1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Heptathlon | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | 1./2. August 1992 | ||||||||
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The heptathlon for women in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was on 1 and 2 August 1992 at the Olympic Stadium Barcelona held. 32 athletes took part. An all-around table modified in 1985 was used to determine the points.
The US defending champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of Irina Belowa from Russia, here for the united team at the start, and the German Sabine Braun .
In addition to medalist Braun, Peggy Beer and Birgit Clarius competed for Germany . Beer finished sixth, Clarius seventh.
Manuela Marxer from Liechtenstein came in 24th.
Athletes from Switzerland and Austria did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA ) | 7291 points | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Sabine Braun ( Germany ) | 6672 points | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion in 1990 | 6688 points | Split 1990 | |
Pan American Champion 1991 | Le Shundra Nathan ( USA ) | 5778 points | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 | Victoria Despaigne ( Cuba ) | 5514 points | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Zorobabelia Córdoba ( Colombia ) | 5564 points | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Zhu Yuqing ( People's Republic of China ) | 6231 points | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African champion 1992 | Chrisna Oosthuizen ( South Africa ) | 5056 points | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Heptathlon not in the championship program |
Existing records
World record | 7291 points | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA ) | Seoul , South Korea | September 24, 1988 |
Olympic record | Seoul Heptathlon , South Korea |
Participants
32 athletes from 22 countries took part in the Olympic competition.
With Alma Qeramixhi Albania was represented for the first time at an Olympic track and field competition.
Yasmina Kettab-Azzizi from Algeria , who was registered for the competition , did not take part.
Conducting the competition
The heptathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The seven disciplines took place over two days, four of them on the first and three of them on the second day. The rating was based on the point table for the women's all-around competition from 1985 that is still valid today - as of February 2018 .
Time schedule
August 1, 1992: 100-meter hurdles , high jump , shot put , 200-meter run
August 2, 1992: long jump , javelin throw , 800 meter run
Disciplines
Note: In the shot put , javelin throw and long jump , the respective best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid attempt is printed in bold.
100 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
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high jump
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
The Australian Jane Flemming did not participate in this second discipline.
With 1.94 m, Sabine Braun achieved the highest jump so far in an Olympic all-around competition. She also tried at the height of 1.97 m, but had three failed attempts. Braun's results in the high jump are not listed in the official report.
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Shot put
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
The New Zealander Joanne Henry and the Finn Satu Ruotsalainen did not compete in this third discipline.
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200 meter run
The discipline was carried out in four runs.
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Long jump
The competition was conducted in two groups.
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Javelin throw
The discipline was conducted in two groups.
Rita Ináncsi from Hungary, Chun-Ping Ma from Taiwan and Alma Qeramixhi from Albania did not take part in this sixth discipline.
With 52.58 m Nathalie Teppe achieved the best distance so far in an Olympic all-around competition.
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800 meter run
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
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Summary
The 1988 Olympic champion and world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee from the USA was the clear favorite for this heptathlon . The only woman who had also surpassed the 7000 point mark by then, the Russian Larissa Nikitina , was absent due to an injury. Other medal candidates were the European champion from 1990 Sabine Braun from Germany, in the absence of Joyner-Kersee 1991 also world champion , and the Russian Irina Belowa, who competed here for the united team.
Joyner-Kersee took the lead with her 12.85 seconds in the first discipline, the 100 meter hurdles . The Romanian Liliana Năstase surprisingly ran the second best time and was only a hundredth of a second slower than Joyner-Kersee. The Bulgarian Swetla Dimotrowa, Braun and Belowa followed behind.
In the second exercise, the high jump , Braun achieved a new Olympic best with 1.94 m in an all-around competition. But Joyner-Kersee was not far behind with 1.91 m. Braun had reduced her gap to the US athlete by 37 points to 21 points. Belowa followed 78 points behind Braun in third place.
Birgit Clarius from Germany was the best shot putter . With her performance of 15.33 m, she was able to improve to sixth place in the overall classification. Braun reduced their gap to Joyner-Kersee by six to fifteen points. Năstase pushed past Belowa into third place.
Joyner-Kersee ran the fastest time over 200 meters with 23.12 seconds . She increased her lead on Braun, who scored 24.27 s, to 127 points. Belowa was now eighteen points behind Braun in third place, who made up ninety points with her 23.34 s time. Fifteen points behind Belowa was Năstase in fourth place. Clarius fell back to tenth, while her teammate Peggy Beer improved to eighth.
Joyner-Kersee, Olympic champion in this discipline from 1988, was also the best in the long jump with 7.10 m. It was the competition's only 7-meter jump. She skipped the third attempt. Belowa achieved the second best distance with 6.82 m. Braun got stuck at 6.02 m, which was rather weak for her, and fell back to fourth place behind Belowa and Năstase. Braun was 125 points behind in third place, while Joyner-Kersee extended their lead to 239 points.
The French Nathalie Teppe achieved a new Olympic record with a javelin throw of 52.58 m in an all-around competition. With 51.12 m, Braun threw the third-best distance behind the British Clova Court. No other participant exceeded the 50-meter mark. Joyner-Kersee had to be modest with 44.98 m, but remained ahead of Belowa, who came to only 41.90 m. The lead of the American on Belowa grew to 298 points. Braun passed the Romanian Năstase. The Romanian had reached 41.30 m. Braun came within sixty points of Belowa and was 65 points ahead of Năstase.
In the final 800 meter run Belowa was the fastest female heptathlete with 2: 05.08 min. She was able to make up 99 m points on Joyner-Kersee, which was by far not enough to become an Olympic champion. Jackie Joyner-Kersee was able to run reasonably relaxed with 2: 11.78 minutes to her second gold medal in the heptathlon and her third Olympic victory overall. She was the only heptathlete to surpass the 7000 point mark. Irina Belowa came second and won the silver medal. Liliana Năstase finished with the eighth best time of 2: 11.22 minutes. Sabine Braun achieved 2: 14.35 minutes, which was enough to defend her bronze medal. She was thirty points ahead of fourth. Peggy Beer - 2: 09.49 min - and Birgit Clarius - 2: 08.83 min - showed strong mileage in this final discipline. In the heptathlon final, Swetla Dimitrova was fifth, Peggy Beer sixth and Birgit Clarius was seventh ahead of Polish Urszula Włodarczyk.
Bottom line
space | Surname | nation | Points | annotation |
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1 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | United States | 7044 | |
2 | Irina Belowa | EUN | 6845 | |
3 | Sabine Braun | Germany | 6649 | |
4th | Liliana Năstase | Romania | 6619 | |
5 | Svetla Dimitrova | Bulgaria | 6464 | |
6th | Peggy Beer | Germany | 6434 | |
7th | Birgit Clarius | Germany | 6388 | |
8th | Urszula Włodarczyk | Poland | 6333 | |
9 | Cindy Greiner | United States | 6300 | |
10 | Maria Kamrowska | Poland | 6263 | |
11 | Kym Carter | United States | 6256 | |
12 | Anzhela Atroshchenko | EUN | 6251 | |
13 | Petra Văideanu | Romania | 6152 | |
14th | Remigija Nazarovienė | Lithuania | 6142 | |
15th | Odile Lesage | France | 6141 | |
16 | Zhu Yuqing | People's Republic of China | 6123 | |
17th | Anu Kaljurand | Estonia | 6095 | |
18th | Light aro | Finland | 6030 | |
19th | Clova Court | Great Britain | 5994 | |
20th | Tina Rättyä | Finland | 5993 | |
21st | Catherine Bond-Mills | Canada | 5897 | |
22nd | Anne Brit Skjæveland | Norway | 5869 | |
23 | Nathalie Teppe | France | 5847 | |
24 | Manuela Marxer | Liechtenstein | 5749 | |
25th | Ghada Shouaa | Syria | 5278 | |
26th | Eunice Barber | Sierra Leone | 4530 |
Web links
- SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed February 21, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: pp. 77–81, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 21, 2018
Video
- 3769 Olympic Track & Field 1992 Heptathlon 100m Hurdles , published March 21, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 21, 2018
- 3815 Olympic Track & Field 1992 Heptathlon Shot Put Clover Court , published April 5, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 21, 2018
- 3842 Olympic Track & Field 1992 Heptathlon 200m , published April 10, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 21, 2018
- 3916 Olympic Track & Field 1992 Heptathlon Javelin Jackie Joyner-Kersee , published May 1, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 21, 2018
- Women's Heptathlon at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , 800m, published November 26, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed February 21, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on February 21, 2018
- ↑ a b SportsReference (high jump) , accessed on February 21, 2018
- ↑ a b SportsReference (javelin throw) , accessed on February 21, 2018