Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres

Women's 200 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 5 (heats and semifinals) August 6 (final)
Medalists
Fanny Blankers-Koen Netherlands   Audrey Williamson Great Britain   Audrey Patterson United States

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 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
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 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
Decathlon		men

The women's 200 metres sprint event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 5 and August 6. The final was won by Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	25.7
2	Liliane Sprécher	France	26.0
3	Mae Friggs	United States	26.0
4	Melania Luz	Brazil	26.6	EST
5	Phyllis Edness	Bermuda	26.6

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	25.6
2	Sylvia Cheeseman	Great Britain	25.7
3	Diane Foster	Canada	26.1
4	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	27.7

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Joyce King	Australia	25.9
2	Phyllis Lightbourne-Jones	Bermuda	27.0
3	Lucila Pini	Brazil	27.6
4	Maria-Therese Renard	Belgium	28.5
5	Olga Sicnerova	Czechoslovakia	28.5

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Daphne Robb-Hasenjager	South Africa	24.4
2	Shirley Strickland	Australia	25.1
3	Nell Jackson	United States	25.8
4	Donna Gilmore	Canada	25.8
5	Alma Butia	Yugoslavia	25.8

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Audrey Patterson	United States	25.5
2	Margaret Walker	Great Britain	25.8
3	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	26.3
4	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	26.3
5	Tilly Decker	Luxembourg	26.3
6	Betty Kretschmer	Chile	26.3

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Betty McKinnon	Australia	25.9
2	Rosine Faugouin	France	25.9
3	Gre de Jongh	Netherlands	26.2
4	Grete Pavlousek	Austria	26.2

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Audrey Williamson	Great Britain	25.4
2	Nel Karelse	Netherlands	26.0
3	Millie Cheater	Canada	26.4
4	Annegret Weller-Schneider	Chile	26.4

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.3
2	Audrey Patterson	United States	25.0
3	Margaret Walker	Great Britain	25.3
4	Cynthia Thompson	Jamaica	25.3
5	Rosine Faugouin	France	25.3
6	Joyce King	Australia	25.3
7	Phyllis Lightbourne-Jones	Bermuda	25.3

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Shirley Strickland	Australia	24.9
2	Audrey Williamson	Great Britain	24.9
3	Daphne Robb-Hasenjager	South Africa	25.1
4	Sylvia Cheeseman	Great Britain	25.1
5	Nel Karelse	Netherlands	25.1
6	Liliane Sprécher	France	25.1
7	Betty McKinnon	Australia	25.1

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.4	OR
	Audrey Williamson	Great Britain	25.1
	Audrey Patterson	United States	25.2
4	Shirley Strickland	Australia	25.3	Est
5	Margaret Walker	Great Britain	25.6	Est
6	Daphne Robb-Hasenjäger	South Africa	25.7	Est

Key: Est = Time is an estimate, OR = Olympic record

Despite Strickland's 4th placing in the final, a photo finish of the race (that was not consulted then but discovered in 1975) showed that she had beaten Patterson into 3rd place, a discrepancy that has been recognised by many reputable Olympic historians.^[1]

References

1. "Shirley Strickland". athletics.com.au. Athletics Australia. Retrieved 13 June 2015.

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 200 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-18.