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| Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Stadium Australia | |||||||||
| Date | 27 September 2000 (heats and quarter-finals) 28 September 2000 (semi-finals and final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 52 from 38 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 22.27 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | women |
| 100 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | women |
| 20 km walk | men | women |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | women |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | women |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Heptathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
| Wheelchair races | ||
The Women's 200 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics programme was held at Stadium Australia on Wednesday 27 September, and Thursday 28 September 2000.[1] The winning margin was 0.01 seconds. The winner had the third fastest reaction time in the final.
The top four runners in each of the initial seven heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next four fastest runners from across the heats also qualified for the second round, and the top four runners in each of the four second round heats automatically qualified for the semi-final.
The top four runners in each semi-final automatically qualified for the final. There were a total number of 54 participating athletes.
U.S. sprinter Marion Jones was stripped of her gold medal following her 2007 admission of taking performance-enhancing steroids. Medals were reallocated accordingly.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World Record | 21.34 s | Florence Griffith-Joyner | United States | Seoul, South Korea | 29 September 1988 |
| Olympic Record | 21.34 s | Florence Griffith-Joyner | United States | Seoul, South Korea | 29 September 1988 |
No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.
Medals
Gold: 
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Silver: 
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Bronze: 
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Pauline Davis-Thompson,  Bahamas
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Susanthika Jayasinghe,  Sri Lanka
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Beverly McDonald,  Jamaica
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Results
All times shown are in seconds.
- Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
- q denotes qualification by overall place.
- DNS denotes did not start.
- DNF denotes did not finish.
- DQ denotes disqualification.
- NR denotes national record.
- OR denotes Olympic record.
- WR denotes world record.
- PB denotes personal best.
- SB denotes season best.
Qualifying heats
Round 1
| Heat 1 of 7 Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000 | ||||||||
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| Place | Athlete | Nation | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | |
| Heat | Overall | |||||||
| 1 | 6 | Marion Jones |  United States
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5 | 0.225 | 22.75 | Q | |
| 2 | 7 | Cydonie Mothersill |  Cayman Islands
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4 | 0.246 | 22.78 | Q | |
| 3 | 12 | Felipa Palacios |  Colombia
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6 | 0.215 | 23.08 | Q | SB |
| 4 | 17 | Oksana Ekk |  Russia
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3 | 0.159 | 23.17 | Q | |
| 5 | 21T | Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju |  Nigeria
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2 | 0.222 | 23.21 | q | |
| 6 | 23 | Alenka Bikar |  Slovenia
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8 | 0.191 | 23.26 | q | |
| 7 | 35 | Monica Afia Twum |  Ghana
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7 | 0.164 | 23.51 | ||
| Heat 2 of 7 Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000 | ||||||||
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| Place | Athlete | Nation | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | |
| Heat | Overall | |||||||
| 1 | 4 | Leonie Mani |  Cameroon
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5 | 0.150 | 22.68 | Q | |
| 2 | 10 | Muriel Hurtis |  France
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6 | 0.220 | 23.04 | Q | |
| 3 | 14 | Cathy Freeman |  Australia
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2 | 0.261 | 23.11 | Q | |
| 4 | 18T | Juliet Campbell | Jamaica
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3 | 0.289 | 23.18 | Q | |
| 5 | 32 | Sarah Reilly |  Ireland
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1 | 0.175 | 23.43 | ||
| 6 | 38 | Zuzanna Radecka |  Poland
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7 | 0.157 | 23.57 | ||
| 7 | 41 | Nadjina Kaltouma |  Chad
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8 | 0.344 | 23.81 | ||
| 8 | 51 | Hana Ali Salah |  Yemen
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4 | 30.46 | |||
| Heat 3 of 7 Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000 | ||||||||
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| Place | Athlete | Nation | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | |
| Heat | Overall | |||||||
| 1 | 11 | Lauren Hewitt | Australia
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3 | 0.226 | 23.07 | Q | |
| 2 | 16 | Mercy Nku | Nigeria
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2 | 0.180 | 23.14 | Q | |
| 3 | 18T | Nanceen Perry | United States
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7 | 0.179 | 23.18 | Q | |
| 4 | 31 | Johanna Manninen |  Finland
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8 | 0.222 | 23.40 | Q | |
| 5 | 36 | Ekaterini Koffa |  Greece
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6 | 0.245 | 25.53 | ||
| 6 | 50 | Dineo Shoal |  Lesotho
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1 | 0.171 | 25.57 | ||
| Manuela Levorato |  Italy
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4 | DNS | |||||
| Andrea Philipp |  Germany
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5 | DNS | |||||
