Chronology of world records in the women's 200 meters (women)

Athletics Chronology world records
Running
60 m	M	F
100 m	M	F
200 m	M	F
400 m	M	F
800 m	M	F
1500 m	M	F
Mile	M	F
3000 m	M	F
5000 m	M	F
10,000 m	M	F
80 m s / b		F
100 m s / b		F
110 m s / b	M
400 m s / b	M	F
2000 m / s	M	F
3000 m s / pr	M	F
4 × 100 m	M	F
4 × 400 m	M	F
Road race
Half marathon	M	F
Marathon	M	F
Walking 20 km	M	F
Walking 50 km	M
Technical
Long jump	M	F
Triple jump	M	F
High jump	M	F
Pole vaulting	M	F
Shot put	M	F
Discus throw	M	F
Javelin-throwing	M	F
Hammer throwing	M	F
All-around
Pentathlon		F
Heptathlon		F
Decathlon	M

The first world record in the women's 200-meter race was recorded by the International Federation of Women's Sports (Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale, FSFI) in 1922. In 1936, FSFI became part of the IAAF . Until 1951, the IAAF did not distinguish records set on tracks with bends and on straight tracks. After 1976, all records set on straight tracks were canceled.

In countries with the English system of measures instead of the 200-meter distance, athletes often performed at a distance of 220 yards (201.17 m). The extra meter of distance worsened the result by about 0.1 seconds, so if the result was 220 yards greater than or repeated the world record for a distance of 200 meters, it was counted as a record or a repetition of a record for a 200-meter distance. In the table, such results are marked with the letter "y".

Some world records for various reasons have not been ratified by the IAAF ^[1] . Ratified and not ratified records are indicated in the table by the color:

Record ratified
Record not ratified

On September 20, 2012, the IAAF (and before it FSFI) ratified 26 world records in this discipline ^[2] .

Manual Stopwatch (1922-1976)

Until January 1, 1975, official world records in athletics were recorded by a manual stopwatch, although since the 1930s automatic timekeeping was used occasionally at competitions. In the table below, the alternative time for the electronic stopwatch (if any) is shown in the remarks column. By the end of the 1960s, the manual stopwatch was already becoming an anachronism. In all major competitions, an electronic stopwatch is used (first in parallel with manual timekeeping, and then without it). The readings of the manual and electronic stopwatches often differed (the difference reached 0.3 s), and the manual stopwatch, as a rule, showed the best result. Therefore, the problem of comparability of results was quite acute. When the result with an accuracy of tenths of a second was obtained not by a manual stopwatch, but by rounding the electronic stopwatch, a small amount was taken from the electronic stopwatch (0.05-0.24 s), although they were not always consistent in this.

Res.	Sportsman	A country	A place	date	Etc.
Manual timing
FSFI
28.6	Maria Meizlikova ^en	Czechoslovakia	Paris	05/21/1922
27.8	Alice Cust ^sv	Great Britain	Paris	08/20/1922	28.0y
27.0y	Mary Lynes ^en	Great Britain	London	09/20/1922
26,8y	Mary Lynes ^en	Great Britain	Waddon	09/23/1922
26,8y	Gladys Elliot	Great Britain	Nottingham	05/24/1924
26,2y	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	London	08/20/1924
26,1y	Rosa Grosse	Canada	Blandford	08/01/1925
26.1	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	Stockholm	08/31/1926
26.0y	Rosa Grosse	Canada	Toronto	09/14/1926
25,8y	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	Romford	09/18/1926
26.0	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	Paris	10/03/1926
25.4	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	Berlin	06/12/1927
25,8y	Eileen edwards ^sv	Great Britain	Reading	07/09/1927
25,8y	Potter, Edna ^en	Great Britain	London	06/23/1928
25,8y	Hitomi kinue ^en	Japan	London	07/14/1928
25,8y	King, Marion ^en	Great Britain	London	07/14/1928
25,8y	Morris, Agnes ^en	Canada	Hamilton	05/01/1929
25.4y	Walker, Ivy ^en	Great Britain	London	06/16/1930
25.4y	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Dallas	07/04/1930	^[3]
25.2y	Helsted, Nelly ^en	Great Britain	London	08.16.1930
25,1y	Robinson, Betty ^en	USA	Milwaukee	06.20.1931
24.6	Shuurman, Tollien ^en	Netherlands	Brussels	08/13/1933
24.6	Krauss, Kate ^en	Germany	Berlin	07/01/1934
24.6	Krauss, Kate ^en	Germany	Nuremberg	07.28.1934
24.5	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Warsaw	08/04/1934	^[3]
25.0y	Hiscock, Eileen ^en	Great Britain	London	08/07/1934
24.5	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Poznan	08.19.1934	^[3]
24,8y	Burke, Barbara ^en	South Africa	Pretoria	04/22/1935
24.4	Stephens, Helen ^en	USA	St louis	06/01/1935
23.6	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Warsaw	08/04/1935	^[3]
IAAF
24.3y	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Cleveland	06/09/1935	^[3]
23.6	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Warsaw	08/15/1935	^[3]
24.1	Stephens, Helen ^en	USA	Wuppertal	08.19.1936
24.9y	Norman, Desima ^en	Australia	Sydney	02/10/1938
24.9y	Meeger, Eileen ^en	Canada	Sydney	02/10/1938
24,5y	Norman, Desima ^en	Australia	Sydney	02/10/1938
24.1y	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Cleveland	06/12/1938	^[3]
24.0y	Valasevich, Stanislav	Poland	Cleveland	06/18/1939	^[3]
24.3y	Jackson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Auckland	02/09/1950
24,2y	Blankers Coon, Fanny	Netherlands	Brescia	06/29/1950
24.0	Blankers Coon, Fanny	Netherlands	Brussels	08.27.1950
23.6	Jackson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Helsinki	07.25.1952	23.74
23.4	Jackson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Helsinki	07.25.1952	23.59
24.0y	Jackson-Nelson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Vancouver	08/05/1954
23,8y	Stabnik, Krista ^en	GDR	Erfurt	05/29/1955
23.6y	Itkina, Maria ^en	the USSR	Kiev	07.22.1956
23.2	Cuthbert, Berry ^en	Australia	Sydney	09/16/1956
23.6y	Cuthbert, Berry ^en	Australia	Perth	01/18/1958
23,5y	Cuthbert, Berry ^en	Australia	Sydney	03/08/1958
23.4y	Willard, Marlene ^en	Australia	Sydney	03.22.1958
23,2y	Cuthbert, Berry ^en	Australia	Hobart	03/07/1960
22.9	Rudolph, Wilma	USA	Corpus Christi	07/09/1960
23,2y	Burville, Margaret ^en	Australia	Perth	01/12/1963
22.9y	Burville, Margaret ^en	Australia	Perth	02.22.1964
22.7	Shevynska, Irena	Poland	Warsaw	08.08.1965
22.7	Shevynska, Irena	Poland	Horzov	07/01/1967
22,5A	Shevynska, Irena	Poland	Mexico City	10/18/1968	22,58
22.7y	Ji zheng	Taiwan \|\| align = "left" \| Portland \|\| 06/13/1970 \|\|
22.6y	Ji zheng	Taiwan \|\| align = "left" \| Los angeles \|\| 07/03/1970 \|\|
22.4	Ji zheng	Taiwan \|\| align = "left" \| Munich \|\| 07.12.1970 \|\| 22.62
22.4A	Shteher, Renate	GDR	Munich	09/07/1972	22.40
22.4	Shteher, Renate	GDR	Leipzig	07/01/1973
22.1	Shteher, Renate	GDR	Dresden	07.21.1973	22.38

Electronic stopwatch (since 1975)

As early as the 1920s, a manual stopwatch that measured time with an accuracy of 0.1 s did not meet the requirements of objective refereeing in competitions at short distances. Since it was extremely difficult to improve the world record by 0.1 s, dozens of athletes officially showed the same time and were co-authors of world records. In addition, the process of measuring time was influenced by the “human factor”, for example, the reaction time of the timekeeper. As a result, by the end of the 1960s, the manual stopwatch became universally superseded by automatic electronic. But since the results were still recorded with an accuracy of 0.1 s, and there were no clear rules for rounding, various incidents arose. For example, in 1972, when Renata Shteher set the world record of 22.4 seconds, the electronic stopwatch recorded 22.40 seconds. The following year, it also improved the world record by 0.3 s (22.1 s), although the electronic stopwatch recorded a result of just 0.02 s better (22.38 s).

Only on January 1, 1975, the registration of world records on an electronic stopwatch for distances less than 400 meters was officially introduced. As the first "electronic" record, the result of 22.21 s was shown in 1974 by Irene Shevinska. Backdating some results were included in the table since 1952, for which the readings of the electronic stopwatch were known ^[2] .

RM	RE	PP	Sportsman	A country	A place	date
Electronic
25.03	25.03		Chizman, Sylvia ^en	Great Britain	Helsinki	07.25.1952
24.48	24.48	24.48	Khnykina, Hope	the USSR	Helsinki	07.25.1952
23.74			Jackson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Helsinki	07.25.1952
23.59			Jackson, Marjorie ^en	Australia	Helsinki	07.25.1952
23.55			Cuthbert, Berry ^en	Australia	Melbourne	11/30/1956
	23.89		Stabnik, Krista ^en	Great Britain	Melbourne	11/30/1956
23.30			Rudolph, Wilma	USA	Rome	09/03/1960
	23.82		Hyman, Dorothy ^en	Great Britain	Rome	09/03/1960
	23.82		Kirshenstein, Irena	Poland	Tokyo	10/18/1964
	23.62		Kirshenstein, Irena	Poland	Tokyo	10/18/1964
23.05			McGuire, Edith ^en	USA	Tokyo	10/19/1964
	23.13		Kirshenstein, Irena	Poland	Tokyo	10/19/1964
22.94			Ferrell, Barbara	USA	Mexico City	10/17/1968
22.86			Ferrell, Barbara	USA	Mexico City	10/17/1968
22,58	22,58		Shevynska, Irena	Poland	Mexico City	10/18/1968
22.40	22.40		Shteher, Renate	GDR	Munich	09/07/1972
22.38	22.38		Shteher, Renate	GDR	Dresden	07.21.1973
		22.72	Sidorova, Marina	the USSR	Moscow	08/20/1973
22.21	22.21		Shevynska, Irena	Poland	Potsdam	13.06.1974
22.06	22.06		Koch, Marita	GDR	Erfurt	05/28/1978
		22.52	Kondratieva, Lyudmila	the USSR	Prague	08/01/1978
22.02	22.02		Koch, Marita	GDR	Leipzig	06/03/1979
		22.46	Kondratieva, Lyudmila	the USSR	Leipzig	06.24.1979
21.71	21.71		Koch, Marita	GDR	Karl-Marx-Stadt	06/10/1979
		22.33	Kondratieva, Lyudmila	the USSR	Sittard	07/01/1979
		22.31	Kondratieva, Lyudmila	the USSR	Moscow	06/12/1980
		22.19	Bochina, Natalia	the USSR	Moscow	07/30/1980
21.71	21.71		Koch, Marita	GDR	Potsdam	07.21.1984
21.71	21.71		Drexler, Heike	GDR	Ian	06/29/1986
21.71	21.71		Drexler, Heike	GDR	Stuttgart	08/29/1986
21.56			Griffith-Joyner, Florence	USA	Seoul	09/29/1988
21.34			Griffith-Joyner, Florence	USA	Seoul	09/29/1988
		22.14	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Monaco	06.24.1992
		22.05	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Rieti	07.19.1992
		22.02	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Copenhagen	08.19.1992
		21.93	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Zurich	08/25/1992
		21.88	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Moscow	09/05/1993
		21.87	Privalova, Irina	Russia	Moscow	07.25.1995

Notes

↑ Richard Hymans Progression of the World Best Performances and Official IAAF World Records. IAAF, 2003, 548 p.
² ¹ ² 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009. (Neopr.) (Pdf) Pages 546, 640. Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department (2009). The appeal date was July 29, 2009. Archived October 29, 2012.
↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ The record was later canceled due to the dubious gender status of the athlete. At the post-mortem autopsy, underdeveloped male genital organs were discovered.

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[1] Richard Hymans Progression of the World Best Performances and Official IAAF World Records. IAAF, 2003, 548 p.

[iaaf-2] ² ¹ ² 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009. (Neopr.) (Pdf) Pages 546, 640. Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department (2009). The appeal date was July 29, 2009. Archived October 29, 2012.

[gender-3] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ The record was later canceled due to the dubious gender status of the athlete. At the post-mortem autopsy, underdeveloped male genital organs were discovered.

Chronology of world records in the women's 200 meters (women)

Manual Stopwatch (1922-1976)

Electronic stopwatch (since 1975)

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