1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 200 metres

1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m walk		women
5000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The women's 200 metres event at the 1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 and 6 March.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ewa Kasprzyk  Poland	Tatyana Papilina  Soviet Union	Silke Knoll  West Germany

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.10	Q
2	2	Tatyana Papilina	Soviet Union	23.14	Q
3	3	Galina Malchugina	Soviet Union	23.30	Q
4	1	Silke Knoll	West Germany	23.39	Q
5	4	Ingrid Auerswald	East Germany	23.40	Q
6	3	Tsvetanka Ilieva	Bulgaria	23.45	Q
7	2	Marie-José Pérec	France	23.59	Q
8	4	Els Vader	Netherlands	23.68	q
9	1	Regula Aebi	Switzerland	23.75	Q
10	2	Blanca Lacambra	Spain	23.77	q
11	4	Irma Könye	Hungary	23.79	q
12	1	Kornelija Šinković	Yugoslavia	23.84	q
13	2	Andrea Thomas	West Germany	23.87
14	3	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	24.10
15	2	Tarja Leveelahti	Finland	24.11
16	3	Marina Skourti	Greece	24.12
17	3	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	24.47
18	3	Erika Szopori	Hungary	24.52
19	4	Vivienne McGoldrick	Ireland	24.76
20	1	Semra Aksu	Turkey	24.95

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.06	Q
2	2	Silke Knoll	West Germany	23.13	Q
3	2	Tatyana Papilina	Soviet Union	23.18	Q
4	1	Ingrid Auerswald	East Germany	23.26	Q
5	1	Galina Malchugina	Soviet Union	23.30	Q
5	2	Tsvetanka Ilieva	Bulgaria	23.30	Q
7	1	Kornelija Šinković	Yugoslavia	23.46	NR
8	2	Irma Könye	Hungary	23.66
9	2	Blanca Lacambra	Spain	23.79
10	2	Marie-José Pérec	France	24.26
	1	Regula Aebi	Switzerland	DQ
	1	Els Vader	Netherlands	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.69	NR
	Tatyana Papilina	Soviet Union	22.79
	Silke Knoll	West Germany	23.12
4	Tsvetanka Ilieva	Bulgaria	23.17
5	Ingrid Auerswald	East Germany	23.25
6	Galina Malchugina	Soviet Union	23.42