1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 200 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 29 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Luzhniki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 28, 1980 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 30, 1980 (semi-finals / final) |
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The 200-meter run for women at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 28 and 30, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 41 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Bärbel Wöckel from the GDR, who was able to repeat her Olympic victory from 1976 - at that time under her name Bärbel Eckert. She won ahead of Natalja Botschina from the Soviet Union and the Jamaican Merlene Ottey .
In addition to the winner Wöckel, Romy Müller started for the GDR. She also reached the final and was fourth.
The Swiss Brigitte Senglaub was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Existing records
World record | 21.71 s | Marita Koch ( GDR ) | Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany ) | June 10, 1979 |
Olympic record | 22.40 s | Renate Stecher ( GDR ) | Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany ) | 7th September 1972 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in six heats on July 28th. The three best runners and the following six fastest made it to the quarter-finals on the same day. There the five best runners as well as the following fastest qualified for the semi-finals on July 30th. From this, the four best runners reached the final, which took place on the same day.
Time schedule
July 28, 11.35 a.m .: Preliminaries
July 28, 7.45 p.m .: Quarter-finals
July 30th, 6.20 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 30th, 8.20 p.m . : Final
Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
Preliminary round
Date: July 28, 1980, from 11.35 a.m.
Forward 1
Wind: +0.92 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Romy Müller | GDR | 23.11 s | |
2 | Lilijana Panayotova | Bulgaria | 23.17 s | |
3 | Rufina Ubah | Nigeria | 23.36 s | |
4th | Brigitte Senglaub | Switzerland | 23.62 s | |
5 | Eugenia Osho-Williams | Sierra Leone | 25.87 s | |
DNS | Helinä Laihorinne | Finland | ||
Deborah Wells | Australia |
Forward 2
Wind: +0.84 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jacqueline Pusey | Jamaica | 23.39 s | |
2 | Chantal Rega | France | 23.49 s | |
3 | Karin Verguts | Belgium | 23.89 s | |
4th | Carmela Bolívar | Peru | 25.33 s | |
5 | Trần Thị Ngọc Anh | Vietnam | 26.83 s | |
DNS | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | Soviet Union | ||
Karoline Beetle | Austria |
Forward 3
Wind: +0.11 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Natalia Botschina | Soviet Union | 23.28 s | |
2 | Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 23.55 s | |
3 | Irén Orosz | Hungary | 23.69 s | |
4th | Marisa Masullo | Italy | 24.00 s | |
5 | Mosi Alli | Tanzania | 24.99 s | |
6th | Estella Meheux | Sierra Leone | 26.77 s |
Forward 4
Wind: +0.11 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 23.35 s | |
2 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 23.36 s | |
3 | Raymonde Naigre | France | 23.50 s | |
4th | Elżbieta Stachurska | Poland | 23.58 s | |
5 | Lea Alaerts | Belgium | 24.51 s | |
6th | Boualong Boungnavong | Laos | 30.42 s | |
DNS | Xiomara Larios | Nicaragua |
Forward 5
Wind: +0.27 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 23.49 s | |
2 | Bärbel Wöckel | GDR | 23.55 s | |
3 | Linda Haglund | Sweden | 23.85 s | |
4th | Nzaeli Kyomo | Tanzania | 24.22 s | |
5 | Ruth Enang Mesode | Cameroon | 25.46 s | |
6th | Elizabeth de Létourdie | Seychelles | 26.91 s | |
DNS | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia |
Forward 6
Wind: +0.18 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 22.70 s | |
2 | Kathryn Smallwood | Great Britain | 23.15 s | |
3 | Galina Entheva | Bulgaria | 23.35 s | |
4th | Els Vader | Netherlands | 23.50 s | |
5 | Françoise Damado | Senegal | 24.45 s | |
6th | Nicoleta Lia | Romania | 24.54 s | |
7th | PT Usha | India | 25.16 s |
Quarter finals
Date: July 28, 1980, from 7.45 p.m.
Run 1
Wind: +0.04 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kathryn Smallwood | Great Britain | 22.95 s | |
2 | Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 23.24 s | |
3 | Lilijana Panayotova | Bulgaria | 23.29 s | |
4th | Jacqueline Pusey | Jamaica | 23.35 s | |
5 | Els Vader | Netherlands | 23.67 s | |
6th | Irén Orosz | Hungary | 23.68 s | |
7th | Karin Verguts | Belgium | 24.00 s | |
8th | Françoise Damado | Senegal | 24.80 s |
Run 2
Wind: +0.07 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 22.82 s | |
2 | Bärbel Wöckel | GDR | 22.86 s | |
3 | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 22.97 s | |
4th | Chantal Rega | France | 23.29 s | |
5 | Galina Entheva | Bulgaria | 23.37 s | |
6th | Rufina Ubah | Nigeria | 23.55 s | |
7th | Marisa Mesullo | Italy | 23.74 s | |
8th | Brigitte Senglaub | Switzerland | 23.84 s |
Run 3
Wind: +0.88 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Natalia Botschina | Soviet Union | 22.26 s | OR |
2 | Romy Müller | GDR | 22.55 s | |
3 | Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 22.84 s | |
4th | Linda Haglund | Sweden | 22.90 s | |
5 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 22.91 s | |
6th | Raymonde Neigre | France | 23.10 s | |
7th | Elżbieta Stachurska | Poland | 23.11 s | |
8th | Nzaeli Kyomo | Tanzania | 24.59 s |
Semifinals
Date: July 30, 1980, from 6:20 p.m.
Run 1
Wind: +0.87 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 22.32 s | |
2 | Bärbel Wöckel | GDR | 22.54 s | |
3 | Kathryn Smallwood | Great Britain | 22.65 s | |
4th | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 22.73 s | |
5 | Chantal Rega | France | 22.87 s | |
6th | Linda Haglund | Sweden | 23.11 s | |
7th | Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 23.27 s | |
8th | Galina Entheva | Bulgaria | 23.27 s |
Run 2
Wind: +0.98 m / s
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Romy Müller | GDR | 22.72 s | |
2 | Natalia Botschina | Soviet Union | 22.75 s | |
3 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 22.80 s | |
4th | Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 22.82 s | |
5 | Jacqueline Pusey | Jamaica | 22.90 s | |
6th | Lilijana Panayotova | Bulgaria | 23.07 s | |
7th | Raymonde Naigre | France | 23.18 s | |
8th | Els Vader | Netherlands | 23.44 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bärbel Wöckel | GDR | 22.03 s | OR |
2 | Natalia Botschina | Soviet Union | 22.19 s | |
3 | Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | 22.20 s | |
4th | Romy Müller | GDR | 22.47 s | |
5 | Kathryn Smallwood | Great Britain | 22.61 s | |
6th | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 22.72 s | |
7th | Denise Boyd | Australia | 22.76 s | |
8th | Sonia Lannaman | Great Britain | 22.80 s |
Date: July 30, 1980, 8:20 p.m.
Wind: +1.46 m / s
The actual favorites did not take part. The world record holder Marita Koch only competed over 400 meters , the 1978 European champion Lyudmila Kondratjewa , Olympic champion over 100 meters , had to cancel due to injury. And vice European champion Marlies Göhr only competed in her actual special discipline, the 100-meter run, in which she won the silver medal here. The US runner Evelyn Ashford could not participate because of the US boycott. The only remaining favorite was the 1976 Olympic champion Bärbel Wöckel - at that time under her name Bärbel Eckert. Promising contenders for further medals included Wöckel's team mate Romy Müller, Merlene Ottey from Jamaica, Natalja Botschina, USSR, and the three British runners who made it to the final.
The race then turned out to be more exciting than perhaps expected. Botschina, Müller, Ottey and Wöckel came out of the curve pretty much on par, who had to run on the unfavorable inner lane. On the home stretch, however, Bärbel Wöckel clearly prevailed and won the gold medal with a new Olympic record time . Until shortly before the finish, Ottey was still in second place, but was caught by Natalja Botschina, who took silver with a hundredth of a second ahead of Merlene Ottey. Romy Müller was fourth ahead of Kathryn Smallwood, later Kathy Cook.
Bärbel Wöckel won the third GDR Olympic victory in a row in this discipline. She personally repeated her success over this distance from the previous Olympic Games, which no other athlete had achieved before her.
Merlene Ottey won the first Jamaican women's 200 meter medal .
Web links
- SportsReference 200 m ,
- Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 72f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 1, 2018
Video
- 1980 Moscow Olympics Womens 200m , published May 19, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 641 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 1, 2018
- ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 1, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 73, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 1, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 1, 2018