World Athletics Championships 2015/200 m women

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	51 athletes from 36 countries
Competition phase	August 26, 2015 (preliminary) August 27, 2015 (semi-finals) August 28, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Dafne Schippers ( NED )
silver	Elaine Thompson ( JAM )
bronze	Veronica Campbell-Brown ( JAM )

The medal winners (from left to right):
Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers, Veronica Campbell-Brown

The women's 200-meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 26, 27 and 28, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

It was won by Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands , who was world champion ahead of the two Jamaicans Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell-Brown .

Current records

Status: before the start of the 2015 World Athletics Championships

World record	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21.34 s	OS of Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
Championship record	Silke Gladisch (later Silke Möller )	21.74 s	World Cup in Rome , Italy	3rd September 1987

Prelims

From the seven preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

The Slovenian Sabina Veit was eliminated as fourth in her preliminary run

The Nigerian Blessing Okagbare did not start her preliminary run

The Venezuelan Nercely Soto finished fifth in her preliminary run and did not reach the next round

The Canadian Crystal Emmanuel was eliminated in the preliminary round after finishing fourth in the fifth

Sheniqua Ferguson, Bahamas, did not reach the semifinals in sixth of their heats

The Kazakh Olga Safronowa did not make it to the semifinals as fifth in her preliminary run

August 26, 2015, 7:15 p.m. (1:15 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Candyce McGrone	United States	22.45
2	7th	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	22.92
3	9	Viktoria Syabkina	Kazakhstan	22.92
4th	3	Ramona Papaioannou	Cyprus	23.30
5	4th	Ella Nelson	Australia	23.33
6th	5	Celiangeli Morales	Puerto Rico	23.34
7th	8th	Anna Kukushkina	Russia	23.47

Run 2

August 26, 2015, 7:22 p.m. (1:22 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	22.73 PB
2	7th	Jenna Prandini	United States	22.95
3	5	Justine Palframan	South Africa	23.09
4th	9	Sabina Veit	Slovenia	23.18
5	4th	Natalija Strohowa	Ukraine	23.25
6th	3	Kamaria Durant	Trinidad and Tobago	23.25
7th	6th	Kineke Alexander	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	23.30

Run 3

August 26, 2015, 7:29 pm (1:29 pm CEST )
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Jeneba Tarmoh	United States	22.79
2	7th	Gloria Hooper	Italy	22.99 SB
3	6th	Kimberly Hyacinthe	Canada	23.03
4th	3	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.15
5	9	Isidora Jiménez	Chile	23.22
6th	8th	Kelly Proper	Ireland	23.28
DNS	4th	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria

Run 4

August 26, 2015, 7:36 pm (1:36 pm CEST )
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	22.78
2	7th	Bianca Williams	Great Britain	22.85 SB
3	9	Khamica Bingham	Canada	22.90
4th	4th	Maja Mihalinec	Slovenia	23.05 PB
5	3	Nercely Soto	Venezuela	23.16
6th	8th	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	23.83
DNS	6th	Natalija Pohrebnjak	Ukraine

Run 5

August 26, 2015, 7:43 p.m. (1:43 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.1 m / s

A rather extraordinary event took place during this run-up. Multiple medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica started the race on lane five and finished it on lane six. At the end of the bend she had switched to the British Margaret Adeoye's track, a few yards behind Campbell-Brown. Since Adeoye had not been hindered, Campbell-Brown's lane change remained without consequences for the Jamaican, who won the heat. The British also qualified for the semi-finals.

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.79
2	7th	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	22.89
3	6th	Margaret Adeoye	Great Britain	23.10
4th	3	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	23.22
5	2	Chisato Fukushima	Japan	23.30
6th	9	Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo	Belgium	23.45
7th	8th	Liang Xiaojing	People's Republic of China	23.57 PB
8th	4th	Shanti Pereira	Singapore	24.22

Run 6

August 26, 2015, 7:50 p.m. (1:50 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.58
2	5	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	23.05
3	9	Reyare Thomas	Trinidad and Tobago	23.09
4th	6th	Chrystyna Stuj	Ukraine	23.21
5	3	Ekaterina Smirnova	Russia	23.99
6th	4th	Sheniqua Ferguson	Bahamas	23.44
7th	8th	Olga Lenskiy	Israel	23.63

Run 7

August 26, 2015, 7:57 p.m. (1:57 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.22 PB
2	6th	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	22.52 SB
3	3	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	22.54 SB
4th	4th	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland	22.59
5	8th	Olga Safronova	Kazakhstan	23.28 SB
6th	5	Vitória Cristina Rosa	Brazil	23.32
7th	7th	Arialis Gandulla	Cuba	23.35
8th	9	Kristina Pronschenko	Tajikistan	25.77

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

As over 100 meters , the Swiss Mujinga Kambundji was eliminated in the semifinals - here she set a new national record with 22.64 seconds

Marie-Josee Ta Lou from Ivory Coast did not reach the final despite a strong 22.56 s in her semi-final race

The Brazilian Rosângela Santos failed in fourth of her race in the semifinals

August 27, 2015, 7:35 p.m. (1:35 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	22.13
2	6th	Candyce McGrone	United States	22.26
3	9	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	22.32 PB
4th	5	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	22.64 NO
5	8th	Viktoria Syabkina	Kazakhstan	22.77 NO
6th	7th	Bianca Williams	Great Britain	22.87
7th	3	Reyare Thomas	Trinidad and Tobago	23.03
8th	3	Maja Mihalinec	Slovenia	23.04 PB

Run 2

August 27, 2015, 7:43 p.m. (1:43 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.36
2	5	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	22.53
3	7th	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	22.56 PB
4th	4th	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	22.75
5	8th	Jenna Prandini	United States	22.87
6th	9	Khamica Bingham	Canada	23.02
7th	3	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland	23.07
8th	2	Margaret Adeoye	Great Britain	23.34

Run 3

August 27, 2015, 7:51 p.m. (1:51 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.12 PB
2	6th	Jeneba Tarmoh	United States	22.38
3	4th	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.47 SB
4th	9	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	22.87
5	7th	Gloria Hooper	Italy	22.92 PB
6th	3	Justine Palframan	South Africa	23.04
7th	8th	Kimberly Hyacinthe	Canada	23.07
8th	2	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.28

final

August 28, 2015, 9:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. CEST )
wind: +0.2 m / s

Just like over 100 meters , the sprinters showed excellent performances in the heats and especially in the semi-finals. Marie-Josee Ta Lou 22.56 s were not enough for the final. The Jamaican title holder and Olympic runner-up in 2012 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. who had already become world champion over 100 meters here, decided not to take part in the 200-meter run . The favorites were the Dutch European champion Dafne Schippers - here already vice world champion over 100 meters, the two Jamaicans Elaine Thompson - vice world champion in 2013, here with the second fastest semi-final time - and Veronica Campbell-Brown - Olympic champion in 2008 , world champion in 2011 and World Cup -Third in 2013, Britain's Dina Asher-Smith as the fastest in the semifinals and the American Candyce McGrone - the third fastest time in the semifinals.

In the first corner, the two Jamaicans Thompson and Campbell-Brown and McGrone were almost on par. Schippers was well behind with their well-known weak start. On the home stretch, Thompson broke away from Campbell-Brown and McGrone. A duel now developed between Thompson and Schippers, who had by far the best stamina and charged from behind. With the last few steps, the Dutchwoman also passed the Jamaican and became world champion with a wafer-thin three hundredths of a second ahead of Elaine Thomas. Veronica Campbell-Brown was third under 22 seconds. Candyce McGrone missed the bronze medal by four hundredths of a second. Only six hundredths of a second behind her, Dina Asher-Smith was fifth, ahead of Jeneba Tarmoh from the USA and Iwet Lalowa-Collio from Bulgaria. 22.50 seconds were only enough for the Jamaican Sherone Simpson to finish eighth.

Dafne Schippers won the final in 21.63 s and not only undercut Silke Möller's world championship record from 1987 - at that time set under her maiden name Silke Gladisch, but also the European record (21.71 s) from Marita Koch - 1979 and 1984 - and Heike Drechsler - twice in 1986. During this time, Schippers became the third fastest female runner of all time in the world's best list of over 200 meters . The second placed Elaine Thompson took fifth place in this list with her time of 21.66 s. Dina Asher-Smith set a new national record for Great Britain in 22.07 s in fifth place, in the all-time world best list she was currently 34th.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	21.63 CR / ER / WL
	5	Elaine Thompson	Jamaica	21.66 PB
	2	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	21.97 SB
4th	7th	Candyce McGrone	United States	22.01 PB
5	4th	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.07 NO
6th	8th	Jeneba Tarmoh	United States	22.31
7th	3	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	22.41
8th	9	Sherone Simpson	Jamaica	22.50 SB

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  World Champion Dafne Schippers, Netherlands

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  Vice World Champion Elaine Thompson from Jamaica

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  Bronze medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaica

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  The British Dina Asher-Smith came in fifth in the final

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  Seventh place for Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa-Collio

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  The Jamaican Sherone Simpson finished eighth in the final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 200 m women on the IAAF website , accessed on November 4, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 4, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 4, 2018

Video

• Dafne Schippers 21.63 CR Women's 200m Final IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 28, 2015, accessed on November 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simeon Gholam: Veronica Campbell-Brown ends up in the wrong lane after Jamaican sprinter loses her bearings during 200m heats. dailymail.co.uk, August 26, 2015, accessed August 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Schippers undercuts the age-old European record. August 28, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015 .