1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 3, 1960 (preliminary) September 5, 1960 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Wilma Rudolph ( USA )   Jutta Heine ( GER )   Dorothy Hyman ( GBR )

The women's 200-meter run at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 3rd and 5th, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 29 athletes took part.

The American Wilma Rudolph became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the German Jutta Heine and the British Dorothy Hyman .

In addition to Jutta Heine, two other Germans started. Gisela Birkemeyer qualified for the semi-finals, but was eliminated there in fourth. Hannelore Raepke could not prevail in the first run and was eliminated. Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part.

Existing records

World record	22.9 s	Wilma Rudolph ( USA )	Corpus Christi , USA	July 9, 1960
Olympic record	23.4 s	Marjorie Jackson ( Australia )	Helsinki semi-finals , Finland	July 26, 1952
		Betty Cuthbert ( Australia )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 30, 1956

Conducting the competition

The runners competed in six preliminary runs on September 3rd. The two fastest runners qualified for the semi-finals in each preliminary run. In addition, there were the following two fastest athletes in the total. From the preliminary decision on September 5th, the three best starters per run reached the final on the same day.

Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, those athletes who have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Time schedule

September 3, 3 p.m .: Preliminaries
September 5, 3:40 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 5, 5:10 p.m .: Final

Prelims

Date: September 3, 1960, from 3 p.m.

Forward 1

Out in advance for the German Hannelore Raepke (front)

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	23.7 s	23.90 s
2	Lucinda Williams	United States	24.0 s	24.10 s
3	Hannelore Raepke	Germany	24.2 s	24.32 s
4th	Pat Duggan	Australia	24.7 s	24.80 s

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Gisela Birkemeyer	Germany	24.2 s	24.32 s
2	Catherine Capdevielle	France	24.3 s	24.46 s
3	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	24.6 s	24.82 s
4th	Jean Hiscock	Great Britain	24.7 s	24.85 s
5	Ilana Karaszyk	Israel	26.5 s	26.69 s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Jutta Heine	Germany	23.9 s	24.04 s
2	Norma Croker	Australia	24.2 s	24.35 s
3	Alena Stolzová	Czechoslovakia	24.7 s	24.85 s
4th	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	24.7 s	24.90 s
5	Valerie Morgan	New Zealand	25.2 s	25.39 s

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.9 s	24.08 s
2	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.0 s	24.20 s
3	Antónia Munkácsi	Hungary	24.4 s	24.53 s
4th	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	25.8 s	25.98 s

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7 s	23.82 s
2	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	24.3 s	24.45 s
3	Eleanor Haslam	Canada	24.5 s	24.63 s
4th	Ernestine Pollards	United States	24.5 s	24.64 s
5	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	24.8 s	24.95 s

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	23.2 s	23.30 s	OR
2	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	24.0 s	24.12 s
3	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	24.0 s	24.12 s
4th	Halina Herrmann	Poland	24.2 s	24.31 s
5	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	24.9 s	25.06 s
6th	Erzsébet Heldt	Hungary	25.4 s	25.50 s

Semifinals

The Polish Celina Jesionowska was eliminated in the semi-finals.

Date: September 5, 1960, from 3:40 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	23.7 s	23.79 s
2	Jutta Heine	Germany	24.0 s	24.15 s
3	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	24.2 s	24.36 s
4th	Norma Croker	Australia	24.3 s	24.44 s
5	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	24.6 s	24.74 s
6th	Walentyna Maslowska	Soviet Union	24.6 s	24.77 s
7th	Catherine Capdevielle	France	24.9 s	25.04 s

Run 2

The qualified Polish Halina Herrmann did not start her run.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	24.5 s	24.69 s
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	24.6 s	24.78 s
3	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.6 s	24.81 s
4th	Gisela Birkemeyer	Germany	24.9 s	25.05 s
5	Lucinda Williams	United States	25.0 s	25.14 s
6th	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	25.3 s	25.45 s

final

Olympic Champion Wilma Rudolph (USA)

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	24.0 s	24.13 s
2	Jutta Heine	Germany	24.4 s	24.58 s
3	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	24.7 s	24.82 s
4th	Marija Itkina	Soviet Union	24.7 s	24.85 s
5	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	24.8 s	24.96 s
6th	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	24.9 s	25.01 s

Date: September 5, 1960, 5:10 p.m.

The top favorite was the American Wilma Rudolph , who has already been successful over 100 meters . Promising medal candidates behind her were actually all other finalists, there were no athletes who had recommended themselves more than others after the appearances in the preliminary runs and the semi-finals.

In the final, as expected, Rudolph was already ahead after the curve. The German Jutta Heine, who came second on the home straight, started very quickly. Here a strong headwind blew the runners in the face, so that faster times were not possible. Rudolph, Rome's audience favorite , now played out her skills and ran with a clear lead to her second gold medal. Behind them, Heine was able to maintain her second place and won the silver medal ahead of the British 100-meter runner-up Dorothy Hyman.

Wilma Rudolph won the first US Olympic victory over 200 meters for women.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 221–223

Videos

• Wilma Rudolph at Rome 1960 | Epic Olympic Moments , range 0:26 min - 0:36 min, published on December 11, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 22, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 186–188, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 640 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 22 October 2017
2. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63f (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
3. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 186 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 188 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 22, 2017