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It's hard to compare riders of that era with modern ones. By current standards, his 200m times look OK...for a girl. The super fast times these days tend to be set on recently built indoor tracks by riders with a busy two decades of equipment and training advances to help them, but on the other hand nobody today has the kind of pharmacological assistance which Soviet bloc athletes enjoyed in those days.