1938 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres

1938 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 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
Decathlon	men

The women's 200 metres at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held in Vienna, at the time part of German Reich, at Praterstadion on 18 September 1938.^[1]

Gold	Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland
Silver	Käthe Krauß  Germany
Bronze	Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	23.8	CR
	Käthe Krauß	Germany	24.4	NR
	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	24.9
4	Ida Ehrl	Germany	25.0
5	Dorothy Saunders	Great Britain	25.0
6	Leonard Chalmers	Great Britain	25.0

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	24.2	CR, Q
2	Ida Ehrl	Germany	24.7	Q
3	Audrey Brown	Great Britain	25.6
4	Alida Niklase	Latvia	26.2
5	Rózalia Nagy	Hungary	27.0	NR
6	Solveig Toms	Norway	99.9

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands	25.0	Q
2	Leonard Chalmers	Great Britain	25.1	Q
3	Dorle Voigt	Germany	25.2
4	Otylia Kałuża	Poland	26.4
5	Anna Van Rossum	Belgium	28.1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dorothy Saunders	Great Britain	25.3	Q
2	Käthe Krauß	Germany	25.4	Q
3	Martha Wretman	Sweden	26.0
4	Jadwiga Gawrońska	Poland	27.2
5	Jeanne Pousset	Belgium	27.5

According to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.