Florence Griffith-Joyner
#1 · women's 200 m · United States
Women's 200 Metres
Jamaican athlete. women's 200 m mark of 21.41 seconds at Budapest on 25 August 2023, the personal best on the World Athletics all-time list.
Race time
21.41s
women's 200 m, Budapest, wind +0.1 m/s. One personal best per athlete.
This list
The women's 200 metres is a bend plus a straight. The legal list is the wind-legal personal bests, not training reps.
The first half is technical. The second half is whether the speed is still there. Both have to be good.
Wind and the meet are part of the result the governing list prints. This page does not promote an illegal clock.
This is how the category works. A note written for this entry appears here once it is in the database.
Provenance
Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.
women's 200 m, Budapest, wind +0.1 m/s. One personal best per athlete.
Reference
Context
Shericka Jackson's ranked women's 200 m time is 21.41 seconds at Budapest on 25 August 2023, wind +0.1 m/s. World Athletics, Athletic Stats (refreshed 5 October 2026) and Track & Field News print that time and date.
The list is one event. A mark from another distance is a different page, with its own slug. Wind above +2.0 m/s is not legal and is not stored. Lower is faster.
Every report is read by a person, and corrections are dated on the page.