1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres

The women's 200 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 23 and 24 August.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Sylviane Félix  France
Silver	Lauren Hewitt  Australia
Bronze	Nora Ivanova  Bulgaria

Results

Final

24 August
Wind: -2.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sylviane Félix	France	23.16
	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.32
	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.59
4	Agnė Visockaitė	Lithuania	23.75
5	Fabé Dia	France	23.79
6	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.81
7	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.88
8	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.89

Semifinals

24 August

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sylviane Félix	France	23.59	Q
2	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.69	Q
3	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.99	Q
4	Agnė Visockaitė	Lithuania	24.00	Q
5	Crystal Cox	United States	24.24
6	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	24.43
7	Joan Ekah	Nigeria	24.51
8	Chen Shu-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	24.60

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.68	Q
2	Fabé Dia	France	23.76	Q
3	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.84	Q
4	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.89	Q
5	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	24.33
6	Vera Georgieva	Bulgaria	24.34
7	Štepánka Klapácová	Czech Republic	24.43
	Cydonie Mothersill	Cayman Islands	DNS

Quarterfinals

23 August

Quarterfinal 1

Wind: -0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Agnė Visockaitė	Lithuania	23.68	Q
2	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.77	Q
3	Crystal Cox	United States	24.17	Q
4	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	24.23	Q
5	Sarah Wilhelmy	United Kingdom	24.29
6	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	24.40
7	Tomomi Suzuki	Japan	24.49
	Irina Kartacheva	Ukraine	DNS

Quarterfinal 2

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fabé Dia	France	23.71	Q
2	Chen Shu-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	24.18	Q
3	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	24.27	Q
4	Joan Ekah	Nigeria	24.52	Q
5	Rebecca Murphy	New Zealand	24.66
6	Tina Matul	Slovenia	24.68
	Chen Yuxiang	China	DNS

Quarterfinal 3

Wind: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sylviane Félix	France	24.05	Q
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	24.11	Q
3	Johanna Manninen	Finland	24.16	Q
4	Vera Georgieva	Bulgaria	24.29	Q
5	Chrísoula Goudenoúdhi	Greece	24.77
6	Sonia Williams	Antigua and Barbuda	24.87
7	Isabel Roussow	South Africa	25.02
8	Margaret Fox	Canada	25.06

Quarterfinal 4

Wind: -3.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.94	Q
2	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	24.11	Q
3	Cydonie Mothersill	Cayman Islands	24.20	Q
4	Štepánka Klapácová	Czech Republic	24.44	Q
5	Victoria Shipman	United Kingdom	24.48
6	Biljana Mitrović	Yugoslavia	24.72
7	Natasha Quan-Vie	Canada	25.09
8	Monika Gosciniak	Germany	25.27

Heats

23 August

Heat 1

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chen Yuxiang	China	23.96	Q
2	Manuela Levorato	Italy	24.10	Q
3	Sonia Williams	Antigua and Barbuda	24.39	Q
4	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	24.41	Q
5	Aleen Bailey	Jamaica	24.42	q
6	Rebecca Murphy	New Zealand	24.57	q
7	Marcia Daniel	Dominica	25.80
8	Chamanthi Maligaspe	Sri Lanka	26.71

Heat 2

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.78	Q
2	Crystal Cox	United States	23.93	Q
3	Chrísoula Goudenoúdhi	Greece	24.41	Q
4	Cydonie Mothersill	Cayman Islands	24.47	Q
5	Natasha Quan-Vie	Canada	24.60	q
6	Tina Matul	Slovenia	24.63	q
7	Manuela Grillo	Italy	24.80

Heat 3

Wind: -0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lauren Hewitt	Australia	23.91	Q
2	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	24.00	Q
3	Joan Ekah	Nigeria	24.26	Q
4	Štepánka Klapácová	Czech Republic	24.28	Q
5	Isabel Roussow	South Africa	24.39	q
6	Biljana Mitrović	Yugoslavia	24.61	q
7	Paola Restrepo	Colombia	25.00

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sylviane Félix	France	23.41	Q
2	Johanna Manninen	Finland	23.98	Q
3	Tomomi Suzuki	Japan	24.36	Q
4	Vera Georgieva	Bulgaria	24.49	Q
5	Margaret Fox	Canada	24.74	q
6	Desiree Cooks	Anguilla	25.71
7	Vaso Papaioannou	Cyprus	25.81

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fabé Dia	France	23.86	Q
2	Agnė Visockaitė	Lithuania	24.08	Q
3	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	24.45	Q
4	Sarah Wilhelmy	United Kingdom	24.54	Q
5	Justine Bayiga	Uganda	24.75
6	Li Xuemei	China	25.03
7	Kasiani Dimopoúlou	Greece	25.26

Heat 6

Wind: -1.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nanceen Perry	United States	23.95	Q
2	Monika Gosciniak	Germany	24.11	Q
3	Victoria Shipman	United Kingdom	24.18	Q
4	Chen Shu-Chuan	Chinese Taipei	24.20	Q
5	Irina Kartacheva	Ukraine	24.73	q
6	Tanya Oxley	Barbados	24.92
7	Clara Córdoba	Colombia	25.42

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 43 athletes from 32 countries participated in the event.

•  Anguilla (1)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Canada (2)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  China (2)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  Greece (2)
•  Italy (2)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Nigeria (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United Kingdom (2)
•  United States (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1996 Sydney AUS Aug 20-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 31 October 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015