1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 3000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 8, 1984 (preliminary round) August 10, 1984 (final) |
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The women's 3,000-meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 8-10, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Thirty athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this distance.
The first Olympic champion was the Romanian Maricica Puică . She won ahead of British Wendy Sly and Canadian Lynn Williams .
The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Brigitte Kraus . She qualified for the final but had to abandon her race.
The Swiss Cornelia Bürki also reached the final. She finished fifth.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1980 | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | ||
World Champion 1983 | Mary Decker ( USA ) | 8: 34.62 min | Helsinki 1983 |
European champion 1982 | Svetlana Ulmassowa ( Soviet Union ) | 8: 30.28 min | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Joan Benoit ( USA ) | 9: 14.19 min | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Sergia Martínez ( Cuba ) | 9: 36.75 min | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | Mónica Regonesi ( Chile ) | 9: 57.2 min | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Kim Lyong-soon ( North Korea ) | 9: 39.64 min | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Justina Chepchirchir ( Kenya ) | 9: 20.3 min | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 8: 26.78 min | Svetlana Ulmassowa ( Soviet Union ) | Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) | July 25, 1982 |
Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held |
Preliminary round
Date: August 8, 1984
For the preliminary rounds, the thirty participants were drawn into three runs. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the final. Furthermore, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
The Romanian Maricica Puică achieved the fastest lead time with 8: 43.32 minutes in run 3. The slowest directly qualified athlete was the British Wendy Sly in run 2 with 8: 58.66 min. The fastest athlete who could not qualify was the British Jane Furniss, who retired in the first run with 8: 48.00 minutes.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Mary Decker | United States | 8: 44.38 min | first OR |
2 | Lynn Williams | Canada | 8: 45.77 min | |
3 | Agnese Possamai | Italy | 8: 45.84 min | |
4th | Aurora Cunha | Portugal | 8: 46.38 min | |
5 | Dianne Rodger | New Zealand | 8: 47.90 min | |
6th | Jane Furniss | Great Britain | 8: 48.00 min | |
7th | Bright Kimaiyo | Kenya | 8: 57.21 min | |
8th | Róisín Smyth | Ireland | 9: 01.69 min | |
9 | Raida Abdallah | Jordan | 10: 48.00 min | |
DNS | Helen Knight | Liechtenstein |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Brigitte Kraus | BR Germany | 8: 57.53 min | |
2 | Joan Hansen | United States | 8: 58.64 min | |
3 | Wendy Sly | Great Britain | 8: 58.66 min | |
4th | Maria Albertina Machado | Portugal | 9: 01.77 min | |
5 | Donna Gould | Australia | 9: 05.56 min | |
6th | Eva Ernström | Sweden | 9: 06.54 min | |
7th | Annette Sergent | France | 9: 15.82 min | |
8th | Susan French | Canada | 9: 24.66 min | |
9 | Liliana Góngora | Argentina | 9: 41.14 min | |
10 | Mwinga Mwanjala | Tanzania | 9: 42.66 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Maricica Puică | Romania | 8: 43.32 min | OR |
2 | Cindy Brakeman | United States | 8: 43.97 min | |
3 | Zola Budd | Great Britain | 8: 44.52 min | |
4th | Cornelia Bürki | Switzerland | 8: 45.82 min | |
5 | Monica Joyce | Ireland | 8: 54.34 min | |
6th | Geraldine Fitch | Canada | 9: 07.18 min | |
7th | Marcianne Mukamurenzi | Rwanda | 9: 27.08 min | |
8th | Geeta Zutshi | India | 9: 40.63 min | |
9 | Kriscia García | El Salvador | 9: 42.28 min | |
DNF | Pink Mota | Portugal | ||
Mónica Regonesi | Chile |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Maricica Puică | Romania | 8: 35.96 min | OR |
2 | Wendy Sly | Great Britain | 8: 39.47 min | |
3 | Lynn Williams | Canada | 8: 42.14 min | |
4th | Cindy Brakeman | United States | 8: 42.78 min | |
5 | Cornelia Bürki | Switzerland | 8: 45.20 min | |
6th | Aurora Cunha | Portugal | 8: 46.37 min | |
7th | Zola Budd | Great Britain | 8: 48.80 min | |
8th | Joan Hansen | United States | 8: 51.53 min | |
9 | Dianne Rodger | New Zealand | 8: 56.43 min | |
10 | Agnese Possamai | Italy | 9: 10.82 min | |
DNF | Mary Decker | United States | ||
Brigitte Kraus | BR Germany |
Date: August 10, 1984
All three US runners had qualified for the final. Further finalists were two British women and one athlete each from Germany, Romania, Switzerland, New Zealand, Portugal, Italy and Canada.
World champion Mary Decker from the host country was the favorite for the Olympic victory. However, there were a few other contenders who were tough competition for Decker. These included the South African Zola Budd, who started for Great Britain, who always ran barefoot and was number one in the world rankings over 5000 meters , the Romanian Maricica Puică, Vice European Champion 1982 , Vice World Champion Brigitte Kraus from Germany and the British World Cup fifth Wendy Sly. The lack of athletes from the boycott states was mainly due to the absence of Soviet runners. First and foremost, the 1980 Olympic champion over 1500 meters , at the same time World Cup third Tatjana Kasankina and European champion and World Cup fourth Svetlana Ulmassowa would have started promisingly.
In the final, Decker took the lead at the start of the race, followed by the Italian Agnese Possamai and Puică. In the second lap, Budd oriented himself further on the outside and cut back on the inside lane behind Decker, followed by Puică. Possamai lost ground, while Kraus continued to work his way forward. The 1000 meter split was 2: 50.44 minutes. The runners were still together. Movement came when first Sly and then Budd took the lead at the end of the fourth lap and pushed the pace. A group of four with Budd, Decker, Puică and Sly now clearly stood out. On the home stretch of this lap there was contact between Budd and Decker. The American stumbled, fell and was injured with a contorted face. Puică and Sly passed the briefly irritated Budd, but the little British girl was able to catch up immediately, took over the lead again and continued to ensure a high pace, so that the runners behind the now group of three could not catch up. The 2000 meter mark was passed in 5: 44.08 minutes. Up to the penultimate lap, the three athletes stayed closely together in the lead. Kraus had meanwhile given up on the race. Shortly before the start of the last lap, Sly and Puică accelerated the pace, Budd lost more and more ground. On the back straight, the Romanian attacked and started her final sprint, Sly could not follow the pace, while Budd was passed further and further back. Puică looked around a few times, her lead increasing with every step. Maricica Puică was the first to cross the finish line by a clear margin and was Olympic champion ahead of Wendy Sly. Bronze went to the Canadian Lynn Williams, who finished ahead of Cindy Bremser, USA. The Swiss Cornelia Bürki came fifth and the Portuguese Aurora Cunha came sixth. Zola Budd crossed the finish line in seventh place.
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 3000m , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 262, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- Women's 3000m LA 1984 , published January 18, 2013 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. 262, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference 3000 m , accessed on January 14, 2018