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The first World Record in the 200 m for women was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922. The FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1936. However, the IAAF did not maintain a record category for 200 m (bend) as opposed to 200 m (straight) until after 1951.
The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is an WTA 250 tournament on the WTA Tour. As successor to the Japan Open (where men and women played simultaneously, up to 2008) the event was held in women-only form for the first time in 2009 , and was the second tournament of the season held in Japan: the Pan Pacific Open ...
Izumo, Japan 400 m: 44.77 Kentaro Sato: 20 August 2023 World Championships: Budapest, Hungary [3] 800 m: 1:45.75 Sho Kawamoto: 11 May 2014 Golden Grand Prix: Tokyo, Japan [4] Hiroki Minamoto: 17 July 2021 Hokuren Distance Challenge Chitose, Japan [5] [6] 1000 m: 2:18.69 Kentaro Usuda: 15 October 2022 Kobe, Japan 1500 m: 3:35.42 Kazuki Kawamura ...
2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships: Final; Champion: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: Runner-up: Mikhail Youzhny: Score: 6–3, 6–3: ... Japan Open · 2010 → ...
In 2009, she broke Sakie Nobuoka's 200 m Japanese national record of 23.33 seconds in Hiroshima, recording 23.14 seconds. [2] Soon after, she broke the national record in the 100 m for the first time, registering 11.28, then 11.24 seconds. She also broke the 200 metres Japanese record again with a run of 23.14 seconds. Fukushima improved upon ...
Osaka, Japan: 30 August 2007 World leading Tyson Gay (USA) 19.58: New York, United States: 30 May 2009 African record Frankie Fredericks (NAM) 19.68: Atlanta, United States 1 August 1996 Asian Record Shingo Suetsugu (JPN) 20.03: Yokohama, Japan: 7 June 2003 North American record Usain Bolt (JAM) 19.30: Beijing, China 20 August 2008 South ...
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 women's world record has never been broken at the competition. Usain Bolt is the most successful athlete of the event, having won four successive titles from 2009 to 2015, and also a ...
The women's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 19, 20 and 21 August. Olympic silver medalist and defending World champion Allyson Felix (USA) established herself as the pre-race favorite, having run under 22 seconds earlier in the season.