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200m Women
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 200m Women
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1948
Robb Daphne
25.30
London 1948
05 AUGUST
Fanny BLANKERS-KOEN
24.30
London 1948
05 AUGUST
NED
1952
Marjorie Jackson
23.60
Helsinki 1952
25 JULY
Marjorie Jackson
23.40
Helsinki 1952
25 JULY
1960
Wilma Rudolph
23.20
Rome 1960
03 SEPTEMBER
1964
Edith McGuire
23
Tokyo 1964
19 OCTOBER
1968
Barbara Ferrell
22.94
Mexico 1968
17 OCTOBER
Barbara Ferrell
22.87
Mexico 1968
17 OCTOBER
Irena Kirszenstein
22.58
Mexico 1968
18 OCTOBER
1972
Renate Stecher
22.40
Munich 1972
07 SEPTEMBER
1976
Bärbel Wöckel
22.37
Montreal 1976
28 JULY
1980
Bochina Natalya
22.26
Moscow 1980
28 JULY
Bärbel Wöckel
22.03
Moscow 1980
30 JULY
1984
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
21.81
Los Angeles 1984
09 AUGUST
1988
Griffith Joyner Florence
21.76
Seoul 1988
28 SEPTEMBER
Griffith Joyner Florence
21.56
Seoul 1988
29 SEPTEMBER
Griffith Joyner Florence
21.34
Seoul 1988
29 SEPTEMBER
All records in this event
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New World Record
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Valerie Ann BRISCO-HOOKS
Bärbel ECKERT-WÖCKEL
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Edith Marie MCGUIRE
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Jennifer LAMY-FRANK
Marilyn Mary BLACK-VASSELLA
Dorothy HYMAN
Marlene Judith MATHEWS-O'SHEA
Nadezhda KHNYKINA-DVALISHVILI
Audrey Mickey PATTERSON