# 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 200 metres

The girls' 200 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 8, 9 and 10 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Desirèe Henry Great Britain | Christian Brennan Canada | Shericka Jackson Jamaica |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World Youth Best | Marion Jones (USA) | 22.58 | New Orleans, United States | 28 June 1992 |
| Championship Record | Aymée Martínez (CUB) | 22.99 | Marrakesh, Morocco | 17 July 2005 |
| World Youth Leading | Shericka Jackson (JAM) | 23.32 | Montego Bay, Jamaica | 24 April 2011 |

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 3 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Karin Okolie | Bulgaria | 24.74 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Kadecia Baird | Guyana | 25.01 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Paula Solís | Argentina | 25.61 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Sunanda Sarkar | India | 25.98 | |
| 5 | 8 | Eunice Kinyamasyo | Kenya | 25.98 | |
| | 4 | Celene Cevallos | Ecuador | DNF | |
| | 2 | Kyra Jefferson | United States | DNS | |
| | 5 | Tsitsi Mahachi | Zimbabwe | DNS | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Christian Brennan | Canada | 24.02 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Tamiris de Liz | Brazil | 24.65 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Gunta Latiševa-Čudare | Latvia | 24.90 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Kedisha Dallas | United States | 25.09 | q |
| 5 | 3 | Archana Suseendran | India | 25.58 | |
| 6 | 4 | Evelin Nádházy | Hungary | 25.64 | |
| 7 | 7 | Nina Prudnikova | Kazakhstan | 25.71 | |
| 8 | 1 | Marthe Koala | Burkina Faso | 25.80 | PB |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Florence Uwakwe | Nigeria | 24.31 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Anna-Lena Freese | Germany | 24.60 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Zhou Yanling | China | 25.27 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Roxana Ene | Romania | 25.36 | |
| 5 | 8 | Rima Kashafutdinova | Kazakhstan | 25.83 | |
| 6 | 7 | Vanessa Waro | Papua New Guinea | 26.00 | SB |
| 7 | 4 | Frédérique Hansen | Luxembourg | 26.21 | SB |
| | 1 | Lucy Fortune | Grenada | DNS | |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Bealoved Brown | United States | 24.30 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Galina Nikolova | Bulgaria | 24.52 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ramona van der Vloot | Suriname | 25.02 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Supawan Thipat | Thailand | 25.25 | |
| 5 | 4 | Anja Benko | Slovenia | 25.84 | |
| 6 | 2 | Mária Vavrová | Slovakia | 26.02 | |
| 7 | 8 | Hatice Öztürk | Turkey | 26.37 | |
| 8 | 5 | Banchayehu Tamene | Ethiopia | 26.85 | PB |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | Ekaterina Renzhina | Russia | 24.19 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Khamica Bingham | Canada | 24.21 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Beatriz de Souza | Brazil | 25.02 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Philippa van der Merwe | South Africa | 25.14 | |
| 5 | 1 | Glenda Davis | Costa Rica | 25.48 | |
| 6 | 3 | Ada Benjamin | Nigeria | 25.50 | |
| 7 | 5 | Dóróthea Jóhannesdóttir | Iceland | 26.25 | |
| 8 | 4 | Olga Eshmurodova | Tajikistan | 26.37 | PB |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Shericka Jackson | Jamaica | 24.08 | Q |
| 1 | 2 | Monica Brennan | Australia | 24.08 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Anna Hämäläinen | Finland | 24.56 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Masumi Aoki | Japan | 24.87 | q, PB |
| 5 | 8 | Diāna Daktere | Latvia | 25.41 | |
| 6 | 5 | Shenique Frett | British Virgin Islands | 25.52 | |
| 7 | 7 | Noah Herbert | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 26.06 | |
| 8 | 3 | Samia Nabli | Tunisia | 27.26 | PB |

### Heat 7

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Desirèe Henry | Great Britain | 23.57 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 5 | Carmiesha Cox | Bahamas | 24.25 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Loungo Matlhaku | Botswana | 24.82 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 3 | Marie Gisèle Eleme Asse | Cameroon | 25.02 | q, PB |
| 5 | 7 | Oksana Ralko | Ukraine | 25.12 | PB |
| 6 | 6 | Matilde Álvarez | Mexico | 25.37 | |
| 7 | 8 | Lidiane Lopes | Cape Verde | 26.69 | PB |
| | 1 | Stella Akakpo | France | DNS | |

## Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Shericka Jackson | Jamaica | 23.65 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Monica Brennan | Australia | 23.78 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 4 | Khamica Bingham | Canada | 23.89 | PB |
| 4 | 3 | Carmiesha Cox | Bahamas | 23.99 | |
| 5 | 7 | Anna Hämäläinen | Finland | 24.13 | |
| 6 | 2 | Masumi Aoki | Japan | 24.64 | PB |
| 7 | 8 | Loungo Matlhaku | Botswana | 24.71 | SB |
| 8 | 1 | Paula Solís | Argentina | 25.61 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Christian Brennan | Canada | 23.48 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 3 | Anna-Lena Freese | Germany | 23.84 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Ekaterina Renzhina | Russia | 23.96 | |
| 4 | 7 | Gunta Latiševa-Čudare | Latvia | 24.39 | PB |
| 5 | 8 | Kadecia Baird | Guyana | 24.53 | PB |
| 6 | 6 | Karin Okolie | Bulgaria | 24.59 | |
| 7 | 1 | Beatriz de Souza | Brazil | 24.90 | |
| | 2 | Marie Gisèle Eleme Asse | Cameroon | DNS | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Desirèe Henry | Great Britain | 23.38 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 5 | Galina Nikolova | Bulgaria | 23.70 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 3 | Florence Uwakwe | Nigeria | 23.73 | q |
| 4 | 4 | Bealoved Brown | United States | 23.80 | q, PB |
| 5 | 8 | Tamiris de Liz | Brazil | 24.25 | |
| 6 | 7 | Ramona van der Vloot | Suriname | 24.38 | |
| 7 | 1 | Kedisha Dallas | United States | 24.72 | |
| 8 | 2 | Zhou Yanling | China | 24.76 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Desirèe Henry | Great Britain | 23.25 | WYL |
| | 5 | Christian Brennan | Canada | 23.47 | PB |
| | 4 | Shericka Jackson | Jamaica | 23.62 | |
| 4 | 6 | Galina Nikolova | Bulgaria | 23.64 | PB |
| 5 | 2 | Florence Uwakwe | Nigeria | 23.67 | |
| 6 | 8 | Anna-Lena Freese | Germany | 23.91 | |
| 7 | 7 | Monica Brennan | Australia | 24.05 | |
| 8 | 1 | Bealoved Brown | United States | 24.08 | |