1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1996 (preliminary round) August 2, 1996 (final)
Medalists Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )   Wang Junxia ( CHN )   Gete Wami ( ETH )

The women's 10,000 meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 27 and August 2, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 35 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Fernanda Ribeiro from Portugal . She won ahead of the Chinese Wang Junxia and the Ethiopian Gete Wami .

Kathrin Weßel started for Germany and was eliminated in the preliminary round.
The Swiss Daria Nauer also failed in the preliminary round, her teammate Ursula Jeitziner could not finish her preliminary run.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992	Derartu Tulu ( Ethiopia )	31: 06.02 min	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Fernanda Ribeiro ( Portugal )	31: 04.99 min	Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994		31: 08.75 min	Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995	Carmem de Oliveira ( Brazil )	33: 10.19 min	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995	Lucía Rendón ( Mexico )	35: 12.37 min	Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995	Carmem de Oliveira ( Brazil )	33: 55.84 min	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China )	33: 58.49 min	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Competition not in the championship program
Oceania champion 1994

Existing records

World record	29: 31.78 min	Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China )	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 8, 1993
Olympic record	31: 05.21 min	Olga Bondarenko ( Soviet Union )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 30, 1988

Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).

Preliminary round

July 27, 1996, from 9:35 p.m.

The athletes competed in two preliminary runs. The first eight athletes qualified for the finals. 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

The German Kathrin Weßel retired as thirteenth of her preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	32: 20.92
2	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	32: 21.09
3	Julia Vaquero	Spain	32: 27.05
4th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	32: 28.73
5	Yuko Kawakami	Japan	32: 31.69
6th	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland	32: 32.10
7th	Wang Junxia	People's Republic of China	32: 36.53
8th	Colleen De Reuck	South Africa	32: 39.19
9	Kate Fonshell	United States	32: 48.05
10	Nyla Carroll	New Zealand	32: 50.64
11	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy	32: 59.40
12	Klara Kaschapowa	Russia	33: 28.34
13	Kathrin Weßel	Germany	33: 31.67
14th	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	33: 40.76
15th	Farida Fatès	France	34: 38.49
DNF	Ursula Jeitziner	Switzerland
	Kylie Risk	Australia

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	31: 35.90
2	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	31: 36.00
3	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 36.32
4th	Masako Chiba	Japan	31: 37.03
5	Iulia Negură	Romania	31: 40.16
6th	Annemari Sandell	Finland	31: 40.42
7th	Hiromi Suzuki	Japan	31: 54.89
8th	Maria Guida	Italy	31: 55.35
9	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	31: 58.84
10	Wang Mingxia	People's Republic of China	32: 10.26
11	Yang Siju	People's Republic of China	32: 22.77
12	Susan Hobson	Australia	32: 25.13
13	Joan Nesbit	United States	32: 33.48
14th	Firia Sultanova	Russia	32: 40.91
15th	Chantal Dällenbach	France	33: 22.35
16	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	33: 56.95
17th	Olga appeal	United States	34: 12.54
18th	Justine Nahimana	Burundi	35: 58.51

final

Olympic champion Fernanda Ribeiro from Portugal

The Ethiopian Berhane Adere finished thirteenth in the final

August 2, 1996, 9:30 p.m.

In the final, three Ethiopians, three Chinese, and two Kenyans each faced a participant from Australia, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain and South Africa.

The favorites were the reigning world and European champion Fernanda Ribeiro from Portugal, the Chinese world record holder and 5000 meter Olympic champion Wang Junxia, ​​the Ethiopian Olympic champion from 1992 and vice world champion Derartu Tulu and the Kenyan World Cup third Tegla Loroupe.

First of all, the hot conditions in Atlanta made it difficult for the runners to tackle this long distance. Fast times were not really to be expected. On the first eight rounds, Catherina McKiernan from Ireland did the lead work. Then Ribeiro took the lead and stayed there until halfway through the race. As expected, the pace stayed within limits, the field remained closed for a long time, but gradually got smaller as the race progressed. The individual 1000 meter times up to the 9000 meter mark were between 3:04 min and 3:12 min. The Kenyan Sally Barsosio replaced Ribeiro in the meantime at the top, then the Spaniard Julia Vaquero took over the lead, which, however, had to be demolished along with other runners. With three laps to go, there were still five runners in a leading group. Ribeiro ran in front of Wang, the two Ethiopians Gete Wami and Tulu and Loroupe. After another four hundred meters there were only four runners with a medal chance: Ribeiro, Wang, Tulu and Wami. Wang now took the initiative and accelerated the pace considerably. Only Ribeiro could still follow her. So two groups of two had formed. Wang and Ribeiro fought for gold, Wami and Tulu for bronze. In the final lap, Wang broke away from Ribeiro by a few meters and the Chinese was in front until the end of the last corner. But the Portuguese still had plenty of reserves and passed the leader on the home straight, Fernanda Ribeiro won the gold medal. At 2: 49.99 minutes, the last thousand meters were so fast that there was even a new Olympic record in the end. Wang Junxia as a silver medalist also remained below the previous record. Gete Wami decided the sprint for bronze clearly ahead of her compatriot Derartu Tulu. Japanese rider Masako Chiba took fifth place ahead of Tegla Loroupe and Yuko Kawakami, also from Japan.

Fernanda Ribeiro was the first Olympic champion from Portugal in the women's 10,000 meter run .

Wang Junxia won the first Chinese medal in this discipline.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	3: 07.50 min	Catherina McKiernan in front of the closed field	3: 07.50 min
2000 m	6: 11.66 min	Catherina McKiernan in front of the closed field	3: 04.16 min
3000 m	9: 19.27 min	Catherina McKiernan in front of the closed field	3: 07.61 min
4000 m	12: 26.23 min	Fernanda Ribeiro in front of most of the field	3: 06.56 min
5000 m	15: 35.86 min	Fernanda Ribeiro in front of most of the field	3: 09.63 min
6000 m	18: 42.91 min	Sally Barsosio with a large top group	3: 07.05 min
7000 m	21: 55.16 min	Julia Vaquero with a top group of ten	3: 12.25 min
8000 m	25: 03.31 min	Julia Vaquero with a top group of eight	3: 08.15 min
9000 m	28: 11.64 min	Fernanda Ribeiro with a top group of five	3: 08.33 min
10,000 m	31: 01.63 min	Fernanda Ribeiro	2: 49.99 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 01.63	OR
2	Wang Junxia	People's Republic of China	31: 02.58
3	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	31: 06.65
4th	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	31: 10.56
5	Masako Chiba	Japan	31: 20.62
6th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	31: 23.22
7th	Yuko Kawakami	Japan	31: 23.23
8th	Iulia Negură	Romania	31: 26.46
9	Julia Vaquero	Spain	31: 27.07
10	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	31: 53.38
11	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland	32: 00.38
12	Annemari Sandell	Finland	32: 14.66
13	Colleen De Reuck	South Africa	32: 14.69
14th	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	32: 25.89
15th	Wang Mingxia	People's Republic of China	32: 38.98
16	Hiromi Suzuki	Japan	32: 43.39
17th	Susan Hobson	Australia	32: 47.71
18th	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	32: 57.35
19th	Yang Siju	People's Republic of China	33: 15.29
DNS	Maria Guida	Italy

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. 48f

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed March 7, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 81, English / French (PDF, 13.520 MB), accessed on March 7, 2018

Video

• Women's 10,000m Atlanta Olympics 1996 , closing stages posted June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 7, 2018
• Fernanda Ribeiro (Medalha de Ouro JO de Atlanta a corrida completa) , published December 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed March 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 796 , accessed on March 7, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 81, English / French (PDF, 13.520 MB), accessed on March 7, 2018