1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 27 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 2, 1992 (preliminary round) August 3, 1992 (quarter-finals) August 5, 1992 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 2nd, 3rd and 5th, 1992 in three rounds in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 27 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Sally Gunnell from Great Britain. She won ahead of the two Americans Sandra Farmer-Patrick and Janeene Vickers .
Heike Meißner and Silvia Rieger started for Germany . Rieger failed in the preliminary round, Meißner was eliminated in the semi-finals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1988 |
Debbie Flintoff-King ( Australia )
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53.17 s | Seoul 1988 |
| World Champion 1991 |
Tazzjana Ljadouskaja ( Soviet Union )
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53.11 s | Tokyo 1991 |
| European champion in 1990 | 53.62 s | Split 1990 | |
| Pan American Champion 1991 |
Lency Montelier ( Cuba )
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57.34 s | Havana 1991 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 |
Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica )
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57.64 s | Xalapa 1991 |
| South American Champion 1991 | Liliana Chalá ( Ecuador )
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57.16 s | Manaus 1991 |
| Asian champion 1991 | Huang Yanhong ( People's Republic of China )
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57.29 s | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
| African champion 1992 | Myrtle Bothma ( South Africa )
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56.02 s | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
| Oceania Champion 1990 | Lily Tua ( Papua New Guinea )
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1: 04.31 min | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
| World record | 52.94 s |
Marina Stepanova ( Soviet Union )
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Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan ) | 17th September 1986 |
| Olympic record | 53.17 s |
Debbie Flintoff-King ( Australia )
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Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 28, 1988 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 2, 1992
The athletes started a total of four heats. The first three women athletes qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the four 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
Linda Kisabaka from Germany , who was registered for the run , did not start.
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
 United States
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55.12 s | |
| 2 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
 EUN
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55.36 s | |
| 3 | Myrtle Bothma |
South Africa South Africa
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55.60 s | |
| 4th | Rosey Edeh |
 Canada
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55.66 s | |
| 5 | Louise Fraser |
 Great Britain
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57.49 s | |
| DNF | Addo Ndala |
 Republic of the Congo
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Forward 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
EUN
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55.03 s | |
| 2 | Heike Meissner |
 Germany
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55.62 s | |
| 3 | Gowry Retchakan |
Great Britain
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55.62 s | |
| 4th | Monica Westén |
 Sweden
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56.68 s | |
| 5 | Nicoleta Căruţaşu |
 Romania
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57.18 s | |
| 6th | Marta Moreira |
 Portugal
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58.24 s | |
| 7th | Liliana Chalá |
Ecuador
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58.55 s |
Forward 3
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Janeene Vickers |
United States
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55.24 s | |
| 2 | Wera Ordina |
EUN
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55.48 s | |
| 3 | Deon Hemmings |
Jamaica
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55.48 s | |
| 4th | Nezha Bidouane |
 Morocco
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55.95 s | |
| 5 | Frida Johansson |
Sweden
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56.13 s | |
| 6th | Donalda Duprey |
Canada
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56.37 s | |
| 7th | Mary-Estelle Kapalu |
 Vanuatu
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1: 00.97 min |
Forward 4
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sally Gunnell |
Great Britain
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54.98 s | |
| 2 | Irmgard Trojer |
 Italy
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55.49 s | |
| 3 | Tonja Buford |
United States
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56.35 s | |
| 4th | Silvia Rieger |
Germany
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56.61 s | |
| 5 | Miriam Alonso Manteca |
 Spain
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57.66 s | |
| 6th | Gail Luke |
Australia
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58.32 s | |
| 7th | Reawadee Srithoa |
 Thailand
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58.80 s |
Semifinals
Date: August 3, 1992
From the two semi-finals, the first four runners qualified for the final (highlighted in light blue).
Run 1
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sally Gunnell |
Great Britain
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53.78 s | |
| 2 | Wera Ordina |
EUN
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54.37 s | |
| 3 | Janeene Vickers |
United States
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54.67 s | |
| 4th | Deon Hemmings |
Jamaica
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54.70 s | |
| 5 | Nezha Bidouane |
Morocco
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55.08 s | |
| 6th | Heike Meissner |
Germany
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55.35 s | |
| 7th | Frida Johansson |
Sweden
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55.85 s | |
| 8th | Donalda Duprey |
Canada
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56.30 s |
Run 2
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
United States
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53.90 s | |
| 2 | Margarita Ponomaryova |
EUN
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53.98 s | |
| 3 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
EUN
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54.53 s | |
| 4th | Myrtle Bothma |
South Africa South Africa
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54.53 s | |
| 5 | Gowry Retchakan |
Great Britain
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54.63 s | |
| 6th | Tonja Buford |
United States
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55.04 s | |
| 7th | Rosey Edeh |
Canada
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55.76 s | |
| 8th | Irmgard Trojer |
Italy
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56.34 s |
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final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sally Gunnell |
Great Britain
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53.23 s | |
| 2 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick |
United States
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53.69 s | |
| 3 | Janeene Vickers |
United States
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54.31 s | |
| 4th | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja |
EUN
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54.31 s | |
| 5 | Wera Ordina |
EUN
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54.83 s | |
| 6th | #Margarita Ponomarjowa |
EUN
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54.83 s | |
| 7th | Deon Hemmings |
Jamaica
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55.58 s | |
| DNF | Myrtle Bothma |
South Africa South Africa
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Date: August 5, 1992
Three athletes from the united team and two US women qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one starter each from Jamaica, South Africa and Great Britain.
A duel between the world and European champion Tazzjana Ljadouskaja and the world's best of the year Sandra Farmer-Patrick was expected. The British Sally Gunnell was also rated as runner-up world champion.
In the final, Farmer-Patrick took the lead on the third hurdle. But after the ninth hurdle, she lost her rhythm. The South African Myrtle Bothma fell in the finish curve and had to give up the race. At the start of the home stretch, Farmer-Patrick and Gunnell were tied at the top. The American Janeene Vickers followed just behind, but now she slacked off and had to let her two competitors go. Fourth was initially Wera Ordina, who was at the start for the united team. Behind her, Lyadouskaya got her second breath and made up a lot of ground. Only Gunnell and Farmer-Patrick fought for gold. Sally Gunnell was strong in the end and won 46 hundredths of a second ahead of Sandra Farmer-Patrick. The finish photo had to decide whether to win the bronze medal. Janeene Vickers knew Tazzjana Ljadouskaja's attack could not be fended off with the naked eye. Vera Ordina was fifth ahead of Margarita Ponomarjowa, who also ran for the combined team.
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed February 18, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 72, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 18, 2018
Video
- 3869 Olympic Track & Field 1992 400m Hurdles Women , posted April 15, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 18, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on February 18, 2018
- ↑ a b c Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 72, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 18, 2018
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