2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres


The women's 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics is scheduled to be held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.

Summary

of Jamaica entered the competition as defending champion but after winning the 100 metres, decided against running here. 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:

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: Best 3 and next 3 fastest qualify for the next round.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
17Dina Asher-Smith22.22,
21Candyce McGrone22.45
37Sherone Simpson22.52,
47Ivet Lalova22.54,
56Dafne Schippers22.58
62Marie-Josée Ta Lou22.73,
74Elaine Thompson22.78
83Jeneba Tarmoh22.79
85Veronica Campbell-Brown22.79
104Bianca Williams22.85,
115Semoy Hackett22.89
124Khamica Bingham22.90
131Mujinga Kambundji22.92
131Viktoriya Zyabkina22.92
152Jenna Prandini22.95
157Anna Kiełbasińska22.95
173Gloria Hooper22.99,
186Rosângela Santos23.01
193Kimberly Hyacinthe23.03
204Maja Mihalinec23.05,
212Justine Palframan23.09
226Reyare Thomas23.09
235Margaret Adeoye23.10
243Maria Belibasaki23.15
254Nercely Soto23.16
262Sabina Veit23.18
276Hrystyna Stuy23.21
285Crystal Emmanuel23.22
283Isidora Jiménez23.22
302Nataliya Strohova23.25
302Kamaria Durant23.25
327Olga Safronova23.28
323Kelly Proper23.28
341Ramona Papaioannou23.30
345Chisato Fukushima23.30
342Kineke Alexander23.30
377Vitória Cristina Rosa23.32
381Ella Nelson23.33
391Celiangeli Morales23.34
407Arialis Gandulla23.35
416Ekaterina Smirnova23.39
426Sheniqua Ferguson23.44
435Cynthia Bolingo23.45
441Anna Kukushkina23.47
455Liang Xiaojing23.57
466Olga Lenskiy23.63
474LaVerne Jones-Ferrette23.83
485Shanti Pereira24.22
497Kristina Pronzhenko25.77
3Blessing Okagbare
4Nataliya Pohrebnyak

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat and the next 2 fastest advanced to the final.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
13Dina Asher-Smith22.12,
21Elaine Thompson22.13
31Candyce McGrone22.26
43Jeneba Tarmoh22.30
51Ivet Lalova22.32,
62Dafne Schippers22.36
73Veronica Campbell-Brown22.47,
82Sherone Simpson22.53
92Marie-Josée Ta Lou22.56
101Mujinga Kambundji22.64
112Semoy Hackett22.75
121Viktoriya Zyabkina22.77
131Bianca Williams22.87
132Jenna Prandini22.87
133Rosângela Santos22.87
163Gloria Hooper22.92
172Khamica Bingham23.02
181Reyare Thomas23.03
191Maja Mihalinec23.04
193Justine Palframan23.04
212Anna Kiełbasińska23.07
213Kimberly Hyacinthe23.07
233Maria Belibasaki23.28
242Margaret Adeoye23.34

Final

The final was held at 21:00.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
6Dafne Schippers21.63, ,
5Elaine Thompson21.66
2Veronica Campbell-Brown21.97
47Candyce McGrone22.01
54Dina Asher-Smith22.07
68Jeneba Tarmoh22.31
73Ivet Lalova22.41
89Sherone Simpson22.50