Good 200m Times by Age and Grade: Rate Your Time
September 8, 2026 路 7 min read
The real numbers first. Nobody publishes an official "average 200m time by age", and the sites that print one are guessing. What IS published: section and state qualifying standards, a youth championship standard, and college recruiting ranges. Every row below is one of those, named and linked, and nothing in it is estimated. All times FAT; a hand time rounds up to the next tenth and adds 0.24.
Rate your 200m time. Type your time into the box on this page and see which college level it reaches, how far the next one is, and where it would sit on the live board. If the box is not showing, open the 200m rating tool for boys or the girls version.
| Level (boys, FAT) | 200m time | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Middle school championship level | 24.20 | FLYRA 2026 Florida youth state championship qualifying standard (a middle school meet, not the FHSAA high school series) |
| Varsity: advancing from league finals | 22.44 to 23.74 | CIF Southern Section 2026 minimum standards for 2nd and 3rd place at league finals, Division 1 22.44 to Division 4 23.74 |
| State-qualifier level | 21.66 to 23.40 | CIF-SS 2026 at-large standards 21.66 (D1) to 22.45 (D4); Oregon OSAA 2026 state standards 22.07 (6A) to 23.36 (2A); Missouri MSHSAA 2026 district standards 22.24 (Class 5) to 23.40 (Class 1) |
| College walk-on range | 21.80 to 23.50 | Published D3 (21.80 to 23.50) and NAIA (22.10 to 23.10) recruiting ranges |
| College scholarship range | 20.80 to 22.50 | Published D1 (20.80 to 21.70) and D2 (21.20 to 22.50) ranges |
| Level (girls, FAT) | 200m time | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Middle school championship level | 26.60 | FLYRA 2026 Florida youth state championship qualifying standard (a middle school meet, not the FHSAA high school series) |
| Varsity: advancing from league finals | 26.54 to 27.44 | CIF Southern Section 2026 minimum standards for 2nd and 3rd place at league finals, Division 1 26.54 to Division 4 27.44 |
| State-qualifier level | 24.80 to 27.20 | CIF-SS 2026 at-large standards 24.80 (D1) to 25.56 (D2); Oregon OSAA 2026 state standards 24.86 (6A) to 27.00 (2A); Missouri MSHSAA 2026 district standards 25.54 (Class 5) to 27.20 (Class 1) |
| College walk-on range | 24.80 to 27.30 | Published D3 (25.10 to 27.30) and NAIA (24.80 to 26.00) recruiting ranges |
| College scholarship range | 22.60 to 25.10 | Published D1 (22.60 to 24.50) and D2 (24.20 to 25.10) ranges |
By grade, the honest version: a freshman inside the varsity band is ahead of schedule, a junior at state-qualifier level is a college walk-on conversation, and the scholarship bands are the published recruiting standards regardless of grade: coaches recruit the mark, not the birthday.
Sources, all 2026 and all marks as published: CIF Southern Section minimum and at-large standards, OSAA state championship qualifying standards, MSHSAA district qualifying standards, FLYRA qualification standards. The CIF-SS minimum standard is the mark a 2nd or 3rd place finisher at league finals must have to advance; the at-large standard earns an entry without placing. OSAA standards are the four-year average of fourth place at state. MSHSAA publishes district qualifying standards by class. College ranges are the same published bands used on every standards page on this site.
Put your 200m where coaches can find it. A TrackReels profile is free. Post the race with the time, the wind reading and the timing method attached, and it ranks on the live boys 200m leaderboard or girls 200m leaderboard, built for college coaches to browse by event, class year and state. Create your profile and post the reel today.
Why there is no official table
To publish a real average 200m time for, say, a 15 year old girl, somebody would need results for a representative sample of 15 year old girls. That data does not exist in one place. High school results sit in fifty separate state association systems, plus a handful of commercial databases, and every one of them only records athletes who competed in a scored meet.
The kids who ran one time trial in PE and never raced again are not in there. Neither are most of the athletes at the back of a JV heat. So any "average" built from meet results is really the average of athletes who race, which is a much faster group than kids of that age. Age is also a weak predictor of sprint speed at exactly the ages people search for: a 15 year old can be a freshman or a sophomore, pre-growth-spurt or fully developed.
The 200m is not two 100s
The obvious shortcut, doubling your 100m time, does not work. Half of a 200m is run on the bend, and the second 100 is run tired. The published standards say so themselves: at every level, the 200m mark is a little more than twice the 100m mark from the same table. Oregon's 6A boys' standards are 10.90 and 22.07, Missouri's Class 5 boys' are 11.03 and 22.24, and Missouri's Class 5 girls' are 12.41 and 25.54. The gap narrows at the very top of the sport: the CIF-SS D1 boys' at-large marks are 10.77 and 21.66, twelve hundredths over double, and that is a section standard for the best sprinters in Southern California, not a rule of thumb for a freshman.
Two things make a 200m time comparable with a standard, and both are on the results sheet.
Wind. The legal limit is +2.0 m/s, the same as the 100m. In the 200m the reading is taken over the straight, so a big tailwind on the home straight makes a time wind-aided and it cannot be used as a qualifying or ranking mark. Check any reading with the track wind calculator, and read what wind-legal actually means before you quote a time.
Timing. Every standard above is fully automatic timing. A stopwatch time is rounded up to the next tenth and then 0.24 is added, under both the NFHS rule and the Athletic.net bands, because the 200m is under 300 meters. A hand-timed 23.0 is a 23.24 FAT, and that is exactly how CIF-SS prints its D2 boys' minimum: 23.24 FAT or 23.0 hand-timed, two columns of one standard. The hand time to FAT converter does the arithmetic, and hand timing versus FAT explains why the two are not interchangeable.
How to use that if you are 13, 14 or 15
You are not being measured against those numbers yet, and you should not be. Use them as a horizon instead.
Work out the gap, not the grade. If you are a 15 year old boy running 24.2, the nearest published band is the CIF-SS D4 minimum at 23.74, and the bottom of the published D3 college range is 23.50. That is a target measured in tenths, which is a far more useful fact than "the average 15 year old runs X".
Track your own progression. The strongest recruiting signal for a young sprinter is improvement over seasons. A girl who goes 28.5, then 27.4, then 26.6 is a far more interesting recruit than one who ran 26.6 three years running. The 200m progression by age tool takes a time at 13, 14 or 15 and shows what the same age-graded level is worth at 17 and 18 on the published WMA curve, then places the age-18 time against the college standards.
Race the 200m properly timed, with a wind gauge, before you compare anything. A hand-timed time trial with the wind at your back tells you almost nothing about where you stand.
What a coach actually sees
A coach opening a recruiting profile wants three things next to a 200m time: the timing method, the wind reading and the race itself. A number on its own is a claim; a race with the conditions attached is evidence. That is the whole reason TrackReels exists: every reel here is posted with the event, the mark, the date, the wind and the timing method, so a coach can judge the race as well as the row.
Create a free profile, post your 200m, and see where it lands on the boys or girls board. Then check the next band on the boys or girls standards page, or rate any time straight away with the 200m rating tool.
A better question than "is this good for my age"
Ask "what is the next band, and what does it want". Then you have a target rather than a verdict. You can check any mark against every division on the standards page, or go straight to the 200m ladder for boys or girls.
Related: good 100m times by age and grade, what is a good 400m time, is 11.5 a good 100m time, and which event you should actually run.