Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres
| Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Women's 200m winner Elaine Thompson
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 15 August 2016 (heats) 16 August 2016 (semifinals) 17 August 2016 (final) |
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| Competitors | 64 from 45 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 21.78 | ||||||||||||
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Elaine Thompson |
 Jamaica
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Dafne Schippers |
 Netherlands
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Tori Bowie |
 United States
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The women's 200 metres competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium between 15–17 August.
The fastest entrant in the field was 2015 World Champion Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands at 21.93 seconds for the season. The 2012 Olympic champion Allyson Felix was absent after failing to make the team at the United States Olympic Trials. Tori Bowie won that event and was the only other runner under 22 seconds that year, and also the only one to have beaten Schippers over 200 m that season. The lesser known Deajah Stevens and Jenna Prandini completed the American team. The Jamaican team was headed by 2015 World medallists Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell-Brown (the latter going for her third Olympic title). The 2012 Olympic runner-up Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did not compete and focused on the Olympic 100 m finals. Trinidad and Tobago's Michelle-Lee Ahye and Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain were the other top ten ranked athletes to enter the race.
In the semi-final round, both World Championship medalists #3 of all time, Schippers and #5 of all time, Thompson ran in the first heat. Schippers won the race over Thompson, who ran her season best, but Thompson didn't look like she was running all out at the end while Schippers ran just .03 off her season best. They led Deajah Stevens and Dina Asher-Smith to the time qualifiers. Tori Bowie equalled Thompson's 22.13 in the third semi.
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