1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	43 athletes from 34 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 5, 1992 (preliminary round) August 6, 1992 (semi-finals) August 8, 1992 (final)
Medalists Hassiba Boulmerka ( ALG )   Lyudmila Rogacheva ( EUN )   Qu Yunxia ( CHN )

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held in three rounds on August 5, 6 and 8, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

The Algerian Hassiba Boulmerka became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Russian Lyudmila Rogatschowa , here running for the united team, and the Chinese Qu Yunxia .

For Germany, Ellen Kießling started, who could not finish her preliminary round.
The Swiss Simone Meier was eliminated in the preliminary round, the Austrian Theresia Kiesl in the semifinals.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1988	Paula Ivan ( Romania )	3: 53.96 min	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Hassiba Boulmerka ( Algeria )	4: 02.21 min	Tokyo 1991
European champion in 1990	Snežana Pajkić ( Yugoslavia )	4: 08.12 min	Split 1990
Pan American Champion 1991	Alisa Harvey ( USA )	4: 13.12 min	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991	María Luisa Servín ( Mexico )	4: 26.98 min	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Rita de Jesus ( Brazil )	4: 19.18 min	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Qu Yunxia ( People's Republic of China )	4: 26.01 min	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African champion 1992	Elana Meyer ( South Africa )	4: 18.44 min	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Helen Hawley ( New Zealand )	4: 33.17 min	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	3: 52.47 min	Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union )	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
Olympic record	3: 53.96 min	Paula Ivan ( Romania )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	October 1, 1988

Preliminary round

Date: August 5, 1992

The runners competed in a total of three preliminary runs. The first six athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 09.91 min
2	Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych	EUN	4: 09.94 min
3	Paula Schnurr	Canada	4: 09.99 min
4th	Elena Fidatov	Romania	4: 10.00 min
5	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 10.01 min
6th	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	4: 10.08 min
7th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	4: 10.14 min
8th	Maxine Newman	Great Britain	4: 15.16 min
9	Simone Meier	Switzerland	4: 15.64 min
10	Susan Sirma	Kenya	4: 17.73 min
11	Suzy Hamilton	United States	4: 22.36 min
12	Laurence Niyonsaba	Rwanda	4: 24.87 min
13	Bigna Samuel	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4: 33.41 min
14th	Mantokoane Pitso	Lesotho	4: 39.96 min
15th	Rosemary Turare	Papua New Guinea	5: 10.52 min

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 07.82 min
2	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 08.58 min
3	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 09.47 min
4th	Lyudmila Rogacheva	EUN	4: 09.54 min
5	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	4: 10.63 min
6th	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 11.27 min
7th	Regina Jacobs	United States	4: 13.87 min
8th	Sriyani Dhammika Manike	Sri Lanka	4: 26.22 min
9	Carol Galea	Malta	4: 33.41 min
10	Rosalie Gangué	Chad	5: 06.31 min
DNF	Maria Akraka	Sweden		subsequently admitted to the semi-finals
	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy
DNF	Ellen Kiessling	Germany
DSQ	Ann Williams	Great Britain
DNS	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland

The Swede Maria Akraka and the Italian Fabia Trabaldo could not finish the race after a collision caused by the British Ann Williams. There was a disqualification for Williams, Akraka and Trabaldo were subsequently admitted to the semifinals. This increased the number of semi-finalists to 26.

Forward 3

The Irish Sonia O'Sullivan reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there as the seventh of her run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Qu Yunxia	People's Republic of China	4: 07.40 min
2	Ekaterina Podkopaeva	EUN	4: 07.55 min
3	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	4: 07.59 min
4th	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 07.60 min
5	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4: 07.70 min
6th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 07.75 min
7th	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 07.81 min
8th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 8.30 min
9	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 08.35 min
10	PattiSue Plumer	United States	4: 09.47 min
11	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	4: 18.09 min
12	Khin Khin Htwe	Myanmar	4: 18.81 min
13	Brigitte Nganaye	Central African Republic	4: 33.57 min
14th	Ana Isabel Elias	Angola	4: 33.66 min
DNS	Janeth Caizalitin	Ecuador

Semifinals

Date: August 6, 1992

From the two semi-finals, the first five athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 03.81 min
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	EUN	4: 03.85 min
3	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	4: 04.20 min
4th	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	4: 04.35 min
5	Elena Fidatov	Romania	4: 04.55 min
6th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 04.87 min
7th	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 05.46 min
8th	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	4: 09.64 min
9	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 11.36 min
10	Maria Akraka	Sweden	4: 14.30 min
11	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 15.53 min
12	Regina Jacobs	United States	4: 21.55 min
13	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	4: 26.61 min

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych	EUN	4: 03.79 min
2	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 03.83 min
3	Qu Yunxia	People's Republic of China	4: 03.86 min
4th	Ekaterina Podkopaeva	EUN	4: 03.93 min
5	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 04.00 min
6th	PattiSue Plumer	United States	4: 04.23 min
7th	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 04.42 min
8th	Paula Schnurr	Canada	4: 04.80 min
9	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 05.54 min
10	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	4: 06.05 min
11	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4: 06.24 min
12	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 07.46 min
13	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 12.50 min

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	3: 55.30 min
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	EUN	3: 56.91 min
3	Qu Yunxia	People's Republic of China	3: 57.08 min
4th	Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych	EUN	3: 57.92 min
5	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	4:00, 20 min
6th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 00.59 min
7th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 01.91 min
8th	Ekaterina Podkopaeva	EUN	4: 02.03 min
9	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	4: 02.60 min
10	PattiSue Plumer	United States	4: 03.42 min
11	Elena Fidatov	Romania	4: 06.44 min
DNF	Doina Melinte	Romania

Date: August 8, 1992

For the final on August 8th, three athletes from the united team qualified. There were also two Romanians and two Chinese women. The final field was completed by one participant each from Algeria, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the USA.

The reigning world champion Hassiba Boulmerka from Algeria was considered the favorite. Other medal candidates were above all the two runners who started behind her at the world championships, Tetjana Dorowskych, the Ukrainian World Cup runner-up, under her name Tetjana Samolenko also Olympic champion from 1988 over 3000 meters , and Lyudmila Rogatschowa, the Russian World Cup - Third.

The first half of the race was controlled by Rogacheva, who held the top position without a break. Despite the high pace - a 400 meter passage time of 1: 00.66 min - the field stayed together. Boulmerka stayed behind Rogacheva. There were hardly any shifts in position, even in the second lap - 1: 04.36 min - the leading Russian kept the pace high. At the beginning of the final lap the field slowly began to expand. The first three - Rogacheva, Boulmerka and the Chinese Qu Yunxia - were close together, followed with a small gap by Dorowskych and the Russian Yekaterina Podkopajewa, here running for the United Team. The pace remained high with 1: 04.86 min for the third lap. At 1200 meters, Dorowskych closed the gap forwards, so that four runners were now sprinting for the medals. Before the finish curve, the race picked up again. Boulmerka accelerated and pulled past Rogacheva, who could no longer follow the pace of the world champion. Behind it there were significantly larger gaps. Hassiba Boulmerka ran towards the finish line and became Olympic champion. Silver medalist Lyudmila Rogacheva was almost a second and a half behind. The Asian champion Qu Yunxia from China followed in third place ahead of Tetjana Dorowskych and the Chinese Liu Li. The Spanish Maite Zúñiga took sixth place. The fast intermediate times were also expressed in the end times. Four runners undercut the 4-minute mark. Paula Ivan's Olympic record from 1988 was so high that it still held.

Hassiba Boulmerka not only won the first medal for an Algerian woman, she also won Algeria's first ever Olympic victory.

Qu Yunxia became the first Chinese female 1500 meter medalist .

Web links

• SportsReference 1500m , accessed February 16, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 68f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018

Video

• Women's 1500m Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 9, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on February 16, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 68f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 69, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018