Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres

Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 3 (heats) September 5 (semifinals and final)
Medalists
Wilma Rudolph United States   Jutta Heine United Team of Germany   Dorothy Hyman Great Britain

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 200 metres sprint event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 3 and September 5.

Results

Heats

Held on September 3 from 3pm

The top two runners in each of the six heats (blue), plus the next two fastest (pink) advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	23.90
2	Lucinda Williams	United States	24.10
3	Hannelore Raepke	United Team of Germany	24.32
4	Pat Duggan	Australia	24.80

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer	United Team of Germany	24.32
2	Catherine Capdevielle	France	24.46
3	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	24.82
4	Jean Hiscock	Great Britain	24.85
5	Ilana Karaszyk	Israel	26.69

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jutta Heine	United Team of Germany	24.04
2	Norma Croker-Fleming	Australia	24.35
3	Alena Stolzová	Czechoslovakia	24.85
4	Lyudmila Ignatyeva	Soviet Union	24.90
5	Valerie Morgan	New Zealand	25.39

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta	Poland	24.08
2	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	24.20
3	Antónia Munkácsi	Hungary	24.53
4	Mona Sulaiman	Philippines	25.98

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	23.82
2	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	24.45
3	Eleanor Haslam	Canada	24.63
4	Ernestine Pollards	United States	24.64
5	Olga Šikovec	Yugoslavia	24.95

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	23.30	OR
2	Valentina Maslovskaya	Soviet Union	24.12
3	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	24.12
4	Halina Richter-Górecka-Herrmann	Poland	24.31
5	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	25.06
6	Erzsébet Heldtné Bartos	Hungary	25.50

Semifinals

Held on September 5 from 3:40pm

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilma Rudolph	United States	23.79
2	Jutta Heine	United Team of Germany	24.15
3	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta	Poland	24.36
4	Norma Croker-Fleming	Australia	24.44
5	Jenny Smart	Great Britain	24.74
6	Valentina Maslovskaya	Soviet Union	24.77
7	Catherine Capdevielle	France	25.04

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	24.69
2	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	24.78
3	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	24.81
4	Gisela Köhler-Birkemeyer	United Team of Germany	25.05
5	Lucinda Williams	United States	25.14
6	Celina Jesionowska	Poland	25.45

Final

Held on September 5 at 5:10pm

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Wilma Rudolph	United States	24.13
02 !	Jutta Heine	United Team of Germany	24.58
03 !	Dorothy Hyman	Great Britain	24.82
4	Mariya Itkina	Soviet Union	24.85
5	Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta	Poland	24.96
6	Giuseppina Leone	Italy	25.01

Key: OR = Olympic record

Note: For the only time in Olympic sprint history, every finalist ran their fastest time for the event in the heats and their slowest time in the final, owing to rain, head winds and the schedule where the finalists had less than 90 minutes rest between the semi final and final, instead of the usual entire day.

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 200 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-14.