1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 4, 1972 (preliminary / quarter-finals) September 7, 1972 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Renate Stecher ( GDR )   Raelene Boyle ( AUS )   Irena Szewińska ( POL )

The women's 200-meter run at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 4th and 7th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.

Renate Stecher from the GDR became Olympic champion . Like four years before, Australian Raelene Boyle won silver . Bronze went to Irena Szewińska from Poland .

In addition to the Olympic champion, Ellen Strophal and Christina Heinich also competed for the GDR. Both reached the final like engravers. Strophal was fourth, Heinich sixth.
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Annegret Kroniger and Christiane Krause started. Krause was eliminated in the semifinals, Kroniger qualified for the final, in which she was fifth.
The Austrian Karoline Käfer qualified for the quarter-finals, but was eliminated there.
Runners from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	22.4 s	Chi Cheng ( Taiwan )	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	July 12, 1970
Olympic record	22.5 s	Irena Szewińska ( Poland )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 18, 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in six preliminary runs on September 4th. The five best runners and the following two best times made it to the quarter-finals on the same day. The four best runners qualified for the semi-finals on September 7th. The four best runners from the preliminary races reached the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

September 4, 10.50 a.m .: Preliminaries
September 4, 4.20 p.m .: Quarter-finals
September 7th, 2.00 p.m .: Semi-finals
September 7th, 5.45 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: September 4, 1972, from 10:50 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.4 m / s The Argentine Irene Fitzner, who was registered for the run, did not start.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alice Annum	Ghana	23.15 s
2	Barbara Ferrell	United States	23.38 s
3	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	23.56 s
4th	Donna Murray	United Kingdom	21.16 s
5	Juana Mosquera	Colombia	24.20 s
6th	Carolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	24.68 s

Forward 2

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	German Democratic Republic	22.96 s
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	23.58 s
3	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	23.62 s
4th	Amelita Alanes	Philippines	25.28 s
5	Helen Olaye	Nigeria	25.30 s
6th	Mabel Saeluzika	Malawi	28.29 s
DNS	Carmen Valdés	Cuba

Forward 3

Wilma van Gool, Netherlands, former Wilma van den Berg

Wind: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.37 s
2	Wilma van Gool	Netherlands	23.86 s
3	Della Pascoe	United Kingdom	23.97 s
4th	Hannah Afriyie	Ghana	24.38 s
5	María Luisa Vilca	Peru	24.46 s
6th	Josefa Vicent	Uruguay	25.09 s
7th	Maes Kheng	Khmer Republic	25.86 s

Forward 4

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ellen Strophal	German Democratic Republic	23.54 s
2	Pam Greene	United States	23.96 s
3	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.99 s
4th	Pirjo Wilmi	Finland	24.16 s
5	Rose Musani	Uganda	25.37 s
6th	Laura Pierre	Trinidad and Tobago	26.32 s
DNS	Eva Glesková	Czechoslovakia

Forward 5

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.37 s
2	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.51 s
3	Jackie Thompson	United States	23.67 s
4th	Karoline Beetle	Austria	24.42 s
5	Russel Carrero	Nicaragua	28.02 s
DNS	Silvia Chivás	Cuba
	Claudette Powell	Bahamas

Forward 6

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	23.46 s
2	Sylviane Telliez	France	23.51 s
3	Christina Heinich	German Democratic Republic	23.90 s
4th	Margaret Critchley	United Kingdom	24.04 s
5	Marcia Trotman	Barbados	24.06 s
6th	Beatrice Lungu	Zambia	25.11 s
7th	Fatima El-Faquir	Morocco	25.27 s

Quarter finals

Date: September 4, 1972, from 4:20 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.79 s
2	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	23.20 s
3	Christina Heinich	German Democratic Republic	23.23 s
4th	Barbara Ferrell	United States	23.30 s
5	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.62 s
6th	Marcia Trotman	Barbados	24.00 s
7th	Amelita Alanes	Philippines	24.98 s
DNS	Josefa Vicent	Uruguay

Run 2

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ellen Strophal	German Democratic Republic	22.93 s
2	Alice Annum	Ghana	22.95 s
3	Wilma van Gool	Netherlands	23.22 s
4th	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.22 s
5	Della Pascoe	United Kingdom	23.72 s
6th	Juana Mosquera	Colombia	24.00 s
7th	María Luisa Vilca	Peru	24.48 s
8th	Rose Musani	Uganda	25.28 s

Run 3

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	German Democratic Republic	23.31 s
2	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	23.33 s
3	Sylviane Telliez	France	23.69 s
4th	Donna Murray	United Kingdom	23.69 s
5	Pam Greene	United States	23.85 s
6th	Karoline Beetle	Austria	23.92 s
7th	Hannah Afriyie	Ghana	24.47 s
DNS	Russel Carrero	Nicaragua

Run 4

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	23.06 s
2	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.14 s
3	Jackie Thompson	United States	23.22 s
4th	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	23.33 s
5	Pirjo Wilmi	Finland	23.68 s
6th	Margaret Critchley	United Kingdom	24.05 s
7th	Carolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	25.03 s
8th	Helen Olaye	Nigeria	25.09 s

Semifinals

Date: September 7, 1972, from 2 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ellen Strophal	German Democratic Republic	22.90 s
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	22.92 s
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.92 s
4th	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	23.14 s
5	Christiane Krause	BR Germany	23.17 s
6th	Jackie Thompson	United States	23.18 s
7th	Marina Sidorova	Soviet Union	23.40 s
DNS	Wilma van Gool	Netherlands

Run 2

Wind: 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	German Democratic Republic	22.83 s
2	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	23.03 s
3	Christina Heinich	German Democratic Republic	23.38 s
4th	Alice Annum	Ghana	23.30 s
5	Nadezhda Besfamilnaja	Soviet Union	23.31 s
6th	Sylviane Telliez	France	23.34 s
7th	Barbara Ferrell	United States	23.39 s
8th	Donna Murray	United Kingdom	24.03 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Renate Stecher	German Democratic Republic	22.40 s	WRe / OR
2	Raelene Boyle	Australia	22.45 s
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.74 s
4th	Ellen Strophal	German Democratic Republic	22.75 s
5	Annegret Kroniger	BR Germany	22.89 s
6th	Christina Heinich	German Democratic Republic	22.89 s
7th	Alice Annum	Ghana	22.99 s
8th	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	23.11 s

Date: September 7, 1972, 5.45 p.m.

Wind: +1.1 m / s

The world record holder Chi Cheng from Taiwan was injured in the spring and could not start in Munich . The favorite was the European champion from 1971 , Renate Stecher from the GDR, who had already become Olympic champion in the 100-meter run here . The Polish Olympic champion from 1968 , Irena Szewińska, and the Australian Raelene Boyle, winner of the British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and previously runner-up over 100 meters in Munich , were also highly rated .

In the final, Renate Stecher took the lead right after the start and was able to defend it until the end. Raelene Boyle made the race very tight and was close to the GDR sprinter on the home straight , but could not overtake her. The physically strong Irena Szewińska passed several competitors in the last 50 meters and won the bronze medal with a hundredth of a second ahead of Ellen Streidt, GDR, and Annegret Kroniger, BR Germany.

With her winning time, Renate Stecher Chi Chengs set an official world record rounded to tenths of a second and at the same time a new Olympic record . With the values ​​measured purely electronically and rounded to hundredths of a second, the winning time means not only setting the existing world record, but also setting a new world record.

Irena Szewińska won her third medal in this discipline and became the most successful athlete over 200 meters .

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 52f

Video

• 1972 Olympic 200m Women , published April 19, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed December 5, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 200m , accessed December 5, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , pp. 65f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 641 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 5 December 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 65, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 66, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 5, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 5, 2017