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It is the most prestigious 200 m race at elite level. The competition format typically has three or four qualifying rounds leading to a final race between eight athletes. The Olympic records for the distance are 19.30 seconds for men, set by Usain Bolt in 2008, and 21.34 seconds set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.
With his score, De Grasse finally moved into the top 10 of all-time in the 200m, a status foretold six years earlier with a wind-aided 19.58 while competing for the University of Southern California. Bednarek, in second, ran 19.68 to claim a tie with Frankie Fredericks (second behind Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics).
Christine Mboma (NAM) 21.78 (2021) Start (green) and end (red) points of a 200 metre race, marked on a running track The 200 metres , or 200-meter dash , is a sprint running event.
By winning the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Tebogo became the first Olympic gold medal winner from Botswana and the first runner from Africa to win the 200m final at the Olympic Games.
Can Lyles win the 200m final as he bids to become just the fifth man to take home the triple of 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at the Olympic Games?
De Grasse is the first Olympic 200 champion besides Usain Bolt since 2004, and he edged out Americans Kenny Bednarek, Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton.
The championship records for the event are 19.19 seconds for men, set by Usain Bolt in 2009, and 21.41 seconds for women, set by Shericka Jackson in 2023. The men's world record has been broken at the competition on one occasion, and Bolt's championship record set in 2009 remains the world record as of 2015. [ 1 ]
Noah Lyles won the men's 200m race at the 2023 USATF NYC Grand Prix in 19.83 seconds. ... The 25-year-old American sprinter recorded his 34th career sub-20 second 200-meter race after he won the ...