Host City: Barcelona, Spain |
Format: 42,195 metres (26 miles, 385 yards) out-and-back. |
Date Started: August 1, 1992 |
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Date Finished: August 1, 1992 |
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(Competitors: 46; Countries: 30) |
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Venue(s): Montjuïc Olympic Stadium, Barcelona
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Overview by IAAF |
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The temperature at the start of the race was 30°C, with humidity over 70%, ensuring a slow race. Seoul silver medallist Lisa Ondieki was cofavourite with World Champion Wanda Panfil (POL). The Australian led to 20Km, reached in 1:14:09 with 15 runners within 10 seconds. Yegorova then made a move just before 25Km and led from her teammate Madina Biktagirova by three seconds. By 30Km the lead was over a minute after a 34:10 10Km section. Ondieki had dropped out and Panfil was almost three minutes behind. Akimori began to close in and caught Yegorova just after 35Km. The two ran together up the long hill towards the stadium, and Yegorova finally broke away 300m before Montjuic stadium. Biktagirova placed fourth in 2:35:59 but was later disqualified for failing a drugs test. |
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Summary by Sports-reference.com |
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The years since the 1988 Olympic marathon had seen numerous women win major races. Grete Waitz continued to win, taking her ninth New York title in late 1988, but by 1992, she was on the downside of her career. Defending champion Rosa Mota won at Tokyo in November 1988, defeating the GDR’s Uta Pippig. In 1989, Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen, who had passed on the Seoul marathon, won at both Boston and New York. Mota continued to win, taking Osaka and Boston in 1990 with Pippig winning the Berlin race in September. Poland’s Wanda Panfil also came to the fore, winning the Nagoya race in 1990, Boston in 1991, and the World Championships in 1991 as well. Mota won the 1991 Marathon World Cup in London, while the 1991 New York race was won by Britain’s Liz McColgan in her marathon début. |
So who would it be at Barcelona? The answer is none of the above, and in fact, because of injuries only Wanda Panfil among the above favorites even toed the line at Barcelona, but she would finish only 22nd. The race was eventually won by Valentina Yegorova, representing the Unified Team, by only eight seconds over Japan’s Yuko Arimori. Barcelona was Yegorova’s 14th career marathon, but only her second win, although she had finished second to Rosa Mota at the 1990 European Championships. She would later win the prestigious Tokyo race in 1993 and 1994. Arimori was running her fourth career marathon, but had never won. After the 1992 Olympics, she took a hiatus from competition, returning in 1995 to win the Sapporo marathon. |
Records
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Results |
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The Women's Marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain was held on Saturday August 1, 1992. The race started on 6.30 p.m. local time. A total number of 37 athletes completed the race, with Bakombo Kungu from Zaire finishing in last position in 3:29:10. There were 47 competitors from 31 countries. Nine of them did not finish.
After finishing fourth, Madina Biktagirova of the Unified Team tested positive for norephedrine and became the first Olympic marathoner disqualified for failing a drug test |
Marathon |
Women |
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Final |
1 August |
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Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
1 |
2.32.41 |
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Valentina Yegorova |
Russia |
RUS |
16 Feb 64 |
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2 |
2.32.49 |
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Yuko Arimori |
Japan |
JPN |
17 Dec 66 |
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3 |
2.33.59 |
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Lorraine Moller |
New Zealand |
NZL |
1 Jun 55 |
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4 |
2.36.26 |
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Sachiko Yamashita |
Japan |
JPN |
20 Aug 64 |
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5 |
2.36.48 |
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Katrin Dörre-Heinig |
Germany |
GER |
6 Oct 61 |
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6 |
2.37.03 |
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Mun Gyong Ae |
North Korea |
PRK |
8 Apr 69 |
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7 |
2.38.22 |
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Manuela Machado |
Portugal |
POR |
9 Aug 63 |
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8 |
2.38.46 |
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Ramilya Burangulova |
Russia |
RUS |
11 Jul 61 |
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9 |
2.39.03 |
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Colleen de Reuck |
South Africa |
RSA |
13 Apr 64 |
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10 |
2.39.42 |
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Cathy O'Brien |
United States |
USA |
19 Jul 67 |
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11 |
2.40.10 |
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Karolina Szabó |
Hungary |
HUN |
17 Nov 61 |
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12 |
2.41.09 |
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Francie Larrieu Smith |
United States |
USA |
23 Nov 52 |
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13 |
2.41.20 |
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Sally Eastall |
Great Britain |
GBR |
5 Jan 63 |
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14 |
2.41.48 |
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Ritva Lemettinen |
Finland |
FIN |
9 Sep 60 |
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15 |
2.42.45 |
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Birgit Jerschabek |
Germany |
GER |
17 May 69 |
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16 |
2.42.55 |
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Véronique Marot |
Great Britain |
GBR |
16 Sep 55 |
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17 |
2.44.32 |
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Márcia Narloch |
Brazil |
BRA |
28 Mar 69 |
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18 |
2.46.14 |
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Emma Scaunich |
Italy |
ITA |
10 Mar 54 |
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19 |
2.46.18 |
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Odette Lapierre |
Canada |
CAN |
28 Jan 55 |
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20 |
2.46.44 |
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Anna Villani |
Italy |
ITA |
21 Jun 66 |
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21 |
2.47.17 |
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Janis Klecker |
United States |
USA |
18 Jul 60 |
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22 |
2.47.27 |
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Wanda Panfil |
Poland |
POL |
26 Jan 59 |
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23 |
2.50.09 |
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Bettina Sabatini |
Italy |
ITA |
21 Mar 66 |
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24 |
2.53.30 |
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Alena Peterková |
Czech Republic |
CZE |
13 Nov 60 |
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25 |
2.54.21 |
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Lee Mi-Ok |
South Korea |
KOR |
10 Mar 68 |
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26 |
2.54.33 |
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Malgorzata Kowalewicz |
Poland |
POL |
17 Feb 60 |
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27 |
2.54.41 |
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Sally Ellis |
Great Britain |
GBR |
17 May 58 |
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28 |
2.56.46 |
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Pascaline Wangui |
Kenya |
KEN |
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29 |
2.58.18 |
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Yumi Kokamo |
Japan |
JPN |
26 Dec 71 |
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30 |
2.58.57 |
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Addis Gezagne |
Ethiopia |
ETH |
14 Oct 70 |
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31 |
3.00.23 |
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Janeth Mayal |
Brazil |
BRA |
19 Jul 63 |
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32 |
3.01.46 |
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Elena Murgoci |
Romania |
ROU |
20 May 60 |
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33 |
3.03.34 |
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Vilma Sanchez |
Costa Rica |
CRC |
28 Mar 60 |
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34 |
3.05.50 |
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Ena Guevara |
Peru |
PER |
7 Feb 59 |
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35 |
3.14.02 |
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Ana Gutierrez Wittman |
United States Virgin Islands |
ISV |
18 Sep 61 |
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36 |
3.14.45 |
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Jen Allred |
Guam |
GUM |
17 Dec 61 |
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37 |
3.29.10 |
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Kungu Bakombo |
DR Congo |
COD |
7 Aug 62 |
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DNF |
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Franziska Moser-Rochat |
Switzerland |
SUI |
17 Aug 66 |
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DNF |
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Marguerite Buist |
New Zealand |
NZL |
29 Dec 62 |
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DNF |
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Aurora Cunha |
Portugal |
POR |
31 May 59 |
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DNF |
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Lia Melis |
Aruba |
ARU |
23 Feb 60 |
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DNF |
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Lizanne Bussières-Chafe |
Canada |
CAN |
20 Aug 61 |
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DNF |
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Lisa Ondieki |
Australia |
AUS |
12 May 60 |
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DNF |
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Maria Lelut-Rebelo |
France |
FRA |
29 Jan 56 |
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DNF |
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Dang Thi Teo |
Vietnam |
VIE |
19 Jul 68 |
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DQ |
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Madina Biktagirova |
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DNF |
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Olga Appell |
Mexico |
MEX |
2 Aug 63 |
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More Details by Marathoninfo |
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1992 Barcelona: Montjuic to make a difference
DATED |
FEMALE WINNER |
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STARTERS |
WITHDRAWALS |
Saturday, August 1 at 18:30 |
Valentina Yegorova (CIS) |
28 years |
47 from 31 countries |
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Montjuic, planted by the sea, this hill 173 meters above sea level is a nice place to walk which can be accessed by a cable car, funicular and of course steep roads. But the stadium was located near the top of that hill, and the organizers have not found better than to get marathoners top of this hill, sort of justice at the finish of the marathon. The organizers tried to find the least steep slope to the summit, which made an arrival with over 6km of convolutions, with a total of 147m in altitude uphill 53m downhill and some 1000m flat in passing in front of the museum Art of Catalonia, located in the middle of the climb. The other problem, besides the "tourist" circuit and thus not necessarily suitable for a marathon, was the departure time at 18:30 it is very hot even in Spain !! Needless to emphasize the difficulty of the course, you guessed it ...
Women are only 45 from the test. Among the favorites, the eastern countries are in the spotlight following the fall of the Berlin Wall November 9, 1989, the eastern borders were opened little by little, and marathon runners are not deprived himself to go running to the west especially the gains were attractive compared to their living conditions .. This allowed some of the athletes is to make a record in a few years for the Polish Wanda Panfil, married to Mexican Mauricio Gonzales, it had imposed in London, Nagoya, New York and had triumphed in 2:24:18 in Boston.
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Other athletes is from the Biktagirova and Russian Yegorova. The Japanese also have appeared in the lead worldwide, which demonstrated their social liberation, that they were doomed to Blanked far. Exclusively women's events appeared (now very famous) as in Osaka where Arimori made his debut in 1990 before we wear the national record in 2:28:01 behind Katrin Doerre still présente.Son record was beaten the year next by Yumi Kokamo in 2:26:26 and share Akemi Matsuno and Yoshiko Yamamoto, showing the tremendous potential of Japanese and density. We will add Manuela Machado Portuguese and Colleen Reuck of the (still) South Africa among the favorites.
Considering the journey that awaited them and the headwind that has added to the difficulties, the departure of the marathon was very cautious despite the flat of departure, with a transition to 5km in 17'58 ". Only the Australian Lisa Ondieki seems fear not only the course and hand in mind, and will make top half of the course, before lowering diet and lose slowly up and abandon, suffered a heat stroke. so that the Russian Biktagirova finally took the lead at halfway, joined by Yegorova and Machado. the 25th km is covered in 1h31'38 ". Behind the three women after the Japanese Yuko Arimori and New Zealand Lorraine Moller. The 30th km, Yegorova was detached and dominates in the Biktagirova order of 45 seconds, Arimori 46, and Lorraine Moller 55. While holding the unique slope of the course, the portion of 5km leading to 35th km was not covered by Yegorova, timed in 2:06:36, in 17'47 "between the hedges of spectators become denser and retained by a ribbon. a little faster by Arimori, now followed in second place with 12s only, ahead of Moller 18s, Biktagirova was demoted to fourth place. physical education teacher, Arimori, who finished fourth at the Tokyo world championships in 1991 and was only in his fourth marathon in 25 years , returned to the height of Yegorova on Avenue del Paralelo. the climbing Montjuic that presented itself was to be the judge of peace. More picked his opponent (1m56 for 52kg) Yegorova placed a boot which was Arimori unable to respond (1m64 for 48kg for the Japanese). A crossed the finish in 2:32:41 for the Russian, only 8 seconds separated them or the smallest gap recorded since the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984.
The victory does not reward Yegorova, unlike other times, an athlete with impressive track records, the 2nd European Championships two years ago in Split behind Rosa Mota, Barcelona scored his second victory in 14 marathons. Fourth, Biktagirova compatriot was disqualified when the bronze medal, she came to one of the pioneer of women's marathon, the New zéllandaise Lorraine Moller who had the experience of the death of her husband, US marathoner Ron Daws four days earlier .
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