1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 400 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 41 athletes from 29 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 1, 1992 (preliminary round) August 2, 1992 (quarter-finals) August 3, 1992 (semi-finals) August 5, 1992 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter run at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held in four rounds on August 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th, 1992 in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona . 41 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Marie-José Pérec from France . She won ahead of Olha Bryshina from the united team and the Colombian Ximena Restrepo .
Anja Rücker started for Germany . She was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1988 |
Olha Bryshina ( Soviet Union )
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48.65 s | Seoul 1988 |
| World Champion 1991 |
Marie-José Pérec ( France )
 |
49.13 s | Tokyo 1991 |
| European champion in 1990 |
Grit Breuer ( GDR )
 |
49.50 s | Split 1990 |
| Pan American Champion 1991 |
Ana Fidelia Quirot ( Cuba )
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49.61 s | Havana 1991 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 | Catherine Rattray-Williams ( Jamaica )
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53.37 s | Xalapa 1991 |
| South American Champion 1991 | Maria Figueiredo ( Brazil )
 |
51.56 s | Manaus 1991 |
| Asian champion 1991 | Shiny Wilson ( India )
 |
53.46 s | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
| African champion 1992 | Omotayo Akinremi ( Nigeria )
 |
52.53 s | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
| Oceania Champion 199 | Kirsten Downie ( New Zealand )
 |
56.11 s | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
| World record | 47.80 s |
Marita Koch ( GDR )
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Canberra , Australia | October 6, 1985 |
| Olympic record | 48.65 s |
Olha Bryshina ( Soviet Union )
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Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 26, 1988 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 1, 1992
The participants competed in a total of six preliminary runs. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, 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
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natasha Kaiser |
 United States
|
51.41 s | |
| 2 | Ximena Restrepo |
 Colombia
|
52.34 s | |
| 3 | Julia Merino |
 Spain
|
52.90 s | |
| 4th | Juliet Campbell |
Jamaica
|
53.69 s | |
| 5 | Ruth Morris |
 American Virgin Islands
|
54.37 s | |
| 6th | Prisca Philip |
 Barbados
|
55.09 s | |
| 7th | Fanta Dao |
 Mali
|
1: 01.97 min |
Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandie Richards |
Jamaica
|
52.56 s | |
| 2 | Jearl Miles |
United States
|
52.79 s | |
| 3 | Sandra Douglas |
 Great Britain
|
52.91 s | |
| 4th | Jayamini Illeperuma |
 Sri Lanka
|
54.14 s | |
| 5 | Charmaine Gilgeous |
 Antigua and Barbuda
|
55.48 s | |
| 6th | Shermaine Ross |
 Grenada
|
55.49 s |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elsa Devassoigne |
France
|
52.07 s | |
| 2 | Olha Bryshina |
 EUN
|
52.44 s | |
| 3 | Michelle Lock |
 Australia
|
52.49 s | |
| 4th | Lorraine Hanson |
Great Britain
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52.66 s | |
| 5 | Tina Paulino |
 Mozambique
|
52.93 s | |
| 6th | Zoila Stewart |
 Costa Rica
|
53.72 s | |
| 7th | Mary-Estelle Kapalu |
 Vanuatu
|
55.75 s |
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jillian Richardson-Briscoe |
 Canada
|
51.99 s | |
| 2 | Olga Nazarova |
EUN
|
52.09 s | |
| 3 | Norfalia Carabalí |
Colombia
|
52.18 s | |
| 4th | Anja Rücker |
 Germany
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52.24 s | |
| 5 | Aïssatou Tandian |
 Senegal
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52.29 s | |
| 6th | Susie Tanéfo |
 Cameroon
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53.37 s | |
| 7th | Jacqueline Solíz |
 Bolivia
|
56.78 s |
Forward 5
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phylis Smith |
Great Britain
|
53.59 s | |
| 2 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
|
53.64 s | |
| 3 | Cathy Freeman |
Australia
|
53.70 s | |
| 4th | Myra Mayberry-Wilkinson |
 Puerto Rico
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53.75 s | |
| 5 | Judit Forgács |
 Hungary
|
25.03 s | |
| 6th | Ngozi Mwanamwambwa |
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54.88 s | |
| 7th | Melrose Mansaray |
 Sierra Leone
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55.67 s |
Forward 6
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rochelle Stevens |
United States
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52.42 s | |
| 2 | Renée Poetschka |
Australia
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52.85 s | |
| 3 | Jelena Rusina |
EUN
|
52.94 s | |
| 4th | Claudine Williams |
Jamaica
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52.97 s | |
| 5 | Alimata Koné |
 Ivory Coast
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53.76 s | |
| 6th | Noodang Pimpol |
 Thailand
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54.28 s | |
| 7th | Ruth Mangue |
 Equatorial Guinea
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1: 03.32 min |
Quarter finals
Date: August 2, 1992
From the quarter-finals, the first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ximena Restrepo |
Colombia
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50.63 s | |
| 2 | Olha Bryshina |
EUN
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50.68 s | |
| 3 | Natasha Kaiser |
United States
|
50.71 s | |
| 4th | Sandra Douglas |
Great Britain
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51.41 s | |
| 5 | Cathy Freeman |
Australia
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51.52 s | |
| 6th | Aïssatou Tandian |
Senegal
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52.39 s | |
| 7th | Jayamini Illeperuma |
Sri Lanka
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53.55 s | |
| 8th | Judit Forgács |
Hungary
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54.24 s |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jillian Richardson-Briscoe |
Canada
|
50.95 s | |
| 2 | Jearl Miles |
United States
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51.27 s | |
| 3 | Olga Nazarova |
EUN
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51.30 s | |
| 4th | Michelle Lock |
Australia
|
51.71 s | |
| 5 | Anja Rücker |
Germany
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52.05 s | |
| 6th | Juliet Campbell |
Jamaica
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52.12 s | |
| 7th | Tina Paulino |
Mozambique
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52.34 s | |
| 8th | Ruth Morris |
American Virgin Islands
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54.92 s |
Run 3
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phylis Smith |
Great Britain
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51.32 s | |
| 2 | Elsa Devassoigne |
France
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51.75 s | |
| 3 | Renée Poetschka |
Australia
|
52.05 s | |
| 4th | Jelena Rusina |
EUN
|
52.23 s | |
| 5 | Julia Merino |
Spain
|
52.43 s | |
| 6th | Claudine Williams |
Jamaica
|
52.84 s | |
| 7th | Susie Tanéfo |
Cameroon
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53.78 s | |
| 8th | Noodang Pimpol |
Thailand
|
54.90 s |
Run 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rochelle Stevens |
United States
|
50.70 s | |
| 2 | Sandie Richards |
Jamaica
|
50.76 s | |
| 3 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
|
50.89 s | |
| 4th | Norfalia Carabalí |
Colombia
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51.65 s | |
| 5 | Myra Mayberry-Wilkinson |
Puerto Rico
|
53.37 s | |
| 6th | Lorraine Hanson |
Great Britain
|
53.60 s | |
| 7th | Zoila Stewart |
Costa Rica
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53.60 s | |
| 8th | Alimata Koné |
Ivory Coast
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53.80 s |
Semifinals
Date: August 3, 1992
From the two semi-finals, the first four runners (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
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49.48 s | |
| 2 | Ximena Restrepo |
Colombia
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49.76 s | |
| 3 | Olha Bryshina |
EUN
|
49.76 s | |
| 4th | Phylis Smith |
Great Britain
|
50.40 s | |
| 5 | Jearl Miles |
United States
|
50.57 s | |
| 6th | Natasha Kaiser |
United States
|
50.60 s | |
| 7th | Michelle Lock |
Australia
|
50.78 s | |
| 8th | Jelena Rusina |
EUN
|
51.30 s |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jillian Richardson-Briscoe |
Canada
|
50.02 s | |
| 2 | Olga Nazarova |
EUN
|
50.31 s | |
| 3 | Sandie Richards |
Jamaica
|
50.35 s | |
| 4th | Rochelle Stevens |
United States
|
50.37 s | |
| 5 | Norfalia Carabalí |
Colombia
|
51.75 s | |
| 6th | Sandra Douglas |
Great Britain
|
51.96 s | |
| 7th | Renée Poetschka |
Australia
|
52.09 s | |
| 8th | Elsa Devassoigne |
France
|
52.85 s |
final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie-José Pérec |
France
|
48.83 s | |
| 2 | Olha Bryshina |
EUN
|
49.05 s | |
| 3 | Ximena Restrepo |
Colombia
|
49.64 s | |
| 4th | Olga Nazarova |
EUN
|
49.69 s | |
| 5 | Jillian Richardson-Briscoe |
Canada
|
49.93 s | |
| 6th | Rochelle Stevens |
United States
|
50.11 s | |
| 7th | Sandie Richards |
Jamaica
|
50.19 s | |
| 8th | Phylis Smith |
Great Britain
|
50.87 s |
Date: August 5, 1992
Two athletes from the united team qualified for the final. There was also one runner each from France, Jamaica, Canada, Colombia, the USA and Great Britain.
The 1988 Olympic champion Olha Bryshina, then for the USSR, now for the United Team, was in the final and was one of the medal candidates. The clear favorite to win the Olympic gold was the French world champion Marie-José Pérec. Other contenders for top positions were the American Jearl Miles, fifth in the 1991 World Cup , and the Colombian Ximena Restrepo, sixth in the World Cup . Miles was eliminated in the semifinals. Vice world champion Grit Breuer from Germany would certainly have been a candidate for a medal. But like her training colleague Katrin Krabbe , she was convicted of doping abuse and banned.
In the finale, British rider Phylis Smith started the race very quickly and was in the front after the first corner. Bryshina passed her halfway through the race. In the last curve the positions shifted significantly. Smith kept falling back and Pérec caught up with Bryshina. They both reached the home straight pretty much on par. Just behind them were the Canadian Jillian Richardson-Briscoe and Restrepo. Pérec had the greatest stamina. Sixty meters from the finish she passed Bryshina and fought for a small lead that she never gave up. Marie-José Pérec also won the Olympic title after her World Cup title. Olha Bryshina was able to defend her second place. Olga Nazarova, who was running for the United Team, also intervened in the battle for bronze, she made up a lot of ground in the last hundred meters, but could not quite reach Ximena Restrepo. Jillian Richardson-Briscoe went fifth, and Rochelle Stevens from the United States took sixth.
Ximena Restrepo won the first ever medal for her country, Colombia.
Web links
- SportsReference 400m , accessed February 14, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 67, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 14, 2018
Video
- Women's 400m Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on February 14, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 67, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 14, 2018
- ↑ Chronology in the Krabbe case , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, report updated on June 27, 2001, accessed on February 14, 2018
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