 According to an article written by Ron Casey (an Australian statistician), in 1986 Drechsler made significant improvements to her 100 m and 200 m times.In one season she went from an 11.75-second 100 m to 10.91 seconds.Her 200 m time improved from 23.19 seconds to 21.71 seconds (equaling the world record) in the 1986 season.