What is the average 200m time?

Among athletes at the 2025 AAU Junior Olympics, the median 200m was 22.43 for 17–18-year-old boys and 25.38 for 17–18-year-old girls. We did not find published 200m data for non-athletes.

What is a good 200m time for a 14-year-old?

At the 2025 AAU Junior Olympics, the median 14-year-old ran 23.65 (boys) and 26.19 (girls). The fastest 20% ran 23.09 and 25.25 or better.

What is a good 200m time in high school?

Oregon's 2026 state-meet standards are 22.07 for boys and 24.86 for girls at the largest schools (6A), and 23.31 and 26.98 at the smallest (1A).

What does it take to make an NCAA Division I 200m final?

In 2025, the last finisher in the Division I final ran 20.56 (men) and 22.86 (women). The winners ran 19.84 and 22.21.

What are the 200m world and high school records?

The world records are Usain Bolt's 19.19 and Florence Griffith Joyner's 21.34. The U.S. high school records are 19.97 by Issamade Asinga (2023) and 22.11 by Allyson Felix (2003, run at altitude; the best low-altitude mark on the list is Candace Hill's 22.43 from 2015).

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Average 200m time, and what counts as a good one

200m times by age from youth nationals, and the marks for a good 200m in high school, college and elite racing. Enter your time to rate it.

The median 17–18-year-old at the 2025 AAU Junior Olympics ran 22.43 (boys) and 25.38 (girls). Reaching Oregon's big-school state meet takes 22.07 or 24.86, and the World Championships standard is 20.16 for men and 22.57 for women.

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Average 200m time by age

These times come from the 2025 AAU Junior Olympic Games, a national championship with between 71 and 93 runners in each age group. Half the field ran the median or faster. Everyone in it qualified for the meet, so the average child would be slower. We found no published 200m data for non-athletes.

Boys' 200m, 2025 AAU Junior Olympic Games. Median and top-20% are from every first-round time; record is the AAU national age-group record.

Age	Median	Top 20%	Winner	Record
8 & under	31.23	29.69	27.58	27.26
9	29.63	28.47	26.62	26.03
10	28.32	27.63	26.03	24.97
11	27.44	26.61	25.71	24.54
12	26.54	25.58	24.65	23.25
13	24.84	24.08	23.20	22.34
14	23.65	23.09	22.20	21.25
15–16	22.67	22.13	21.04	20.33
17–18	22.43	21.79	21.07	20.58

Girls' 200m, 2025 AAU Junior Olympic Games. Median and top-20% are from every first-round time; record is the AAU national age-group record.

Age	Median	Top 20%	Winner	Record
8 & under	32.53	31.25	28.42	27.99
9	30.83	29.93	28.23	27.18
10	29.78	28.37	26.21	26.05
11	28.63	27.34	25.84	25.14
12	27.05	26.29	24.76	24.63
13	26.86	25.93	24.52	24.03
14	26.19	25.25	23.80	23.26
15–16	25.53	24.72	23.46	23.26
17–18	25.38	24.71	23.71	23.01

Is your 200m in line with your 100m?

Coaches use a rule of thumb: if your 200m is well over twice your 100m, speed endurance is holding you back, and if it is close to double, top speed is. For reference, the table shows the median times from the same 2025 meet in both events.

Median first-round times at the 2025 AAU Junior Olympics, and the 200m median divided by the 100m median.

Age	Boys 100 / 200	Girls 100 / 200
10	13.64 / 28.32× 2.08	14.31 / 29.78× 2.08
12	13.05 / 26.54× 2.03	13.21 / 27.05× 2.05
14	11.62 / 23.65× 2.04	12.85 / 26.19× 2.04
15–16	11.17 / 22.67× 2.03	12.36 / 25.53× 2.07
17–18	11.01 / 22.43× 2.04	12.29 / 25.38× 2.07

What is a good 200m time?

200m reference times by level (fully automatic timing).

Level	Men / boys	Women / girls
World record	19.19	21.34
World Championships entry standard (2025)	20.16	22.57
NCAA D1 final, winner (2025)	19.84	22.21
NCAA D1 final, last place (2025)	20.56	22.86
U.S. high school record	19.97	22.11
Oregon state-meet standard, 6A (2026)	22.07	24.86
Oregon state-meet standard, 1A (2026)	23.31	26.98
AAU Junior Olympics median, ages 17–18 (2025)	22.43	25.38

For high schoolers, the state meet is the usual goal. Oregon sets its standards at the four-year average of fourth place, and they change a lot with school size: 22.07 to 23.31 for boys and 24.86 to 26.98 for girls. Making a Division I final took 20.56 or 22.86 in 2025. The girls' high school record in the table (22.11) was set at altitude.

Oregon (OSAA) 2026 state-meet qualifying standards, 200m, FAT. Each is the four-year average of fourth place.

Class	Boys	Girls
6A	22.07	24.86
5A	22.22	25.74
4A	22.59	26.26
3A	22.91	26.59
2A	23.36	27.00
1A	23.31	26.98

Comparing your time fairly

The reference times are fully automatic (FAT). Hand-timed results read faster, and wind can help on the straight. World Athletics accepts neither hand-timed nor wind-assisted marks for its championship entry standards.

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