2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 200 metres explained

Event:	Girls' 200 metres
Competition:	2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Venue:	RSC Olimpiyskiy
Dates:	12 July (heats) 13 July (semifinal) 14 July (final)
Competitors:	56
Win Value:	22.92
Gold:	Irene Ekelund
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Ángela Tenorio
Silvernoc:	ECU
Bronze:	Ariana Washington
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2011
Next:	2015

The girls' 200 metres at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 12, 13 and 14 July.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Irene Ekelund	Ángela Tenorio	Ariana Washington

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best		22.58	New Orleans, United States	22 June 1992
Championship Record		22.99	Marrakech, Morocco	17 July 2005
World Youth Leading		23.18	Norwalk, United States	24 May 2013

Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) next 3 fastest (q) qualified.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			23.80	Q
2	8			24.30	Q
3	7			24.50	Q
4	6			24.69	SB
5	1			24.92	PB
6	5			25.19	PB
7	3			25.69
8	2			26.06

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			23.73	Q
2	8			23.85	Q, PB
3	5			24.61	Q, PB
4	6			24.61	q
5	4			24.65	q, PB
6	7			25.32
7	1			25.60
8	2			25.91

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			23.74	Q
2	7			23.78	Q, PB
3	1			24.78	Q, PB
4	5			24.79
5	8			25.03	PB
6	2			25.30
7	3			25.83
	4			DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8			23.02	Q, WYL
2	3			24.11	Q, PB
3	5			24.15	Q
4	4			24.58	q, PB
5	7			24.77
6	2			25.09	PB
7	6			25.09	PB
8	1			25.59

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			23.58	Q
2	7			24.24	Q, PB
3	8			24.40	Q, PB
4	6			24.74	PB
5	3			24.90
6	2			25.43	PB
7	5			25.62	PB
8	4			31.78

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			24.42	Q
2	8			24.43	Q, PB
3	5			24.54	Q, PB
4	7			24.68	PB
5	2			24.68	PB
6	1			25.32
7	6			25.63
	3			DNS

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			23.72	Q
2	2			24.35	Q
3	4			24.40	Q, PB
4	3			24.98
5	5			25.34
6	1			25.52
7	8			25.64
	7			DNS

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			23.19	Q
2	6			23.35	Q
3	3			23.75	q, PB
4	5			23.98	q, PB
5	8			24.06	PB
6	7			24.43
7	2			24.56	PB
8	1			24.81

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			23.72	Q
2	5			23.94	Q
3	4			24.01
4	7			24.34
5	6			24.65
6	8			25.05
7	2			25.07
8	1			25.36

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			23.56	Q
2	6			23.63	Q
3	4			24.13
4	5			24.54
5	1			24.76
6	7			25.08
	8			DQ
	2			DNS

Final

Wind: –0,1^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			22.92	CR, NJR, WYL
2	3			23.13	PB
3	5			23.20
4	8			23.44	PB
5	6			23.53
6	7			23.64
7	2			24.12
8	1			24.46

Notes and References

1. Web site: 200 Metres Girls - Round 1 . . 12 July 2013.
2. Web site: 200 Metres Girls - Semi-Final . . 13 July 2013.
3. Web site: 200 Metres Girls - Final . . 14 July 2013.