Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The women's 200 metres event at the 1990 Commonwealth Games was held on 29 January and 1 February at the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	Kerry Johnson  Australia	Pauline Davis  Bahamas

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Wind:
Heat 1: +2.6 m/s, Heat 2: +3.2 m/s, Heat 3: +5.3 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Kerry Johnson	Australia	22.75	Q
2	1	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.87	Q
3	3	Jenni Stoute	England	23.09	Q
4	2	Sallyanne Short	Wales	23.19	Q
5	2	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.33	Q
6	2	Kathy Sambell	Australia	23.52	q
7	2	Linda Keough	England	23.55	q
8	1	Paula Dunn	England	23.58	Q
9	3	Oliver Acii	Uganda	23.72	q
10	3	Mercy Addy	Ghana	23.77
11	2	Michelle Seymour	New Zealand	23.83
12	1	Briar Toop	New Zealand	23.89
13	2	Stacy Bowen	Canada	24.16
14	3	France Gareau	Canada	24.20
15	2	Janis Neilson	Scotland	24.23
16	1	Elizabeth Onyambu	Kenya	24.34
17	3	Ng Ka Yi	Hong Kong	25.13
18	1	Kinah Chikontwe	Zambia	25.75
19	1	Erin Tierney	Cook Islands	26.06
	1	Esmie Lawrence	Canada	DNS

Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	22.76
	6	Kerry Johnson	Australia	22.88
	8	Pauline Davis	Bahamas	23.15
4	4	Jenni Stoute	England	23.16
5	9	Paula Dunn	England	23.33
6	5	Sallyanne Short	Wales	23.35
7	7	Kathy Sambell	Australia	23.56
8	2	Linda Keough	England	23.66
9	1	Oliver Acii	Uganda	24.14