1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (women)

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Olympic rings
sport athletics
discipline 400 meter run
gender Women
Attendees 49 athletes from 35 countries
Competition location Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase July 26, 1996 (preliminary round)
July 27, 1996 (quarter-finals)
July 28, 1996 (semi-finals)
July 29, 1996 (final)
Medalists
gold medal Marie-José Pérec ( FRA ) FranceFrance 
Silver medal Cathy Freeman ( AUS ) AustraliaAustralia 
Bronze medal Falilat Ogunkoya ( NGR ) NigeriaNigeria 

The women's 400-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26, 27, 28 and 29, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 49 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Marie-José Pérec from France . She won ahead of the Australian Cathy Freeman and the Nigerian Falilat Ogunkoya .

Grit Breuer started for Germany and reached the final and finished eighth there.
The Swiss Corinne Simasotchi failed in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992 Marie-José Pérec ( France ) FranceFrance  48.83 s Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995 49.28 s Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994 50.33 s Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995 Julia Duporty ( Cuba ) CubaCuba  50.77 s Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 Idalmis Bonne ( Cuba ) CubaCuba  50.95 s Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995 Ximena Restrepo ( Colombia ) ColombiaColombia  51.93 s Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995 Zhang Hengyun ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  52.06 s Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996 Saidat Onanuga ( Nigeria ) NigeriaNigeria  52.85 s Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994 Mary Estelle Kapalu ( Vanuatu ) VanuatuVanuatu  55.72 s Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record 47.80 s Marita Koch ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  Canberra , Australia October 6, 1985
Olympic record 48.65 s Olha Bryshina ( Soviet Union ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union  Final from Seoul , South Korea September 26, 1988

Preliminary round

Date: July 26, 1996

The athletes competed in a total of seven preliminary runs. The first four athletes per run qualified for the quarter-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

Ahamada Haoulata, along with her teammates Hassan Abdou and Mohamed Bakar, was one of the first Comoros to take part in the Olympic Games.

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1 Pauline Davis BahamasBahamas Bahamas 51.00 s
2 Svetlana Goncharenko RussiaRussia Russia 51.07 s
3 Phylis Smith United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 51.29 s
4th Renée Poetschka AustraliaAustralia Australia 51.55 s
5 Theodora Kyriakou Cyprus 1960Cyprus Cyprus 52.09 s
6th Grace Birungi UgandaUganda Uganda 53.12 s
7th Ahamada Haoulata Comoros 1996Comoros Comoros 1: 03.44 min

Forward 2

Jana Manujlowa was one of the first athletes from Ukraine who competed for Ukraine at the Olympic Games.

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1 Maicel Malone United StatesUnited States United States 51.28 s
2 Juliet Campbell JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.57 s
3 Grace-Ann Dinkins LiberiaLiberia Liberia 51.83 s
4th Olga Kotlyarova RussiaRussia Russia 51.90 s
5 Hana Benešová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 52.28 s
6th Jana Manujlowa UkraineUkraine Ukraine 52.51 s
7th Ameerah Bello American Virgin IslandsAmerican Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands 53.40 s

Forward 3

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1 Kim Graham United StatesUnited States United States 51.70 s
2 Helena Fuchsová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 51.71 s
3 Fatima Yusuf NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 52.25 s
4th Lee Naylor AustraliaAustralia Australia 52.53 s
5 Olena Rurak UkraineUkraine Ukraine 52.92 s
6th Marina Živković Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 53.10 s
7th Melrose Mansaray Sierra LeoneSierra Leone Sierra Leone 54.37 s

Forward 4

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1 Virna De Angeli ItalyItaly Italy 51.68 s
2 Sandie Richards JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.79 s
3 Marie-José Pérec FranceFrance France 51.82 s
4th LaDonna Antoine CanadaCanada Canada 51.99 s
5 Ngozi Mwanamwambwa Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia 54.12 s
6th Mercy Addy GhanaGhana Ghana 54.92 s
DNF Ximena Restrepo ColombiaColombia Colombia

Forward 5

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1 Jearl Miles United StatesUnited States United States 51.96 s
2 Grit Breuer GermanyGermany Germany 52.20 s
3 Merlene Frazer JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 52.20 s
4th Maria Magnólia Figueiredo BrazilBrazil Brazil 52.41 s
5 Diane Francis Saint Kitts NevisSt. Kitts and Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis 52.48 s
6th Melissa Straker BarbadosBarbados Barbados 52.92 s
7th Guilhermina da Cruz AngolaAngola Angola 55.42 s

Forward 6

The British Donna Fraser was eliminated in seventh place in her quarter-finals

Svetlana Bodritskaja was one of the first athletes from Kazakhstan to take part in the Olympic Games for Kazakhstan.

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1 Sandra Myers SpainSpain Spain 52.54 s
2 Falilat Ogunkoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 52.65 s
3 Donna Fraser United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 52.78 s
4th Naděžda Koštovalová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 53.03 s
5 Svetlana Bodritskaya KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 53.24 s
6th You Xiujie China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 53.95 s
7th Arely Franco El SalvadorEl Salvador El Salvador 1: 01.38 min

Forward 7

Hanna Kosak was one of the first athletes from Belarus to take part in the Olympic Games for Belarus.

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1 Olabisi Afolabi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 51.80 s
2 Cathy Freeman AustraliaAustralia Australia 51.99 s
3 Hanna Kosak Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 52.39 s
4th Patrizia Spuri ItalyItaly Italy 52.45 s
5 Zoila Stewart Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica 52.66 s
6th Corinne Simasotchi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 53.69 s
7th Denise Ouabangui Central African RepublicCentral African Republic Central African Republic 55.74 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 27, 1996

From the four quarter-finals, the first four athletes in each run qualified for the semi-finals (highlighted in light blue).

Run 1

Australian silver medalist Cathy Freeman
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1 Cathy Freeman AustraliaAustralia Australia 50.43 s
2 Grit Breuer GermanyGermany Germany 50.57 s
3 Kim Graham United StatesUnited States United States 50.96 s
4th Olabisi Afolabi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 51.07 s
5 Hana Benešová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 51.30 s
6th Olga Kotlyarova RussiaRussia Russia 51.36 s
7th Donna Fraser United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 51.58 s
8th Theodora Kyriakou Cyprus 1960Cyprus Cyprus 52.26 s

Run 2

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Marie-José Pérec FranceFrance France 51.00 s
2 Pauline Davis BahamasBahamas Bahamas 51.08 s
3 Juliet Campbell JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.17 s
4th Svetlana Goncharenko RussiaRussia Russia 51.35 s
5 Maria Magnólia Figueiredo BrazilBrazil Brazil 51.98 s
6th LaDonna Antoine CanadaCanada Canada 52.03 s
7th Grace-Ann Dinkins LiberiaLiberia Liberia 52.53 s
8th Jana Manujlowa UkraineUkraine Ukraine 52.82 s

Run 3

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1 Falilat Ogunkoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 50.65 s
2 Jearl Miles United StatesUnited States United States 50.84 s
3 Sandie Richards JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.22 s
4th Renée Poetschka AustraliaAustralia Australia 51.33 s
5 Virna De Angeli ItalyItaly Italy 51.77 s
6th Hanna Kosak Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 52.14 s
7th Diane Francis Saint Kitts NevisSt. Kitts and Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis 52.24 s
8th Naděžda Koštovalová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 53.21 s

Run 4

space Surname nation time annotation
1 Maicel Malone United StatesUnited States United States 51.16 s
2 Fatima Yusuf NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 51.27 s
3 Sandra Myers SpainSpain Spain 51.53 s
4th Merlene Frazer JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.57 s
5 Helena Fuchsová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 51.70 s
6th Phylis Smith United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 52.16 s
7th Patrizia Spuri ItalyItaly Italy 52.78 s
8th Lee Naylor AustraliaAustralia Australia 53.75 s

Semifinals

Date: July 28, 1996

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 Cathy Freeman AustraliaAustralia Australia 50.32 s
2 Fatima Yusuf NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 50.36 s
3 Sandie Richards JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 50.74 s
4th Grit Breuer GermanyGermany Germany 50.75 s
5 Kim Graham United StatesUnited States United States 51.13 s
6th Maicel Malone United StatesUnited States United States 51.16 s
7th Merlene Frazer JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.18 s
8th Olabisi Afolabi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 51.40 s

Run 2

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1 Marie-José Pérec FranceFrance France 49.19 s
2 Falilat Ogunkoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 49.57 s
3 Pauline Davis BahamasBahamas Bahamas 49.85 s
4th Jearl Miles United StatesUnited States United States 50.21 s
5 Svetlana Goncharenko RussiaRussia Russia 50.84 s
6th Sandra Myers SpainSpain Spain 51.42 s
7th Renée Poetschka AustraliaAustralia Australia 51.49 s
8th Juliet Campbell JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 51.65 s

final

The French Olympic champion Marie-José Pérec
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1 Marie-José Pérec FranceFrance France 48.25 s OR
2 Cathy Freeman AustraliaAustralia Australia 48.63 s
3 Falilat Ogunkoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 49.10 s
4th Pauline Davis BahamasBahamas Bahamas 49.28 s
5 Jearl Miles United StatesUnited States United States 49.55 s
6th Fatima Yusuf NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 49.77 s
7th Sandie Richards JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 50.45 s
8th Grit Breuer GermanyGermany Germany 50.71 s

Date: July 29, 1996

Two Nigerians and one starter each from Australia, the Bahamas, Germany, France, Jamaica and the USA qualified for the final.

The favorite for the gold medal was the 1992 Olympic champion and reigning world champion Marie-José Pérec from France. She intended to start over 200 meters and win gold there as well, an endeavor that only the US athlete Valerie Brisco-Hooks had succeeded in the 1984 Olympic Games before her . Other medal candidates were vice world champion Pauline Davis from the Bahamas, the US World Cup third Jearl Miles and the World Cup fourth Cathy Freeman, Australia.

The final race was determined on the first half by Pérec, Freeman and Davis. Leading Pérec was put under heavy pressure by Freeman in the corner, while Davis lost more and more ground. When it hit the home stretch, Pérec was still in the lead, just ahead of Freeman. Davis was still third, but two Nigerians, Falilat Ogunkoya and Fatima Yusuf, were hot on her heels. In the end, Marie-José Pérec had more reserves and with the better stamina she was Olympic champion ahead of Cathy Freeman. The French improved Olha Bryshina's Olympic record by four tenths of a second. Freeman also beat the old record in second. Falilat Ogunkoya came in third ahead of Pauline Davis. Jearl Miles finished fifth ahead of Fatima Yusuf with a strong final straight.

Three days later, Marie-José Pérec also won the 200 meter competition, succeeding Valerie Brisco-Hooks as a double winner. The US athlete Michael Johnson was also Olympic champion on both long sprint courses in Atlanta .

Falilat Ogunkoya was the first Nigerian medalist.

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. 45– 47

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 794 , accessed on March 6, 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. , P. 73f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  3. a b c 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. 74, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 6, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org