1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 9, 1984 (preliminary round) August 11, 1984 (final) |
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The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 9-11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 22 athletes took part.
The Italian Gabriella Dorio became Olympic champion . She won in front of the two Romanians Doina Melinte and Maricica Puică .
The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Roswitha Gerdes , who qualified for the final and took fourth place there.
Helen Ritter from Liechtenstein was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Runners from Switzerland and Austria did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1980 | Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union ) | 3: 56.6 min | Moscow 1980 |
World Champion 1983 | Mary Decker ( USA ) | 4:00, 90 min | Helsinki 1983 |
European champion 1982 | Olga Dwirna ( Soviet Union ) | 3: 57.80 min | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Ranza Clark ( Canada ) | 4: 16.18 min | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Eloína Kerr ( Cuba ) | 4: 21.06 min | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | Alejandra Ramos ( Chile ) | 4: 25.3 min | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Geng Xiuquan ( People's Republic of China ) | 4: 30.72 min | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Justina Chepchirchir ( Kenya ) | 4: 22.03 min | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 3: 52.47 min | Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union ) | Zurich , Switzerland | August 13, 1980 |
Olympic record | 3: 55.0 min | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 6, 1980 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 9, 1984
For the preliminary round, the 22 participants were drawn in two runs. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the final. Furthermore, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
At the age of 15 the Kenyan Justine Chepchirchir was the youngest participant in the field, the Romanian Maricica Puică at 34 years the oldest.
In the first run, Roswitha Gerdes and the Canadian Brit McRoberts crossed the finish line in fourth place exactly at the same time. According to the regulations, only the first four places were intended for direct qualification. But now there was a preliminary run with five directly qualified runners. Contrary to what was planned, not four, but only three lucky losers made it to the final.
The fastest lead time was achieved by the Italian Gabriella Dorio with 4: 04.51 min in run 2.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Christine Benning | Great Britain | 4: 10.48 min | |
Doina Melinte | Romania | |||
3 | Fița Lovin | Romania | 4: 10.58 min | |
4th | Roswitha Gerdes | BR Germany | 4: 10.64 min | |
Brit McRoberts | Canada | |||
6th | Elly van Hulst | Netherlands | 4: 10.69 min | |
7th | Mission Kane | United States | 4: 11.86 min | |
8th | Diana Richburg | United States | 4: 13.35 min | |
9 | Helen Knight | Liechtenstein | 4: 19.39 min | |
10 | Justina Chepchirchir | Kenya | 4: 21.97 min | |
11 | Laverne Bryan | Antigua and Barbuda | 4: 32.44 min | |
12 | Kriscia García | El Salvador | 4: 38.00 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gabriella Dorio | Italy | 4: 04.51 min | |
2 | Maricica Puică | Romania | 4: 05.30 min | |
3 | Ruth Wysocki | United States | 4: 05.65 min | |
4th | Christina Boxer | Great Britain | 4: 07.40 min | |
5 | Lynne MacDougall | Great Britain | 4: 09.08 min | |
6th | Debbie Scott | Canada | 4: 09.16 min | |
7th | Jill McCabe | Sweden | 4: 16.48 min | |
8th | Alejandra Ramos | Chile | 4: 22.03 min | |
9 | Liliana Gongora | Argentina | 4: 28.02 min | |
10 | Mariciane Mukamurenzi | Rwanda | 4: 31.56 min | |
DNS | Margrit Klinger | BR Germany |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Gabriella Dorio | Italy | 4: 03.25 min | |
2 | Doina Melinte | Romania | 4: 03.76 min | |
3 | Maricica Puică | Romania | 4: 04.15 min | |
4th | Roswitha Gerdes | BR Germany | 4: 04.41 min | |
5 | Christine Benning | Great Britain | 4: 04.70 min | |
6th | Christina Boxer | Great Britain | 4: 05.53 min | |
7th | Brit McRoberts | Canada | 4: 05.98 min | |
8th | Ruth Wysocki | United States | 4: 08.32 min | |
9 | Fița Lovin | Romania | 4: 09.11 min | |
10 | Debbie Scott | Canada | 4: 10.41 min | |
11 | Lynne MacDougall | Great Britain | 4: 10.58 min | |
12 | Elly van Hulst | Netherlands | 4: 11.58 min |
Date: August 11, 1984
All three Romanians and all three British women had qualified for the final on August 11, 1984. There were also two Canadians and one runner each from the USA, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands.
The Olympic boycott of numerous states impaired this competition mainly due to the resulting absence of the athletes from the Soviet Union, whose runners were right at the top of the current world rankings. At the last world championships , Samira Saizewa , Jekaterina Podkopajewa and Rawilja Agletdinowa, three athletes from the USSR, took second to fourth place. At the European Championships in 1982 , Olga Dwirna and Samira Saizewa had given a Soviet double victory. The favorites were now the two Romanians Maricica Puică, Olympic champion over 3000 meters the day before the 1500 meter final , and Doina Melinte, here in Moscow gold medalist over 800 meters , and the Italian Gabriella Dorio, third in the 1982 European Championship US athlete Mary Decker , reigning world champion, decided not to start over 1500 meters; she had concentrated on the 3000-meter run that was new to the Olympic program.
For a long time the Briton Christina Boxer led. the field followed closed. The 400-meter split was 66.14 s. All runners wanted to secure good starting positions for a possible increase in speed, so they ran broadly. On the outside, Dorio also came forward. Boxer continued to lead, after two laps the running time was 2: 14.66 minutes, so it had become a little slower - the last 400 meters: 68.52 seconds. Nevertheless, the runners were now clearly lined up one behind the other, Dorio was still second, Gerdes third. Shortly before the start of the last lap, Dorio took the lead and increased the pace. The field was still close together, Melinte was now second ahead of Boxer, Gerdes, Puică and the British Christine Benning. 300 meters from the finish, a group of seven with the American Ruth Wysocki in seventh place. The 1200 meter transit time was 3: 16.91 minutes; H. the third lap was by far the fastest with 62.15 s. Between Dorio and Melinte a duel for victory developed on the back straight, the two separated from their pursuers. The group behind stayed close together at first. At the end of the last corner Melinte overtook her Italian rival, Gerdes and Benning passed Boxer, then Puică followed. Wysocki had to be ripped off. At the end of the target curve, Dorio countered Melintes attack and was the first to enter the home straight. Gabriella Dorio initially increased her lead and in the end no longer had to give everything for her Olympic victory. Doina Melinte, former Doina Beșliu, came closer again, but did not reach Dorio anymore and in the end won the silver medal. In the last 40 meters, Maricica Puică, former Maricica Luca, flew past the three runners in front of her to the bronze place. The next places went to Roswitha Gerdes, Christine Benning and Christina Boxer. The Canadian Brit McRoberts had pushed past Ruth Wysocki to seventh place.
The spectators saw a thrilling and exciting race. Gabriella Dorio ran the last lap in 61.46 seconds. Nevertheless, the absence of the top female athletes from the USSR undoubtedly affected this competition.
Doina Melinte and Maricica Puică won the first medals for Romania in this discipline.
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. 44f
Web links
- SportsReference 1500m , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 261, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- Women's 1500m Final at LA Olympics in 1984 , published June 17, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 261, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference 1500 m , accessed January 14, 2018