1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 10 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 44 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Centennial Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | July 29, 1996 | ||||||||
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The women's 10 km walk at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 29, 1996. 44 athletes took part in the second and final execution of this distance at the Olympic Games, 38 reached the finish. From 2000 in Sydney , the distance for the female walkers was extended to 20 kilometers and thus aligned with the length of the shorter distance for the men.
The Russian Jelena Nikolajewa became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Italian Elisabetta Perrone and the Chinese Wang Yan .
Kathrin Boyde and Beate Gummelt started for Germany . Gummelt was disqualified, Boyde finished in fifteenth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1992 |
Chen Yueling ( People's Republic of China )
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44:32 min | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Irina Stankina ( Russia )
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42:13 min | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European champion in 1994 |
Sari Essayah ( Finland )
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42:37 min | Helsinki 1994 |
| Pan American Champion 1995 |
María Graciela Mendoza ( Mexico )
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46: 31.93 min - 10,000 meter walk | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | Francisca Martínez ( Mexico )
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47:37 min | Guatemala City 1995 |
| South America Champion 1995 | Geovana Irusta ( Bolivia )
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47:57 min | Sao Paulo 1995 |
| Asian champion 1995 | Feng Haixia ( People's Republic of China )
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45: 58.76 min - 10,000 meter walk | Jakarta 1995 |
| African champion 1996 | Dounia Kara ( Algeria )
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23: 15.8 min - 5000 meter walk | Yaoundé 1996 |
| Oceania champion 1994 | Monique Greenoff-Gaffney ( Australia )
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57:09 min | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
| World record | 41: 56.2 min |
Nadezhda Ryashkina ( Soviet Union )
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Seattle , USA | July 24, 1990 |
| Olympic record | 44:32 min |
Chen Yueling ( People's Republic of China )
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10k walk from Barcelona , Spain | 3rd August 1992 |
Note: World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The starting point was in the Centennial Olympic Stadium , in which one and a half laps had to be covered. Then the way out of the stadium led out and crossed at the Georgia Avenue to Interstate 85 . Immediately after that, the route turned left onto Central Avenue . Here began a one-kilometer circuit that had to be completed eight times. After completing the last lap, the route led back to the stadium where the finish line was.
initial situation
The favorite was the Russian world champion Irina Stankina. But she had strong competitors, these were mainly three walkers: the Italian vice world champion Elisabetta Perrone, Stankina's compatriot Jelena Nikolajewa as third in the 1995 World Cup, third in the European Championship in 1994 and silver medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games , and also the Finnish European champion Sari Essayah World Cup fourth. In addition, Chinese walkers were to be expected, who were able to show off at the Olympic Games without having drawn special attention beforehand.
Course of competition
July 29, 1996, starting at 8:30 a.m. , Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 )
In the opening part, Beate Gummelt, formerly known under her name Beate Anders, took the lead in front of a top group of nine, in which all favorites except Essayah were. The Finn was initially only three seconds behind. Together with Nikolajewa, Stankina took the initiative after the second kilometer and the two separated a little from their opponents. The pace was now even faster and was extremely fast. Perrone, Gummelt and the Italian Rossella Giordano followed five seconds behind. But after just six kilometers, Stankina was disqualified. Gummelt fell back in the further course and then had to accept a disqualification after eight kilometers. Jelena Nikolajewa was now alone in front and went unchallenged to the Olympic victory. In doing so, she improved the Olympic record by 2:43 minutes and also undercut the existing world record by seventeen seconds. Behind her, Elisabetta Perrone won the silver medal, 23 seconds behind. Chinese Wang Yan crossed the finish line in third place seven seconds behind Perrone. From position seven at kilometer four, she had worked her way forward past two opponents in front of her and thus secured the bronze medal in front of her compatriot Gu Yan and Rossella Giordano.
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:39 min | Beate Gummelt in a top group of nine | 8:39 min |
| 4 km | 16:49 min | Nikolajewa / Stankina - 5 s before Perrone / Gummelt / Giordano | 8:10 min |
| 6 km | 25:00 min | Jelena Nikolajewa - 19 s before Elisabetta Perrone | 8:11 min |
| 8 kilometers | 33:24 min | Jelena Nikolajewa - 27 s ahead of Elisabetta Perrone | 8:24 min |
| 10 km | 41:49 min | Jelena Nikolajewa - 23 s ahead of Elisabetta Perrone | 8:25 min |
Result
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literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 49
Web links
- SportsReference 10k Walk , accessed March 14, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 105, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 14, 2018
Video
- Women's 4x400m Relay Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published May 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 14, 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 March 14, 2018
- ↑ Route course on runscore.com, Annex WN 11 (English) ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2016 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. , accessed on March 14, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 105, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 14, 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
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