1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 200 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 47 athletes from 36 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | July 31, 1996 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 1, 1996 (semi-finals / final) |
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The women's 200-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 31 and August 1, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 47 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Marie-José Pérec from France . She won ahead of the Jamaican Merlene Ottey and the Nigerian Mary Onyali .
Melanie Paschke started for Germany and was eliminated in the semifinals.
The Swiss Mireille Donders failed in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1992 |
Gwen Torrence ( USA )
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21.81 s | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Merlene Ottey ( Jamaica )
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22.12 s | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European champion in 1994 |
Irina Priwalowa ( Russia )
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22.32 s | Helsinki 1994 |
| Pan American Champion 1995 |
Liliana Allen ( Cuba )
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22.73 s | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 |
Nancy McLeón ( Cuba )
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22.97 s | Guatemala City 1995 |
| South America Champion 1995 | Kátia Regina Santos ( Brazil )
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23.34 s | Manaus 1995 |
| Asian champion 1995 |
Susanthika Jayasinghe ( Sri Lanka )
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23.00 s | Jakarta 1995 |
| African champion 1996 | Georgette N'Koma ( Cameroon )
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23.1 s | Yaoundé 1996 |
| Oceania champion 1994 | Vaciseva Tavaga ( Fiji )
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24.37 s | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
| World record | 21.34 s |
Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA )
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Seoul , South Korea | September 29, 1988 |
| Olympic record | Final from Seoul , South Korea |
Preliminary round
Date: July 31, 1996
The athletes competed in a total of six preliminary runs. The first four female sprinters qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlette Guidry |
United States
|
22.37 s | |
| 2 | Mary Onyali |
 Nigeria
|
22.42 s | |
| 3 | Melanie Paschke |
 Germany
|
22.93 s | |
| 4th | Patricia Libia Rodríguez |
 Colombia
|
23.13 s | |
| 5 | Yan Jiankui |
 People's Republic of China
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23.21 s | |
| 6th | Myra Mayberry |
 Puerto Rico
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23.23 s | |
| 7th | Zlatka Georgieva |
 Bulgaria
|
24.05 s | |
| 8th | Laure Kuetey |
 Benin
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25.57 s |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dannette Young |
United States
|
22.65 s | |
| 2 | Melinda Gainsford-Taylor |
 Australia
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22.70 s | |
| 3 | Lucrécia Jardim |
 Portugal
|
22.95 s | |
| 4th | Viktoria Fomenko |
 Ukraine
|
23.18 s | |
| 5 | Sandra Myers |
 Spain
|
23.18 s | |
| 6th | Calister Ubah |
Nigeria
|
23.34 s | |
| 7th | Theodora Kyriakou |
.svg){kind=small} Cyprus
|
23.85 s | |
| 8th | Sylla M'Mah Touré |
 Guinea
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26.64 s |
Forward 3
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Together with her teammate, the shot putter Elvira Usurova, Maja Asarashvili was the first athlete from Georgia to compete for Georgia at the Olympic Games.
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juliet Cuthbert |
Jamaica
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23.03 s | |
| 2 | Irina Privaleova |
Russia
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23.16 s | |
| 3 | Cathy Freeman |
Australia
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23.25 s | |
| 4th | Sanna Hernesniemi |
 Finland
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23.35 s | |
| 5 | Mireille Donders |
 Switzerland
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23.52 s | |
| 6th | Maja Azarashvili |
.svg){kind=small} Georgia
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23.63 s | |
| 7th | Felipa Palacios |
Colombia
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24.12 s | |
| 8th | Lineo Shoai |
.svg){kind=small} Lesotho
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26.25 s |
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merlene Ottey |
Jamaica
|
22.92 s | |
| 2 | Katharine Merry |
 Great Britain
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23.14 s | |
| 3 | Monika Gatschewska |
Bulgaria
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23.30 s | |
| 4th | Heather Samuel |
 Antigua and Barbuda
|
23.34 s | |
| 5 | Ameerah Bello |
 American Virgin Islands
|
23.45 s | |
| 6th | You Xiujie |
People's Republic of China
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23.69 s | |
| 7th | Guilhermina da Cruz |
 Angola
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24.92 s | |
| DNS | Marina Trandenkowa |
Russia
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Forward 5
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galina Malschugina |
Russia
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22.63 s | |
| 2 | Chandra Sturrup |
 Bahamas
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22.63 s | |
| 3 | Beverly McDonald |
Jamaica
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23.04 s | |
| 4th | Shanna Pinusevych |
Ukraine
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23.15 s | |
| 5 | Simmone Jacobs |
Great Britain
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23.36 s | |
| 6th | Tamara Perry |
 Canada
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23.46 s | |
| 7th | Marina Živković |
;_Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_(2003%E2%80%932006).svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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23.51 s | |
| 8th | Kaltouma Nadjina |
 Chad
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24.47 s |
Forward 6
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
 France
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22.62 s | |
| 2 | Inger Miller |
United States
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22.74 s | |
| 3 | Alenka Bikar |
 Slovenia
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22.88 s | |
| 4th | Ekaterini Koffa |
 Greece
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23.09 s | |
| 5 | Natallia Safronnikava |
.svg){kind=small} Belarus
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23.14 s | |
| 6th | Savatheda Fynes |
Great Britain
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23.39 s | |
| 7th | Georgette N'Koma |
Cameroon
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23.68 s | |
| 8th | Lyudmila Dimitriadi |
 Uzbekistan
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24.88 s |
Quarter finals
Date: July 31, 1996
From the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes in each run qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlette Guidry |
United States
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22.51 s | |
| 2 | Chandra Sturrup |
Bahamas
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22.81 s | |
| 3 | Melinda Gainsford-Taylor |
Australia
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22.91 s | |
| 4th | Natallia Safronnikava |
Belarus
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23.15 s | |
| 5 | Sanna Hernesniemi |
Finland
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23.38 s | |
| 6th | Monika Gatschewska |
Bulgaria
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23.44 s | |
| 7th | Ameerah Bello |
American Virgin Islands
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23.66 s | |
| DNS | Beverly McDonald |
Jamaica
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Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merlene Ottey |
Jamaica
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22.61 s | |
| 2 | Galina Malschugina |
Russia
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22.69 s | |
| 3 | Melanie Paschke |
Germany
|
22.84 s | |
| 4th | Ekaterini Koffa |
Greece
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23.04 s | |
| 5 | Katharine Merry |
Great Britain
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23.17 s | |
| 6th | Savatheda Fynes |
Bahamas
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23.26 s | |
| 7th | Yan Jiankui |
People's Republic of China
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23.30 s | |
| 8th | Viktoria Fomenko |
Ukraine
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23.44 s |
Run 3
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
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22.24 s | |
| 2 | Mary Onyali |
Nigeria
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22.37 s | |
| 3 | Inger Miller |
United States
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22.57 s | |
| 4th | Cathy Freeman |
Australia
|
22.74 s | |
| 5 | Lucrécia Jardim |
Portugal
|
22.88 s | |
| 6th | Simmone Jacobs |
Great Britain
|
22.96 s | |
| 7th | Sandra Myers |
Spain
|
23.20 s | |
| 8th | Heather Samuel |
Antigua and Barbuda
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23.54 s |
Run 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dannette Young |
United States
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22.53 s | |
| 2 | Juliet Cuthbert |
Jamaica
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22.62 s | |
| 3 | Irina Privaleova |
Russia
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22.82 s | |
| 4th | Alenka Bikar |
Slovenia
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22.89 s | |
| 5 | Myra Mayberry |
Puerto Rico
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22.89 s | |
| 6th | Patricia Libia Rodríguez |
Colombia
|
23.50 s | |
| 7th | Calister Ubah |
Nigeria
|
23.62 s | |
| 8th | Shanna Pinusevych |
Ukraine
|
23.68 s |
Semifinals
Date: August 1, 1996
From the two semi-finals, the first four runners qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
|
22.07 s | |
| 2 | Mary Onyali |
Nigeria
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22.16 s | |
| 3 | Juliet Cuthbert |
Bahamas
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22.24 s | |
| 4th | Inger Miller |
United States
|
22.33 s | |
| 5 | Dannette Young |
United States
|
22.49 s | |
| 6th | Cathy Freeman |
Australia
|
22.78 s | |
| 7th | Natallia Safronnikava |
Belarus
|
22.98 s | |
| DNS | Irina Privaleova |
Russia
|
injury |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merlene Ottey |
Jamaica
|
22.08 s | |
| 2 | Galina Malschugina |
Russia
|
22.35 s | |
| 3 | Chandra Sturrup |
Bahamas
|
22.54 s | |
| 4th | Carlette Guidry |
United States
|
22.56 s | |
| 5 | Melinda Gainsford-Taylor |
Australia
|
22.76 s | |
| 6th | Melanie Paschke |
Germany
|
22.81 s | |
| 7th | Alenka Bikar |
Slovenia
|
22.82 s | |
| 8th | Ekaterini Koffa |
Greece
|
23.20 s |
final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
|
22.12 s | |
| 2 | Merlene Ottey |
Jamaica
|
22.24 s | |
| 3 | Mary Onyali |
Nigeria
|
22.38 s | |
| 4th | Inger Miller |
United States
|
22.41 s | |
| 5 | Galina Malschugina |
Russia
|
22.45 s | |
| 6th | Chandra Sturrup |
Bahamas
|
22.54 s | |
| 7th | Juliet Cuthbert |
Jamaica
|
22.60 s | |
| 8th | Carlette Guidry |
United States
|
22.61 s |
Date: August 1, 1996
Wind: +0.3 m / s
Two American and two Jamaicans each qualified for the final. They met one starter each from the Bahamas, France, Nigeria and Russia.
The Jamaican world champion Merlene Ottey was the favorite . The Russian European and vice world champion Irina Priwalowa was unable to contest her semi-finals due to an injury and was therefore not in the final. Perhaps the greatest competitor, the French Marie-José Pérec, actually more of a 400-meter specialist - she was the reigning world champion on this route - dared the double start in Atlanta . A few days earlier, she had already won gold over 400 meters . Another medal candidate was the Russian World Cup third Galina Maltschugina.
Ottey had the best start and led the field in the corner. But overall it was very tight. At the beginning of the home stretch the gaps were so small that almost all runners were still eligible for the medals. Not much changed over the next fifty meters either. But then Ottey broke away a little from her rivals and it almost looked like a victory for her. Her compatriot Inger Miller was closest to her. In the last twenty-five meters, Marie-José Pérec came up very strongly and pulled past all the runners in front of her to the Olympic victory. Merlene Ottey stayed ahead of the surprisingly strong Nigerian Mary Onyali , just like over 100 meters silver. In fourth place, Inger Miller, who was declining in the end, crossed the finish line ahead of Galina Maltschugina and Chandra Sturrup from the Bahamas, who was fourth in the 100 meters.
Marie-José Pérec was the first French Olympic champion over 200 meters . After Valerie Brisco-Hooks in 1984, she was only the second woman to become a double winner in the 200 and 400 meters. Ten minutes after her, the American Michael Johnson also succeeded .
Mary Onyali was the first Nigerian medalist.
Merlene Ottey, who competed in her fifth Olympic Games, won the fourth medal in the discipline, making her the most successful athlete in terms of the number of medals won. She had won bronze in 1980 , 1984 and 1992 , only the Olympic gold was denied to her in her career.
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (Ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 45– 47
Web links
- SportsReference 200m , accessed March 6, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 71f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
Video
- Women's 200m Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on March 6, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , pp. 71f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
- ↑ a b c Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 72, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018
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