Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres The Men's 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 18–20 August at the Beijing National Stadium. The qualifying standards were 20.59 s (A standard) and 20.75 s (B standard). Usain Bolt set a new world record of 19.30 s in the final, and won by the largest margin of victory (0.66 s, after two disqualifications) in an Olympic 200 m final (previously, Walter Tewksbury had a 0.6 seconds margin of victory in the first Olympic 200 m final in 1900). Controversy arose within minutes after the medal
The Gambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics the only female competing in the track and field events at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Gambia. She competed in the 100 meters on 19 August. Tiyana was drawn into heat seven for the event. She ran a personal best time of 12.25seconds and finished seventh in her heat, 0.92seconds behind the winner, Ivet Lalova. She finished 58th out of 85 athletes overall and was 2.55seconds faster than the slowest athlete, Robina Muqimyar. Tiyana was 1.12seconds behind the fastest athlete (Oludamola Osayomi) and 0.60seconds behind the slowest athlete who progressed to the semi-finals, Thi Huong Vu. Therefore, Tiyana did not