Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
| Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 6–8 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 54 from 39 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 21.88 | ||||||||||||
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Allyson Felix |
 United States
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce |
 Jamaica
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Carmelita Jeter |
United States
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The Women's 200 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6–8 August.
The times in the three semi-finals were very close, but while Allyson Felix appeared to put a minimum of effort to hold off Murielle Ahouré in heat two, in heat one Veronica Campbell-Brown dipped at the finish to edge Carmelita Jeter and in heat three Sanya Richards-Ross raced Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to the line. Semoy Hackett set the Trinidad and Tobago national record as the first time qualifier, Myriam Soumaré only one hundredth behind as the other time qualifier in 22.56.
In the final Felix took lead through the turn and extended it to the finish. Campbell-Brown was second coming into the straight but was overtaken by Fraser-Pryce and Jeter who took the silver and bronze respectively.
The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the Semifinals along with the fastest overall competitors not already qualified that were required to fill the available spaces in the Semifinals. A total of eight competitors qualified for the Final from the Semifinals.
Prior to the competition[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.5 m/s
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