1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 5000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 46 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 26, 1996 (preliminary round) July 28, 1996 (final) |
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The women's 5,000-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26 and 28, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . This route was first staged in the Olympic women athletics, it replaced that of 1984 bis 1992 discharged 3,000-meter race . 46 athletes took part.
The first Olympic champion was the Chinese Wang Junxia . She won ahead of the Kenyan Pauline Konga and the Italian Roberta Brunet .
Claudia Lokar and Petra Wassiluk started for Germany, both of whom were eliminated in the preliminary round.
The Swiss Anita Weyermann reached the final and was fourteenth there.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1992 - 3000 meters | Jelena Romanowa ( EUN ) | 8: 46.04 min | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Sonia O'Sullivan ( Ireland ) | 14: 46.47 min | Gothenburg 1995 |
European champion 1994 - 3000 meters | 8: 31.84 min | Helsinki 1994 | |
Pan American Champion 1995 | Adriana Fernández ( Mexico ) | 15: 46.32 min | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | 16: 34.3 min | Guatemala City 1995 | |
South America Champion 1995 | Marlene Flores ( Chile ) | 16: 48.35 min | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Wang Junxia ( People's Republic of China ) | 15: 25.65 min | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Florence Djépé ( Cameroon ) | 17: 59.32 min | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania champion 1994 | Nicola McDonald ( New Zealand ) | 18: 03.37 min | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 14: 36.45 min | Fernanda Ribeiro ( Portugal ) | Hechtel , Belgium | July 22, 1995 | |
Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held |
Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).
Preliminary round
July 26, 1996, from 7:50 p.m.
The athletes competed in a total of three preliminary runs. The first four women athletes qualified for the finals. In addition, the three 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 (min) | annotation |
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1 | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 15: 15.80 | first OR |
2 | Elena Fidatov | Romania | 15: 17.89 | |
3 | Lynn Jennings | United States | 15: 19.66 | |
4th | Anita Weyermann | Switzerland | 15: 19.91 | |
5 | Sara Wedlund | Sweden | 15: 20.61 | |
6th | Anne Hare | New Zealand | 15: 22.31 | |
7th | Petra Wassiluk | Germany | 15: 37.73 | |
8th | Yang Siju | People's Republic of China | 15: 40.41 | |
9 | Roseli Machado | Brazil | 15: 41.63 | |
10 | Lydia Cheromei | Kenya | 15: 49.85 | |
11 | Harumi Hiroyama | Japan | 15: 50.43 | |
12 | Isabel Martínez | Spain | 15: 59.42 | |
13 | Luchia Yishak | Ethiopia | 16: 04.29 | |
14th | Kate Anderson | Australia | 16: 17.83 | |
15th | Alison Wyeth | Great Britain | 16: 24.74 | |
16 | Rachida Mahamane | Niger | 19: 17.87 |
Forward 2
The American Mary Slaney, formerly also successful under her name Mary Decker, first crossed the finish line in a time of 15: 41.30 minutes in seventh place. In June 1996 she had become conspicuous at the US Olympic eliminations due to an increased testosterone / epitestosterone value. She was banned by the IAAF for four years, but the US federation acquitted her. In April 1999, Slaney was subsequently suspended by the IAAF arbitration tribunal for the period from July 17, 1996 to June 17, 1998, and all results were deleted. So for them the subsequent disqualification for this preliminary run was the inevitable consequence.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 15: 22.58 | |
2 | Michiko Shimizu | Japan | 15: 23.56 | |
3 | Paula Radcliffe | Great Britain | 15: 23.90 | |
4th | Wang Junxia | People's Republic of China | 15: 24.28 | |
5 | Rose Cheruiyot | Kenya | 15: 16.87 | |
6th | Claudia Lokar | Germany | 15: 28.35 | |
7th | Kathy Butler | Canada | 15: 47.50 | |
8th | Merima Denboba | Ethiopia | 15: 48.35 | |
9 | Nina Christiansen | Denmark | 15: 56.38 | |
10 | Ana Dias | Portugal | 15: 57.35 | |
11 | Stela Olteanu | Romania | 15: 58.28 | |
12 | Jeļena Čelnova | Latvia | 15: 59.00 | |
13 | Marie McMahon | Ireland | 15: 59.12 | |
14th | Natalie Harvey | Australia | 16: 06.45 | |
DNS | Gwendolien Griffiths | South Africa | ||
DOP | Mary Slaney | United States |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Pauline Konga | Kenya | 15: 07.01 | OR |
2 | Ayelech Worku | Ethiopia | 15: 21.59 | |
3 | Amy Rudolph | United States | 15: 21.90 | |
4th | Elena Romanova | Russia | 15: 23.37 | |
5 | Wei Li | People's Republic of China | 15: 33.49 | |
6th | Silvia Sommaggio | Italy | 15: 33.63 | |
7th | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 15: 42.35 | |
8th | Maria Cristina Petite | Spain | 15: 48.63 | |
9 | Zahra Ouaziz | Morocco | 15: 55.03 | |
10 | Katy McCandless | Ireland | 15: 55.66 | |
11 | Irina Mikitenko | Kazakhstan | 15: 57.67 | |
12 | Yoshiko Ichikawa | Japan | 15: 58.90 | |
13 | Sonia McGeorge | Great Britain | 16: 01.92 | |
14th | Robyn Meagher | Canada | 16: 24.49 | |
15th | Marta Portoblanco | Nicaragua | 18: 42.78 | |
DNS | Carolyn Shuvalov | Australia |
final
July 28, 1996, 8:45 p.m.
For the first Olympic final over this distance, two Kenyans and two US athletes as well as one athlete each from Ethiopia, China, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Great Britain qualified.
The favorite was above all world champion Sonia O'Sullivan from Ireland, who was also European champion over 3000 meters . The highly rated Romanian Gabriela Szabo, like the Moroccan World Cup third Zahra Ouaziz, was eliminated in the preliminary run. Other contenders for top placings were the Briton Paula Radcliffe, who always had problems with her sprinting skills in tight finish situations, and the Chinese world champion of 1993 over 10,000 meters Wang Junxia. The participants from Africa and China were difficult to assess. In the recent past, especially female runners - u. a. at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart - always amazed with top performances.
After 1000 meters, the Kenyan Pauline Konga took the lead. With a transit time of 3: 06.15 min at this point, the race was not particularly fast. O'Sullivan had increasing problems with the heat, fell further and further after the halfway point and then gave up. The race had become significantly faster now. Konga ensured a high pace and, together with Wang Junxia, continued to stand out from her competitors. A field of five with Radcliffe in the lead was behind the two leaders. Other pursuers were the Italian Roberta Brunet, Rose Cheruiyot from Kenya, the Russian Jelena Romanowa and the Japanese Michiko Shimizu. The distance to the next runners was not great, however. With two laps to go, Wang Junxia took the initiative and passed the long-leading Konga. The Chinese went into the final round with a clear lead. Konga was also safe second. The battle for the bronze medal was exciting now. Initially, Brunet and Radcliffe broke away from the chasing field. but the British woman now had her well-known sprint problems. The athletes crossed the finish line with clear gaps. Olympic champion was Wang Junxia ahead of Pauline Konga. Roberta Brunet confidently defended her bronze place in front of Michiko Shimizu, who pushed Paula Radcliffe to fifth. Jelena Romanowa was sixth ahead of the Romanian Elena Fidatow and Jelena Romanowa.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 3: 06.15 min | Pauline Konga in front of the closed field | 3: 06.15 min |
2000 m | 6: 08.76 min | Anne Hare in front of the closed field | 3: 03.51 min |
3000 m | 9: 08.02 min | Pauline Konga in front of a larger leading group | 2: 59.26 min |
4000 m | 12:05:25 min | Pauline Konga before Wang Junxia | 2: 57.23 min |
5000 m | 14: 59.88 min | Wang Junxia | 2: 54.63 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Wang Junxia | People's Republic of China | 14: 59.88 | OR |
2 | Pauline Konga | Kenya | 15: 03.49 | |
3 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 15: 07.52 | |
4th | Michiko Shimizu | Japan | 15: 09.05 | |
5 | Paula Radcliffe | Great Britain | 15: 13.11 | |
6th | Elena Romanova | Russia | 15: 14.09 | |
7th | Elena Fidatov | Romania | 15: 16.71 | |
8th | Rose Cheruiyot | Kenya | 15: 17.33 | |
9 | Lynn Jennings | United States | 15: 17.50 | |
10 | Amy Rudolph | United States | 15: 19.77 | |
11 | Sara Wedlund | Sweden | 15: 22.98 | |
12 | Ayelech Worku | Ethiopia | 15: 28.81 | |
13 | Anne Hare | New Zealand | 15: 29.11 | |
14th | Anita Weyermann | Switzerland | 15: 44.40 | |
DNF | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland |
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 5000m , accessed March 7, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 79, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 7, 2018
Video
- Women's 5000m Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , posted June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 796 , accessed on March 7, 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. 79, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 7, 2018
- ^ Article in Spiegel from April 26, 1999 , accessed on March 7, 2018