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200 M. Dash

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   200 M. Dash
  1. Josh Mead 22.13
  2. Rustin Dring 23.0
  3. Colby Payne 23.80
  4. Dakota Zimniak 24.02
  5. Jordan Moncrief 24.1
  6. Seth Wiemers 24.1
  7. Zach Maloley 24.4
  8. Dakota Zimniak 24.3
  9. Mike Weaver 24.4
  10. Andy Guljas 24.7
  11. Nevada Zimniak 24.7
  12. Colby Payne 24.9
  13. Caleb Wilson 25.0
  14. Beau Dyer 25.1
  15. Tre Young 25.2
  16. Bryan Geiser 25.3
  17. Martin Hobelman 25.4
  18. A. Ellingston 26.3
  19. Mitch Mathews 26.4
  20. Zach Jameson 26.7
  21. Geoff Harpst 26.8
  22. Sam Peshek 26.9
  23. Seth Weimers 26.9
  24. Ray Quintana 27.6
  25. E. Clifford 28.0
  26. Jarrad Murrish 28.6
  27. Zach Debban 29.8
History of the 200 M. Dash
This distance is similar to the ancient Greek sprint event the "stadion" (literally length of the stadium), but it derives from a mile-based distance, the furlong, or one-eighth of a mile.

In the USA, the 200m was run in a straight line until around 1960. A curve was only included in Europe and at the Olympics, where the distance first appeared in 1900. The 200m with a full bend on a 400m track became universally accepted in 1958, when two distinct sets of records began to be kept.

The 200m specialist must combine the basic speed of the 100m sprinter with a running technique that allows him to cope with centrifugal forces when sprinting around the bend. Times in a 200m straight race were estimated to be around 3 to 4/10ths of a second faster than races including a bend.

A distance related to the quarter-mile which is 440 yards or 402.34 meters. This race is probably best described as an endurance-sprint.