1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	36 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 18, 1964 (preliminary / semi-finals) October 19, 1964 (final)
Medalists Edith McGuire ( USA )   Irena Kirszenstein ( POL )   Marilyn Black ( AUS )

The women's 200-meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 18 and 19, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

The American Edith McGuire was Olympic champion ahead of the Polish Irena Kirszenstein . Bronze went to the Australian Marilyn Black .

Three Germans and one Austrian started, athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. Jutta Heine was disqualified in the fifth heat. Erika Pollmann , like the Austrian Inge Aigner, was eliminated in the preliminary run, Heilwig Jacob reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there as seventh of her run.

Existing records

World record	22.9 s	Wilma Rudolph ( USA )	Corpus Christi , USA	July 9, 1960
		Margaret Burvill ( Australia )	Perth , Australia	February 22, 1964
Olympic record	23.2 s	Wilma Rudolph ( USA )	Advance from Rome , Italy	September 3, 1960

Margaret Burvill achieved her world record time over 220  yards = 201.168 meters.

Conducting the competition

The athletes started a total of six heats on October 18th. The two best starters qualified for the semi-finals on the same day, plus the four fastest runners from all heats. The best four runners from the semifinals reached the final on October 19th.

Time schedule

October 18, 10 a.m .: Preliminaries
October 18, 2:25 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 19, 2:40 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, those athletes who have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Prelims

Date: October 18, 1964, from 10 a.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, 14–15 ° C, humidity approx. 95%

Forward 1

Wind: +4.97 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Janet Simpson	Great Britain	24.0 s	24.06 s
2	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	24.2 s	24.30 s
3	Joyce Bennett	Australia	24.3 s	24.34 s
4th	Michèle Lurot	France	24.7 s	24.75 s
5	Erzsébet Bartos	Hungary	24.9 s	24.90 s
6th	Esperanza Girón	Mexico	25.3 s	k. A.

Forward 2

Wind: +3.44 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	23.8 s	23.89 s
2	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	24.1 s	24.19 s
3	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	24.4 s	24.47 s
4th	Inge Aigner	Austria	24.7 s	24.77 s
5	Susana Ritchie	Argentina	24.7 s	24.79 s

Forward 3

Wind: +3.03 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Margaret Burvill	Australia	24.2 s	24.22 s
2	Heilwig Jacob	Germany	24.2 s	24.23 s
3	Galina Gaida	Soviet Union	24.4 s	24.45 s
4th	Debbie Thompson	United States	24.6 s	24.62 s
5	Irene Muyanga	Uganda	27.6 s	k. A.

Forward 4

Wind: +0.98 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	23.8 s	23.86 s
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	24.0 s	24.02 s
3	Vivian Brown	United States	24.1 s	24.17 s
4th	Louise Sydranski	Israel	24.6 s	24.86 s
5	Adlin Mair	Jamaica	25.0 s	k. A.
6th	Kusolwan Sorut	Thailand	26.1 s
7th	Marcela Daniel	Panama	26.6 s

Forward 5

Wind: +2.86 m / s The German Jutta Heine, European champion from 1962 and silver medalist from 1960 , was disqualified because of two false starts.

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Edith McGuire	United States	23.4 s	23.47 s
2	Marilyn Black	Australia	23.7 s	23.78 s
3	Una Morris	Jamaica	24.2 s	24.24 s
4th	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	25.4 s	k. A.
5	Song yang-yes	South Korea	26.5 s
DSQ	Jutta Heine	Germany

Forward 6

Wind: +4.09 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	23.8 s	23.82 s
2	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.2 s	24.21 s
3	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	24.2 s	24.24 s
4th	Erika Pollmann	Germany	24.4 s	24.44 s
5	Makiko Izawa	Japan	25.4 s	k. A.
6th	Delceita Oakley	Panama	26.2 s
7th	Yeh Chu-mei	Taiwan	27.1 s

Semifinals

Date: October 18, 1964, from 2:25 p.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 14 ° C, humidity approx. 97%

Run 1

Wind: +0.91 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Edith McGuire	United States	23.3 s	23.37 s
2	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	23.6 s	23.62 s
3	Janet Simpson	Great Britain	23.7 s	23.75 s
4th	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.0 s	24.01 s
5	Margaret Burvill	Australia	24.3 s	k. A.
6th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	24.5 s
7th	Joyce Bennett	Australia	24.7 s
DSQ	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba

Run 2

Wind: +3.24 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Marilyn Black	Australia	23.4 s	23.42 s
2	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	23.7 s	23.74 s
3	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.7 s	23.77 s
4th	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.7 s	23.78 s
5	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.7 s	23.78 s
6th	Doreen Porter	New Zealand	24.0 s	24.03 s
7th	Heilwig Jacob	Germany	24.1 s	24.10 s
8th	Vivian Brown	United States	24.3 s	24.39 s

final

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Edith McGuire	United States	23.0 s	23.05 s	OR
2	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	23.1 s	23.13 s
3	Marilyn Black	Australia	23.1 s	23.18 s
4th	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.5 s	23.58 s
5	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	23.5 s	23.59 s
6th	Barbara Sobotta	Poland	23.9 s	23.97 s
7th	Janet Simpson	Great Britain	23.9 s	23.98 s
8th	Daphne Arden	Great Britain	24.0 s	24.01 s

Date: October 19, 1964, 2:40 p.m.

Wind: +0.80 m / s

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 19 ° C, humidity approx. 40%

In the final, Australian Marilyn Black took the lead after a very good start, but US runner Edith McGuire quickly came up. When it went into the home stretch, McGuire was clearly ahead and defended her lead to the finish. After finishing second over 100 meters, she was now Olympic champion. Behind her there was a close fight for the silver medal between the Polish Irena Kirszenstein and Marilyn Black, which the Polish narrowly won.

The times in this race were excellent. Edith McGuire improved Wilma Rudolph's Olympic record by two tenths of a second. Irena Kirszenstein and Marilyn Black also stayed below this record. The winner only missed the world record by a tenth of a second.

Irena Kirszenstein won the first Polish medal 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, p. 297f

Web links

• SportsReference 200m , accessed October 29, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 90f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records, 200 m women , accessed on October 29, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 90f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 91 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 29, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 29, 2017