The women's 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.
Summary Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica entered the competition as defending champion but after winning the 100 metres, decided against running here.Bolt and Fraser-Pryce front Jamaica's team for IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015. IAAF (2015-08-11). Retrieved on 2015-08-16. Reigning Olympic champion, Allyson Felix won a bye to compete by virtue of winning the 2014 IAAF Diamond League, but passed in order to focus on the 400 metres which would hold its final less than an hour before the semi-final round. 2013 silver medalist Murielle Ahouré did not return, and 2013 bronze medalist Blessing Okagbare did not start in the heats.
In the finals, two time Olympic Champion and 2011 World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown relegated to lane 2 after finishing 7th in the semis, was the leader out of the blocks with Dina Asher-Smith and Jeneba Tarmoh also getting good starts. Elaine Thompson was last out of the blocks but rocketed around the turn to be the second to hit the straightaway behind "VCB." Candyce McGrone was about even with Asher-Smith and Dafne Schippers behind them with less than 90 metres to the finish. Thompson continued her speed to the front as Schippers let out her long strides to eat up territory. McGrone and Campbell-Brown were in the battle for bronze, Schippers looking too far back to catch Thompson but gaining with every stride. And Schippers caught her with 5 metres to spare, continuing on to the win. Campbell-Brown held off McGrone for bronze.
Schippers time of 21.63 made her the #3 performer of all time, Thompson at 21.66 became #5. Neither of them had been on the list prior to this race. It was a .40 improvement of her personal best for Schippers and a .44 improvement for Thompson. Schippers took down Marita Koch's 36-year-old, drug tainted European record and broke the 28 year old Championship Record held by East Germany's Silke Gladisch Moeller. Both runners were faster than Allyson Felix or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have ever run. Dina Asher-Smith's 22.07 in fifth place became the new British record and the fastest performance by a teenager, though cannot surpass Felix's junior world record because Asher Smith would turn 20 before the end of the calendar year.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record21.34Seoul, South Korea29 September 1988Championship record21.74Rome, Italy3 September 1987World leading21.98Doha, Qatar15 May 2015African record22.07Zürich, Switzerland14 August 1996Asian record22.01Shanghai, China22 October 1997NACAC record21.34Seoul, South Korea29 September 1988South American record22.48São Paulo, Brazil6 August 2011European record21.71Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany10 June 1979Potsdam, East Germany21 July 1984Jena, East Germany29 June 1986Stuttgart, West Germany29 August 1986Oceanian record22.23Stuttgart, Germany13 July 1997The following records were established during the competition:Championship record21.63Beijing, China28 August 2015World leadingEuropean record
Qualification standards Entry standards 23.20
Schedule Date Time Round26 August 2015 19:15 Heats27 August 2015 19:35 Semifinals28 August 2015 21:00 Final
Results KEY:QQualifiedqFastest non-qualifiersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.Heats results
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 Dina Asher-Smith 22.22 , 2 1 Candyce McGrone 22.45 3 7 Sherone Simpson 22.52 , 4 7 Ivet Lalova 22.54 , 5 6 Dafne Schippers 22.58 6 2 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 22.73 , 7 4 Elaine Thompson 22.78 8 3 Jeneba Tarmoh 22.79 8 5 Veronica Campbell-Brown 22.79 10 4 Bianca Williams 22.85 , 11 5 Semoy Hackett 22.89 12 4 Khamica Bingham 22.90 13 1 Mujinga Kambundji 22.92 13 1 Viktoriya Zyabkina 22.92 15 2 Jenna Prandini 22.95 15 7 Anna Kiełbasińska 22.95 17 3 Gloria Hooper 22.99 , 18 6 Rosângela Santos 23.01 19 3 Kimberly Hyacinthe 23.03 20 4 Maja Mihalinec 23.05 , 21 2 Justine Palframan 23.09 22 6 Reyare Thomas 23.09 23 5 Margaret Adeoye 23.10 24 3 Maria Belibasaki 23.15 25 4 Nercely Soto 23.16 26 2 Sabina Veit 23.18 27 6 Hrystyna Stuy 23.21 28 5 Crystal Emmanuel 23.22 28 3 Isidora Jiménez 23.22 30 2 Nataliya Strohova 23.25 30 2 Kamaria Durant 23.25 32 7 Olga Safronova 23.28 32 3 Kelly Proper 23.28 34 1 Ramona Papaioannou 23.30 34 5 Chisato Fukushima 23.30 34 2 Kineke Alexander 23.30 37 7 Vitória Cristina Rosa 23.32 38 1 Ella Nelson 23.33 39 1 Celiangeli Morales 23.34 40 7 Arialis Gandulla 23.35 41 6 Ekaterina Smirnova 23.39 42 6 Sheniqua Ferguson 23.44 43 5 Cynthia Bolingo 23.45 44 1 Anna Kukushkina 23.47 45 5 Liang Xiaojing 23.57 46 6 Olga Lenskiy 23.63 47 4 LaVerne Jones-Ferrette 23.83 48 5 Shanti Pereira 24.22 49 7 Kristina Pronzhenko 25.77 3 Blessing Okagbare 4 Nataliya Pohrebnyak
Semifinals Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.Semifinals results
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Dina Asher-Smith 22.12 , 2 1 Elaine Thompson 22.13 3 1 Candyce McGrone 22.26 4 3 Jeneba Tarmoh 22.30 5 1 Ivet Lalova 22.32 , 6 2 Dafne Schippers 22.36 7 3 Veronica Campbell-Brown 22.47 , 8 2 Sherone Simpson 22.53 9 2 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 22.56 10 1 Mujinga Kambundji 22.64 11 2 Semoy Hackett 22.75 12 1 Viktoriya Zyabkina 22.77 13 1 Bianca Williams 22.87 13 2 Jenna Prandini 22.87 13 3 Rosângela Santos 22.87 16 3 Gloria Hooper 22.92 17 2 Khamica Bingham 23.02 18 1 Reyare Thomas 23.03 19 1 Maja Mihalinec 23.04 19 3 Justine Palframan 23.04 21 2 Anna Kiełbasińska 23.07 21 3 Kimberly Hyacinthe 23.07 23 3 Maria Belibasaki 23.28 24 2 Margaret Adeoye 23.34
Final The final was held at 21:00. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Dafne Schippers 21.63 , , 5 Elaine Thompson 21.66 2 Veronica Campbell-Brown 21.97 4 7 Candyce McGrone 22.01 5 4 Dina Asher-Smith 22.07 6 8 Jeneba Tarmoh 22.31 7 3 Ivet Lalova 22.41 8 9 Sherone Simpson 22.50
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