| Final wind 0.3m/s | time | L | 100m | | 1. Marie-Jose Perec |  FRA | 22.12s | 3 | 11.38s 5. | | 2. Merlene Ottey |  JAM | 22.24s | 5 | 11.28s 1. | | 3. Mary Onyali |  NGR | 22.38s | 4 | 11.37s 4. | | 4. Inger Miller |  USA | 22.41s | 7 | 11.36s 3. | | 5. Galina Malchugina |  RUS | 22.45s | 6 | 11.56s 8. | | 6. Chandra Sturrup |  BAH | 22.54s | 8 | 11.32s 2. | | 7. Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | 22.60s | 1 | 11.51s 7. | | 8. Carlette Guidry | USA | 22.61s | 2 | 11.41s 6. |
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| | Venue: Centennial Olympic Stadium. | | 47 competitors from 32 nations. |
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| | | First 4 from each of 2 Semis advanced to Final. |
| Semi 1 | time | L | | 1. Marie-Jose Perec | FRA | 22.07s | 4 | | 2. Mary Onyali | NGR | 22.16s | 3 | | 3. Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | 22.24s | 5 | | 4. Inger Miller | USA | 22.33s | 7 | | 5. Dannette Young | USA | 22.49s | 6 | | 6. Cathy Freeman |  AUS | 22.78s | 2 | | 7. Natalya Safronnikova |  BLR | 22.98s | 1 | | -. Irina Privalova | RUS | DNS | 8 |
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| Semi 2 | time | L | | 1. Merlene Ottey | JAM | 22.08s | 4 | | 2. Galina Malchugina | RUS | 22.35s | 6 | | 3. Chandra Sturrup | BAH | 22.54s | 5 | | 4. Carlette Guidry | USA | 22.56s | 3 | | 5. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.76s | 2 | | 6. Melanie Paschke |  GER | 22.81s | 7 | | 7. Alenka Bikar |  SLO | 22.82s | 8 | | 8. Katerina Koffa |  GRE | 23.20s | 1 |
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Pérec was the fastest athlete in each round, with times of 22.62, 22.24
and 22.07 before the final. However, she was only marginally faster
than Ottey who won the other semi-final in 22.08. The 400m winner
towed Onyali (22.16), Cuthbert (22.24) and Miller (22.33) to fast
times, while Malchugina (22.35) followed Ottey home.
The Jamaican started best in the final, and led by half a metre from
Sturrup and a metre from the rest at halfway. Pérec was fifth, but her
strength in the 200m was known to be her finishing power. The
Frenchwoman’s giant strides cut down the field in the straight, and she
caught the tiring Ottey with 15m to go, and won going away by a
metre. Ottey won her fourth medal in five 200m finals!
Writing in the ATFS Golden Jubilee book in 2000, Swedish expert
Lennart Julin noted that “a blatant lane violation by Pérec … passed
unnoticed by both judges and media.”
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| | | First 4 from each of 4 Quarters advanced to Semi-Finals. |
| Quarter 1 | time | L | | 1. Carlette Guidry | USA | 22.51s | 3 | | 2. Chandra Sturrup | BAH | 22.81s | 6 | | 3. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.91s | 4 | | 4. Natalya Safronnikova | BLR | 23.15s | 2 | | 5. Sanna Hernesniemi |  FIN | 23.38s | 1 | | 6. Monika Gachevska |  BUL | 23.44s | 8 | | 7. Ameerah Bello |  ISV | 23.66s | 7 |
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| Quarter 2 | time | L | | 1. Merlene Ottey | JAM | 22.61s | 4 | | 2. Galina Malchugina | RUS | 22.69s | 3 | | 3. Melanie Paschke | GER | 22.84s | 5 | | 4. Katerina Koffa | GRE | 23.04s | 7 | | 5. Katharine Merry |  GBR | 23.17s | 6 | | 6. Sevatheda Fynes | BAH | 23.26s | 8 | | 7. Jiankui Yan |  CHN | 23.30s | 1 | | 8. Viktoriya Fomenko |  UKR | 23.44s | 2 |
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| Quarter 3 | time | L | | 1. Marie-Jose Perec | FRA | 22.24s | 3 | | 2. Mary Onyali | NGR | 22.37s | 5 | | 3. Inger Miller | USA | 22.57s | 6 | | 4. Cathy Freeman | AUS | 22.74s | 1 | | 5. Lucrecia Jardim |  POR | 22.88s | 4 | | 6. Simmone Jacobs | GBR | 22.96s | 7 | | 7. Sandra Myers |  ESP | 23.20s | 2 | | 8. Heather Samuel |  ANT | 23.54s | 8 |
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| Quarter 4 | time | L | | 1. Dannette Young | USA | 22.53s | 6 | | 2. Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | 22.62s | 4 | | 3. Irina Privalova | RUS | 22.82s | 3 | | 4. Alenka Bikar | SLO | 22.89s | 5 | | 5. Myra Mayberry |  PUR | 23.48s | 8 | | 6. Patricia Rodriguez |  COL | 23.50s | 1 | | 7. Calister Ubah | NGR | 23.62s | 7 | | 8. Zhanna Pintusevych | UKR | 23.68s | 2 |
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| | | First 4 from each of 6 Heats and 8 Best times advanced to Quarter-Finals. |
| Heat 1 | time | L | | 1. Carlette Guidry | USA | 22.37s | 5 | | 2. Mary Onyali | NGR | 22.42s | 8 | | 3. Melanie Paschke | GER | 22.93s | 3 | | 4. Patricia Rodriguez | COL | 23.13s | 2 | | 5. Jiankui YAN | CHN | 23.21s | 1 | | 6. Myra Mayberry | PUR | 23.23s | 7 | | 7. Zlatka Georgieva | BUL | 24.05s | 4 | | 8. Laure Kuetey |  BEN | 25.57s | 6 |
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| Heat 2 | time | L | | 1. Dannette Young | USA | 22.65s | 2 | | 2. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.70s | 7 | | 3. Lucrecia Jardim | POR | 22.95s | 5 | | 4. Viktoriya Fomenko | UKR | 23.18s | 1 | | 5. Sandra Myers | ESP | 23.18s | 6 | | 6. Calister Ubah | NGR | 23.34s | 3 | | 7. Dora Kyriakou |  CYP | 23.85s | 4 | | 8. M'mah Toure |  GUI | 26.64s | 8 |
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| Heat 3 | time | L | | 1. Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | 23.03s | 6 | | 2. Irina Privalova | RUS | 23.16s | 2 | | 3. Cathy Freeman | AUS | 23.25s | 1 | | 4. Sanna Hernesniemi | FIN | 23.35s | 7 | | 5. Mireille Donders |  SUI | 23.52s | 8 | | 6. Maia Azarashvili |  GEO | 23.63s | 5 | | 7. Felipa Palacios | COL | 24.12s | 4 | | 8. Lineo Shoai |  LES | 26.25s | 3 |
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| Heat 4 | time | L | | 1. Merlene Ottey | JAM | 22.92s | 7 | | 2. Katharine Merry | GBR | 23.14s | 1 | | 3. Monika Gachevska | BUL | 23.30s | 6 | | 4. Heather Samuel | ANT | 23.34s | 5 | | 5. Ameerah Bello | ISV | 23.45s | 4 | | 6. Xiujie Du | CHN | 23.69s | 3 | | 7. Guilhermina Cruz |  ANG | 24.92s | 8 | | -. Marina Trandenkova | RUS | DNS | 2 |
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| Heat 5 | time | L | | 1. Galina Malchugina | RUS | 22.63s | 1 | | 2. Chandra Sturrup | BAH | 22.63s | 7 | | 3. Beverly Mcdonald | JAM | 23.04s | 6 | | 4. Zhanna Pintusevych | UKR | 23.15s | 5 | | 5. Simmone Jacobs | GBR | 23.36s | 2 | | 6. Tara Perry |  CAN | 23.46s | 3 | | 7. Marina Zivkovic |  YUG | 23.51s | 4 | | 8. Nadjina Kaltouma |  CHA | 24.47s | 8 |
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| Heat 6 | time | L | | 1. Marie-Jose Perec | FRA | 22.62s | 5 | | 2. Inger Miller | USA | 22.74s | 3 | | 3. Alenka Bikar | SLO | 22.88s | 7 | | 4. Katerina Koffa | GRE | 23.09s | 4 | | 5. Natalya Safronnikova | BLR | 23.14s | 8 | | 6. Sevatheda Fynes | BAH | 23.39s | 2 | | 7. Georgette Nkoma |  CMR | 23.68s | 1 | | 8. Lyudmila Dmitriadi |  UZB | 24.88s | 6 |
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