Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres

Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 17–18
Competitors	36 from 21 nations
Winning time	22.5 WR
Medalists
Irena Szewińska  Poland Raelene Boyle  Australia Jenny Lamy  Australia

Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's 200 metres competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was held at the University Olympic Stadium on October 17–18.

Competition format

The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitor not already qualified. The four fastest competitors from each of the Semifinal races qualified for the final.

Records

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

World record	Irena Szewińska (POL)	22.7	Warsaw, Poland	August 8, 1965
Olympic record	Edith McGuire (USA)	23.0	Tokyo, Japan	October 19, 1964

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the fastest time (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	23.1	Q
2	Margaret Bailes	United States	23.1	Q
3	Nicole Montandon	France	23.3	Q
4	Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia	23.9
5	Eva Lehocká-Glesková	Czechoslovakia	24.0
6	Györgyi Balogh-Szomov	Hungary	24.1
7	Tien Ah-Mei	Republic of China	25.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	23.0	Q
2	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	23.3	Q
3	Truus Hennipman-Cruiming	Netherlands	23.4	Q
4	Lillian Board	Great Britain	23.4	q
5	Irene Piotrowski	Canada	23.7
6	Vilma Charlton	Jamaica	24.3
7	Josefa Vicent	Uruguay	24.8
8	Yeh Chu-Mei	Republic of China	25.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	22.9	Q
2	Jenny Lamy	Australia	23.1	Q
3	Jutta Stöck	West Germany	23.3	Q
4	Wilma van Gool-van den Berg	Netherlands	23.5
5	Maureen Tranter	Great Britain	23.5
6	Lyudmila Golomazova	Soviet Union	23.7
7	Alice Anum	Ghana	23.9
8	Karin Wallgren-Lundgren	Sweden	24.2

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Wyomia Tyus	United States	23.4	Q
2	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	23.6	Q
3	Fulgencia Romay	Cuba	23.7	Q
4	Oyeronke Akindele	Nigeria	23.9
5	Alicia Kaufmanas	Argentina	24.4
6	Halina Górecka	West Germany	24.7

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.2	Q
2	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	23.4	Q
3	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.7	Q
4	Sylviane Telliez	France	23.8
5	Mieke Sterk	Netherlands	24.0
6	Rita Wilden	West Germany	24.0
7	Esperanza Girón	Mexico	25.3

Semi-Final

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	22.9	Q
2	Wyomia Tyus	United States	23.1	Q
3	Irena Szewińska	Poland	23.2	Q
4	Jutta Stöck	West Germany	23.4	Q
5	Lyudmila Samotyosova	Soviet Union	23.4
6	Lillian Board	Great Britain	23.4
7	Dianne Bowering-Burge	Australia	23.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Ferrell	United States	22.8	Q OR
2	Jenny Lamy	Australia	22.8	Q
3	Margaret Bailes	United States	22.9	Q
4	Nicole Montandon	France	23.0	Q
5	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	23.2
6	Miguelina Cobián	Cuba	23.3
7	Una Morris	Jamaica	23.5
8	Truus Hennipman-Cruiming	Netherlands	23.5

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Irena Szewińska	Poland	22.5	WR
	Raelene Boyle	Australia	22.7	WJR
	Jenny Lamy	Australia	22.8
4	Barbara Ferrell	United States	22.9
5	Nicole Montandon	France	23.0
6	Wyomia Tyus	United States	23.0
7	Margaret Bailes	United States	23.1
8	Jutta Stöck	West Germany	23.2

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 15, 2012.