1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 3000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1992 (preliminary round) August 2, 1992 (final) |
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The women's 3,000-meter run at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held in two rounds on July 31 and August 2, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part. The last time the distance was run was at the Olympic Games. From 1996, the 5,000-meter run was instead included in the Olympic program for women.
The Russian Jelena Romanowa was the Olympic champion , here for the united team at the start. She won ahead of her Ukrainian teammate Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych , who had won the competition in Seoul under her maiden name Tetjana Samolenko for the Soviet Union. Bronze went to the Canadian Angela Chalmers .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Tetjana Samolenko ( Soviet Union ) | 8: 26.53 min | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych ( Soviet Union ) | 8: 35.82 min | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion in 1990 | Yvonne Murray ( Great Britain ) | 8: 43.06 min | Split 1990 |
Pan American Champion 1991 | Sabrina Dornhoefer ( USA ) | 9: 16.15 min | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 | María Luisa Servín ( Mexico ) | 9: 28.02 min | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Carmem de Oliveira ( Brazil ) | 9: 17.50 min | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Zhong Huandi ( People's Republic of China ) | 9: 10.27 min | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African champion 1992 | Derartu Tulu ( Ethiopia ) | 9:01.12 min | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Wendy Cottrell ( New Zealand ) | 10: 01.72 min | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 8: 22.62 min | Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union ) | Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ), Soviet Union (now Russia ) | August 26, 1984 |
Olympic record | 8: 26.53 min | Tetjana Samolenko ( Soviet Union ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 25, 1988 |
Preliminary round
Date: July 31, 1992
The athletes competed in a total of three preliminary runs. The first three women athletes qualified for the finals. In addition, the three 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.
Forward 1
The South African Zola Pieterse took part in Los Angeles in 1984 under her maiden name Zola Budd and started here for Great Britain.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Elena Kopytova | EUN | 8: 47.21 min | |
2 | Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 8: 47.24 min | |
3 | PattiSue Plumer | United States | 8: 47.58 min | |
4th | Lisa York | Great Britain | 8: 47.71 min | |
5 | Robyn Meagher | Canada | 8: 49.72 min | |
6th | Gitte Karlshøj | Denmark | 8: 54.05 min | |
7th | Estela Estévez | Spain | 8: 55.70 min | |
8th | Jane Ngotho | Kenya | 9:00, 96 min | |
9 | Zola Pieterse | South Africa South Africa | 9:07.10 min | |
10 | Ana Isabel Elias | Angola | 9: 58.82 min | |
DNS | Sandra Cortez | Bolivia |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Marie Pierre Duros | France | 8: 42.32 min | |
2 | Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych | EUN | 8: 42.45 min | |
3 | Angela Chalmers | Canada | 8: 42.85 min | |
4th | Alison Wyeth | Great Britain | 8: 43.93 min | |
5 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 8: 44.21 min | |
6th | Anne Rochelle Steely | United States | 8: 44.22 min | |
7th | Esther Kiplagat | Kenya | 8: 44.97 min | |
8th | Catherina McKiernan | Ireland | 8: 57.91 min | |
9 | Fernanda Ribeiro | Portugal | 9: 07.69 min | |
10 | Immaculle Naberaho | Rwanda | 10: 02.62 min | |
11 | Rosemary Turare | Papua New Guinea | 11: 15.18 min |
Forward 3
Mirsada Burić was the first athlete from Bosnia and Herzegovina to take part in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 8: 50.08 min | |
2 | Yvonne Murray | Great Britain | 8: 51.16 min | |
3 | Elena Romanova | EUN | 8: 51.18 min | |
4th | Annette Peters | United States | 8: 52.77 min | |
5 | Zhora Graziani-Koullou | France | 8: 55.21 min | |
6th | Päivi Tikkanen | Finland | 8: 49.60 min | |
7th | Krishna Stanton | Australia | 9:00, 62 min | |
8th | Pauline Konga | Kenya | 9: 02.79 min | |
9 | Leah Pells | Canada | 9: 13.19 min | |
10 | Khin Khin Htwe | Myanmar | 9: 31.70 min | |
11 | Janeth Caizalitín | Ecuador | 9: 32.39 min | |
12 | Mirsada Buric | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9: 32.39 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Elena Romanova | EUN | 8: 46.04 min | |
2 | Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych | EUN | 8: 46.85 min | |
3 | Angela Chalmers | Canada | 8: 47.22 min | |
4th | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 8: 47.41 min | |
5 | PattiSue Plumer | United States | 8: 48.29 min | |
6th | Elena Kopytova | EUN | 8: 49.55 min | |
7th | Anne Rochelle Steely | United States | 8: 52.67 min | |
8th | Yvonne Murray | Great Britain | 8: 55.85 min | |
9 | Alison Wyeth | Great Britain | 9: 00.23 min | |
10 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 9: 01.26 min | |
11 | Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 9: 03.16 min | |
DNF | Marie-Pierre Duros | France |
Date: August 2, 1992
All three athletes from the united team qualified for the final. There were also two British women and two US Americans. The final field was completed by one participant each from France, Ireland, Italy, Canada and Romania.
The favorite was the Ukrainian Olympic champion from 1988 - at that time under her name Tetjana Samolenko - and 1991 world champion Tetjana Dorowskych, here for the united team at the start. Other candidates with prospects for medals and top placements were the Russian vice world champion Jelena Romanowa, also running for the united team, the British European champion from 1990 Yvonne Murray and the Irish Sonia O'Sullivan.
The pace of the final race wasn't fast in the early stages. As a result, the field of runners stayed close together for a long time. With the British Alison Wyeth in the lead, the first 1000 meters were completed in 3: 06.71 minutes. Wyeth stayed ahead, but the race was now much faster, the time for the second 1000 meters was 2: 54.81 minutes. Nine runners had now separated. Wyeth continued, with Romanowa and Murray behind. It even slowed down a bit, the athletes sometimes ran side by side, each trying to secure a good position for the finish. Six hundred meters from the finish, Murray took the lead and now accelerated the pace again. At the beginning of the last lap, Murray, Romanowa, O'Sullivan and Dorowskych were in front. Before the last corner O'Sullivan really accelerated the sprint again, Murray now fell back and a group of five pulled away on the target corner. Romanowa and Dorowskych followed the Irish woman, followed by the Canadian Angela Chalmers and the American PattiSue Plumer. At the start of the home straight, O'Sullivan pulled a little outward so Dorowskych could push past the inside. Outside, Romanowa also passed by and the two runners from the united team sprinted for the gold medal. In the end, Jelena Romanowa had the most reserves and crossed the finish line ahead of Tetjana Dorowskych as Olympic champion. Angela Chalmers prevailed in the battle for bronze against Sonia O'Sullivan, PattiSue Plumer was fifth ahead of Jelena Kopytowa, the third runner of the united team.
Web links
- SportsReference 3000m , accessed February 16, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 69f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018
Video
- Women's 3000m Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 16, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on February 16, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 69f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 70, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018