The women's 200 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place in the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on 4-6 August 2022.

The winning margin was 0.49 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's 200 metres was won by more than 0.4 seconds at these games since the introduction of fully automatic timing.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows: World record21.34Seoul, South Korea29 September 1988Commonwealth record21.45Eugene, United States21 July 2022 Games record22.09Gold Coast, Australia12 April 2018

Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Thursday 4 August 2022 10:25 First round Friday 5 August 2022 20:15 First round Saturday 6 August 2022 21:44 Final All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results First round First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.First round results

Wind:

Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: –0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.7 m/s, Heat 4: +1.3 m/s, Heat 5: +2.9 m/s, Heat 6: +2.7 m/s Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes 1 4 3 Favour Ofili 22.71 Q 2 5 2 Elaine Thompson-Herah 22.80 Q 3 4 8 Gina Bass 22.87 Q 4 5 4 Beth Dobbin 23.10 Q 5 5 6 Jacinta Beecher 23.13 Q 6 1 5 Christine Mboma 23.20 Q 7 4 6 Asimenye Simwaka 23.28 Q, 8 2 5 Hima Das 23.42 Q 9 6 5 Natassha McDonald 23.45 Q 10 4 7 Shanti Pereira 23.46 q, 11 1 3 Ella Connolly 23.56 Q 12 3 2 Natalliah Whyte 23.61 Q 13 5 5 Mauricia Prieto 23.69 q 14 2 4 Rhoda Njobvu 23.85 Q 15 6 4 Beyoncé Defreitas 23.99 Q 16 1 4 Millicent Ndoro 24.03 Q 17 3 8 Hannah Brier 24.04 Q 18 2 8 Jacent Nyamahunge 24.07 Q 19 1 2 Wurrie Njadoe 24.12 q 20 4 4 Kenisha Phillips 24.13 q 21 4 5 Linda Angounou 24.14 q, 22 6 3 Toea Wisil 24.42 Q 23 6 7 Charlotte Wingfield 24.47 (.461) q 24 3 4 Abi Galpin 24.47 (.466) Q 25 5 3 Denisha Cartwright 24.49 26 6 2 Winifrida Makenji 24.74 27 6 6 Kadiatu Kanu 24.76 28 5 7 Isila Apkup 24.97 29 1 8 Hafsatu Kamara 25.05 30 2 3 Leonie Beu 25.29 31 3 6 Bongiwe Mahlalela 25.31 32 6 8 Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha 25.34 33 3 7 Ancha Mandlate 25.43 34 1 7 Chloe David 26.75 35 5 8 Aminath Mohamed 26.79 36 2 7 Rifa Mohamed 26.87 6 9 Julien Alfred 3 3 Tynia Gaither 3 5 Maximila Imali 2 6 Joella Lloyd 1 6 Zoe Sherar Semifinals First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.Semifinals results

Wind:

Heat 1: +1.9 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +1.5 m/s

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Result Notes 1 3 5 Elaine Thompson-Herah 22.63 Q 2 1 5 Favour Ofili 22.66 Q 3 2 6 Christine Mboma 22.93 Q 4 1 6 Natalliah Whyte 23.09 Q 5 1 4 Gina Bass 23.10 q 6 3 7 Natassha McDonald 23.21 Q, 7 3 4 Beth Dobbin 23.28 q 8 1 9 Jacinta Beecher 23.40 9 2 4 Ella Connolly 23.41 Q 10 2 7 Hima Das 23.42 11 1 2 Shanti Pereira 23.46 = 12 3 2 Mauricia Prieto 23.58 13 3 8 Asimenye Simwaka 23.59 14 2 5 Rhoda Njobvu 23.72 15 3 6 Beyoncé Defreitas 23.81 16 1 7 Hannah Brier 23.84 17 2 9 Jacent Nyamahunge 23.86 18 2 8 Millicent Ndoro 23.87 19 2 2 Wurrie Njadoe 23.95 20 1 8 Abi Galpin 24.10 21 3 3 Linda Angounou 24.32 22 2 3 Kenisha Phillips 24.35 23 3 9 Toea Wisil 24.43 24 1 3 Charlotte Wingfield 24.52

Final The medals were determined in the final.Final results

Wind: +0.6m/s Rank Lane Name Result Notes 7 22.02 GR 6 22.51 4 22.80 4 5 23.06 5 2 23.13 6 8 23.21 (.204) 7 9 23.21 (.205) = 8 3 23.40

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