Florence Griffith-Joyner 200m world record + interview + technique biomechanics rare slow mo

Seoul, 29 September 1988, Olympic Games, Olympic Stadium, Final ( ), Hr. 1. Florence Griffith-Joyner USA World Record 2. Grace Jackson JAM AR 3. Heike Drechsler GDR 4. Merlene Ottey JAM 5. Silke Möller GDR 6. Gwen Torrence USA 7. Maya Azarashvili URS 8. Galina Malchugina URS PB Florence Griffith-Joyner missed the world record by only in quarter-finals in a submax effort. The next day, she smashed it in during the semi finals. Only hours later, she did it again in final, , a record that still stands today. Former record holder Heike Drechsler placed 3rd in while Merlene Ottey didn’t get a medal in spite of running under 22 sec. The times for 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th are still the all-time bests for place. With the 2nd slowest reaction time of the finalists (), Flo-Jo covered the first 50m in and was 3rd at that point behind Ottey () and Möller (). At 100m,