1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 200 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 36 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
| Competition phase | October 17, 1968 (preliminary / semi-finals) October 18, 1968 (final) |
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The women's 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 17 and 18, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 36 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Irena Szewińska from Poland . She won with a new world record time ahead of Australians Raelene Boyle and Jennifer Lamy .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - started Jutta Stöck , Rita Wilden and Halina Herrmann , who had participated in the 1960 and 1964 as Halina Górecka for Poland. Wilden and Herrmann were eliminated in the preliminary stages. Stöck reached the final, in which she was eighth and last.
Runners from the GDR - officially East Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
| World record | 22.7 s |
Irena Kirszenstein ( Poland )
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Warsaw , Poland | August 8, 1965 |
| Olympic record | 23.0 s |
Edith McGuire ( USA )
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Tokyo finals , Japan | October 19, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of five heats on October 17th. The three best runners as well as the subsequent best time made it to the semi-finals, which took place on the same day. Here the first four runners qualified for the final on October 18th.
Time schedule
October 17, 10 a.m .: Preliminary
October 17, 4 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 18, 3:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: October 17, 1968, from 10 a.m.
Forward 1
Wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyudmila Samotyosova |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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23.1 s | 23.16 s | |
| 2 | Margaret Bailes |
United States
|
23.1 s | 23.17 s | |
| 3 | Nicole Montandon |
 France
|
23.3 s | 23.34 s | |
| 4th | Marijana Lubej |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
23.9 s | 23.96 s | |
| 5 | Eva Glesková |
 Czechoslovakia
|
24.0 s | 24.08 s | |
| 6th | Györgyi Balogh |
 Hungary
|
24.1 s | 24.15 s | |
| 7th | Tien Ah-mei |
 Taiwan
|
25.5 s | 25.53 s |
Forward 2
Wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raelene Boyle |
 Australia
|
23.0 s | 23.09 s | ORe |
| 2 | Vera Popkova |
Soviet Union
|
23.3 s | 23.40 s | |
| 3 | Truus Hennipman |
 Netherlands
|
23.4 s | 23.43 s | |
| 4th | Lillian Board |
 Great Britain
|
23.4 s | 23.49 s | |
| 5 | Irene Piotrowski |
 Canada
|
23.7 s | 23.74 s | |
| 6th | Vilma Charlton |
 Jamaica
|
24.3 s | 24.39 s | |
| 7th | Josefa Vicent |
 Uruguay
|
24.8 s | 24.89 s | |
| 8th | Yeh Chu-mei |
Taiwan
|
25.5 s | 25.55 s |
Forward 3
Wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbara Ferrell |
United States
|
22.9 s | 22.94 s | OR |
| 2 | Jennifer Lamy |
Australia
|
23.1 s | 23.19 s | |
| 3 | Jutta Stöck |
.svg){kind=small} BR Germany
|
23.3 s | 23.37 s | |
| 4th | Wilma van Gool |
Netherlands
|
23.5 s | 23.54 s | |
| 5 | Maureen Tranter |
Great Britain
|
23.5 s | 23.58 s | |
| 6th | Lyudmila Golomassova |
Soviet Union
|
23.7 s | 23.73 s | |
| 7th | Alice Annum |
 Ghana
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23.9 s | 23.95 s | |
| 8th | Karin Wallgren |
 Sweden
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24.7 s | 24.62 s |
Forward 4
Wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyomia Tyus |
United States
|
23.4 s | 23.46 s | |
| 2 | Dianne Burge |
Australia
|
23.6 s | 23.69 s | |
| 3 | Fulgencia Romay |
 Cuba
|
23.7 s | 23.71 s | |
| 4th | Oyeronke Akindele |
 Nigeria
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23.9 s | 23.91 s | |
| 5 | Alicia Kaufmanas |
 Argentina
|
24.4 s | 24.57 s | |
| 6th | Halina Herrmann |
BR Germany
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24.7 s | 24.62 s |
Forward 5
Wind: 0.0 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irena Szewińska |
Poland
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23.2 s | 23.21 s | |
| 2 | Miguelina Cobián |
Cuba
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23.4 s | 23.50 s | |
| 3 | Una Morris |
Jamaica
|
23.7 s | 23.80 s | |
| 4th | Sylviane Telliez |
France
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23.8 s | 23.84 s | |
| 5 | Mieke Sterk |
Netherlands
|
24.0 s | 24.01 s | |
| 6th | Rita Wilden |
BR Germany
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24.0 s | 24.02 s | |
| 7th | Esperanza Girón |
 Mexico
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25.3 s | 25.32 s |
Semifinals
Date: October 17, 1968, from 4 p.m.
Run 1
Wind: 0.0 m / s
The Cuban Fulgencia Romay qualified for the semi-finals did not appear.
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raelene Boyle |
Australia
|
22.9 s | 22.95 s | ORe |
| 2 | Wyomia Tyus |
United States
|
23.1 s | 23.14 s | |
| 3 | Irena Szewińska |
Poland
|
23.2 s | 23.21 s | |
| 4th | Jutta Stöck |
BR Germany
|
23.4 s | 23.41 s | |
| 5 | Lyudmila Samotyosova |
Soviet Union
|
23.4 s | 23.52 s | |
| 6th | Lillian Board |
Great Britain
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23.4 s | 23.52 s | |
| 7th | Dianne Burge |
Australia
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23.6 s | 23.65 s |
Run 2
Wind: +1.7 m / s
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbara Ferrell |
United States
|
22.8 s | 22.87 s | OR |
| 2 | Jennifer Lamy |
Australia
|
22.8 s | 22.89 s | |
| 3 | Margaret Bailes |
United States
|
22.9 s | 22.95 s | |
| 4th | Nicole Montandon |
France
|
23.0 s | 23.02 s | |
| 5 | Vera Popkova |
Soviet Union
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23.2 s | 23.28 s | |
| 6th | Miguelina Cobián |
Cuba
|
23.3 s | 23.39 s | |
| 7th | Una Morris |
Jamaica
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23.5 s | 23.59 s | |
| 8th | Truus Hennipman |
Netherlands
|
23.5 s | 23.60 s |
final
| space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irena Szewińska |
Poland
|
22.5 s | 22.58 s | WR |
| 2 | Raelene Boyle |
Australia
|
22.7 s | 22.74 s | |
| 3 | Jennifer Lamy |
Australia
|
22.8 s | 22.88 s | |
| 4th | Barbara Ferrell |
United States
|
22.9 s | 22.93 s | |
| 5 | Nicole Montandon |
France
|
23.0 s | 23.08 s | |
| 6th | Wyomia Tyus |
United States
|
23.0 s | 23.08 s | |
| 7th | Margaret Bailes |
United States
|
23.1 s | 23.18 s | |
| 8th | Jutta Stöck |
BR Germany
|
23.2 s | 23.25 s |
Date: October 18, 1968, 3:30 p.m.
Wind: +2.0 m / s
The top favorite was Irena Szewińska from Poland, a silver medalist from Tokyo in 1964 and European champion from 1966 , who had set the existing world record under her maiden name Kirszenstein .
In the final, the Olympic champion over 100 meters , the US runner Wyomia Tyus, started the best and was still at the front of the field at the end of the finish curve. But on the home stretch it was passed by five runners one after the other. Irena Szewińska was now at the front, who won the race by two meters. The other medals went surprisingly to the two Australians: Silver for the 17-year-old Raelene Boyle and bronze for Jennifer Lamy. The runner-up in the 100-meter run, Barbara Ferrell from the USA, was only a tenth of a second behind in fourth place in front of French Nicole Montandon. For the first time in the history of this discipline, the first four athletes stayed under 23 seconds.
Irena Szewińska ran for the first Polish Olympic victory over 200 meters .
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 380–382
Video
- 200m.WR-Irena Szewińska: 1968 Olympic Games, Mexico City , published on May 1, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on November 10, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 200 m , accessed November 10, 2017
- Official report - summary pp. 54–56, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 534, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 640 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 10f, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ a b c Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 10, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 10, 2017
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