| Final 19:55 wind 0.7m/s | time | L | 100m | 200m | | 1. Pauline Davis-Thompson |  Bahamas | 22.27s PB | 3 | 11.3s | 11.0s | | 2. Susanthika Jayasinghe |  Sri Lanka | 22.28s NR | 6 | 11.2s | 11.1s | | 3. Beverly McDonald |  Jamaica | 22.35s SB | 1 | 11.4s | 11.0s | | 4. Debbie Ferguson | Bahamas | 22.37s SB | 5 | 11.3s | 11.1s | | 5. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor |  Australia | 22.42s SB | 7 | 11.4s | 11.0s | | 6. Cathy Freeman | Australia | 22.53s SB | 2 | 11.7s | 10.8s | | 7. Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich |  Ukraine | 22.66s SB | 8 | 11.4s | 11.3s | | 8. Felipa Palacios |  Colombia | | | | | | DQ.Marion Jones |  United States | 21.84s SB | 4 | 11.0s | 10.8s |
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Winner Marion Jones (USA) was disqualified by rule 40.8. Felipa Palacios (COL) is Rightful finalist in place of Jones.
McDonald was the fastest in the first two rounds (22.50 and 22.44),
while the doomed Marion Jones looked relaxed and impressive with
22.75 and 22.50 clockings. Jones won her semi-final easily in 22.40 (-
1.4) ahead of Ferguson (22.62). Davis won the other race in friendlier
conditions (0.7) in 22.38, from Jayasinghe (22.45).
Jones powered through the curve in the final, and led by 3m into the
straight. She gained another metre in the second half of the race to win
by 0.44 seconds. Davis just edged Jayasinghe for second by 0.01, while
home favourites Gainsford and Freeman were sixth and seventh.
Jones’s margin of victory was similar to America’s previous 100/200
doublers – Griffith-Joyner (0.38) and Wilma Rudolph (0.45), but less
than Blankers-Koen (0.7 in 1948). That statistic lost all meaning in
2007 when Jones admitted to doping violations going back to before
Sydney. She was swiftly stripped of her title, and in December 2009 the
IOC upgraded all the other finalists, meaning that Davies became, in
retrospect, her country’s first Olympic Champion in athletics.
| Semi 1 18:00 | time | L | React. | | 1. Marion Jones |  USA | 22.40s | 5 | 0.233 | | 2. Debbie Ferguson |  BAH | 22.62s | 4 | 0.191 | | 3. Beverly McDonald |  JAM | 22.70s | 3 | 0.250 | | 4. Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich |  UKR | 22.74s | 2 | 0.171 | | 5. Felipa Palacios |  COL | 23.11s | 1 | 0.189 | | 6. Mercy Nku |  NGR | 23.40s | 8 | 0.222 | | 7. Lauren Hewitt |  AUS | 23.44s | 7 | 0.290 | | 8. Myriam Leonie Mani |  CMR | 23.47s | 6 | 0.180 |
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| Semi 2 18:08 | time | L | React. | | 1. Pauline Davis-Thompson | BAH | 22.38s PB | 5 | 0.227 | | 2. Susanthika Jayasinghe |  SRI | 22.45s | 6 | 0.253 | | 3. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.61s | 3 | 0.226 | | 4. Cathy Freeman | AUS | 22.71s | 2 | 0.262 | | 5. Louise Ayetotche |  CIV | 22.76s NR | 4 | 0.219 | | 6. Torri Edwards | USA | 23.06s | 7 | 0.170 | | 7. Muriel Hurtis |  FRA | 23.13s | 8 | 0.208 | | 8. Nanceen Perry | USA | 23.16s | 1 | 0.159 |
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| Quarter 1 18:55 | time | L | | 1. Beverly McDonald | JAM | 22.44s | 5 | | 2. Pauline Davis-Thompson | BAH | 22.72s | 3 | | 3. Cathy Freeman | AUS | 22.75s | 7 | | 4. Nanceen Perry | USA | 22.95s | 6 | | 5. Marina Trandenkova |  RUS | 23.10s | 2 | | 6. Johanna Manninen |  FIN | 23.41s | 1 | | 7. Joice Maduaka |  GBR | 23.57s | 8 | | -. Cydonie Mothersill |  CAY | DNS | 4 |
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| Quarter 2 19:01 | time | L | | 1. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.49s | 3 | | 2. Marion Jones | USA | 22.50s | 5 | | 3. Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich | UKR | 22.70s | 6 | | 4. Mercy Nku | NGR | 22.95s | 4 | | 5. Alenka Bikar |  SLO | 23.01s | 8 | | 6. Oksana Dyachenko-Ekk | RUS | 23.17s | 7 | | 7. Samantha Davies | GBR | 23.20s | 2 | | 8. Sabrina Mulrain |  GER | 23.24s | 1 |
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| Quarter 3 19:07 | time | L | | 1. Debbie Ferguson | BAH | 22.72s | 3 | | 2. Myriam Leonie Mani | CMR | 22.88s | 6 | | 3. Torri Edwards | USA | 22.98s | 7 | | 4. Muriel Hurtis | FRA | 22.98s | 5 | | 5. Mary Onyali | NGR | 23.03s | 4 | | 6. Irina Khabarova | RUS | 23.27s | 2 | | 7. Olena Pastushenko | UKR | 23.63s | 1 | | -. Astia Walker | JAM | DNF | 8 |
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| Quarter 4 19:13 | time | L | | 1. Susanthika Jayasinghe | SRI | 22.54s | 6 | | 2. Louise Ayetotche | CIV | 22.86s | 3 | | 3. Lauren Hewitt | AUS | 23.12s | 5 | | 4. Felipa Palacios | COL | 23.19s | 4 | | 5. Chandra Sturrup | BAH | 23.21s | 7 | | 6. Fatima Yusuf | NGR | 23.21s | 2 | | 7. Juliet Campbell | JAM | 23.34s | 1 | | 8. Valma Bass |  STK | 23.57s | 8 |
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| Heat 1 11:09 | time | L | | 1. Marion Jones | USA | 22.75s | 5 | | 2. Cydonie Mothersill | CAY | 22.78s | 4 | | 3. Felipa Palacios | COL | 23.08s | 6 | | 4. Oksana Dyachenko-Ekk | RUS | 23.17s | 3 | | 5. Fatima Yusuf | NGR | 23.21s | 2 | | 6. Alenka Bikar | SLO | 23.26s | 8 | | 7. Monica Twum |  GHA | 23.51s | 7 |
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| Heat 2 11:15 | time | L | | 1. Myriam eonie Mani | CMR | 22.68s | 5 | | 2. Muriel Hurtis | FRA | 23.04s | 6 | | 3. Cathy Freeman | AUS | 23.11s | 2 | | 4. Juliet Campbell | JAM | 23.18s | 3 | | 5. Sarah Reilly |  IRL | 23.43s | 1 | | 6. Zuzanna Radecka |  POL | 23.57s | 7 | | 7. Nadjina Kaltouma |  CHA | 23.81s | 8 | | 8. Ahmed Saleh |  YEM | 30.36s | 4 |
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| Heat 3 11:21 | time | L | | 1. Lauren Hewitt | AUS | 23.07s | 3 | | 2. Mercy Nku | NGR | 23.14s | 2 | | 3. Nanceen Perry | USA | 23.18s | 7 | | 4. Johanna Manninen | FIN | 23.40s | 8 | | 5. Ekaterini Koffa |  GRE | 23.53s | 6 | | 6. Lineo Shoai |  LES | 25.57s | 1 | | -. Manuela Levorato |  ITA | DNS | 4 | | -. Andrea Philipp | GER | DNS | 5 |
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| Heat 4 11:27 | time | L | | 1. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor | AUS | 22.71s | 7 | | 2. Louise Ayetotche | CIV | 22.85s | 5 | | 3. Chandra Sturrup | BAH | 23.09s | 2 | | 4. Olena Pastushenko | UKR | 23.64s | 8 | | 5. Lyubov Perepelova |  UZB | 23.83s | 3 | | 6. Karin Mayr |  AUT | 23.90s | 6 | | 7. Akonga Nsimbo |  COD | 25.35s | 4 | | -. Ameerah Bello |  ISV | DNS | 1 |
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| Heat 5 11:33 | time | L | | 1. Beverly McDonald | JAM | 22.50s | 5 | | 2. Pauline Davis-Thompson | BAH | 22.61s | 4 | | 3. Irina Khabarova | RUS | 23.21s | 3 | | 4. Valma Bass | STK | 23.37s | 8 | | 5. Mireille Donders |  SUI | 23.44s | 1 | | 6. Xiaomei Liu |  CHN | 23.56s | 6 | | 7. Joanne Durant |  BAR | 23.90s | 7 | | 8. Heather Samuel |  ANT | 24.44s | 2 |
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| Heat 6 11:39 | time | L | | 1. Mary Onyali | NGR | 22.90s | 8 | | 2. Debbie Ferguson | BAH | 23.19s | 1 | | 3. Sabrina Mulrain | GER | 23.31s | 7 | | 4. Astia Walker | JAM | 23.33s | 5 | | 5. Samantha Davies | GBR | 23.36s | 4 | | 6. Wangping Qin | CHN | 24.10s | 3 | | 7. Mila Savic |  YUG | 24.12s | 2 | | 8. Monika Gachevska |  BUL | 24.16s | 6 |
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| Heat 7 11:45 | time | L | | 1. Susanthika Jayasinghe | SRI | 22.53s | 6 | | 2. Zhanna Tarnopolskaya-Pintusevich | UKR | 23.13s | 5 | | 3. Torri Edwards | USA | 23.29s | 3 | | 4. Marina Trandenkova | RUS | 23.31s | 8 | | 5. Joice Maduaka | GBR | 23.36s | 7 | | 6. Aida Diop |  SEN | 23.46s | 4 | | 7. Hellena Wrappah | GHA | 23.64s | 2 |
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