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
Comoros at the 2008 Summer Olympics the only woman competing in the track and field events at the 2008 Summer Olympics for the Comoros. She competed in the 100 metre event on 19 August. Ahamada, drawn into heat seven for the event, ran a time of 11.88seconds and finished sixth in her heat, 0.55seconds behind the winner, Ivet Lalova. She finished 52nd out of 85 athletes overall and was 2.92seconds faster than the slowest athlete, Robina Muqimyar. Ahamada was 0.75seconds behind the fastest athlete (Oludamola Osayomi) and 0.23seconds behind the slowest athlete who progressed to the quarterfinals, Thi Huong Vu. Therefore, Ahamada did not progress to