Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games – Women's 200 metres

Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
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	women
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

The women's 200 metres event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was held on 28 and 31 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Angella Issajenko  Canada	Kathy Cook  England	Sandra Whittaker  Scotland

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Wind:
Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s^[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Angella Issajenko	Canada	22.96	Q
2	1	Kathy Cook	England	23.30	Q
3	1	Jennifer Stoute	England	23.39	Q
4	2	Sandra Whittaker	Scotland	23.41	Q
5	1	Maree Chapman	Australia	23.43	Q
6	2	Simmone Jacobs	England	23.63	Q
7	2	Esmie Lawrence	Canada	23.70	q
8	1	Sian Morris	Wales	23.82	q
9	1	Sharon Stewart	Australia	23.83
10	2	Kerry Johnson	Australia	23.96
11	2	Sallyanne Short	Wales	24.06
12	1	Angela Bridgeman	Scotland	24.13
13	2	Carmen Smart	Wales	24.31
14	1	Mary-Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	26.02
15	2	Sharon Mifsud	Gibraltar	26.04
	1	Angela Bailey	Canada	DNS

Wind: +2.1 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Angella Issajenko	Canada	22.91
	3	Kathy Cook	England	23.18
	5	Sandra Whittaker	Scotland	23.46
4	7	Simmone Jacobs	England	23.48
5	8	Maree Chapman	Australia	23.64
6	2	Esmie Lawrence	Canada	23.87
7	1	Sian Morris	Wales	23.97
	6	Jennifer Stoute	England	DNF