200 m (indoor), women

What to remember

Liévin, February 13, 1993: at the Meeting Pas de Calais, Jamaica's Merlene Ottey ran the indoor 200 m in 21.87 s, an average of 32.92 km/h. Outdoors, the 200 m is half a lap of a 400 m track.

Under 22 seconds is the benchmark of top-level women's 200 m running. The fastest outdoor performance, by American Florence Griffith-Joyner, dates from 1988.

Ottey represented Jamaica from 1978, then Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She was world 200 m champion outdoors in 1993 and 1995, and world indoor champion over the distance in 1989 and 1991. At the Olympic Games she won nine medals without ever taking gold. Jamaica named her Sportswoman of the Year 13 times between 1979 and 1995.