2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	43 athletes from 33 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 23, 2004 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) August 24, 2004 (semi-finals / final)
Medalists Veronica Campbell-Brown ( JAM )   Allyson Felix ( USA )   Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie ( BAH )

The women's 200-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 23 and 24, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

The Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Americans Allyson Felix and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie from the Bahamas.

The Austrian Karin Mayr-Krifka was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Pauline Davis-Thompson ( Bahamas )	22.27 s	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Anastassija Kapatschinskaja ( Russia )	22.38 s	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Muriel Hurtis ( France )	22.43 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Roxana Díaz ( Cuba )	22.69 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Cydonie Mothersille ( Cayman Islands )	22.45 s	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Digna Luz Murillo ( Colombia )	23.13 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Lyubov Perepelowa ( Uzbekistan )	23.11 s	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Geraldine Pillay ( South Africa )	23.18 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Makalesi Bulikiobo ( Fiji )	24.21 s	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

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

Characters and abbreviations

Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

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 sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

August 23, 2004, 11:00 a.m.

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.59
2	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.09
3	LaShauntea Moore	United States	23.10
4th	Lucimar de Moura	Brazil	23.40
5	Heide Seyerling	South Africa	23.66
6th	Monika Gatschewska	Bulgaria	23.71

Forward 2

Despite her Lebanese record, Gretta Taslakian did not survive the sixth place in her race

August 23, 2004, 11:08 am

Wind: +1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	22.88
2	Sylviane Félix	France	22.94
3	Ekaterina Kondratyeva	Russia	23.03
4th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.28
5	Lyubov Perepelova	Uzbekistan	24.10
6th	Gretta Taslakian	Lebanon	24.30	NO

Forward 3

August 23, 2004, 11:16 am

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	22.40	NO
2	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.90
3	Jelena Bolsun	Russia	23.00
4th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.15
5	Saraswati Saha	India	23.43
6th	Gcinile Moyane	Swaziland	25.62	NO

Forward 4

August 23, 2004, 11:24 a.m.

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allyson Felix	United States	22.39
2	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	22.50
3	Marina Majdanova	Ukraine	22.76
4th	Muriel Hurtis	France	22.77
5	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	22.81
6th	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	23.37
7th	Gladys Thompson	Liberia	27.51

Forward 5

August 23, 2004, 11:32 a.m.

Wind: +2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Muna Lee	United States	22.57
2	Tatiana Levina	Russia	23.05
3	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	23.20
4th	Marilia Gregoriou	Cyprus	23.23
5	Emma Wade	Belize	23.43
6th	Michelle Banga Moudzoula	Republic of the Congo	24.37

Forward 6

August 23, 2004, 11:40 a.m.

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	22.73
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.76
3	Olga Kaidantzi	Greece	23.11
4th	Fabienne Feraez	Benin	23.12	NRe
5	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.45
6th	Kadiatou Camara	Mali	23.56

Forward 7

August 23, 2004, 11:48 a.m.

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.57
2	Christine Arron	France	22.60
3	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	22.72	NO
4th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	22.87
5	Digna Luz Murillo	Colombia	22.98
6th	Anna Guzowska	Poland	23.00

Quarter finals

The first three athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified sprinters are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

The Brazilian Lucimar de Moura reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated there in eighth of their run

August 23, 2004, 8:25 pm

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.49
2	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.53
3	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.68
4th	LaShauntea Moore	United States	22.96
5	Sylviane Félix	France	23.08
6th	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette	American Virgin Islands	23.09
7th	Karin Mayr-Krifka	Austria	23.19
8th	Lucimar de Moura	Brazil	23.44

Run 2

The French Muriel Hurtis did not reach the next round as sixth of her quarter-finals

August 23, 2004, 8:31 pm

Wind: −0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Muna Lee	United States	22.74
2	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	22.97
3	Olga Kaidantzi	Greece	23.15
4th	Digna Luz Murillo	Colombia	23.19
5	Tatiana Levina	Russia	23.23
6th	Muriel Hurtis	France	23.33
7th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.38
8th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.63

Run 3

August 23, 2004, 8:37 pm

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allyson Felix	United States	22.69
2	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	22.79
3	Marina Majdanova	Ukraine	22.86
4th	Christine Arron	France	22.90
5	Fabienne Feraez	Benin	23.24
6th	Jelena Bolsun	Russia	23.26
7th	Marilia Gregoriou	Cyprus	23.65
8th	Mary Onyali-Omagbemi	Nigeria	23.75

Run 4

August 23, 2004, 8:43 pm

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	22.76
2	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	22.81
3	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	22.99
4th	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia	23.07
5	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	23.30
6th	Anna Pacholak	Poland	23.35
7th	Ekaterina Kondratyeva	Russia	23.37
8th	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.44

Semifinals

The French Christine Arron was eliminated in seventh place in her semi-final race

The Jamaican Merlene Ottey, who starts here for Slovenia, did not reach the goal in the semifinals and was eliminated

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

Run 1

August 24, 2004, 10:05 p.m.
Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Allyson Felix	United States	22.36
2	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	22.56
3	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	22.56
4th	Muna Lee	United States	22.69
5	Marina Majdanova	Ukraine	22.75
6th	Beverly McDonald	Jamaica	23.02
7th	Christine Arron	France	23.05
DNF	Merlene Ottey	Slovenia

Run 2

August 24, 2004, 10:13 pm

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.13
2	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	22.33
3	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.48	NO
4th	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.49
5	Cydonie Mothersille	Cayman Islands	22.76
6th	LaShauntea Moore	United States	22.93
7th	Sylviane Félix	France	22.99
8th	Olga Kaidantzi	Greece	23.30

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	22.05
2	Allyson Felix	United States	22.18
3	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	Bahamas	22.30
4th	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	22.42
5	Ivet Lalowa	Bulgaria	22.57
6th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	22.84
7th	Muna Lee	United States	22.87
8th	Abiodun Oyepitan	Great Britain	22.87

August 25, 2004, 11:20 pm

Wind: +0.8 m / s

Two Jamaicans and two Americans had qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from the Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria and Great Britain.

The favorite was the Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, who had been unbeaten on this track for four years. During this time, however, she had never participated in major international championships at the continental or world level. The 18-year-old American Allyson Felix was seen as her strongest challenger. The sprinters who were still successful at the last World Championships were not even at the start here in Athens or were no longer in the good shape of the previous year. The Jamaican Merlene Ottey, who starts for Slovenia and is by far the oldest participant at the age of 44, failed to qualify for the final in her seventh participation in the Olympic Games.

Like over 100 meters , there was an extremely close race at first. At the halfway point of the race, five runners were almost at the same height and the three other sprinters followed at very short intervals. In the last fifty meters, the two favorites separated more and more from their opponents. Finally, Veronica Campbell-Brown won in 22.05 s and was 13 hundredths of a second ahead of Allyson Felix, who set a new junior world record with 22.18 s. Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie from the Bahamas took bronze, 12 hundredths of a second behind Felix. Another 12 hundredths of a second back followed the Jamaican Aleen Bailey in fourth in front of the 100-meter fourth Iwet Lalowa from Bulgaria and the Belgian Vice European Champion Kiem Gevaert.

Veronica Campbell-Brown was Jamaica's first ever Olympic champion in the women's 200-meter run .

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  Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica

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  Silver medalist Allyson Felix, USA

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  Bronze medalist Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas

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  Jamaican Olympic champion Aleen Bailey

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  Bulgarian Iwet Lalowa took fifth place in the final

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  Kim Gevaert from Belgium came in sixth in the final

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed May 6, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 6, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 6, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's 200M - Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games , published March 3, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed May 6, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on May 6, 2018