1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 86 athletes from 51 countries 2 unofficial starters from 2 other countries |
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| Competition location |
Centennial Olympic Stadium (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | July 28, 1996 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 28, 1996. The start and finish was the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 86 runners started, 65 finished the race.
The Ethiopian Fatuma Roba became the Olympic champion . She won before the Russian Valentina Jegorowa and the Japanese Yūko Arimori .
Katrin Dörre-Heinig , Sonja Krolik and Uta Pippig started for Germany . Dörre-Heinig was fourth, Krolik eighth, Pippig could not finish the race.
Switzerland was represented by Nelly Glauser and Franziska Rochat-Moser . Rochat-Moser crossed the finish line in eighteenth, Glauser in 34th place.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion in 1992 |
Valentina Jegorowa ( EUN )
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2:32:41 h | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Maria Manuela Machado ( Portugal )
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2:25:39 h | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European champion in 1994 | 2:29:54 h | Helsinki 1994 | |
| Pan American Champion 1995 |
Maria Trujillo ( USA )
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2:43:56 h | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 1995 - Half Marathon | Emma Cabrera ( Mexico )
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1:17:13 h | Guatemala City 1995 |
| South America Champion 1995 | Rita Madeiros da Silva ( Brazil )
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3:07:06 h | Georgetown 1995 |
| Asian champion 1994 |
Eriko Asai ( Japan )
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2:30:30 h | Nagoya 1994 |
| African champion 1996 | Competition not in the championship program | ||
| Oceania champion 1994 - half marathon | Irene Wilson ( New Zealand )
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1:25:38 h | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
| World record | 2:21:06 h |
Ingrid Kristiansen ( Norway )
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London , UK | April 21, 1985 |
| Olympic record | 2:24:52 h |
Joan Benoit ( USA )
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Los Angeles Marathon , USA | 5th August 1984 |
Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Characters and abbreviations
Routing
The race started at the Centennial Olympic Stadium , where initially three and a half laps had to be covered before heading north out of the stadium on Capitol Avenue . After crossing Interstate 20 / Interstate 85 , the route passed Georgia State University on Piedmont Avenue . The rest of the way ran east, then in an arc back to Piedmont Avenue . We continued northward past the Botanical Gardens to the Piedmont Heights district , where Piedmont Avenue becomes Piedmont Road . The path continued to follow the course of the road north. After ten miles the route turned east onto Peachtree Road . The turning point was shortly after twenty kilometers. We went back west on Peachtree Road , which turns southwest after the junction with Piedmont Road and later becomes Peachtree Street . North of the university, the route continued east until reaching Capitol Avenue again , on which it went back to the stadium. There was still three quarters of a lap to run on the stadium track to the finish.
initial situation
The favorites were the reigning World and European Champion Maria Manuela Machado from Portugal, the German Uta Pippig, who had won the Boston Marathon three times in a row from 1994 to 1996, and the Kenyan Tegla Loroupe, winner of the New York City Marathon 1994 and 1995, the Russian Olympic champion from 1992 Valentina Egorova and the silver medalist from Barcelona Yūko Arimori from Japan.
Race course
Date: July 28, 1996, 7:05 a.m. (Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ))
To protect the participants from the summer heat, the race started at 7:05 a.m. local time. Pippig led the field early at a speed that was actually too high for these conditions and after five kilometers was already thirteen seconds ahead. At ten kilometers the distance had increased to 28 seconds. After another ten kilometers, Pippig could no longer maintain her high pace and was overtaken by the Ethiopian Fatuma Roba, and Jegorowa was also able to catch up with Pippig and pull past her. Machado, Arimori and the Romanian Lidia Șimon followed. A short time later, Pippig dropped out of the race. Roba now slightly increased the pace she had chosen and five kilometers later had run out of pursuit of her pursuers by 28 seconds. She continued to extend her lead and had a two-minute lead at the finish. So Fatuma Roba became Olympic champion before Valentina Egorova. Yūko Arimori finished third, adding bronze to her silver medal from the 1992 Games. The strong German Katrin Dörre-Heinig crossed the finish line six seconds behind Arimori. 2:05 minutes after the German, the Spaniard Ricío Ríos finished fifth. She was fourteen seconds ahead of sixth-placed Lidia Șimon. Manuela Machado was seventh ahead of the third German participant Sonja Krolik, later known as Sonja Oberem. Co-favorite Tegla Loroupe came in fifteenth.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 17:30 min | Uta Pippig | 17:30 min |
| 10 km | 34:09 min | Uta Pippig | 16:39 min |
| 15 km | 51:18 min | Uta Pippig | 16:09 min |
| 20 km | 1:08:31 h | Fatuma Roba | 17:13 min |
| 25 km | 1:25:50 h | Fatuma Roba | 17:19 min |
| 30 km | 1:42:57 h | Fatuma Roba | 17:07 min |
| 35 km | 2:00:46 h | Fatuma Roba | 17:49 min |
| 40 km | 2:18:40 h | Fatuma Roba | 17:54 min |
Result
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Unofficial participants
Valentina Enachi from Moldova ran a time of 2:41:30 h, Virginie Gloum from the Central African Republic reached the finish after an estimated time of 3:33:00 h. Since both Enachi and Gloum later complained about formal errors in the registration, neither result was recognized. Both athletes were removed from the list of results. Enachi originally finished 42nd, Gloum was the last to cross the finish line.
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. 48
Web links and sources
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed March 8, 2018
- Women's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed March 8, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 107, English / French (PDF, 13.520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018
Video
- 1996 Atlanta Olympics Women's Marathon (Fatuma Roba) on YouTube , published July 20, 2015, accessed March 8, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on March 8, 2018
- ↑ Route map of the US Athletics Association (English) ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed 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. 107, English / French (PDF, 13.520 MB), accessed on March 8, 2018
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