World Athletics Championships 2017/200 m women

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	49 athletes from 33 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2017 (preliminary) August 10, 2017 (semi-finals) August 11, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Dafne Schippers ( NED )
silver	Marie Josée Ta Lou ( CIV )
bronze	Shaunae Miller-Uibo ( BAH )

The three medal winners ( from left to right ): Marie Josée Ta Lou, Dafne Schippers, Shaunae Miller-Uibo

The women's 200 meter run at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , between 8-11 August 2017 .

Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands won . Vice world champion was Marie Josée Ta Lou from the Ivory Coast. Shaunae Miller-Uibo from Bahamas won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Florence Griffith-Joyner	21.34 s	September 29, 1988, Olympic Games in Seoul
Championship record	Dafne Schippers	21.63 s	August 28, 2015, World Cup in Beijing

Prelims

The Polish Anna Kiełbasińska was eliminated in sixth of her preliminary run

The Portuguese Lorène Bazolo was sixth place in the second heat not enough for advancement

The Ukrainian Jana Katschur was fourth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

Fourth place was not enough for Sada Williams from Barbados to make it to the semi-finals

Janet Amponsah from Ghana did not reach the semi-finals despite her fourth place in the fifth preliminary

The Latvian Sindija Bukša finished fourth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

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

August 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.64
2	7th	Tynia Gaither	Bahamas	22.98
3	4th	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.16
4th	2	Bianca Williams	Great Britain	23.30
5	8th	Jodean Williams	Jamaica	23.38
6th	3	Anna Kiełbasińska	Poland	23.48
7th	5	Riley Day	Australia	23.77

Run 2

August 8, 2017, 7:38 p.m. local time (8:38 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	8th	Kimberlyn Duncan	United States	22.74
2	5	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	22.86
3	4th	Vitória Cristina Rosa	Brazil	23.26
4th	3	Justine Palframan	South Africa	23.35
5	6th	Viktoria Syabkina	Kazakhstan	23.66
6th	7th	Lorène Bazolo	Portugal	23.85
7th	2	Ulfa Silpiana	Indonesia	25.23

Run 3

August 8, 2017, 7:46 p.m. local time (8:46 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	6th	Deajah Stevens	United States	22.90
2	8th	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	23.08
3	2	Sashalee Forbes	Jamaica	23.26
4th	7th	Shannon Hylton	Great Britain	23.39
5	5	Estela García	Spain	23.78
6th	4th	Mariely Sánchez	Dominican Republic	23.89
7th	3	Ella Nelson	Australia	24.02

Run 4

August 8, 2017, 7:54 p.m. local time (8:54 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	22.69
2	7th	Simone Facey	Jamaica	22.98
3	2	Edidiong Odiong	Bahrain	23.24
4th	8th	Jana Katschur	Ukraine	23.47
5	4th	Sada Williams	Barbados	23.55
6th	3	Kayelle Clarke	Trinidad and Tobago	23.75
7th	6th	Toea Wisil	Papua New Guinea	23.93

Run 5

August 8, 2017, 8:02 p.m. local time (9:02 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.4 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	2	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.73 SB
2	7th	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	22.87
3	8th	Estelle Raffai	France	23.72
4th	3	Janet Amponsah	Ghana	23.77
5	4th	Nediam Vargas	Venezuela	24.35
6th	6th	Regine Tugade	Guam	26.22
DNS	5	Michelle-Lee Ahye	Trinidad and Tobago

Run 6

August 8, 2017, 8:10 p.m. local time (9:10 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	4th	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	22.70
2	6th	Sarah Atcho	Switzerland	23.09
3	8th	Anthonique Strachan	Bahamas	23.23
4th	3	Sindija Bukša	Latvia	23.54
5	5	Irene Siragusa	Italy	23.73
6th	2	Isidora Jiménez	Chile	23.89
DNS	7th	Laura Müller	Germany

Run 7

August 8, 2017, 8:18 p.m. local time (9:18 p.m. CEST )
wind: +0.5 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Rebekka Haase	Germany	22.99
2	5	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	23.34
3	2	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	23.50
4th	4th	Cornelia Half Army	Switzerland	23.505
5	8th	Gloria Hooper	Italy	23.507
6th	3	Gina Bass	Gambia	23.56
DNS	6th	Tori Bowie	United States

Semifinals

Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa-Collio missed the final by one place with her third place in the first semi-final

The Swiss Mujinga Kambundji retired after finishing third in her semi-final race

The Greek Maria Belimbasaki did not reach the final as third of her semifinal run

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

August 10, 2017, 9:05 p.m. local time (10:05 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22,484
2	6th	Deajah Stevens	United States	22.71
3	7th	Iwet Lalowa-Collio	Bulgaria	22.96
4th	4th	Rebekka Haase	Germany	23.03
5	3	Sashalee Forbes	Jamaica	23.09
6th	8th	Sarah Atcho	Switzerland	23.12
7th	2	Justine Palframan	South Africa	23.21
8th	9	Anthonique Strachan	Bahamas	23.21

Run 2

August 10, 2017, 9:14 p.m. local time (10:14 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	7th	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	22,490
2	4th	Kimberlyn Duncan	United States	22.73
3	5	Mujinga Kambundji	Switzerland	23.00
4th	6th	Simone Facey	Jamaica	23.01
5	8th	Edidiong Odiong	Bahrain	23.24
6th	3	Bianca Williams	Great Britain	23.40
7th	2	Semoy Hackett	Trinidad and Tobago	23.54
DSQ	9	Rosângela Santos	Brazil	IAAF Rule 162.7 - false start

Run 3

August 10, 2017, 9:23 p.m. local time (10:23 p.m. CEST )
Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	train	Surname	country	Time (s)
1	5	Marie-Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	22.50
2	4th	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.73 SB
3	6th	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	22.85
4th	7th	Tynia Gaither	Bahamas	22.85
5	8th	Maria Belimbasaki	Greece	23.21
6th	9	Vitória Cristina Rosa	Brazil	23.31
7th	2	Jodean Williams	Jamaica	23.32
8th	3	Estelle Raffai	France	23.45

final

August 11, 2017, 9:50 p.m. local time (10:50 p.m. CEST )
Wind: +0.8 m / s

In the semi-finals particularly three runners had brought into the favorites of role: the Dutch Dafne Schippers - including world champion in 2015 and Olympic silver medalist from 2016 , Shaunae Miller-Uibo from Bahamas and Marie Josee Ta Lou from the Ivory Coast - about 100 meters here in London already Silver medalist. The Jamaican Olympic champion Elaine Thompson was only over 100 meters at the start at these world championships.

As on the shorter sprint route , Ta Lou was fastest in the first fifty meters. On the next section, Schippers picked up and came as the leader on the home straight. Ta Lou was just behind her in second place, ahead of Britain's Dina Asher-Smith. But Ta Lou did not give up and fought her way past the Dutch woman again. The race was only decided in the last few meters. Dafne Schippers had the greatest stamina and won this 200-meter run . Marie Josée Ta Lou took silver just three hundredths of a second behind her. The fastest runner in the last fifty meters was Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who still secured the bronze medal. She was also close to Ta Lou, only seven hundredths of a second. Dina Asher-Smith finished fourth, not even a tenth of a second short of bronze. Behind her followed the two Americans Deajah Stevens and Kimberlyn Duncan in fifth and sixth. The Canadian Crystal Emmanuel finished seventh ahead of Tynia Gaither from Bahamas.

The runners of the
200-meter final in the starting curve

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	6th	Dafne Schippers	Netherlands	22.05 SB
	4th	Marie Josée Ta Lou	Ivory Coast	22.08 NO
	5	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	22.15
4th	8th	Dina Asher-Smith	Great Britain	22.22 SB
5	7th	Deajah Stevens	United States	22.44
6th	9	Kimberlyn Duncan	United States	22.59
7th	2	Crystal Emmanuel	Canada	22.60
8th	3	Tynia Gaither	Bahamas	23.07

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  World Champion Dafne Schippers, Netherlands

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  Vice World Champion Marie Josée Ta Lou, Ivory Coast

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  Bronze medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamas

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  The British Dina Asher-Smith finished fourth

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  The American Deajah Simpson came in fifth place

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  The Canadian Crystal Emmanuel came in seventh

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 200 m women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 4, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 4, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 4, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 200m - Women - Final - Dafne Shippers wins on youtube.com, published on August 13, 2017, accessed on December 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on December 6, 2018