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)
Medalists Jelena Romanowa ( EUN )   Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych ( EUN )   Angela Chalmers ( CAN )

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 Portuguese Fernanda Ribeiro - here on a recording from 2006 - was eliminated in ninth place in her preliminary run

The Irish Sonia O'Sullivan was Olympic champion

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
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
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
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

The Russian Olympic champion Jelena Romanowa, here for the united team at the start

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
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

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. 69f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 16, 2018
3. ↑ 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