Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games – Women's 200 metres

Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 200 metres event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 5 and 7 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	Kathy Smallwood  England	Angella Taylor  Canada

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Wind:
Heat 1: -2.2 m/s, Heat 2: -1.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.3 m/s, Heat 4: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Kathy Smallwood	England	23.48	Q
2	4	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	23.73	Q
3	1	Colleen Pekin	Australia	23.80	Q
4	2	Angella Taylor	Canada	23.82	Q
5	3	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.89	Q
6	4	Beverley Callender	England	24.05	Q
7	2	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	24.08	Q
8	3	Helen Barnett	England	24.10	Q
9	2	Jenny Flaherty	Australia	24.25	Q
10	4	Sandra Whittaker	Scotland	24.28	Q
11	3	Rufina Ubah	Nigeria	24.31	Q
12	4	Nzaeli Kyomo	Tanzania	24.33	Q
13	1	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	24.34	Q
14	2	Carmen Smart	Wales	24.35	Q
15	4	Maxine McMillan	Trinidad and Tobago	24.45	q
16	1	Elizabeth Mokogwu	Nigeria	24.48	Q
17	2	Tutu Ogunde	Nigeria	24.57	q
18	1	Joyce Odhiambo	Kenya	24.67
19	3	Angela Bailey	Canada	24.73	Q
20	2	Angela Williams	Trinidad and Tobago	24.74
21	1	Mary Afriyie-Mensah	Ghana	24.80
22	2	Grace Armah	Ghana	25.01
23	4	Ruth Waithera	Kenya	25.13
24	1	Jabou Jawo	Gambia	25.30
25	3	Alice Adala	Kenya	25.41
26	2	Angela Owen	Isle of Man	25.61
27	4	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	25.69
28	3	Amie Ndow	Gambia	25.85
29	3	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	27.64
	1	Michelle Scutt	Wales	DNS
	3	Mercy Addy	Ghana	DNS
	3	Kim Robertson	New Zealand	DNS

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: -3.9 m/s, Heat 2: -2.4 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.70	Q
2	2	Beverley Callender	England	23.02	Q
3	2	Denise Boyd	Australia	23.10	Q
4	2	Angela Bailey	Canada	23.44	Q
5	1	Kathy Smallwood	England	23.45	Q
6	1	Colleen Pekin	Australia	23.53	Q
7	1	Angella Taylor	Canada	23.55	Q
8	2	Helen Barnett	England	23.63	q
9	1	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	23.66	Q
10	2	Carmen Smart	Wales	23.91
11	1	Jenny Flaherty	Australia	23.93
12	2	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	24.16
13	1	Rufina Ubah	Nigeria	24.20
14	1	Sandra Whittaker	Scotland	24.22
15	2	Nzaeli Kyomo	Tanzania	24.24
16	2	Elizabeth Mokogwu	Nigeria	24.39
17	1	Maxine McMillan	Trinidad and Tobago	24.40
18	1	Tutu Ogunde	Nigeria	24.60

Wind: +2.5 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	9	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.19
	6	Kathy Smallwood	England	22.21
	2	Angella Taylor	Canada	22.48
4	8	Denise Boyd	Australia	22.72
5	4	Colleen Pekin	Australia	22.89
6	3	Beverley Callender	England	22.92
7	5	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	23.25
8	1	Angela Bailey	Canada	23.42
9	7	Helen Barnett	England	23.57

• Heats & Semifinals results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Final results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Heats & Semifinals results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine