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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]
The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which as of 2024 is the only time the men's 200 metres has been won by more than half a second at these championships. The race favourites were Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt. Gay entered the competition as the reigning world champion, championship record holder, and 200 m world leader with 19.58 seconds. Bolt, the ...
The world leader coming into this was 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton with a 19.49. Alexander Ogando set a national record to win heat 1, Knighton won heat 3 and defending champion Noah Lyles won semi 2 ahead of the next fastest qualifier Kenny Bednarek , putting those four in the center of the track for the final.
This is a list of the men's athletics champions at the Olympics and World Championships in the sprint events since the introduction of the World Championships in 1983. Combining the lists of global champions into a single timeline allows patterns of success and dominance to be demonstrated, as well as highlighting the occasional shock results.
The men's world record holder is Usain Bolt of Jamaica, who ran 19.19 s at the 2009 World Championships. The women's world record holder is Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States, who ran 21.34 s at the 1988 Summer Olympics. The reigning Olympic champions are Letsile Tebogo (BOT) and Gabrielle Thomas (USA).
Lyles, who specializes in the 200-meter dash, claimed the silver with a time of 6.44 seconds. ... as he is the first man since Usain Bolt to win the 100m and 200m title at the same world ...
5 August 2017 World Para Junior Championships Nottwil, Switzerland [28] T43 1:22.08 Achileas Stamatiadis Greece 1 June 2024 Thessaloniki, Greece 45.39 Oscar Pistorius South Africa 28 August 2011 World Championships in Athletics: Daegu, South Korea [28] T44 52.81 Nour Alsana Saudi Arabia 24 October 2023 Asian Para Games: Hangzhou, China 49.66
Léon Marchand of France set a short-course, 25-meter world record on Friday with a time of 1:48.88 in the 200m individual medley at the World Aquatics World Cup in Singapore.. Marchand's winning ...