1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Heptathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	27./28. July
Medalists Ghada Shouaa ( SYR )   Natallja Sasanowitsch ( BLR )   Denise Lewis ( GBR )

The heptathlon for women in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was on 27 and 28 July 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium held. 29 athletes took part, 25 of whom were able to finish the competition.

The Olympic champion was the Syrian Ghada Shouaa . She won in front of Belarusian Natallja Sasanowitsch and Briton Denise Lewis .

For Germany took Peggy Beer , Sabine Braun and Mona Steigauf part. Braun was seventh, Steigauf eleventh and Beer thirteenth.
The Swiss Patricia Nadler was 23rd. Manuela Marxer from Liechtenstein had to give up the competition after the fourth discipline.
Athletes from Austria did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	7044 points	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Ghada Shouaa ( Syria )	6651 points	Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994	Sabine Braun ( Germany )	6419 points	Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995	Jamie McNeair ( USA )	6266 points	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995	Magalys García ( Cuba )	6189 points	Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995	Zorobabelia Córdoba ( Colombia )	5495 points	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Swetlana Kazanina ( Kazakhstan )	5728 points	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Caroline Kola ( Kenya )	5270 points	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994	Competition 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

Remarks:

• In the shot put , javelin throw and long jump , the best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid attempt is printed in bold.
• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).

Participants

Bronze medalist Denise Lewis from Great Britain

29 athletes from 21 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Anzhela Atroshchenko	Belarus
Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone
Peggy Beer	Germany
Kelly Blair	United States
Catherine Bond-Mills	Canada
Sabine Braun	Germany
Regla María Cárdenas	Cuba
Imma Clopés	Spain
Magalys García	Cuba
Diane Guthrie-Gresham	Jamaica
Sharon Hanson	United States
Tiia Hautala	Finland
Rita Ináncsi	Hungary
Jane Jamieson	Australia
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States
Svetlana Kazanina	Kazakhstan
Jelena Lebedenko	Russia
Denise Lewis	Great Britain
Manuela Marxer	Liechtenstein
Svetlana Moskalez	Russia
Patricia Nadler	Switzerland
Liliana Năstase	Romania
Remigija Nazarovienė	Lithuania
Natallia Sasanovich	Belarus
Ghada Shouaa	Syria
Giuliana Spada	Italy
Mona Steigauf	Germany
Irina Tyuchai	Russia
Urszula Włodarczyk	Poland

Disciplines

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Run 1 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 García 13.30 1080 2 Bond Mills 13.66 1027 3 Lebedenko 13.70 1021 4th Atroshchenko 14.27 941 5 Clopés 14.30 936 6th Kazanina 14.69 883 DNF Spada 0 Run 2 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Climb 13.22 1091 2 Włodarczyk 13.48 1053 3 Blair 13.62 1033 4th Moskalez 13.70 1021 5 Shouaa 13.72 1018 6th Hautala 13.72 1018 7th Nadler 13.81 1005 8th Ináncsi 13.95 985 Run 3 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Joyner-Kersee 13.24 1089 2 Lewis 13.45 1058 3 Barber 13.50 1050 4th brown 13.55 1043 5 Sazanovich 13.56 1041 6th Nazarovienė 13.59 1037 7th Guthrie-Gresham 14.17 954 Run 4 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Hanson 13.34 1074 2 Nastasis 13.37 1069 3 Beer 13.52 1047 4th Cardenas 13.89 994 5 Tjuchai 13.90 993 6th Marxer 13.90 993 7th Jamieson 14.57 899

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Climb 1091 02 Joyner-Kersee 1089 03 García 1080 04th Hanson 1074 05 Nastasis 1069 06th Lewis 1058 06th Włodarczyk 1053 08th Barber 1050 09 Beer 1047 10 brown 1043 11 Sazanovich 1041 12 Nazarovienė 1037 13 Blair 1033 14th Bond Mills 1027 15th Lebedenko 1021 Moskalez 17th Hautala 1018 Shouaa 19th Nadler 1005 20th Cardenas 994 21st Marxer 993 Tjuchai 23 Ináncsi 985 24 Guthrie-Gresham 954 25th Atroshchenko 941 26th Clopés 936 27 Jamieson 899 28 Kazanina 883 29 Spada 0

high jump

The discipline was conducted in two groups.

The American Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the Italian Giuliana Spada did not take part in this second discipline.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1.62 1.77 1.65 1.80 1.68 1.83 1.71 1.86 1.74 1.89 Points 01 Shouaa - - - o - xo - o o xxx 1054 02 Włodarczyk - o - o - xo o xx o o xxx 03 Ináncsi - o - xo - x o o xxx o - 1016 04th brown - o - xxo - xx o - xxx o - 05 Moskalez - xo - o o xxx o - o - 978 Sazanovich - xo - o o xxx o - o - 07th Guthrie-Gresham - o - x o o xxx - - o - 08th Jamieson o xxo - xx o o xxx o - o - 09 Lebedenko - o o xxx o - o - xo - 941 10 Climb - x o - xxx - - o - o - 11 Lewis - x o - xxx xo - o - o - 12 Cardenas - x o o xxx xo - xo - o - 13 Tjuchai - xx o o xxx o - o - o - Group B space Surname 1.50 1.71 1.53 1.74 1.56 1.77 1.59 1.80 1.62 1.83 1.65 1.86 1.68 1.89 Points 01 Kazanina - xo - o - o - xxo o xo o xx o o xxx 1054 02 Bond Mills - o - o - xo - xo - xx o - xxx - - 1016 03 Blair - - - o - o - o - xxx - - o - 978 04th Clopés - o - xo - x o - xxx - - o - o - 941 Hautala - o - xo - x o - xxx - - - - o - 06th Hanson - xxo - xxo - x o o xxx o - o - xo - 07th Barber - o - o - xx o - xxx - - - - o - 08th Nazarovienė - o - o - xxx - - - - o - o - 903 09 Atroshchenko - o - x o - xxx - - o - o - o - 10 Beer - xo - xx o - xxx - - - - - - xxo - 11 García - o - xxx - - - - o - o - o - 867 12 Nadler - xxx - - o - o - o - xo - xx o - 830 13 Nastasis - - - - o - o - xo - x o - xxx - 795 14th Marxer - - - - o - o - xx o - xxx - - - 795

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Włodarczyk 2107 02 Shouaa 2072 03 brown 2059 04th Bond Mills 2043 05 Climb 2032 06th Sazanovich 2019 07th Hanson 2015 08th Blair 2011 09 Ináncsi 2001 10 Lewis 1999 Moskalez 12 Barber 1991 13 Lebedenko 1962 14th Hautala 1959 15th Beer 1950 16 García 1947 17th Nazarovienė 1940 18th Kazanina 1937 19th Cardenas 1935 20th Tjuchai 1934 21st Guthrie-Gresham 1932 22nd Clopés 1877 Jamieson 24 Nastasis 1864 25th Atroshchenko 1844 26th Nadler 1835 27 Marxer 1752

Shot put

The competition was conducted in two groups.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Shouaa 15.42 15.95 - 925 02 Ináncsi 14.02 14.69 x 840 03 brown 14.48 13.88 14.14 826 04th Włodarczyk 14.36 14.33 14.33 818 05 Tjuchai 13.98 13.35 14.16 805 06th Lebedenko 12.14 13.72 13.54 775 07th Nastasis 13.15 12.70 13.30 747 08th Hautala 13.22 12.49 x 742 09 García 13.03 12.86 12.58 729 10 Bond Mills 12.86 x x 718 11 Kazanina 10.27 12.09 12.50 694 12 Nadler 12.34 x x 684 13 Atroshchenko 12.21 12.31 12.04 682 14th Blair 12.05 12.29 12.10 680 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Sazanovich 14.52 14.41 14.42 829 02 Moskalez 14.23 13.98 x 809 03 Cardenas 14.01 14.14 x 803 04th Lewis 13.79 13.92 13.61 789 05 Nazarovienė 13.83 13.35 13.74 783 06th Beer 13.65 12.52 12.76 771 07th Jamieson 13.30 13.63 13.64 770 08th Marxer 12.93 x 13.46 758 09 Hanson 11.93 13.45 12.50 757 10 Clopés 13.05 12.87 x 731 11 Guthrie-Gresham 12.76 12.88 x 719 12 Barber 12.60 12.87 x 719 13 Climb 12.29 x 12.35 684

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Shouaa 2997 02 Włodarczyk 2925 03 brown 2885 04th Sazanovich 2848 05 Ináncsi 2841 06th Moskalez 2808 07th Lewis 2788 08th Hanson 2772 09 Bond Mills 2761 10 Tjuchai 2739 11 Cardenas 2738 12 Lebedenko 2737 13 Nazarovienė 2723 14th Beer 2721 15th Climb 2716 16 Barber 2710 17th Hautala 2701 18th Blair 2691 19th García 2676 20th Guthrie-Gresham 2651 21st Jamieson 2647 22nd Kazanina 2631 23 Nastasis 2611 24 Clopés 2608 25th Atroshchenko 2526 26th Nadler 2519 27 Marxer 2510

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Run 1 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 García 24.04 977 2 Atroshchenko 24.59 925 3 Lebedenko 24.67 917 4th Bond Mills 24.90 896 5 Kazanina 25.15 873 6th Clopés 25.87 809 Run 2 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Shouaa 23.85 995 2 Włodarczyk 24.27 955 3 Blair 24.49 934 4th Climb 24.50 933 5 Nadler 24.88 898 6th Ináncsi 24.92 894 7th Moskalez 25.04 883 8th Hautala 25.33 857 Run 3 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Sazanovich 23.72 1008 2 Lewis 24.44 939 3 Nazarovienė 24.51 932 4th Barber 24.67 917 5 brown 24.89 897 6th Guthrie-Gresham 25.12 876 Run 4 space Surname Time (s) Points 1 Cardenas 24.04 977 2 Hanson 24.42 941 3 Beer 24.64 920 4th Nastasis 24.96 890 5 Tjuchai 24.98 889 6th Marxer 25.05 882 7th Jamieson 25.70 824

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Shouaa 3992 02 Włodarczyk 3880 03 Sazanovich 3856 04th brown 3782 05 Ináncsi 3735 06th Lewis 3727 07th Cardenas 3715 08th Hanson 3713 09 Moskalez 3691 10 Bond Mills 3657 11 Nazarovienė 3655 12 Lebedenko 3654 13 García 3653 14th Climb 3649 15th Beer 3641 16 Tjuchai 3628 17th Barber 3627 18th Blair 3625 19th Hautala 3558 20th Guthrie-Gresham 3527 21st Kazanina 3504 22nd Nastasis 3501 23 Jamieson 3471 24 Atroshchenko 3451 25th Clopés 3417 Nadler 27 Marxer 3392

Long jump

The competition was conducted in two groups.

The Liechtensteiner Manuela Marxer did not take part in this fifth discipline.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Cardenas 6.52 6.33 6.41 1014 02 Lebedenko x 6.33 6.33 953 03 Nazarovienė 6.14 6.26 6.33 953 04th Beer x 6.09 5.93 877 05 Nastasis 6.09 x x 877 06th Kazanina 5.65 5.98 x 843 07th Hanson 5.96 5.79 5.85 837 08th Jamieson 5.93 5.91 x 828 09 Hautala 5.63 5.70 5.85 804 10 Nadler 5.82 5.79 5.80 795 11 Clopés 5.74 x 5.69 771 12 Atroshchenko x x 5.63 738 - Bond Mills x x x 0 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Sazanovich 6.45 6.70 6.18 1072 02 Guthrie-Gresham x 6.38 6.57 1030 03 Barber 6.57 x x 1030 04th Moskalez 6.56 6.48 6.44 1027 05 Climb 6.29 6.47 x 997 06th Blair x 6.16 6.32 949 07th Ináncsi 6.32 x x 949 Lewis x 6.32 x 949 09 Włodarczyk 6.21 6.30 x 943 10 Shouaa x 6.26 6.23 930 11 brown 6.11 6.14 6.21 915 12 Tjuchai 5.97 6.07 6.07 871 13 García 5.68 5.47 5.71 762

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Sazanovich 4928 02 Shouaa 4922 03 Włodarczyk 4823 04th Cardenas 4729 05 Moskalez 4718 06th brown 4697 07th Ináncsi 4684 08th Lewis 4676 09 Barber 4657 10 Climb 4646 11 Nazarovienė 4608 12 Lebedenko 4607 13 Blair 4574 14th Guthrie-Gresham 4557 15th Hanson 4550 16 Beer 4518 17th Tjuchai 4499 18th García 4415 19th Nastasis 4378 20th Hautala 4362 21st Kazanina 4347 22nd Jamieson 4299 23 Nadler 4212 24 Atroshchenko 4189 25th Clopés 4188 26th Bond Mills 3657

Javelin throw

The competition was conducted in two groups.

The Belarusian Anzhela Atroshchenko did not start the sixth discipline.

Note: All widths in meters (m)

Group A space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Shouaa 53.22 55.70 55.00 971 02 Lewis 45.90 50.10 54.82 954 03 García 51.22 x x 884 04th Blair 50.32 49.66 46.96 866 05 brown 46.64 48.72 x 835 06th Ináncsi 46.46 43.40 45.32 792 07th Sazanovich 46.00 44.58 x 783 08th Barber 41.08 x 45.26 768 09 Włodarczyk 42.16 43.28 40.74 730 10 Moskalez 42.64 x 40.96 718 11 Climb 42.40 x x 713 12 Guthrie-Gresham 38.86 x 40.32 673 13 Tjuchai 37.58 40.08 x 669 Group B space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Hanson x 44.38 46.98 802 02 Beer x 46.72 44.76 797 03 Lebedenko 45.02 x - 764 04th Jamieson 43.18 41.46 44.58 755 05 Nadler 31.94 43.84 43.08 741 06th Kazanina 43.00 x 43.80 740 07th Nazarovienė 39.86 41.92 42.68 719 08th Cardenas 41.72 40.58 41.08 700 09 Bond Mills 38.66 40.56 39.46 678 10 Clopés 39.50 40.42 39.76 675 11 Hautala 38.92 x 38.98 648 12 Nastasis 37.98 x 38.66 642

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Shouaa 5893 02 Sazanovich 5711 03 Lewis 5630 04th Włodarczyk 5553 05 brown 5532 06th Ináncsi 5476 07th Blair 5440 08th Moskalez 5436 09 Cardenas 5429 10 Barber 5425 11 Lebedenko 5371 12 Climb 5359 13 Hanson 5352 14th Nazarovienė 5327 15th Beer 5315 16 García 5299 17th Guthrie-Gresham 5230 18th Tjuchai 5168 19th Kazanina 5087 20th Jamieson 5054 21st Nastasis 5020 22nd Hautala 5010 23 Nadler 4953 24 Clopés 4863 25th Bond Mills 4335

800 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Run 1 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Bond Mills 2: 14.50 900 2 Hautala 2: 16.09 877 3 Nadler 2: 18.06 850 4th Nastasis 2: 19.73 827 5 Clopés 2: 26.35 739

Run 2 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Beer 2: 13.15 919 2 Kazanina 2: 13.42 915 3 Guthrie-Gresham 2: 17.55 857 4th Jamieson 2: 18.60 843 5 García 2: 21.03 810 6th Tjuchai 2: 26.69 735

Run 3 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Hanson 2: 11.67 940 2 Nazarovienė 2: 12.61 927 3 Barber 2: 13.27 917 4th Climb 2: 15.44 887 5 Cardenas 2: 20.48 817 6th Lebedenko 2: 28.58 711

Run 4 space Surname Time (min) Points 1 Włodarczyk 2: 12.35 931 2 Shouaa 2: 15.43 887 3 Blair 2: 16.87 867 4th Ináncsi 2: 17.37 860 5 Lewis 2:17:41 859 6th Sazanovich 2:17:92 852 7th brown 2: 22.87 785 8th Moskalez 2: 30.89 682

Summary

Date: 27./28. July 1996

The favorites were the American Olympic champion from 1992 Jackie Joyner-Kersee and the Syrian world champion Ghada Shouaa. The German European Champion from 1994 Sabine Braun no longer had the excellent shape with which she had achieved many successes in recent years. Other candidates for top positions were Vice World Champion Swetlana Moskalez from Russia, the Hungarian World Cup third and Vice European Champion Rita Ináncsi, and the European Championship third Urszula Włodarczyk from Poland.

The German Mona Steigauf set the fastest time in the 100 meter hurdles with 13.22 seconds and thus took the lead. Behind her in second place was Joyner-Kersee, who was injured and, like the Italian Giuliana Spada, no longer competed in the high jump .

Steigauf lost the lead after the second discipline, the high jump. The best jumpers with 1.86 m were Włodarczyk, Shouaa and the Kazakh girl Swetlana Kazanina. Włodarczyk took the lead with 2107 points, followed by Shouaa and the German European Champion Sabine Braun. In fourth place was the Canadian Catherine Bond-Mills ahead of Steigauf.

The shot put Shouaa decided to consider for themselves. With 15.95 m she hit the ball 1.26 m further than the second best athlete Ináncsi. Shouaa now led with 72 points ahead of Włodarczyk, who in turn was 40 points ahead of Braun. Belarusian Natallja Sasanowitsch followed in fourth place ahead of Ináncsi.

In the last discipline of the first day, the 200-meter run , Sasanowitsch ran the fastest time with 23.72 seconds. This pushed her past Braun into third place. Shouaa remained in the lead with 3992 points. Their lead over Włodarczyk had increased to 112 points.

The long jump brought a change at the top of the ranking. Sasanowitsch, who was the best long jumper with 6.70 m, passed Shouaa and Włodarczyk. With her distance she would have qualified for the long jump final. The Belarusian led by six points, Shouaa's advantage over Włodarczyk was 99 points. In fourth place, another 94 points back, followed the Cuban Regla María Cárdenas.

In the javelin throw Shouaa achieved a best distance of 55.70 m in an Olympic heptathlon. With that she took the lead again and was now 182 points ahead of Sasanowitsch. British Denise Lewis, who was 81 points behind Sasanowitsch, worked her way up to third place. Then Włodarczyk followed before Braun.

The last discipline was the 800-meter run . In order to become Olympic champion, Shouaa could run a maximum of 14 seconds slower than Sasanowitsch, who for her part was not allowed to cross the finish line more than five seconds behind Lewis. US athlete Sharon Hanson ran the fastest time with 2: 11.67 minutes. Ghada Shouaa was able to extend her lead even further and in the end was 223 points ahead of Natallja Sasanowitsch. Denise Lewis narrowly maintained her third place. Urszula Włodarczyk came within five points. Behind the Pole, Eunice Barber, here for Sierra Leone and later for France, worked her way up to fifth. Rita Ináncsi followed in sixth ahead of Sabine Braun.

Ghada Shouaa was not only the first Syrian woman to win a medal and the first to ever win an Olympic victory for Syria. At the same time, she also won her country's first medal in athletics.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points	annotation
1	Ghada Shouaa	Syria	6780
2	Natallia Sasanovich	Belarus	6563
3	Denise Lewis	Great Britain	6489
4th	Urszula Włodarczyk	Poland	6484
5	Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone	6342
6th	Rita Ináncsi	Hungary	6336
7th	Sabine Braun	Germany	6317
8th	Kelly Blair	United States	6307
9	Sharon Hanson	United States	6292
10	Remigija Nazarovienė	Lithuania	6254
11	Mona Steigauf	Germany	6246
12	Regla María Cárdenas	Cuba	6246
13	Peggy Beer	Germany	6234
14th	Svetlana Moskalez	Russia	6118
15th	Magalys García	Cuba	6109
16	Diane Guthrie-Gresham	Jamaica	6087
17th	Jelena Lebedenko	Russia	6082
18th	Svetlana Kazanina	Kazakhstan	6002
19th	Irina Tyuchai	Russia	5903
20th	Jane Jamieson	Australia	5897
21st	Tiia Hautala	Finland	5887
22nd	Liliana Năstase	Romania	5847
23	Patricia Nadler	Switzerland	5803
24	Imma Clopés	Spain	5602
25th	Catherine Bond-Mills	Canada	5235

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. 54f

Web links

• SportsReference Heptathlon , accessed March 17, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , pp. 101-104, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 17, 2018

Video

• Ghada Shouaa wins Syria's first gold medal in Atlanta & more | Olympic History , published October 15, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed March 17, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on March 17, 2018
2. ↑ 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. , Pp. 101–104, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 17, 2018 
3. ↑ SportsReference heptathlon (javelin throw) , accessed on March 17, 2018