IAAF Worlds Preview: Women's 200m

For the past few seasons the women's 200m has been the Allyson Felix and Veronica Campbell-Brown show and few would bet against one or the other landing gold in Berlin.

Felix, the defending champion, landed the US title in June before opting to concentrate on the 100m and 400m. However, the long term vision was always the 200m at the World championships and her preparation was vindicated when she rocketed to the top of the world standings with a sensational 21.88 winning time in her last pre-Worlds appearance in Stockholm. It was a time within 0.07 of her lifetime best set when winning the 2007 World 200m title and rightly installs her as pre-race favourite.

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