The Women's 200 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–28 July.[1]
Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Date | 26–28 July | |||||||||
Competitors | 36 from 21 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 22.37[original research?] | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Competition format edit
The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Quarterfinals, Semifinals and a Final. The five fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Quarterfinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Quarterfinal races qualified for the Semifinals, where again the four fastest runners from each heat advanced to the final.
Records edit
Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Irena Szewińska (POL) | 22.21 | Potsdam, East Germany | 13 June 1974 |
Olympic record | Renate Stecher (GDR) | 22.40 | Munich, East Germany | 7 September 1972 |
Results edit
Round 1 edit
Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the two fastest times (q) qualified.
Heat 1 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Chandra Cheeseborough | United States | 23.17 | Q |
2 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 23.23 | Q |
3 | Rosie Allwood | Jamaica | 23.34 | Q |
4 | Marjorie Bailey | Canada | 23.36 | Q |
5 | Annegret Kroniger | West Germany | 23.43 | Q |
6 | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 23.64 | q |
Heat 2 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bärbel Eckert | East Germany | 23.78 | Q |
2 | Sue Jowett | New Zealand | 24.12 | Q |
3 | Joanne McTaggert | Canada | 24.35 | Q |
4 | Freida Nicholls-Davy | Barbados | 24.45 | Q |
Heat 3 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Raelene Boyle | Australia | 23.12 | Q |
2 | Nadezhda Besfamilnaya | Soviet Union | 23.39 | Q |
3 | Annegret Richter | West Germany | 23.47 | Q |
4 | Chantal Réga | France | 23.54 | Q |
5 | Silvia Schinzel | Austria | 23.74 | Q |
6 | Silvina Pereira da Silva | Brazil | 24.00 | |
7 | Carolina Rieuwpassa | Indonesia | 24.86 |
Heat 4 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Debra Armstrong | United States | 23.18 | Q |
2 | Catherine Delachanal | France | 23.38 | Q |
3 | Inge Helten | West Germany | 23.40 | Q |
4 | Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 23.51 | Q |
5 | Lea Alaerts | Belgium | 23.53 | Q |
6 | Helen Golden | Great Britain | 23.77 | q |
7 | Helen Ritter | Liechtenstein | 26.15 | |
8 | Marie-Louise Pierre | Haiti | 28.19 |
Heat 5 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 22.98 | Q |
2 | Jackie Pusey | Jamaica | 23.56 | Q |
3 | Debbie Wells | Australia | 23.78 | Q |
4 | Ildikó Erdélyi | Hungary | 24.35 | Q |
5 | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen | Finland | 24.52 | Q |
Heat 6 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Renate Stecher | East Germany | 22.75 | Q |
2 | Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.21 | Q |
3 | Patty Loverock | Canada | 23.34 | Q |
4 | Liliyana Panayotova-Ivanova | Bulgaria | 23.49 | Q |
5 | Carol Cummings | Jamaica | 23.50 | Q |
6 | Divina Estrella | Dominican Republic | 24.95 |
Quarterfinals edit
Heat 1 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 23.20 | Q |
2 | Debra Armstrong | United States | 23.20 | Q |
3 | Annegret Richter | West Germany | 23.35 | Q |
4 | Nadezhda Besfamilnaya | Soviet Union | 23.48 | Q |
5 | Debbie Wells | Australia | 23.65 | |
6 | Lea Alaerts | Belgium | 23.80 | |
7 | Liliyana Panayotova-Ivanova | Bulgaria | 23.87 | |
8 | Sue Jowett | New Zealand | 24.23 |
Heat 2 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Raelene Boyle | Australia | 22.97 | Q |
2 | Inge Helten | West Germany | 23.09 | Q |
3 | Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.11 | Q |
4 | Chantal Réga | France | 23.33 | Q |
5 | Rosie Allwood | Jamaica | 23.40 | |
6 | Beverley Goddard | Great Britain | 23.74 | |
7 | Mona-Lisa Pursiainen | Finland | 24.10 | |
8 | Joanne McTaggert | Canada | 24.47 |
Heat 3 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Renate Stecher | East Germany | 23.04 | Q |
2 | Chandra Cheeseborough | United States | 23.19 | Q |
3 | Marjorie Bailey | Canada | 23.24 | Q |
4 | Jackie Pusey | Jamaica | 23.42 | Q |
5 | Catherine Delachanal | France | 23.65 | |
6 | Silvia Schinzel | Austria | 23.95 |
Heat 4 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bärbel Eckert | East Germany | 22.85 | Q |
2 | Patty Loverock | Canada | 23.03 | Q, NR |
3 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 23.12 | Q |
4 | Carol Cummings | Jamaica | 23.45 | Q |
5 | Lyudmila Maslakova | Soviet Union | 23.63 | |
6 | Helen Golden | Great Britain | 23.94 | |
7 | Freida Nicholls-Davy | Barbados | 24.27 |
Semifinals edit
Heat 1 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Renate Stecher | East Germany | 22.68 | Q |
2 | Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 22.84 | Q |
3 | Inge Helten | West Germany | 22.97 | Q |
4 | Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.03 | Q |
5 | Marjorie Bailey | Canada | 23.06 | |
6 | Debra Armstrong | United States | 23.16 | |
7 | Carol Cummings | Jamaica | 23.41 | |
— | Raelene Boyle | Australia | DSQ |
Heat 2 edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bärbel Eckert | East Germany | 22.71 | Q |
2 | Annegret Richter | West Germany | 22.90 | Q |
3 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 22.91 | Q |
4 | Chantal Réga | France | 23.00 | Q |
5 | Patty Loverock | Canada | 23.09 | |
6 | Chandra Cheeseborough | United States | 23.20 | |
7 | Jackie Pusey | Jamaica | 23.31 | |
8 | Nadezhda Besfamilnaya | Soviet Union | 23.38 |
Final edit
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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Bärbel Eckert | East Germany | 22.37 | OR | |
Annegret Richter | West Germany | 22.39 | ||
Renate Stecher | East Germany | 22.47 | ||
4 | Carla Bodendorf | East Germany | 22.64 | |
5 | Inge Helten | West Germany | 22.68 | |
6 | Tatyana Prorochenko | Soviet Union | 23.03 | |
7 | Denise Boyd | Australia | 23.05 | |
8 | Chantal Réga | France | 23.09 |
References edit
- ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Games: Women's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
External links edit
- Official Olympic Report Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 19, 2012.