Athletics
200 metres hurdles
World records
MenUnited States Don Styron 21.9 (1960)
WomenItaly Yadisleidy Pedroso 24.8 (2013)
Olympic records
MenUnited States Harry Hillman 24.6 (1904)

The 200 metres hurdles is a rarely run hurdling event in track and field competitions. Sometimes, this event is referred to as the low hurdles. It was run twice in the Summer Olympics, in 1900 and 1904.

All-time top 25

Men

Rank Time Type Wind Athlete Nationality Date Place Ref
1 21.9y h straight +1.4 Don Styron  United States 2 April 1960 Baton Rouge [2]
2 22.10 straight +2.0 Andy Turner  Great Britain 15 May 2011 Manchester [3]
+1.8 L. J. van Zyl  South Africa 9 May 2015 Manchester [4]
4 22.1y h straight NWI Elias Gilbert  United States 17 May 1958 Raleigh
5 22.12 [a] straight -0.6 Alison dos Santos  Brazil 23 May 2021 Boston [5]
6 22.18 straight -0.6 Amere Lattin  United States 23 May 2021 Boston [6]
7 22.2y h straight +1.4 David Sime  United States 5 May 1956 Durham, NC
+1.3 Ancel Robinson  United States 15 June 1957 Austin
NWI Calvin Cooley  United States 16 April 1960 Abilene
10 22.26 straight +2.0 Bershawn Jackson  United States 15 May 2011 Manchester [7]
11 22.3y h A straight NWI Harrison Dillard  United States 21 June 1947 Salt Lake City
22.3y h NWI Fran Washington  United States 17 May 1958 Raleigh
NWI Dick Howard  United States 16 April 1960 Abilene
NWI Irvin Roberson  United States 27 May 1961 Modesto
15 22.4y h straight NWI Ralph Boston  United States 28 May 1960 Fort Campbell
16 22.48 straight NWI Johnny Dutch  United States 26 May 2017 Manchester [8]
17 22.5y h straight NWI Fred Wolcott  United States 8 June 1940 Princeton
NWI William Porter  United States 21 June 1947 Salt Lake City
NWI Craig Dixon  United States 9 April 1949 Los Angeles
NWI Rod Perry  United States 14 June 1957 Austin
NWI Hayes Jones  United States 30 May 1959 Austin
NWI Rex Stucker  United States 21 May 1960 Ames
NWI Rex Cawley  United States 15 April 1961 Tempe
NWI John Bethea  United States 3 June 1962 Baltimore
22.5 h bend +1.2 Martin Lauer  West Germany 7 July 1959 Zürich

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 22.50:

Women

Rank Time Type Wind Athlete Nationality Date Place Ref
1 24.8 h bend +0.4 Yadisleidy Pedroso  Italy 6 April 2013 Caserta [9]
2 24.86 straight +0.1 Shiann Salmon  Jamaica 23 May 2021 Boston [10][11]
3 24.91 straight +0.1 Shamier Little  United States 23 May 2021 Boston [12][13]
4 25.05 straight +1.0 Meghan Beesley  Great Britain 17 May 2014 Manchester [14]
5 25.31 straight +0.5 Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain 9 May 2015 Manchester [15]
6 25.6 h bend –0.7 Patricia Girard  France 23 August 2001 Nantes [16]
7 25.7 h bend –1.5 Pam Kilborn-Ryan  Australia 25 November 1971 Melbourne [17]
8 25.71 straight +0.1 Rhonda Whyte  Jamaica 23 May 2021 Boston [18]
9 25.74 straight –1.1 Perri Shakes-Drayton  Great Britain 25 May 2013 Manchester [19]
10 25.79 bend +0.5 Noemi Zbären   Switzerland 17 May 2014 Basel [20]
–0.6 Lauren Wells  Australia 21 January 2017 Canberra [21]
12 25.8 h bend +0.6 Annelie Jahns-Erdhardt  East Germany 5 July 1970 Erfurt [22]
–0.9 Teresa Sukniewicz  Poland 9 August 1970 Warsaw [23]
25.80 straight +0.6 Ebony Morrison  United States 20 May 2018 Boston [24]
15 25.81 bend –1.5 Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic 13 September 2017 Kutné Hoře [25]
16 25.84 straight +1.0 Eilidh Child  Great Britain 17 May 2014 Manchester [26]
17 25.86 straight +1.0 Denisa Rosolová  Czech Republic 17 May 2014 Manchester [27]
18 25.9 h bend NWI Valeria Bufanu  Romania 21 October 1970 Bucharest
25.90 straight +1.0 Dalilah Muhammad  United States 17 May 2014 Manchester [28]
20 26.0 h bend NWI Danuta Sraszynska  Poland 9 August 1970 Warsaw [29]
21 26.1 h bend NWI Pat Hawkins  United States 10 July 1971 Bakersfield
22 26.11 bend –0.9 Line Kloster  Norway 11 June 2020 Oslo [30]
23 26.12 straight –0.2 Gianna Woodruff  Panama 4 June 2017 Boston [31]
straight +0.3 Cassandra Tate  United States 16 June 2019 Boston [32]
25 26.16 straight +0.3 Zeney van der Walt  South Africa 16 June 2019 Boston [33]

Notes

  1. ^ by official result source, 22.11 by World Athletics source

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 26.16:

Masters athletics

The event is the official distance for the M80+ and W70+ divisions of Masters athletics. The height for all hurdles in these age groups is 27" (69 cm) and arrangement of the hurdles is different from the previous version. The distance to the first hurdle is 20 metres, which corresponds with the markings for the last half of a 400 metres hurdle race, standard on most tracks. Because, like the flat 200 metres, the race only covers half a standard track, a wind reading is required.

27-inch hurdles

The idea of using 27-inch (68.6 cm) hurdles was introduced in Europe in 2000.[34][35] The increment does not exist on standard hurdles, which caused resistance from some NGBs, but the rules were adopted worldwide.[36] Many modern hurdles will not go to that height or would at least require modification to cut the hurdle. Most facilities that have spent thousands of dollars to buy regulation hurdles would certainly not let their hurdles be damaged like this. Since it is a requirement,[37] major championship meets have purchased a few sets of modern modified hurdles, which then creates the logistical problem of shipping these few hurdles between meets in order for the competitors to have an opportunity to race over proper hurdles. As a substitute, many older hurdle designs are easier to modify to get to the proper height and most facilities are less protective of the old, rusty hurdles in the junk pile. Also many training hurdles (used to teach smaller, youth beginners) will go to 27 inches and lower.

Records

After setting the world record for the 300 metres hurdles during its last year on the official program at age 80, at age 81, Canadian Earl Fee set the still standing world record of 36.95 (+0.0) at the NCCWMA Regional Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on September 5, 2010. Almost four years later, Fee also set the M85 record of 42.70 (+0.4) in the same meet, this time being held in San Jose, Costa Rica on August 23, 2014. The M90 record of 51.31 was set a month earlier by American Ralph Maxwell with the benefit of high altitude in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games.

Australian Marge Allison holds the W70 record of 36.71 (+0.7), set August 12, 2015 in Lyon, France, at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships. Allison also holds the W65 record set four years earlier at the same championships. Canadian Christa Bortignon set the W75 record of 39.89 (+0.0) at a domestic meet in Kamloops, British Columbia on May 18, 2013. American sprinting legend Irene Obera learned hurdles sufficiently to set the W80 record 42.24 (+1.2) on July 20, 2014, at the USATF Masters Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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