1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 10 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 44 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Barcelona | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 3rd August 1992 | ||||||||
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The women's 10 km walk at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 3, 1992. 44 female athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of a walking competition for women. 38 of the walkers who started reached the finish in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona .
The first Olympic champion was the Chinese Chen Yueling . She won in front of the Russian Jelena Nikolajewa , here at the start for the united team of the former Soviet republics . Bronze went to Li Chunxiu from China .
Beate Anders and Kathrin Born started for Germany . Anders finished the race in sixteenth place, Born in 33rd place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1988 | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | ||
| World Champion 1991 |
Alina Ivanova ( Soviet Union )
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42:57 min | Tokyo 1991 |
| European champion in 1990 |
Annarita Sidoti ( Italy )
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44:00 min | Split 1990 |
| Pan American Champion 1991 |
María Graciela Mendoza ( Mexico )
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46:42 min | Havana 1991 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 |
María Colín ( Mexico )
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49:16 min | Xalapa 1991 - held as a railway competition |
| South American Champion 1991 | Gloria Moreno ( Colombia )
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52:41 min | Manaus 1991 - held as a railway competition |
| Asian champion 1991 |
Li Chunxiu ( People's Republic of China )
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49:15 min | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
| African champion 1992 | Dounia Kara ( Algeria )
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24:57 min | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 - held as a 5000 m track competition |
| Oceania Champion 1990 | Women do not go in the championship program | ||
Existing records
| World record | 41: 56.2 min |
Nadezhda Ryashkina ( Soviet Union )
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Seattle , USA | July 24, 1990 |
| Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | |||
Note: World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
Most of the competition was held on Zona Franca Street . The street is about 1.5 km southwest of the Olympic Stadium. The start was on the Zona Franca , where an approx. 1000 meter long circuit was completed eight times. The route then led over Carrer del Foc and Passeig Olimpic into the Olympic Stadium , where the finish line lay after a lap on the running track.
Race course and result
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Date: August 3, 1992
First of all, the Russian Alina Iwanowa, who had become world champion for the USSR in 1991 and now started as a member of the united team, was favored. The Chinese walkers Chen Yueling, placed sixth at the world championships, and Li Chunxiu also had strong times from the Olympic season very popular. Other medal contenders were the Swedish vice world champion Madelein Svensson, the Finnish world championship third Sari Essayah, the Australian world championship fifth Kerry Saxby-Junna and European champion Annarita Sidoti from Italy.
In hot weather conditions, the world champion took the lead early on. Together with her teammate Jelena Nikolajewa, she set the pace. However, the two could not break away from their competitors. A leading group of around 20 was still close together for half of the route. Here the Chinese are now looking further ahead. Asian champions Chunxiu, Yueling and Cui Yingzi improved their positions in the field, and finally Chunxiu and Yueling took the lead. With the two Chinese women in the lead, the walkers reached the stadium. The field had become more and more stretched. The Yueling, Chunxiu, Iwanowa and Nikolajewa still had medal chances. Ivanova tried to get close and close the gap to the two leaders, but 150 meters from the finish she was warned for the third time and thus disqualified. Chen Yueling was the Olympic champion after all. In the fight for the silver medal it got tight again. Jelena Nikolajewa passed Li Chunxiu and secured second place. Ranks four to six went to Sari Essayah, Cui Yingzi and Madelein Svensson in that order.
Web links
- SportsReference 10k Walk , accessed February 19, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 81, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018
Video
- 3976 Olympic Track & Field 1992 10km Walk Women , Part 1, published May 19, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 19, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ World records women ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on bergfieber.de, accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ Route map in the Official Report (p. 203) , accessed on February 19, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 81, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018
10 km walking: Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996
20 km walking: Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 | Beijing 2008 | London 2012 | Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Tokyo 2020
Men: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 110 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | 50 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Decathlon
Women: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 100 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 10 km walk | High jump | Long jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Javelin throw | Heptathlon