1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 50 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (destination) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 5th August 1984 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 5, 1984. Fifty athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline, of which 44 made it to the finish.
American Joan Benoit became the first Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Norwegian Grete Waitz and the Portuguese Rosa Mota .
The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Charlotte Teske , who reached the finish line in sixteen.
The Swiss Gabriela Andersen-Schiess was 37th
runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Existing records
| World record | 2:22:43 h |
Joan Benoit ( USA )
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Boston | April 18, 1983 |
| Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | |||
Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The race started in Santa Monica at Santa Monica College . On the Pacific Coast Highway and Lincoln Boulevard it went to the northwest, before the route led after passing Interstate 10 in a northeastern direction on Olympic Boulevard . We continued in a wide left curve to the Pacific coast, which was reached in Pacific Palisades . On Ocean Boulevard , the route ran southeast along the coast to Venice Beach and circled the port of Marina del Rey . The route continued eastwards and passed Interstate 405 . On Jefferson Boulevard we went north past Culver City to Baldwin Hills , on Rodeo Road and Exposition Boulevard then east to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . There was still one lap to go in the stadium before the goal was reached.
Race course
Date: August 5, 1984
The favorites were the Norwegian world champion Grete Waitz, the Portuguese European champion Rosa Mota and the US runner Joan Benoît. She had won the Boston Marathon in 1979 and 1983 and in 1983 achieved the current world record. However, Benoit had health problems ahead of the Olympics. She suffered from the aftermath of a knee operation and had difficulty surviving the Olympic elimination. Nobody knew how fit she would be. The lack of female runners from the boycott states had little effect here. None of the athletes concerned would have been among the favorites here.
At 46, the British Joyce Smith was the oldest participant in the Los Angeles Olympic track and field competitions .
Benoit took the lead early on at kilometer five. A chasing field of seven runners had formed. The group consisted of Mota, Waitz, the Norwegian Ingrid Kristiansen, the two New Zealanders Lorraine Moller and Anne Audain, the British Priscilla Welch and the American Julie Brown. The pursuers were already almost two minutes behind at 25 km. Brown fell behind more and more of them as the race progressed, Audain gave up the race completely after thirty kilometers. Benoit's lead decreased over time after 25 km, but none of the pursuers was able to catch her. Joan Benoit was Olympic champion with almost a minute and a half ahead of Grete Waitz, former Grete Andersen. Forty seconds later, bronze medalist Rosa Mota crossed the finish line. The three remaining athletes from the initial chase group came in on the next three places. Ingrid Kristiansen, formerly Ingrid Christensen, was fourth, 37 seconds behind bronze, while Lorraine Moller, who crossed the finish line twenty seconds ahead of sixth-placed Priscilla Welch, was fifth one minute behind.
The arrival of the Swiss Gabriela Andersen-Schiess caused concern and it was controversial as to how the supervisors and doctors should proceed in such cases. Lying at position twenty, she had missed the last drinks station at forty kilometers and staggered along the last lap of the stadium with a contorted face. The completely exhausted runner needed seven minutes for the spectators to cheer her on. The ABC broadcaster broadcast this in full. The spectators witnessed how the Swiss woman chased away doctors and other helpers, because she would have been disqualified for supporting. During examinations in the hospital, she was measured to have a body temperature of 41.2 °.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 18:15 min | Joan Benoit | 18:15 min |
| 10 km | 35:24 min | Joan Benoit | 17:09 min |
| 15 km | 51:46 min | Joan Benoit | 16:22 min |
| 20 km | 1:08:32 h | Joan Benoit | 16:46 min |
| 25 km | 1:25:24 h | Joan Benoit | 16:52 min |
| 30 km | 1:42:23 h | Joan Benoit | 16:59 min |
| 35 km | 1:59:41 h | Joan Benoit | 17:18 min |
| 40 km | 2:17:14 h | Joan Benoit | 17:33 min |
Result
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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
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 262, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Web links and sources
- Video: Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Marathon | Marathon Week , published April 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed January 14, 2018
- 1984 Summer Olympics women's marathon from Sports-Reference.com database , 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ Route map in the Official Report, page 98 , accessed on 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
- ↑ Article "42.1 degrees" in the Swiss weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche (edition 33/2004) , accessed on January 14, 2018
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