The women's 200 metres competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium between 15–17 August.Women's 200m - Standings . Rio2016. Retrieved on 2016-08-14. The winning margin was 0.10 seconds. The winner, Elaine Thompson from Jamaica, had the fifth fastest reaction time in the final.

Summary The fastest entrant in the field was 2015 World Champion Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands at 21.93 seconds for the season. The 2012 Olympic champion Allyson Felix was absent after failing to make the team at the United States Olympic Trials. Tori Bowie won that event and was the only other runner under 22 seconds that year, and also the only one to have beaten Schippers over 200 m that season. The lesser known Deajah Stevens and Jenna Prandini completed the American team (so the 2012 bronze medalist Carmelita Jeter also did not return). The Jamaican team was headed by 2015 World medallists Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell-Brown (the latter going for her third Olympic title). The 2012 Olympic runner-up Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did not compete and focused on the Olympic 100 m finals. Trinidad and Tobago's Michelle-Lee Ahye and Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain were the other top ten ranked athletes to enter the race.Landells, Steve (2016-08-10). Preview: women's 200m – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.Senior outdoor 2016 200 Metres women. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-14.

In the semi-final round, both World Championship medalists #3 of all time, Schippers and #5 of all time, Thompson ran in the first heat. Schippers won the race over Thompson, who ran her season best, but Thompson didn't look like she was running all out at the end while Schippers ran just .03 off her season best. They led Deajah Stevens and Dina Asher-Smith to the time qualifiers. Tori Bowie equalled Thompson's 22.13 in the third semi.

In the final, Thompson went out hard, making up the stagger on Ivet Lalova-Collio to her outside in the first 60 metres. She had a one-metre lead over Schippers before the end of the turn. Tori Bowie stumbled out of the blocks and was another metre back in a battle for fifth place with Dina Asher-Smith. Schippers started to gain on Thompson towards the line but did not catch the winner. Two metres behind, Bowie won the bronze medal having overtaken Asher-Smith, Michelle-Lee Ahye and 10 metres before the finish line Marie Josée Ta Lou.

The following evening the medals were presented by HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, IOC honorary member, Kenya and Sylvia Barlag, Council Member of the IAAF.

Format The women's 200 m competition consisted of three rounds: a round one heats stage with nine races, three semifinal races, and a single final. Each race featured eight athletes. The top two in each heat progressed to the semifinals, as did the six fastest non-qualifiers. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the final with the two fastest non-qualifiers.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record21.34Seoul, Korea29 September 1988Olympic record2016 World leading21.93Oslo, Norway9 June 2016

The following national records were established during the competition:

Country Athlete Round Time Notes Maldives Heats 24.96 s Ivory Coast Final 22.21 s

Schedule All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Date Time RoundMonday, 15 August 2016 9:35HeatsTuesday, 16 August 2016 22:00SemifinalsWednesday, 17 August 2016 22:30Finals

Results Heats Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 4 Dafne Schippers 0.145 22.51 2 7 Nataliya Pohrebnyak 0.134 22.64 3 6 Crystal Emmanuel 0.144 22.80 , 4 5 Anna Kiełbasińska 0.155 22.95 5 2 Reyare Thomas 0.202 22.97 6 1 Maja Mihalinec 0.132 23.38 7 3 Olivia Borlée 0.170 23.53 8 8 Afa Ismail 0.193 24.96 Wind: +0.5 m/s

Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 1 Jenna Prandini 0.163 22.62 2 7 Lisa Mayer 0.172 22.86 , 3 6 Tynia Gaither 0.160 22.90 4 5 Ángela Tenorio 0.160 22.94 , 5 3 Celiangeli Morales 0.164 23.00 6 2 Gloria Hooper 0.167 23.05 7 8 Mariely Sánchez 0.159 23.39 8 4 Cynthia Bolingo 0.188 23.98 Wind: +0.8 m/s

Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 3 Michelle-Lee Ahye 0.170 22.50 2 5 Simone Facey 0.164 22.78 3 8 Kauiza Venancio 0.187 23.06 4 4 Alyssa Conley 0.114 23.17 5 1 Isidora Jiménez 0.132 23.29 6 2 Estela García 0.137 23.43 7 7 Nataliya Strohova 0.164 23.69 8 6 Yelena Ryabova 0.170 25.45 Wind: +0.6 m/s

Heat 4 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 7 Marie Josée Ta Lou 0.141 22.31 , 2 4 Elaine Thompson 0.177 22.63 3 3 Gina Lückenkemper 0.207 22.80 4 2 Maria Belimpasaki 0.183 23.19 5 6 Justine Palframan 0.151 23.33 6 1 Janet Amponsah 0.157 23.67 7 8 Diana Khubeseryan 0.146 25.16 8 5 Margret Hassan 0.263 26.99 Wind: +0.6 m/s

Heat 5 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 4 Blessing Okagbare 0.158 22.71 2 7 Dina Asher-Smith 0.164 22.77 3 1 Anthonique Strachan 0.161 22.96 4 8 Tessa van Schagen 0.189 23.41 5 2 Gina Bass 0.179 23.43 6 6 Srabani Nanda 0.150 23.58 7 5 Aurelie Alcindor 0.201 24.55 8 3 Gayane Chiloyan 0.179 25.03 Wind: -0.1 m/s

Heat 6 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 7 Deajah Stevens 0.160 22.45 2 4 Nercely Soto 0.196 22.89 , 3 2 Jamile Samuel 0.159 23.04 4 5 Ramona Papaioannou 0.140 23.10 5 1 Yelyzaveta Bryzhina 0.178 23.28 6 8 Nigina Sharipova 0.140 23.33 7 6 Viktoriya Zyabkina 0.167 23.34 8 3 Najima Parveen 0.183 26.11 Wind: 0.0 m/s

Heat 7 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 6 Ivet Lalova-Collio 0.136 22.61 2 3 Ella Nelson 0.155 22.66 3 4 Jodie Williams 0.135 22.69 , 4 1 Lorène Bazolo 0.166 23.01 5 8 Chisato Fukushima 0.125 23.21 6 5 LaVerne Jones-Ferrette 0.127 23.35 7 2 Vitória Cristina Rosa 0.191 23.35 8 7 Sheniqua Ferguson 0.153 23.62 Wind: +0.5 m/s

Heat 8 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 8 Tori Bowie 0.145 22.47 2 6 Murielle Ahouré 0.156 22.52 , 3 3 Mujinga Kambundji 0.139 22.78 , 4 1 Nadine Gonska 0.129 23.03 5 5 Eleni Artymata 0.166 23.27 6 2 Arialis Gandulla 0.149 23.41 7 7 Brenessa Thompson 0.155 23.65 8 4 Maizurah Abdul Rahim 0.173 28.02 Wind: +0.1 m/s

Heat 9

Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 3 Edidiong Odiong 0.156 22.74 , , 2 1 Semoy Hackett 0.162 22.78 3 6 Veronica Campbell-Brown 0.170 22.97 4 8 Olga Safronova 0.144 23.29 5 7 Ashley Kelly 0.191 23.61 6 4 Tameka Williams 0.160 23.61 7 2 Sabina Veit 0.161 23.75 8 5 Kristina Pronzhenko 0.213 25.53 Wind: +0.6 m/s

Semifinal Qualification rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 3 Dafne Schippers 0.139 21.96 2 4 Elaine Thompson 0.164 22.13 , 3 5 Deajah Stevens 0.170 22.38 4 7 Dina Asher-Smith 0.143 22.49 5 6 Blessing Okagbare 0.179 22.69 6 2 Mujinga Kambundji 0.121 22.83 7 8 Lisa Mayer 0.162 22.90 8 1 Tynia Gaither 0.149 23.45 Wind: +0.1 m/s

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 3 Marie Josée Ta Lou 0.156 22.28 , 2 4 Ivet Lalova-Collio 0.127 22.42 , 3 7 Ella Nelson 0.165 22.50 4 6 Jenna Prandini 0.196 22.55 5 5 Nataliya Pohrebnyak 0.163 22.81 6 8 Semoy Hackett 0.240 22.94 7 2 Ángela Tenorio 0.160 22.99 8 1 Jodie Williams 0.173 22.99 Wind: +0.1 m/s

Semifinal 3 Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 1 4 Tori Bowie 0.145 22.13 2 6 Michelle-Lee Ahye 0.153 22.25 3 8 Simone Facey 0.158 22.57 4 5 Murielle Ahouré 0.144 22.59 5 2 Gina Lückenkemper 0.196 22.73 6 3 Edidiong Odiong 0.156 22.84 7 7 Nercely Soto 0.174 22.88 8 1 Crystal Emmanuel 0.149 23.05 Wind: +0.8 m/s

Final Rank Lane Athlete Nationality Reaction Time Notes 6 Elaine Thompson 0.152 21.78 4 Dafne Schippers 0.141 21.88 5 Tori Bowie 0.143 22.15 4 3 Marie Josée Ta Lou 0.153 22.21 5 2 Dina Asher-Smith 0.135 22.31 6 7 Michelle-Lee Ahye 0.158 22.34 7 1 Deajah Stevens 0.171 22.65 8 8 Ivet Lalova-Collio 0.104 22.69 Wind: -0.1 m/s

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