1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 28, 1996 (preliminary round) July 29, 1996 (semi-finals) July 31, 1996 (final) |
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The women's 400 meter hurdles at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 28, 29 and 31, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 29 athletes took part.
The Jamaican Deon Hemmings became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Americans Kim Batten and Tonja Buford-Bailey .
Heike Meißner and Silvia Rieger started for Germany . Both reached the final. Meißner was fifth, Rieger eighth.
Switzerland was represented by Michèle Schenk and Martina Stoop. Stoop was eliminated in the preliminary round, Schenk in the semi-finals.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1992 | Sally Gunnell ( Great Britain ) | 53.23 s | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Kim Batten ( USA ) | 52.61 s | Gothenburg 1995 |
European champion in 1994 | Sally Gunnell ( Great Britain ) | 53.33 s | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American Champion 1995 | Kim Batten ( USA ) | 54.74 s | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | Lency Montelier ( Cuba ) | 56.9 s | Guatemala City 1995 |
South America Champion 1995 | Ximena Restrepo ( Colombia ) | 57.42 s | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Hsu Pei-chin ( Chinese Taipei ) | 56.99 s | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Saidat Onanuga ( Nigeria ) | 56.64 s | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania champion 1994 | Mary-Estelle Kapalu ( Vanuatu ) | 1: 01.70 min | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 52.61 s | Kim Batten ( USA ) | Gothenburg , Sweden | August 11, 1995 |
Olympic record | 53.17 s | Debbie Flintoff-King ( Australia ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 28, 1988 |
Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).
Preliminary round
July 28, 1996, from 11:30 a.m.
The athletes competed in a total of four preliminary runs. The first three 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
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Guðrún Arnardóttir | Iceland | 54.88 | |
2 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | United States | 55.55 | |
3 | Debbie-Ann Parris | Jamaica | 55.64 | |
4th | Michèle Schenk | Switzerland | 55.70 | |
5 | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja | Belarus | 55.82 | |
6th | Virna De Angeli | Italy | 57.12 | |
7th | Mary-Estelle Kapalu | Vanuatu | 58.68 | |
8th | Hsu Pei-chin | Chinese Taipei | 58.80 |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Tonja Buford-Bailey | United States | 55.23 | |
2 | Sally Gunnell | Great Britain | 55.29 | |
3 | Silvia Rieger | Germany | 55.33 | |
4th | Rosey Edeh | Canada | 55.64 | |
5 | Natalja Torzina | Kazakhstan | 55.94 | |
6th | Martina Stoop | Switzerland | 56.32 | |
7th | Miriam Alonso | Spain | 56.53 | |
8th | Omolade Akinremi | Nigeria | 56.83 |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim Batten | United States | 54.92 | |
2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk | Ukraine | 55.82 | |
3 | Ann Mercken | Belgium | 55.88 | |
4th | Anna Knoros | Russia | 56.21 | |
5 | Catherine Scott-Pomales | Jamaica | 56.21 | |
6th | Karen van der Veen | South Africa | 57.00 | |
7th | Tanja Kurotschkina | Belarus | 57.28 |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Deon Hemmings | Jamaica | 54.70 | |
2 | Heike Meissner | Germany | 55.05 | |
3 | Susan Smith | Ireland | 55.22 | |
4th | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 55.42 | |
5 | Lana Jēkabsone | Latvia | 56.18 | |
6th | Nelli Voronkova | Belarus | 56.97 | |
7th | Eva Paniagua | Spain | 58.10 |
Semifinals
July 29, 1996, from 9:30 p.m.
In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Deon Hemmings | Jamaica | 52.99 | |
2 | Tonja Buford-Bailey | United States | 53.38 | |
3 | Heike Meissner | Germany | 54.27 | |
4th | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 54.41 | |
5 | Susan Smith | Ireland | 54.93 | |
6th | Ann Mercken | Belgium | 54.95 | |
7th | Tazzjana Ljadouskaja | Belarus | 54.99 | |
8th | Tetiana Tereshchuk | Ukraine | 55.34 |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Kim Batten | United States | 53.65 | |
2 | Silvia Rieger | Germany | 54.27 | |
3 | Rosey Edeh | Canada | 54.49 | |
4th | Debbie-Ann Parris | Jamaica | 54.72 | |
5 | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | United States | 54.73 | |
6th | Guðrún Arnardóttir | Iceland | 54.81 | |
7th | Michèle Schenk | Switzerland | 55.96 | |
DNF | Sally Gunnell | Great Britain |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Deon Hemmings | Jamaica | 52.82 | |
2 | Kim Batten | United States | 53.08 | |
3 | Tonja Buford-Bailey | United States | 53.22 | |
4th | Debbie-Ann Parris | Jamaica | 53.97 | |
5 | Heike Meissner | Germany | 54.03 | |
6th | Rosey Edeh | Canada | 54.39 | |
7th | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 54.40 | |
8th | Silvia Rieger | Germany | 54.57 |
July 31, 1996
In the final, two US athletes, Jamaicans and Germans each met a starter from Canada and Romania.
A three-way battle was expected between world champion and world record holder Kim Batten from the USA, her compatriot Tonja Buford-Bailey, vice world champion, and the Jamaican World Cup third Deon Hemmings. The British Olympic champion from 1992 Sally Gunnell had to give up due to an injury in her semi-final run.
In the final, Hemmings took the lead from the second hurdle on lane five. She was able to make up for the curve template on Batten, which ran on lane six, on the back straight. But at the eighth hurdle, Hemmings, Batten and Buford-Bailey were almost level again. The three favorites hit the home straight ahead of all other competitors. Hemmings was just ahead of Buford-Bailey, followed by Batten. In the end, Deon Hemmings had the greatest stamina and was Olympic champion more than two meters ahead. Kim Batten won the silver medal a good meter ahead of Tonja Buford-Bailey. Well behind, the Australian Debbie-Ann Parris, Heike Meißner from Germany and the Canadian Rosey Edeh finished fourth to sixth in that order. Ionela Târlea from Romania was seventh ahead of the second German Silvia Rieger.
Deon Hemmings was Jamaica's first ever Olympic champion in this discipline.
Doping controversy surrounding Sandra Farmer-Patrick
The US athlete Sandra Farmer-Patrick was convicted of taking testosterone at the US Olympic elimination in June 1996 . Despite the result, she was admitted to the Olympic Games in Atlanta . It was not until eleven months after the doping evidence was given that she was banned for four years. The delay between proof and judgment was due to the inability to act of the World Athletics Federation IAAF . Since the member associations are autonomous, the IAAF cannot intervene accordingly. So Farmer-Patrick's ban did not come into effect until May 1997.
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. 46f
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed March 8, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 84f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018
Video
- Women's 400m Hurdles Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 8, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on March 8, 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. 84f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018
- ↑ 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. 85, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018
- ↑ Ralf Junkes: The history of doping in sport and the fight against doping using the example of the sport of athletics . Diplomica, 2002, ISBN 3-8324-4802-0 , p. 55 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed March 18, 2018]).