Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games 100m champion and record holder Elaine Thompson-Herah showed superb form in semi-final two of the women’s 200 metres.
Thompson-Herah equalled her lifetime best of 21.66 seconds to take her semi-final. “Thanks for the continuous love and support mission continues,” Thompson-Herah wrote on her social media page.
Meanwhile, 100 metres silver medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran a very controlled race to take the first semi-final in 22.13 seconds. Bahamian Anthonique Strachan’s season’s best of 22.56 seconds in the same semi-finals wasn’t enough to earn her a lane in the final.
The third semi-final saw reigning Olympic 400 metres champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo producing a time of 22.14 seconds for the second automatic qualifying spot.
Tokyo 2020 women’s 200m final qualifiers
|
POS
|
RANK
|
HEAT
|
BIB | COUNTRY | ATHLETE |
MARK
|
DETAILS
|
REACTION TIME
|
WIND
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
2521 | JAM |
21.66 =PB
|
Q
|
0.165
|
+0.3
|
|
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2976 | NAM |
21.97 WU20R
|
Q
|
0.212
|
+0.3
|
|
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
3893 | USA |
22.01
|
q
|
0.156
|
+0.3
|
|
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
1522 | CIV |
22.11 SB
|
Q
|
0.178
|
+0.1
|
|
|
5
|
1
|
1
|
2480 | JAM |
22.13
|
Q
|
0.143
|
+0.3
|
|
|
6
|
2
|
3
|
1131 | BAH |
22.14
|
Q
|
0.154
|
+0.1
|
|
|
7
|
3
|
3
|
3506 | SUI |
22.26 =NR
|
q
|
0.139
|
+0.1
|
|
|
8
|
2
|
1
|
2975 | NAM |
22.40 PB
|
Q
|
0.181
|
+0.3
|
