1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Heptathlon | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 23 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | 3rd / 4th August 1984 | ||||||||
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The heptathlon for women in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was on 3 and 4 August 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum discharged. 23 athletes took part, twenty of them finished the competition. The heptathlon was first played as part of the Olympic Games and replaced the women's pentathlon . A 1977 modified all-round table was used to determine the points.
The first Olympic champion was the Australian Glynis Nunn . She won ahead of the Americans Jackie Joyner and Sabine Everts from the Federal Republic of Germany.
With Sabine Braun and Birgit Dressel , two other athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany started. Braun finished sixth in the final ranking, Dressel ninth.
The Swiss Corinne Schneider was tenth, the Liechtensteiner Manuela Marxer 20.
All-around fighters from Austria did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1980 | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | ||
World Champion 1983 |
Ramona Neubert ( GDR )
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6714 points | Helsinki 1983 |
European Champion 1982 | 6664 points | Athens 1982 | |
Pan American Champion 1983 |
Conceição Geremias ( Brazil )
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6084 points | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Victoria Despaigne ( Cuba )
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5469 points | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 |
Conceição Geremias ( Brazil )
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5865 points | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian Champion 1983 | HIsako Hashimoto ( Japan )
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5486 points | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Chérifa Meskaoui ( Morocco )
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5353 points | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 6867 points |
Sabine Paetz ( GDR )
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Potsdam | May 6, 1984 |
Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held |
Participants
23 athletes from 14 countries took part in the Olympic competition:
Conducting the competition
The heptathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The seven disciplines took place over two days, four of them on the first and three of them on the second day. The evaluation was based on the points table for the 1977 women's all-around competition.
Time schedule
August 3, 1984: 100-meter hurdles , high jump , shot put , 200-meter run
4th August 1984: long jump , javelin throw , 800-meter run
Disciplines
Note: In the shot put and javelin throw as well as in the long jump , the respective best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid and therefore best attempt is printed in bold.
100 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Glynis Nunn achieved the fastest time in the 100 meter hurdles with 13.02 seconds that was run in an Olympic all-around competition.
Classification
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high jump
Sabine Everts achieved the highest height in the high jump in an Olympic all-round competition with 1.89 m . She then had three failed attempts over 1.92 m.
Classification
Intermediate result
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Shot put
Classification
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Intermediate result
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200 meter run
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Jodi Anderson did not take part in this fourth discipline.
Classification
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Intermediate result
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Long jump
Chantal Beaugeant did not compete in this fifth discipline.
Classification
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Intermediate result
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Javelin throw
Corinne Schneider achieved the largest javelin throw at 46.60 m in an Olympic all- around competition.
Classification
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Intermediate result
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800 meter run
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Conceição Geremias did not participate in this last discipline.
Classification
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Course and final result
Due to the Olympic boycott of numerous countries, three top athletes from the GDR were missing in particular: the world champion from 1983 , Ramona Neubert, former Ramona Göhler, the world record holder Sabine Paetz, former Sabine Möbius, and Anke Vater, third in the World Cup in 1983, later successful under the Name Anke Behmer. More top class heptathletes from the boycott states - u. a. the Soviet World Cup - fourth Valentina Dimitrova - were also not there. Overall, the value of this competition was significantly impaired by the absence of these world class athletes. The best female heptathlete who did not come from the Soviet Union or the GDR was US athlete Jane Frederick , who was unable to participate due to an injury.
In the first competition, the 100 meter hurdles , the Australian Glynis Nunn shone with 13.02 seconds. She had also taken part in the individual competition of this discipline and finished fifth in the Olympics with 13.20 seconds. The Briton Judy Simpson was not far behind with 13.07 s. Nunn led with 999 points just ahead of Simpson, the Briton Kim Hagger and the two German Germans Sabine Everts and Sabine Braun. Jackie Joyner had 914 points in sixth. In the high jump , the second exercise, Everts was particularly strong. At 1.89 m, she achieved the greatest height in the high jump that has ever been mastered in an Olympic all-around competition. The other heptathletes, who had occupied places one to six in the intermediate ranking, also impressed with excellent jumps. Hagger and Simpson each managed 1.86 m, Braun, Joyner and Nunn each managed 1.86 m. So the gaps stayed very close. Simpson was leading with 2078 points, Everts was second, 39 points behind. The Americans Cindy Greiner - 1.83 m - and Birgit Dressel, BR Germany - 1.86 m - worked their way up as fifth and seventh. Joyner was now eighth, 133 points behind first place. It continued with the shot put , in which the athletes from the boycott states had presented themselves particularly strongly in earlier competitions. Here in Los Angeles , Joyner hit the ball furthest at 14.39 m. The closest to her was Simpson with 13.89 m. This now took over the lead with 2908 points in front of Joyner, Nunn and Everts. There were now 120 points between the first and fourth. In the 200-meter run that concluded the first day, the best were again very close behind one another. Joyner and Everts ran 24.05 s each as fastest, Nunn had 24.06 s, the Dutch Jantien Hidding 24.12 s next. At the end of the first day Simpson was still leading with 3759 points, ahead of Joyner - 3739 points, Nunn - 3731 points - and Everts - 3721 points. Everything had moved closer together and Greiner, Hagger and Hidding in the next places were still promising in the race. The gap between the first and the seventh was just 146 points.
In the long jump - discipline number five - Everts reached 6.71 m. This would have placed her in sixth place in the special competition here in Los Angeles. The long jump seventh Nunn also achieved an excellent performance with 6.66 m and exceeded her distance from the individual competition by thirteen centimeters. Behind them, Hagger, Hidding and Simpson each achieved results of more than 6.30 m. In the interim standings Everts was now ahead with 4779 points, but was only one point ahead of Nunn. Simpson followed another 41 points. Behind were Joyner, Hagger, Greiner and Hidding in that order. The Dutchwoman was now 184 points behind the leading Everts, who lost a lot of ground with a poor performance in the penultimate exercise, the javelin throw . With a throw of less than 33 meters, she was almost fourteen meters behind Joyner, who with 44.52 m was the third best distance behind the Swiss Corinne Schneider - 46.90 m - and Iamo Launa from Papua New Guinea - 46.50 m - scored. With this, Joyner took the lead with 5504 points before the final 800-meter run, ahead of Nunn - 31 points back - and Everts - 80 points behind. Joyner's lead over Simpson in fourth place was 105 and Greiner in fifth was 123 points. Although Everts had achieved the best 800 m times in the run-up, it was almost impossible for her to get to the top. The choice would be between Joyner and Nunn. Sabine Everts ran an excellent and at the same time the fastest time of the heptathletes with 2: 09.05 min. With that she had won the bronze medal and missed gold by just 22 points. Glynis Nunn scored 2: 10.57 minutes, making her the first female Olympic champion in this new competition. The mark for her Olympic record was 6390 points. That was only five points more than what silver medalist Jackie Joyner achieved. Their 800 meter time of 2: 13.03 minutes was just a minimum too slow for Olympic gold. The gaps between the next placed athletes were slightly larger. Cindy Greiner was fourth - 109 points behind the winner, fifth place for Judy Simpson - 108 points back, sixth place for Sabine Braun - 154 points back.
For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1977, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1981 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been some decisive changes:
- Sabine Everts would be first instead of third.
- Gold medalist Glynis Nunn and second-placed Jackie Joyner would each have moved down one rank.
- The fourth placed Cindy Greiner and Judy Simpson in fifth would have swapped places.
- Tineke Hidding, rank seven, and Kim Hagger, rank eight, would also have swapped places.
- The places of Florence Picaut - thirteenth - and Annette Tånnander - fourteenth - would also be swapped.
- Seventeenth Donna Smellie would have moved up to sixteenth, conversely Connie Polman-Tuin would have slipped from sixteenth to seventeenth.
Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.
space | Surname | nation | Points - official rating | Points - 1981 rating |
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1 | Glynis Nunn |
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6390 first OR | 6329 |
2 | Jackie Joyner |
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6385 | 6306 |
3 | Sabine Everts |
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6363 | 6331 |
4th | Cindy Greiner |
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6281 | 6191 |
5 | Judy Simpson |
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6280 | 6206 |
6th | Sabine Braun |
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6236 | 6138 |
7th | Jantien Hidding |
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6147 | 6028 |
8th | Kim Hagger |
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6127 | 6045 |
9 | Birgit Dressel |
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6082 | 5998 |
10 | Corinne Schneider |
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6042 | 5934 |
11 | Marjon Wijnsma |
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6015 | 5887 |
12 | Kristine Tånnander |
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5985 | 5833 |
13 | Florence Picaut |
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5914 | 5765 |
14th | Annette Tånnander |
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5908 | 5806 |
15th | Jill Ross-Giffen |
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5904 | 5742 |
16 | Connie Polman-Tuin |
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5648 | 5447 |
17th | Donna Smellie |
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5638 | 5451 |
18th | Li-Jiau Tsai |
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5447 | 5220 |
19th | Iamo Launa |
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5148 | 4884 |
20th | Manuela Marxer |
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4913 | 4610 |
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 54f
Web links
- SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed January 18, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 268f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 18, 2018
Video
- 1984 Olympics Day 8 Track & Field Womens Heptathlon Gold Medalist Glynis Nunn imasportsphile , published January 8, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed January 18, 2018
- 1984 Olympic Games - Heptathlon - 100 Meter Hurdles , published August 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 18, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 (English), accessed on January 18, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference heptathlon (100 m hurdles) , accessed on January 18, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Heptathlon (high jump) , accessed on January 18, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Heptathlon (javelin throw) , accessed January 18, 2018