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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres

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Women's 200 metres
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 3 (heats)
September 5 (semifinals and final)
Competitors29 from 17 nations
Winning time24.1
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wilma Rudolph
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jutta Heine
 United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dorothy Hyman
 Great Britain
← 1956
1964 →
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The women's 200 metres sprint event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 3 and September 5.[1] The winning margin was 0.45 seconds.

Results

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Heats

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Held on September 3 from 3pm

The top two runners in each of the six heats (blue), plus the next two fastest (pink) advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Giuseppina Leone  Italy 23.90
2 Lucinda Williams  United States 24.10
3 Hannelore Raepke  United Team of Germany 24.32
4 Pat Duggan  Australia 24.80

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany 24.32
2 Catherine Capdevielle  France 24.46
3 Ulla-Britt Wieslander  Sweden 24.82
4 Jean Hiscock  Great Britain 24.85
5 Ilana Karaszyk  Israel 26.69

Heat three

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jutta Heine  United Team of Germany 24.04
2 Norma Croker-Fleming  Australia 24.35
3 Alena Stolzová  Czechoslovakia 24.85
4 Lyudmila Ignatyeva  Soviet Union 24.90
5 Valerie Morgan  New Zealand 25.39

Heat four

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta  Poland 24.08
2 Mariya Itkina  Soviet Union 24.20
3 Antónia Munkácsi  Hungary 24.53
4 Mona Sulaiman  Philippines 25.98

Heat five

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Dorothy Hyman  Great Britain 23.82
2 Celina Jesionowska  Poland 24.45
3 Eleanor Haslam  Canada 24.63
4 Ernestine Pollards  United States 24.64
5 Olga Šikovec  Yugoslavia 24.95

Heat six

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Wilma Rudolph  United States 23.30 OR
2 Valentyna Maslovska  Soviet Union 24.12
3 Jenny Smart  Great Britain 24.12
4 Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann  Poland 24.31
5 Maeve Kyle  Ireland 25.06
6 Erzsébet Heldt  Hungary 25.50

Semifinals

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Held on September 5 from 3:40pm

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Wilma Rudolph  United States 23.79
2 Jutta Heine  United Team of Germany 24.15
3 Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta  Poland 24.36
4 Norma Croker-Fleming  Australia 24.44
5 Jenny Smart  Great Britain 24.74
6 Valentina Maslovskaya  Soviet Union 24.77
7 Catherine Capdevielle  France 25.04

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Giuseppina Leone  Italy 24.69
2 Dorothy Hyman  Great Britain 24.78
3 Mariya Itkina  Soviet Union 24.81
4 Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer  United Team of Germany 25.05
5 Lucinda Williams  United States 25.14
6 Celina Jesionowska  Poland 25.45

Final

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Held on September 5 at 5:10pm

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wilma Rudolph  United States 24.13
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jutta Heine  United Team of Germany 24.58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dorothy Hyman  Great Britain 24.82
4 Mariya Itkina  Soviet Union 24.85
5 Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta  Poland 24.96
6 Giuseppina Leone  Italy 25.01

Key: OR = Olympic record

Note: For the only time in Olympic sprint history, every finalist ran their fastest time for the event in the heats and their slowest time in the final, owing to rain, head winds and the schedule where the finalists had less than 90 minutes rest between the semi-final and final, instead of the usual entire day.

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2017.