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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.

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.

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 .