	Nigeria	22.71
7th	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	22.84
DSQ	Gwen Torrence	United States	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

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  World champion Merlene Ottey, multiple medal winner over 100 meters , 200 meters and with the sprint relay of her team, won her second individual gold medal

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  Sixth placed Mary Onyali successfully completed her fourth World Cup finals over 100 and 200 meters (World Championships 1993 and 1995)

Video

• Womens 200m final Goteburg 1995 , video published on May 6, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on June 5, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 200 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 256 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 6, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 5, 2020