World Athletics Championships 1999/200 m women

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary / quarter finals) August 25th (semi-finals) August 27th (final)
Medalists Inger Miller ( USA )   Beverly McDonald ( JAM )   Merlene Frazer ( JAM ) Andrea Philipp ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's 200-meter run at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held from 24 to 27 August 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

With silver and bronze, the sprinters from Jamaica won two medals in this competition. In addition, the bronze medal was awarded twice.
The American Inger Miller became world champion . She had already won silver in the 100 meters five days earlier and also won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1997 World Championships with her country's 4 x 100 meter relay .
In second place came Beverly McDonald , who had already won medals three times with the Jamaican sprint relay at world championships ( 1991 : gold / 1995 and 1997 : silver). Here in Seville, too, there was another medal for the Jamaican on the final day with a bronze over 4 × 100 meters.
The bronze medal was initially awarded solely to Merlene Frazer from Jamaica, who, like Beverly McDonald, won silver in the sprint relay in 1997 and bronze here in Seville two days later. But after a protest by the German team, the target photo was evaluated again more precisely. This showed that in third place there was no discernible difference, no matter how small, between Merlene Frazer and the German Andrea Philipp, who had already been rated at the same time but was ranked fourth . Consequently, Andrea Philipp has now also received her bronze medal.

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

Even after these World Championships since had 1,987 existing WM -record continue to apply.

However, the US World Champion Inger Miller missed this record in the final on August 27th by only three hundredths of a second. With her 21.77 s and a tail wind of 0.6 m / s she set a new world annual record.

In addition, there were three national records.

• 22.85 s - Natallja Safronnikawa ( Belarus ), 5th advance on August 24th (wind: +0.2 m / s)
• 22.74 s - Natallja Safronnikawa ( Belarus ), 4th quarter-finals on August 24 (wind: +0.6 m / s)
• 22.60 s - Manuela Levorato ( Italy ), 2nd quarter-finals on August 24 (wind: +1.1 m / s)

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 24, 1999, 10:45 a.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tania Van Heer	Australia	22.67
2	Andrea Philipp	Germany	22.73
3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	23.18
4th	Ekaterini Koffa	Greece	23.25
5	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.27
6th	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	23.84

Forward 2

August 24, 1999, 10:51 a.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.52
2	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.69
3	Nanceen Perry	United States	22.97
4th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.31
5	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	23.37
6th	Heide Seyerling	South Africa	23.59
7th	Lineo Shoai	Lesotho	25.70

Forward 3

August 24, 1999, 10:57 am

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Inger Miller	United States	22.92
2	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	23.07
3	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	23.34
4th	Lucimar Aparecida de Moura	Brazil	23.38
5	Aïda Diop	Senegal	23.54
6th	Louise Ayétotché	Ivory Coast	23.73

Forward 4

August 24, 1999, 11:03 a.m.

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Frazer	Jamaica	22.80
2	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	22.88
3	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	22.98
4th	Esther Möller	Germany	23.16
5	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	23.19
DNS	Irina Privaleova	Russia

Forward 5

August 24, 1999, 11:09 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	22.68
2	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	22.85 NO
3	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.89
4th	Nova Peris	Australia	22.93
5	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.07
6th	Ciara Sheehy	Ireland	23.54
7th	Marcia Daniel	Dominica	24.48

Forward 6

August 24, 1999, 11:15 a.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marion Jones	United States	22.69
2	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	22.72
3	Manuela Levorato	Italy	22.91
4th	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	23.20
5	Damayanthi darsha	Sri Lanka	23.57
6th	M'Mah Toure	Guinea	26.35
DNS	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda

Forward 7

August 24, 1999, 11:21 a.m.

Wind: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	22.84
2	Zuzanna Radecka	Poland	23.01
3	Wendy Hartmann	South Africa	23.27
4th	Christine Bloomfield	Great Britain	23.31
5	Sanna Kyllönen	Finland	23.43
6th	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	23.74
DNS	Savatheda Fynes	Bahamas

Quarter finals

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

Quarter-finals 1

• 

  Zuzanna Radecka - sixth in her quarterfinal run in 22.96 s and thus eliminated

• 

  Lucimar Aparecida de Moura did not reach the next round as seventh of their quarter-finals in 23.13 s

August 24, 1999, 6:35 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marion Jones	United States	22.45
2	Merlene Frazer	Jamaica	22.48
3	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	22.73
4th	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	22.84
5	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	22.90
6th	Zuzanna Radecka	Poland	22.96
7th	Lucimar Aparecida de Moura	Brazil	23.14
8th	Wendy Hartmann	South Africa	23.28

Quarter-finals 2

Kim Gevaert failed with her 23.16 seconds in the quarterfinals

August 24, 1999, 6:41 pm

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.26
2	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	22.28
3	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.31
4th	Manuela Levorato	Italy	22.60 NO
5	Nanceen Perry	United States	22.61
6th	Esther Möller	Germany	22.85
7th	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	23.14
8th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.16

Quarter-finals 3

• 

  Alenka Bikar reached the quarter-finals, but did not appear there

August 24, 1999, 6:47 p.m.

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Inger Miller	United States	22.49
2	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.77
3	Andrea Philipp	Germany	22.81
4th	Tania Van Heer	Australia	22.89
5	Ekaterini Koffa	Greece	23.28
6th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.33
7th	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	23.46
DNS	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia

Quarter-finals 4

• 

  Mercy Nku - her 22.83 seconds were not enough to make it to the semi-finals

• 

  The defending champion and second in the World Cup over 100 meters from 1997 Schanna Pinusevich did not take part in her quarter-final race

August 24, 1999, 6:63 pm

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	22.53
2	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	22.69
3	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	22.74 NO
4th	Nova Peris	Australia	22.76
5	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	22.82
6th	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	22.83
7th	Christine Bloomfield	Great Britain	23.35
DNS	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

• 

  Manuela Levorato - in the quarterfinals national record in 22.60 s, in the semifinals in seventh place in 22.70 s

• 

  Nova Peris (right, as a politician in 2012) did not reach the final with her 22.74 seconds

August 25, 1999, 7:30 p.m.

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Inger Miller	United States	22.17
2	Andrea Philipp	Germany	22.25
3	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.26
4th	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	22.44
5	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.52
6th	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.68
7th	Manuela Levorato	Italy	22.70
8th	Nova Peris	Australia	22.74

Semi-final run 2

• 

  Chandra Sturrup, over 100 meters in seventh place - in the semifinals sixth in 22.75 s and thus not in the final

• 

  The 100 meter world champion Marion Jones injured herself in her semi-final race

August 25, 1999, 7:38 pm

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Merlene Frazer	Jamaica	22.18
2	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	22.34
3	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	22.50
4th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	22.54
5	Tania Van Heer	Australia	22.57
6th	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	22.75
7th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.16
DNF	Marion Jones	United States

final

The fifth-placed Debbie Ferguson

August 27, 1999, 7:45 p.m.

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Inger Miller	United States	21.77 WL
2	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.22
3	Merlene Frazer	Jamaica	22.26
	Andrea Philipp	Germany	22.26
5	Debbie Ferguson	Bahamas	22.28
6th	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	22.45
7th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	22.53
8th	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	22.64

Video

• Women's 200m World Athletics Champs Seville 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 22, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 22, 2020
• Women 200m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com (English), accessed July 22, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 200 m, Seville 1999, p. 257 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 22, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 22, 2020