These are the official results of the women's 200 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total number of 47 participating athletes, with two rounds (six heats in round 1, four heats in round 2), two semifinals and a final.

Records These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.

World record 21.34 Florence Griffith Joyner Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) 16 July 1988 Olympic record 21.34 Florence Griffith Joyner Seoul (KOR) 29 September 1988

Results

Heats Top four in each heat and next eight fastest advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Carlette Guidry 22.37 5 2 Mary Onyali 22.42 8 3 Melanie Paschke 22.93 3 4 Patricia Rodríguez 23.13 2 5 Yan Jiankui 23.21 1 6 Myra Mayberry 23.23 7 7 Zlatka Georgieva 24.05 4 8 Laure Kuetey 25.57 6

Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Dannette Young 22.65 2 2 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor 22.70 7 3 Lucrécia Jardim 22.95 5 4 Viktoriya Fomenko 23.18 1 5 Sandy Myers 23.18 6 6 Calister Ubah 23.34 3 7 Dora Kyriakou 23.85 4 8 Sylla M'Mah Touré 26.64 8

Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Juliet Cuthbert 23.03 6 2 Irina Privalova 23.16 2 3 Cathy Freeman 23.25 1 4 Sanna Hernesniemi 23.35 7 5 Mireille Donders 23.52 8 6 Maia Azarashvili 23.63 5 7 Felipa Palacios 24.12 4 8 Lineo Shoai 26.25 3

Heat four Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Merlene Ottey 22.92 7 2 Katharine Merry 23.14 1 3 Monika Gachevska 23.30 6 4 Heather Samuel 23.34 5 5 Ameerah Bello 23.45 4 6 Du Xiujie 23.69 3 7 Guilhermina da Cruz 24.92 8 8 Marina Trandenkova DNS 2

Heat five Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Galina Malchugina 22.63 1 2 Chandra Sturrup 22.63 7 3 Beverly McDonald 23.04 6 4 Zhanna Pintusevych 23.15 5 5 Simmone Jacobs 23.36 2 6 Tara Perry 23.46 3 7 Marina Živković 23.51 4 8 Kaltouma Nadjina 24.47 8

Heat six Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Marie-José Pérec 22.62 5 2 Inger Miller 22.74 3 3 Alenka Bikar 22.88 7 4 Katerina Koffa 23.09 4 5 Natallia Safronnikava 23.14 8 6 Sevatheda Fynes 23.39 2 7 Georgette N’Koma 23.68 1 8 Lyudmila Dmitriady 24.88 6

Quarterfinals Top four in each heat advanced to the semifinals.

Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Carlette Guidry 22.51 3 2 Chandra Sturrup 22.81 6 3 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor 22.91 4 4 Natallia Safronnikava 23.15 2 5 Sanna Hernesniemi 23.38 1 6 Monika Gachevska 23.44 8 7 Ameerah Bello 23.66 7 8 Beverly McDonald DNS 5 Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Merlene Ottey 22.61 4 2 Galina Malchugina 22.69 3 3 Melanie Paschke 22.84 5 4 Katerina Koffa 23.04 7 5 Katharine Merry 23.17 6 6 Sevatheda Fynes 23.26 8 7 Yan Jiankui 23.30 1 8 Viktoriya Fomenko 23.442

Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Marie-José Pérec 22.24 3 2 Mary Onyali 22.37 5 3 Inger Miller 22.57 6 4 Cathy Freeman 22.74 1 5 Lucrécia Jardim 22.88 4 6 Simmone Jacobs 22.96 7 7 Sandy Myers 23.20 2 8 Heather Samuel 23.54 8

Heat four Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Dannette Young 22.53 6 2 Juliet Cuthbert 22.62 4 3 Irina Privalova 22.82 3 4 Alenka Bikar 22.89 5 5 Myra Mayberry 23.48 8 6 Patricia Rodríguez 23.50 1 7 Calister Ubah 23.62 7 8 Zhanna Pintusevych 23.68 2

Semifinals Top four from each heat advanced to the finals.

Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Marie-José Pérec 22.07 4 2 Mary Onyali 22.16 3 3 Juliet Cuthbert 22.24 5 4 Inger Miller 22.33 7 5 Dannette Young 22.49 6 6 Cathy Freeman 22.78 2 7 Natallia Safronnikava 22.98 1 8 Irina Privalova DNS 8

Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Lane 1 Merlene Ottey 22.08 4 2 Galina Malchugina 22.35 6 3 Chandra Sturrup 22.54 5 4 Carlette Guidry 22.56 3 5 Melinda Gainsford-Taylor 22.76 2 6 Melanie Paschke 22.81 7 7 Alenka Bikar 22.82 8 8 Katerina Koffa 23.20 1

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Marie-José Pérec 22.12 3 Merlene Ottey 22.24 5 Mary Onyali 22.38 4 4 Inger Miller 22.41 7 5 Galina Malchugina 22.45 6 6 Chandra Sturrup 22.54 8 7 Juliet Cuthbert 22.60 1 8 Carlette Guidry 22.612

Wind in the finals = 0.3 m/sNotes: DNS = did not start

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