2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	52 athletes from 36 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) September 28, 2000 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists Pauline Davis-Thompson ( BAH )   Susanthika Jayasinghe ( SRI )   Beverly McDonald ( JAM )

The women's 200-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 28, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 52 athletes took part.

The American Marion Jones had won the final race. Because of doping abuse , the IOC revoked her Olympic victory in 2007 . The previous runner-up Pauline Davis-Thompson from the Bahamas was declared the new Olympic champion and all other finalists also moved up one position. Silver went to Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka. The bronze medal was awarded to the Jamaican Beverly McDonald .

The German Sabrina Mulrain reached the quarter-finals, in which she was eliminated as the last of her run. The Swiss Mireille Donders and the Austrian Karin Mayr failed in the preliminary round. Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Marie-José Pérec ( France )	22.12 s	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Inger Miller ( USA )	21.77 s	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Irina Priwalowa ( Russia )	22.62 s	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie ( Bahamas )	22.83 s	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Katia Benth ( French Guiana )	22.87 s	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Lucimar de Moura ( Brazil )	22.60 s	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Damayanthi Dharsha ( Sri Lanka )	22.84 s	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Myriam Léonie Mani ( Cameroon )	22.54 s	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Nicola Morris ( New Zealand )	25.14 s	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner ( USA )	Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
Olympic record			Final from Seoul , South Korea

Note: All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of seven preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, 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

September 27, 2000, 11:09 am

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marion Jones	United States	22.75
2	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	22.78
3	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	23.08
4th	Oksana Ekk	Russia	23.17
5	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	23.21
6th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.26
7th	Monica Twum	Ghana	23.51

Forward 2

The Polish Zuzanna Radecka was eliminated in sixth place in her preliminary run

September 27, 2000, 11:15 a.m.

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	22.68
2	Muriel Hurtis	France	23.04
3	Cathy Freeman	Australia	23.11
4th	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	23.18
5	Sarah Reilly	Ireland	23.43
6th	Zuzanna Radecka	Poland	23.57
7th	Kaltouma Nadjina	Chad	23.81
8th	Hana Ali Salah	Yemen	30.46

Forward 3

September 27, 2000, 11:21 a.m.

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.07
2	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	23.14
3	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.18
4th	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.40
5	Ekaterini Koffa	Greece	25.53
6th	Dineo Shoal	Lesotho	25.57
DNS	Manuela Levorato	Italy
	Andrea Philipp	Germany

Forward 4

September 27, 2000, 11:27 a.m.

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	22.71
2	Louise Ayétotché	Ivory Coast	22.85	NO
3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	23.09
4th	Olena Pastuschenko-Sinyavina	Ukraine	23.64
5	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	23.83
6th	Karin Mayr	Austria	23.90
7th	Akonga Nsimbo	Democratic Republic of Congo	25.35	NO
DNF	Ameerah Bello	American Virgin Islands

Forward 5

September 27, 2000, 11:33 a.m.

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.50
2	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Bahamas	22.61
3	Irina Khabarova	Russia	23.21
4th	Valma Bass	St. Kitts and Nevis	23.37
5	Mireille Donders	Switzerland	23.44
6th	Liu Xiaomei	People's Republic of China	23.56
7th	Joanne Durant	Barbados	23.90
8th	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	24.44

Forward 6

September 27, 2000, 11:39 a.m.

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	22.90
2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	23.19
3	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.31
4th	Astia Walker	Jamaica	23.30
5	Samantha Davies	Great Britain	23.36
6th	Qin Wangping	People's Republic of China	24.10
7th	Mila Savic	Yugoslavia	24.12
8th	Monika Gatschewska	Bulgaria	24.16

Forward 7

September 27, 2000, 11:45 a.m.

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	22.53
2	Schanna block	Ukraine	23.13
3	Torri Edwards	United States	23.29
4th	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	23.31
5	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.36
6th	Aïda Diop	Senegal	23.46
7th	Hellena Wrappah	Ghana	23.64

Quarter finals

In each of the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

The Finnish Johanna Manninen was eliminated in the quarterfinals as sixth of her run

September 27, 2000, 6:55 pm

Wind: −0.2 m / s Cydonie Mothersille from the Cayman Islands, who qualified for the quarter-finals , did not take part.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.44
2	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Bahamas	22.72
3	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.75
4th	Nanceen Perry	United States	22.95
5	Marina Trandenkowa	Russia	23.10
6th	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.41
7th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.57

Run 2

Scene from the second quarter-finals (from left to right):
Bikar (SLO), Ekk (RUS), Bloch (UKR), Jones (USA), Nku (NGR), Gainsford-Taylor (AUS), Davies (GBR)

September 27, 2000, 7:01 pm

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	22.49
2	Marion Jones	United States	22.50
3	Schanna block	Ukraine	22.70
4th	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	22.95
5	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.01
6th	Oksana Ekk	Russia	23.17
7th	Samantha Davies	Great Britain	23.20
8th	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.24

Run 3

September 27, 2000, 7:07 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.72
2	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	22.88
3	Torri Edwards	United States	22.98
4th	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.98
5	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	23.03
6th	Irina Khabarova	Russia	23.27
7th	Olena Pastuschenko-Sinyavina	Ukraine	23.63
DNF	Astia Walker	Jamaica

Run 4

September 27, 2000, 7:13 pm

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	22.54
2	Louise Ayétotché	Ivory Coast	22.86
3	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.12
4th	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	23.19
5	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	23.21
6th	Fatima Yusuf	Nigeria	23.21
7th	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	23.34
8th	Valma Bass	St. Kitts and Nevis	23.57

Semifinals

The US semi-finalist Torri Edwards was eliminated there in sixth of her run

The French woman Muriel Hurtis reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in seventh place in her run

The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.

Run 1

September 28, 2000, 6:00 p.m.

Wind: −1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Marion Jones	United States	22.40
2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.62
3	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.70
4th	Schanna block	Ukraine	22.74
5	Felipa Palacios	Colombia	23.11
6th	Mercy Nku	Nigeria	23.40
7th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.44
8th	Myriam Léonie Mani	Cameroon	23.47

Run 2

September 28, 2000, 6:08 pm

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Bahamas	22.38
2	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	22.45
3	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	22.61
4th	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.71
5	Louise Ayétotché	Ivory Coast	22.76	NO
6th	Torri Edwards	United States	23.06
7th	Muriel Hurtis	France	23.13
8th	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.16

final

The American Marion Jones was the first to cross the finish line, but was later disqualified for a doping offense

September 28, 2000, 7:55 pm

Wind: +0.7 m / s

Two athletes from the Bahamas and two Australians qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the USA.

The clear favorite was the American Marion Jones, who had won the 100-meter run four days earlier . Candidates for the medals behind her were Vice World Champion Beverly McDonald from Jamaica, the World Cup fifth Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie from the Bahamas, the 1997 World Champion and Vice European Champion Schanna Block - formerly known under her name Schanna Pintussewytsch - from Ukraine and the 1997 Vice World Champion Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka.

With a clear lead, Jones came out of the starting curve in the final race. She increased her lead to almost half a second up to the finish. It was extremely close in the battle for placements behind her. At the beginning of the home stretch, several runners were almost tied. Finally, Pauline Davis-Thompson from the Bahamas prevailed and was a hundredth of a second ahead of Susanthika Jayasinghe. Beverly McDonald followed seven hundredths of a second in front of the two Australians Melinda Gainsford-Taylor and Cathy Freeman as well as Schanna Block. Freeman's big hour had struck three days earlier in the 400-meter final when she became Olympic champion there. Her home country was particularly behind her as a special advocate of Aboriginal issues in Australia.

This initially official order lasted for several years, but was not final because Jones had used unfair means.

In 2007, Marion Jones , who had been suspected of doping for a long time, confessed to taking tetrahydrogestrinone (GHG). A short time later, she admitted that she had been doped during the Sydney Games . In October 2007 she returned the medals she had won in Sydney. On 23 November 2007, she was the world athletics federation IAAF banned for two years. At the same time, its results were canceled retrospectively from September 1, 2000.

The IOC then decided to award the gold medal to the previous runner-up, Pauline Davies-Thompson. Susanthika Jayasinghe received the silver medal, bronze went to Beverly McDonald and all other finalists moved up one position each.

Pauline Davis-Thompson was the Bahamas' first ever Olympic champion in this discipline. After the gold medal of the yachtsmen Cecil Cooke and Durward Knowles in 1964 in Tokyo in the Star boat class , it was the second Olympic gold medal for the Bahamas in Olympic history.

Susanthika Jayasinghe was the first woman from Sri Lanka to win an Olympic medal. For the state of Sri Lanka it was the first medal win under this name. The hurdler Duncan White had won the silver medal in the 400 meter hurdles in 1948 . At that time, however, Sri Lanka was still called Ceylon (CEY).

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Pauline Davis-Thompson	Bahamas	22.27
2	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka	22.28	NO
3	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.35
4th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.37
5	Melinda Gainsford-Taylor	Australia	22.42
6th	Cathy Freeman	Australia	22.53
7th	Schanna block	Ukraine	22.66
DOP	Marion Jones	United States	21.84

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  Silver medalist Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka

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  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie from the Bahamas finished fourth in the final

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  The Australian Cathy Freeman was Olympic sixth

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  Schanna Block from Ukraine was Olympic seventh

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympics with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 58f - Publication before Marion Jones became aware of the doping rule violation

Web links

• SportsReference 200m , accessed April 4, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 4, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 4, 2018

Videos

• Marion Jones - 200m Final - Sydney 2000 , published April 25, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed April 4, 2018
• Marion Jones stripped of 5 Olympic medals after drug admission , published July 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed April 4, 2018
• Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use Prior to the 2000 Olympic Games , published October 4, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed April 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on April 4, 2018
2. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online from October 5, 2007 , accessed on April 4, 2018
3. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online from November 23, 2007 , accessed on April 4, 2018