In the Women's 200 meter sprint at the Olympics, athletes from the United States have seen the most success, taking six gold medals since the event was first introduced in 1948. In total, both the US and Jamaica have won 12 medals each, with Jamaica emerging as the most successful nation in the past two decades. East Germany's Bärbel Wöckel, Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown, and Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah are the most successful athletes in this event, winning two back-to-back gold medals each. Marion Jones remains the only athlete to have been stripped of a medal in this event, when the five medals she won in 2000 were rescinded due to her involvement in the BALCO scandal.
Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes medals won by the United Team of Germany (1956-1964), but does not include East or West Germany.
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 5, 2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020." Chart. August 5, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 25, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Women's 200m at The Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/ (last visited December 25, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Women's 200m at the Summer Olympics from 1948 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 5, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117535/olympics-womens-200m-medal-table-since-1948/
