Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres

Women's 200 metres; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	26–28 July
Competitors	36 from 21 nations
Winning time	22.37 OR
Medalists
	← 1972 1980 →

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's 200 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–28 July.

Competition format

The Women's 200m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Quarterfinals, Semifinals and a Final. The five fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Quarterfinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Quarterfinal races qualified for the Semifinals, where again the four fastest runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records

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

World record	Irena Szewińska (POL)	22.21	Potsdam, East Germany	13 June 1974
Olympic record	Renate Stecher (GDR)	22.40	Munich, East Germany	7 September 1972

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat (Q) plus the two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	23.17	Q
2	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.23	Q
3	Rosie Allwood	Jamaica	23.34	Q
4	Marjorie Bailey	Canada	23.36	Q
5	Annegret Kroniger	West Germany	23.43	Q
6	Beverley Goddard	Great Britain	23.64	q

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bärbel Eckert	East Germany	23.78	Q
2	Sue Jowett	New Zealand	24.12	Q
3	Joanne McTaggert	Canada	24.35	Q
4	Freida Nicholls-Davy	Barbados	24.45	Q

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raelene Boyle	Australia	23.12	Q
2	Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	Soviet Union	23.39	Q
3	Annegret Richter	West Germany	23.47	Q
4	Chantal Réga	France	23.54	Q
5	Silvia Schinzel	Austria	23.74	Q
6	Silvina Pereira da Silva	Brazil	24.00
7	Carolina Rieuwpassa	Indonesia	24.86

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Debra Armstrong	United States	23.18	Q
2	Catherine Delachanal	France	23.38	Q
3	Inge Helten	West Germany	23.40	Q
4	Lyudmila Maslakova	Soviet Union	23.51	Q
5	Lea Alaerts	Belgium	23.53	Q
6	Helen Golden	Great Britain	23.77	q
7	Helen Ritter	23x15px Liechtenstein	26.15
8	Marie-Louise Pierre	23x15px Haiti	28.19

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Carla Bodendorf	East Germany	22.98	Q
2	Jackie Pusey	Jamaica	23.56	Q
3	Debbie Wells	Australia	23.78	Q
4	Ildikó Erdélyi	Hungary	24.35	Q
5	Mona-Lisa Pursiainen	Finland	24.52	Q

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Renate Stecher	East Germany	22.75	Q
2	Tatyana Prorochenko	Soviet Union	23.21	Q
3	Patty Loverock	Canada	23.34	Q
4	Liliyana Panayotova-Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.49	Q
5	Carol Cummings	Jamaica	23.50	Q
6	Divina Estrella	Dominican Republic	24.95