Final wind 0.3m/s time L 100m 1. Marie-Jose Perec FRA22.12s 3 11.38s 5. 2. Merlene Ottey JAM22.24s 5 11.28s 1. 3. Mary Onyali NGR22.38s 4 11.37s 4. 4. Inger Miller USA22.41s 7 11.36s 3. 5. Galina Malchugina RUS22.45s 6 11.56s 8. 6. Chandra Sturrup BAH22.54s 8 11.32s 2. 7. Juliet Cuthbert JAM22.60s 1 11.51s 7. 8. Carlette Guidry USA22.61s 2 11.41s 6.
Venue: Centennial Olympic Stadium. 47 competitors from 32 nations.
First 4 from each of 2 Semis advanced to Final.
Semi 1 time L 1. Marie-Jose Perec FRA22.07s 4 2. Mary Onyali NGR22.16s 3 3. Juliet Cuthbert JAM22.24s 5 4. Inger Miller USA22.33s 7 5. Dannette Young USA22.49s 6 6. Cathy Freeman AUS22.78s 2 7. Natalya Safronnikova BLR22.98s 1 -. Irina Privalova RUSDNS 8
Semi 2 time L 1. Merlene Ottey JAM22.08s 4 2. Galina Malchugina RUS22.35s 6 3. Chandra Sturrup BAH22.54s 5 4. Carlette Guidry USA22.56s 3 5. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor AUS22.76s 2 6. Melanie Paschke GER22.81s 7 7. Alenka Bikar SLO22.82s 8 8. Katerina Koffa GRE23.20s 1
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.”
First 4 from each of 4 Quarters advanced to Semi-Finals .
Quarter 1 time L 1. Carlette Guidry USA22.51s 3 2. Chandra Sturrup BAH22.81s 6 3. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor AUS22.91s 4 4. Natalya Safronnikova BLR23.15s 2 5. Sanna Hernesniemi FIN23.38s 1 6. Monika Gachevska BUL23.44s 8 7. Ameerah Bello ISV23.66s 7
Quarter 2 time L 1. Merlene Ottey JAM22.61s 4 2. Galina Malchugina RUS22.69s 3 3. Melanie Paschke GER22.84s 5 4. Katerina Koffa GRE23.04s 7 5. Katharine Merry GBR23.17s 6 6. Sevatheda Fynes BAH23.26s 8 7. Jiankui Yan CHN23.30s 1 8. Viktoriya Fomenko UKR23.44s 2
Quarter 3 time L 1. Marie-Jose Perec FRA22.24s 3 2. Mary Onyali NGR22.37s 5 3. Inger Miller USA22.57s 6 4. Cathy Freeman AUS22.74s 1 5. Lucrecia Jardim POR22.88s 4 6. Simmone Jacobs GBR22.96s 7 7. Sandra Myers ESP23.20s 2 8. Heather Samuel ANT23.54s 8
Quarter 4 time L 1. Dannette Young USA22.53s 6 2. Juliet Cuthbert JAM22.62s 4 3. Irina Privalova RUS22.82s 3 4. Alenka Bikar SLO22.89s 5 5. Myra Mayberry PUR23.48s 8 6. Patricia Rodriguez COL23.50s 1 7. Calister Ubah NGR23.62s 7 8. Zhanna Pintusevych UKR23.68s 2
First 4 from each of 6 Heats and 8 Best times advanced to Quarter-Finals .
Heat 1 time L 1. Carlette Guidry USA22.37s 5 2. Mary Onyali NGR22.42s 8 3. Melanie Paschke GER22.93s 3 4. Patricia Rodriguez COL23.13s 2 5. Jiankui YAN CHN23.21s 1 6. Myra Mayberry PUR23.23s 7 7. Zlatka Georgieva BUL24.05s 4 8. Laure Kuetey BEN25.57s 6
Heat 2 time L 1. Dannette Young USA22.65s 2 2. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor AUS22.70s 7 3. Lucrecia Jardim POR22.95s 5 4. Viktoriya Fomenko UKR23.18s 1 5. Sandra Myers ESP23.18s 6 6. Calister Ubah NGR23.34s 3 7. Dora Kyriakou CYP23.85s 4 8. M'mah Toure GUI26.64s 8
Heat 3 time L 1. Juliet Cuthbert JAM23.03s 6 2. Irina Privalova RUS23.16s 2 3. Cathy Freeman AUS23.25s 1 4. Sanna Hernesniemi FIN23.35s 7 5. Mireille Donders SUI23.52s 8 6. Maia Azarashvili GEO23.63s 5 7. Felipa Palacios COL24.12s 4 8. Lineo Shoai LES26.25s 3
Heat 4 time L 1. Merlene Ottey JAM22.92s 7 2. Katharine Merry GBR23.14s 1 3. Monika Gachevska BUL23.30s 6 4. Heather Samuel ANT23.34s 5 5. Ameerah Bello ISV23.45s 4 6. Xiujie Du CHN23.69s 3 7. Guilhermina Cruz ANG24.92s 8 -. Marina Trandenkova RUSDNS 2
Heat 5 time L 1. Galina Malchugina RUS22.63s 1 2. Chandra Sturrup BAH22.63s 7 3. Beverly Mcdonald JAM23.04s 6 4. Zhanna Pintusevych UKR23.15s 5 5. Simmone Jacobs GBR23.36s 2 6. Tara Perry CAN23.46s 3 7. Marina Zivkovic YUG23.51s 4 8. Nadjina Kaltouma CHA24.47s 8
Heat 6 time L 1. Marie-Jose Perec FRA22.62s 5 2. Inger Miller USA22.74s 3 3. Alenka Bikar SLO22.88s 7 4. Katerina Koffa GRE23.09s 4 5. Natalya Safronnikova BLR23.14s 8 6. Sevatheda Fynes BAH23.39s 2 7. Georgette Nkoma CMR23.68s 1 8. Lyudmila Dmitriadi UZB24.88s 6
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