1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 26 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 5, 1984 (preliminary round) August 6, 1984 (semi-finals) August 8, 1984 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 5, 6 and 8, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 26 athletes took part in the Olympic debut of this discipline in women's athletics.
The Moroccan Nawal El Moutawakel became the first Olympic champion . She won ahead of the American Judi Brown and the Romanian Cristieana Cojocaru .
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, 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 | Yekaterina Fessenko ( Soviet Union ) | 54.14 s | Helsinki 1983 |
European champion 1982 | Ann-Louise Skoglund ( Sweden ) | 54.58 s | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Judi Brown ( USA ) | 56.03 s | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Alma Vázquez ( Mexico ) | 59.57 s | Havana 1983 |
South America Champion 1983 | Conceição Geremias ( Brazil ) | 59.5 s | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Yoko Sato ( Japan ) | 59.89 s | Kuwait City 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Nawal El Moutawakel ( Morocco ) | 58.42 s | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 53.58 s | Margarita Ponomarjowa ( Soviet Union ) | Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) | June 22, 1984 |
Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held |
Preliminary round
Date: August 5, 1984
In the preliminary round, the 26 participants were drawn in four runs. The first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.
With 55.75 s, Ann-Louise Skoglund from Sweden ran the fastest lead time in run 4. The slowest time with which an athlete could qualify for the semi-finals was 59.09 s, achieved in the same run by Andrea Page from Canada. The fastest athlete who failed to qualify was New Zealander Lynette Grime, who was eliminated in run 2 with 58.02 seconds.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Judi Brown | United States | 55.97 s | first OR |
2 | Pilavullakandi Usha | India | 56.81 s | |
3 | Debbie Flintoff | Australia | 57.20 s | |
4th | Tuija Helander | Finland | 57.22 s | |
5 | Lih-jiau Lai | Chinese Taipei | 58.54 s | |
6th | Alma Vázquez | Mexico | 1: 00.86 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Nawal El Moutawakel | Morocco | 56.49 s | |
2 | Sharrieffa Barksdale | United States | 56.89 s | |
3 | Sandra Farmer | Jamaica | 57.06 s | |
4th | Gladys Taylor | Great Britain | 57.64 s | |
5 | Lynette Grime | New Zealand | 58.02 s | |
6th | Dana Wright | Canada | 58.17 s |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Olga Commandeur | Netherlands | 56.67 s | |
2 | Cristieana Cojocaru | Romania | 56.94 s | |
3 | Ruth Kyalisima | Uganda | 57.38 s | |
4th | Giuseppina Cirulli | Italy | 57.49 s | |
5 | Averill Dwyer-Brown | Jamaica | 58.42 s | |
6th | Angela Wright-Scott | United States | 59.77 s | |
7th | Agrippina de la Cruz | Philippines | 1: 02.70 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ann-Louise Skoglund | Sweden | 55.75 s | OR |
2 | Maria Usifo | Nigeria | 57.78 s | |
3 | Susan Morley | Great Britain | 58.71 s | |
4th | Andrea Page | Canada | 59.09 s | |
5 | Manathoor Valsamma | India | 1: 00.03 min | |
6th | Cheryl Blackman | Barbados | 1: 01.19 min | |
7th | Mary Parr | Ireland | 1: 01.66 min |
Semifinals
Date: August 6, 1984
In each of the two semi-finals, the first four (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
The fastest semifinal time was Ann-Louise Skoglund with 55.17 s in run 1.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ann-Louise Skoglund | Sweden | 55.17 s | OR |
2 | Cristieana Cojocaru | Romania | 55.24 s | |
3 | Nawal El Moutawakel | Morocco | 55.65 s | |
4th | Sandra Farmer | Jamaica | 56.05 s | |
5 | Sharrieffa Barksdale | United States | 56.19 s | |
6th | Giuseppina Cirulli | Italy | 56.45 s | |
7th | Susan Morley | Great Britain | 56.67 s | |
8th | Andrea Page | Canada | 57.89 s |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Pilavullakandi Usha | India | 55.94 s | |
2 | Judi Brown | United States | 55.97 s | |
3 | Debbie Flintoff | Australia | 56.24 s | |
4th | Tuija Helander | Finland | 56.59 s | |
5 | Gladys Taylor | Great Britain | 56.72 s | |
6th | Olga Commandeur | Netherlands | 57.01 s | |
7th | Ruth Kyalisima | Uganda | 57.02 s | |
8th | Maria Usifo | Nigeria | 58.55 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Nawal El Moutawakel | Morocco | 54.61 s | OR |
2 | Judi Brown | United States | 55.20 s | |
3 | Cristieana Cojocaru | Romania | 55.41 s | |
4th | Pilavullakandi Usha | India | 55.42 s | |
5 | Ann-Louise Skoglund | Sweden | 55.43 s | |
6th | Debbie Flintoff | Australia | 56.21 s | |
7th | Tuija Helander | Finland | 56.55 s | |
8th | Sandra Farmer | Jamaica | 57.15 s |
Date: August 8, 1984
Athletes from eight countries qualified for the final. An American, an Indian, a Finnish, a Romanian, a Moroccan, a Jamaican, a Swedish and an Australian woman competed. The dominant athletes from the Soviet Union and the GDR were not there because of the Olympic boycott. That reduced the value of this competition considerably. The group of medal contenders mainly included the Swedish European champion from 1982 Ann-Louise Skoglund. At last year's World Championships , she was sixth as the best runner who did not come from the USSR or GDR. The US-American Judi Brown and the Romanian Cristieana Cojocaru, eighth of the World Cup, could also hope to achieve top positions.
In the final, the Moroccan African champion Nawal El Moutawakel took the lead at the first hurdle. She kept this lead right through to the finish and won the gold medal completely surprisingly. The Australian Debbie Flintoff and the Swede Ann-Louise Skoglund were the toughest pursuers up to the last corner. But both could not keep their pace on the home straight and were passed by the US runner Judi Brown, who secured the silver medal. While Flintoff fell further and further behind, there was a duel for the bronze medal between Skoglund, the Romanian Cristieana Cojocaru and the Indian Pilavullakandi Usha. Cristieana Cojocaru prevailed and prevailed with a hundredth of a second ahead of Usha, who in turn was a hundredth of a second ahead of Ann-Louise Skoglund. Debbie Flintoff crossed the finish line in sixth ahead of Tuija Helander from Finland and Sandra Farmer from Jamaica.
Nawal El Moutawakel was the first African woman and the first Muslim woman to win Olympic gold. It was also the first ever Olympic victory for Morocco.
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. 47
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 263f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- Nawal El Moutawakel on winning the first Women's Olympic 400m Hurdles | Olympic Rewind , published June 13, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 263, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 264, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference 400 m hurdles , accessed January 14, 2018