Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres explained

Event:	Women's 200 metres
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	Olympic Stadium
Date:	6–8 August
Competitors:	54
Nations:	39
Gold:	Allyson Felix
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Silvernoc:	JAM
Bronze:	Carmelita Jeter
Bronzenoc:	USA
Win Value:	21.88
Prev:	2008
Next:	2016

The Women's 200 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6–8 August.^[1] The winning margin was 0.21 seconds.

The times in the three semi-finals were very close, but while Allyson Felix appeared to put a minimum of effort to hold off Murielle Ahouré in heat two, in heat one Veronica Campbell Brown dipped at the finish to edge Carmelita Jeter and in heat three Sanya Richards-Ross raced Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to the line. Semoy Hackett set the Trinidad and Tobago national record as the first time qualifier, Myriam Soumaré only one hundredth behind as the other time qualifier in 22.56.

In the final Felix took lead through the turn and extended it to the finish. Campbell-Brown was second coming into the straight but was overtaken by Fraser-Pryce and Jeter who took the silver and bronze respectively.

Competition format

The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), semifinals and a Final.^[2] The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the semifinals. A total of eight competitors qualified for the Final from the semifinals.

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	21.34	Seoul, Korea	29 September 1988
Olympic record
2012 World leading	21.69	Eugene, United States	30 June 2012

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 6 August 2012	19:20	Round 1
Tuesday, 7 August 2012	20:25	Semifinals
style=background:lemonchiffon	Wednesday, 8 August 2012	style=background:lemonchiffon	21:00	style=background:lemonchiffon	Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Wind:
Heat 1: +0.5 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.55	Q
2	22.61	Q
3	22.94	Q, PB
4	23.00	q
5	23.19
6	23.46
7	23.67
8	26.06

Heat 2

Wind:
Heat 2: +1.2 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.71	Q
2	22.81	Q
3	23.08	Q, SB
4	23.23
5	23.23
6	23.25
7	23.49
8	23.71	SB
9	23.89

Heat 3

Wind:
Heat 3: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.65	Q
2	22.92	Q
3	22.97	Q
4	23.36
5	23.40
6	23.43
7	24.14
8	24.49

Heat 4

Wind:
Heat 4: +0.3 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.48	Q
2	22.64	Q, SB
3	22.66	Q, PB
4	22.85	q, PB
5	23.01	q, SB
6	23.09	q, SB
7	23.46	SB
8	23.54
9	24.39

Heat 5

Wind:
Heat 5: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.58	Q, PB
2	22.70	Q, SB
3	22.75	Q
4	23.27
5	23.30	=NR
6	23.40
7	23.70
8	24.07
9	26.62

Heat 6

Wind:
Heat 6: +0.8 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.71	Q
2	22.75	Q
3	22.82	Q
4	23.07	q
5	23.10	q, SB
6	23.20	SB
7	23.49
8	23.82
9	24.12

Semi-final

Qual. rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Wind:
Heat 1: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.32	Q, SB
2	22.39	Q
3	22.56	q, SB
4	22.62
5	22.82
6	22.98	SB
7	23.28
8	23.35

Heat 2

Wind:
Heat 2: +1.0 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.31	Q
2	22.49	Q
3	22.55	q, =NR
4	22.62	SB
5	22.64	SB
6	22.71
7	22.82	PB
8	22.92	SB

Heat 3

Wind:
Heat 3: +0.8 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
1	22.30	Q
2	22.34	Q
3	22.65
4	22.76
5	23.04
6	23.14
7	23.28
8	23.51

Final

Wind: -0.2 m/s

Rank	Lanes	Time	Notes
	7	21.88
	4	22.09	PB
	9	22.14
4	5	22.38
5	6	22.39
6	8	22.57
7	2	22.63
8	3	22.87

Notes and References

Web site: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics . 2012-05-11 . 2012-09-05 . https://archive.today/20120905092430/http://www.london2012.com/athletics/about/ . dead .
Web site: Women's 200m. London 2012 Organising Committee. 13 June 2012. 5 December 2012. https://archive.today/20121205075455/www.london2012.com/athletics/event/women-200m/index.html. dead.