The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first recorded event at the ancient Olympic Games. The 200 m places more emphasis on speed endurance than shorter sprint distances as athletes predominantly rely on anaerobic energy system during the 200 m sprint. Similarly to other sprint distances, the 200 m begins from the starting blocks. When the sprinters adopt the 'set' position in the blocks they are able to adopt a more efficient starting posture and isometrically preload their muscles. This enables them to stride forwards more powerfully when the race begins and start faster.
Leslie Djhone is a French track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.
Piotr Grzegorz Rysiukiewicz is a retired Polish sprinter who won various medals for the Polish 4 x 400 metres relay during its greatest years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He would usually run the first leg of competitions.
Marcin Marciniszyn is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.
Arnaldo Luís Isaías Abrantes is a Portuguese track and field sprinter, specialising in the distances of 100 metres and 200 metres. He also competes in the 4×100 metres relay. His father, Arnaldo Abrantes, was also a sprinter.
Fabienne Ficher is a retired French athlete who specialised in the 400 meters. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics as well as one outdoor and five indoor World Championships.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Johanna Katriina Manninen is a Finnish former athlete specializing in sprinting events. She won two gold medals at the 2007 Summer Universiade, in addition to several medals in younger age categories.
Winneth Dube is a retired Zimbabwean athlete specialising in the sprinting events. She competed in the 100 metres at the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the second round.
Cora Daniela Olivero Bergese is a retired Spanish athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the semifinals.
Mario Bonello is a retired Maltese athlete who specialised in the sprinting events. He represented his country at two Olympic Games, in 1996 and 2000, as well as two outdoor and one indoor World Championships. In addition, he won multiple medals at the Games of the Small States of Europe.
Patricia Libia Rodríguez Orejuela is a retired Colombian athlete who specialised in the sprinting events. She represented her country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1995 and 1997 World Championships. In addition, she won multiple medals on regional level.
Aksel Gürcan Demirtaş is Turkish athlete specialising in the sprinting events. During her long career, she has represented Turkey at multiple international competitions, including the 1997 World Championships, six World Indoor Championships, three European outdoor and five indoor championships, although with little success.
Irene Siragusa is an Italian sprinter, who participated at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships. She won two individual medals at the 2017 Summer Universiade. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 4 × 100 m relay.
Emily Maher is a retired Irish athlete who specialised in the sprinting events. She represented her country at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2006 World Indoor Championships.
Phil Healy is an Irish athlete competing in sprinting events. Her sister Joan Healy is also a sprinter.
Sakie Nobuoka is a Japanese former sprinter who specialised in the 200 metres. She represented her country at three outdoor and one indoor World Championships. She held the national records in the 200 metres, the 4 × 100 metres relay and the 4 × 400 metres relay.
Ciara Neville is an Irish sprinter. In 2018, she won silver as part of the 4 x 100m Irish team at the Youth World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, and also qualified for the semifinal of the individual race. She represented her country at the 2017 European Indoor Championships reaching the semifinals.
Kristina Žumer is a retired Slovenian sprinter. She represented her country in the 4 × 100 meters relay at the 2003 World Championships. In addition she won a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.
Rhasidat Adeleke is an Irish sprinter. She won the 100 metres / 200 m double at the 2021 European Athletics Under-20 Championships.
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