The Women's 200 metres competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was held at the University Olympic Stadium on October 17–18. The winning margin was 0.2 seconds.

Competition format

The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats qualified for the semifinals along with the fastest overall competitor not already qualified. The four fastest competitors from each of the semifinal races qualified for the final.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record22.7Warsaw, PolandAugust 8, 1965Olympic record23.0Tokyo, JapanOctober 19, 1964

Results

Round 1 Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the fastest Time (hand) !! Time (automatic) (q) qualified.

Heat 1 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 23.1 23.16 Q 2 23.1 23.17 Q 3 23.3 23.34 Q 4 23.9 23.96 5 24.0 24.08 6 24.1 24.15 7 Tien Ah-mei 25.5 25.53 Jean Robotham –

Heat 2 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 23.0 23.09 Q 2 23.3 23.40 Q 3 23.4 23.43 Q 4 23.4 23.49 q 5 23.7 23.74 6 24.3 24.39 7 24.8 24.89 8 Yeh Chu-Mei 25.5 25.55

Heat 3 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 22.9 22.94 Q 2 23.1 23.19 Q 3 23.3 23.37 Q 4 23.5 23.54 5 23.5 23.58 6 23.7 23.73 7 23.9 23.95 8 24.2 24.23

Heat 4 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 23.4 23.46 Q 2 23.6 23.69 Q 3 23.7 23.71 Q 4 23.9 23.91 5 24.4 24.57 6 24.7 24.62 Lydia Stephens –

Heat 5 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 23.2 23.21 Q 2 23.4 23.50 Q 3 23.7 23.80 Q 4 23.8 23.84 5 24.0 24.01 6 24.0 24.02 7 25.3 25.32 Berit Berthelsen –

Semi-final

Heat 1 Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 22.9 Q 2 23.1 Q 3 23.2 Q 4 23.4 Q 5 23.4 6 23.4 7 23.6

Heat 2 Wind: +1.7 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 1 22.8 22.87 Q OR 2 22.8 22.89 Q 3 22.9 22.95 Q 4 23.0 23.02 Q 5 23.2 23.28 6 23.3 23.39 7 23.5 23.59 8 23.5 23.60

Final Wind: +2.0 m/s Rank Athlete Nation Time (hand) Time (automatic) Notes 22.5 22.58 WR 22.7 22.74 WJR 22.8 22.88 4 22.9 22.93 5 23.0 23.08 6 23.0 23.08 7 23.1 23.18 8 23.2 23.25

References

External links Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 15, 2012.