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Host City: Atlanta, United States

Format: 42,195 metres (26 miles, 385 yards) out-and-back.

Date Started: July 28, 1996

Date Finished: July 28, 1996

(Competitors: 87; Countries: 52)

Venue(s): Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

Overview by IAAF

The heat of Atlanta meant that the race needed to start early, and at 7:05 the runners set off with temperatures which would not climb beyond 21°C. Uta Pippig (GER), who had run 2:21:45 in Boston in 1994, went to the front and led past 10Km in 34:37. At 12Km she began to fall back, eventually dropping out. Elana Meyer, silver medallist over m in Barcelona, retired with a damaged Achilles tendon at 15Km. At 18Km Roba made a break, passing 20Km in 1:08:45 with a six second lead over the pack. By 30Km the lead had stretched to 1:01 over Akimori and Yegorova after a 34:12 section. The Ethiopian continued to build the lead, though her pace slowed in the later stages, and she finished exactly two minutes clear of Yegorova. The Russian’s silver medal was the best effort in defence of a title by a female marathon runner. Akimori again placed one position behind Yegorova, though veteran Dörre almost caught her, picking up 13 seconds in the last two kilometres. Roba became the first Ethiopian woman to tin an Olympic gold medal.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Between 1992 and 1996 the Chinese and African women moved onto the world marathon scene. African men had been world-class distance runners since the early 1960s, but women were only becoming liberated enough to compete internationally. At the Tianjin marathon in April 1993, Chinese women finished in the eight places, all under 2-26, and four of them moved in to the world top 10 list. This followed several other stunning times by Chinese female distance runners, but many of these were later discredited when systematic doping regimens were revealed in the Chinese athletics hierarchy.

Portugal had a new women’s marathon star in Manuela Machado, who won the 1994 European Championships and the 1995 World Championships. Germany’s Uta Pippig had won the Boston Marathon in 1994-96 and was highly considered. The top African woman was likely Kenya’s Tegla Leroupe, who won the 1994 New York Marathon.

To avoid the summer heat of Atlanta, the race started at 7:05 AM, the morning after the bombing at the Centennial Olympic Park. Pippig took the early lead and led by 13 seconds at five kilometers, and she increased this to 28 second at 10 km. At 20 km. she was caught by Ethiopia’s Fatuma Roba and Pippig was also overtaken by defending champion Valentina Yegorova, Machado, Japan’s silver medalist from 1992, Yuko Arimori, and Romania’s Lidia Şimon. Pippig would eventually drop out. Roba powered ahead and held a 28-second lead at 25 km. She ran unchallenged to a 2-minute victory in a time of 2-26:05, considered very fast on the hilly course, in the Southern summer weather. Yegorova won the silver medal, and Arimori the bronze medal. Machado faded to seventh place, trailing Simon by one spot.

Records

Standing records prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Olympic Record	Joan Benoit (USA)	2:24:52	August 5, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Season Best	Katrin Dörre (GER)	2:26:04	January 28, 1996	Osaka, Japan

		Results

*Marathon*	Women	Final	28 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	2.26.05	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	ETH	18 Dec 70
2	2.28.05	Valentina Yegorova	Russia	RUS	16 Feb 64
3	2.28.39	Yuko Arimori	Japan	JPN	17 Dec 66
4	2.28.45	Katrin Dörre-Heinig	Germany	GER	6 Oct 61
5	2.30.50	Rocío Rios	Spain	ESP	13 Mar 69
6	2.31.04	Lidia Simon	Romania	ROU	4 Sep 73
7	2.31.11	Manuela Machado	Portugal	POR	9 Aug 63
8	2.31.16	Sonja Oberem	Germany	GER	24 Feb 73
9	2.31.21	Ren Xiujuan	China	CHN	14 Sep 74
10	2.31.30	Anne Marie Lauck	United States	USA	7 Mar 69
11	2.31.52	Małgorzata Sobańska	Poland	POL	25 Apr 69
12	2.32.35	Izumi Maki	Japan	JPN	10 Dec 68
13	2.33.09	Ornella Ferrara	Italy	ITA	17 Apr 68
14	2.33.27	Mónica Pont	Spain	ESP	3 Jun 69
15	2.34.19	Angelina Kanana	Kenya	KEN	16 Dec 65
16	2.34.30	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	GBR	24 May 64
17	2.34.31	Junko Asari	Japan	JPN	22 Sep 69
18	2.34.48	Franziska Moser-Rochat	Switzerland	SUI	17 Aug 66
19	2.35.12	Griselda González	Argentina	ARG	4 Dec 65
20	2.35.31	Jang Son Ok	North Korea	PRK	18 Aug 74
21	2.35.44	Irina Bogachova	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	30 May 61
22	2.35.45	Iglandini González	Colombia	COL	5 Feb 65
23	2.36.14	Serap Aktas	Turkey	TUR	25 Sep 71
24	2.36.22	Alena Mazouka	Belarus	BLR	30 Jun 67
25	2.36.27	Marleen Renders	Belgium	BEL	24 Dec 68
26	2.36.31	Kim Chung Ok	North Korea	PRK	27 May 75
27	2.36.39	Maria Albertina Dias	Portugal	POR	26 Apr 65
28	2.36.41	Kerryn McCann	Australia	AUS	2 May 67
29	2.36.44	Aniela Nikiel-Glogosz	Poland	POL	1 Nov 65
30	2.36.54	Oh Mi-Ja	South Korea	KOR	3 Jul 70
31	2.36.58	Linda Somers Smith	United States	USA	7 May 61
32	2.37.06	Danuta Bartoszek	Canada	CAN	19 Aug 61
33	2.37.14	Maricarmen Díaz	Mexico	MEX	15 Jul 70
34	2.37.19	Nelly Glauser	Switzerland	SUI	27 Jan 66
35	2.38.04	Ramilya Burangulova	Russia	RUS	11 Jul 61
36	2.38.43	Judit Földing-Nagy	Hungary	HUN	9 Dec 65
37	2.39.06	Erika Olivera	Chile	CHI	14 Jan 76
38	2.39.18	Yvonne Danson	Singapore	SIN	22 May 59
39	2.39.33	Márcia Narloch	Brazil	BRA	28 Mar 69
40	2.39.51	Stefanija Statkuviene	Lithuania	LTU	5 Sep 62
41	2.40.46	Anne van Schuppen	Netherlands	NED	11 Oct 60
42	2.41.33	Maria Polizou	Greece	GRE	10 Nov 68
43	2.41.56	Guadalupe Loma	Mexico	MEX	12 Dec 67
44	2.42.01	Anuta Catuna	Romania	ROU	1 Oct 68
45	2.42.08	Karen MacLeod	Great Britain	GBR	24 Apr 58
46	2.42.21	Lorraine Moller	New Zealand	NZL	1 Jun 55
47	2.43.44	Albertina Machado	Portugal	POR	25 Dec 61
48	2.43.58	Anita Håkenstad	Norway	NOR	19 Feb 68
49	2.44.12	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	ESP	16 Aug 63
50	2.44.21	Natalya Galushko	Belarus	BLR	18 Sep 71
51	2.44.23	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	MEX	4 Apr 71
52	2.44.38	May Allison	Canada	CAN	25 Oct 64
53	2.46.58	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	SLO	26 Mar 66
54	2.48.58	Marilu Salazar	Peru	PER	27 Oct 65
55	2.49.30	Suzana Ciric	Yugoslavia	YUG	12 Jul 69
56	2.50.05	Nadia Prasad	France	FRA	6 Oct 67
57	2.50.46	Sue Malaxos	Australia	AUS	30 Dec 61
58	2.52.09	Suzanne Rigg	Great Britain	GBR	29 Nov 63
59	2.56.19	Elisabeth Mongudhi	Namibia	NAM	15 Jun 70
60	2.56.23	Solange de Souza	Brazil	BRA	5 Feb 69
61	3.09.08	Gulsara Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	TJK	4 Jul 76
62	3.16.19	Bimala Ranamagar	Nepal	NEP	2 Jul 71
63	3.19.06	Erhemsaihan Davaajargal	Mongolia	MGL	19 May 69
64	3.25.16	Sirivanh Ketavong	Laos	LAO	1 Sep 70	NR
65	3.27.28	Marie Benito	Guam	GUM	9 Aug 65
	DNF	Lisa Ondieki	Australia	AUS	12 May 60
	DNF	Alla Zhilyayeva	Russia	RUS	5 Feb 69
	DNF	Maura Viceconte	Italy	ITA	3 Oct 67
	DNF	Lee Mi-kyung	South Korea	KOR	26 May 75
	DNF	Carmen de Oliveira	Brazil	BRA	17 Aug 65
	DNF	Elana Meyer	South Africa	RSA	10 Oct 66
	DNF	Salina Chirchir	Kenya	KEN	28 Aug 68
	DNF	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	KEN	6 Nov 70
	DNF	Uta Pippig	Germany	GER	7 Sep 65
	DNF	Lyubov Klochko	Ukraine	UKR	26 Sep 59
	DNF	Kang Soon-Duk	South Korea	KOR	29 Oct 74
	DNF	Jenny Spangler	United States	USA	20 Jul 63
	DNF	Kamila Gradus	Poland	POL	19 Mar 67
	DNF	Carol Walsh	Malta	MLT	24 Oct 62
	DNF	Martha Tenorio	Ecuador	ECU	6 Aug 67
	DNF	Kirsi Mattila	Finland	FIN	17 Mar 62
	DNF	Madina Biktagirova	Russia	RUS	20 Sep 64
	DNF	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	DEN	14 May 59
	DNF	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	EST	17 Jan 68
	DNF	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	ROU	15 Sep 73
	DNF	Maria Curatolo	Italy	ITA	12 Oct 63

More Details by Marathoninfo

1996 ATLANTA: AFRICA DOMINATED FOR THE CENTENARY OF JO

DATED	FEMALE WINNER	AGE	STARTERS	WITHDRAWALS
Sunday, July 28 at 7:05	Fatuma Roba (Ethiopia)	22 years old	DE51 86 countries	21 (24.41%)

The Atlanta Olympics mark the centennial of the modern games, a long time it was thought that Athens would get them but it is ultimately the US who obtenirent organization, for what many have called at the time the "Coca Cola Games" . Still, the marathon events were well organized. An event came to disturb the tranquility of these games, Saturday, July 27, a homemade bomb exploded in the night at 1:25 inside the Olympic Park, killing one person and injured hundreds. The panic was at its height, and it is in this atmosphere that was given the next day at 7:05 departure of the women's marathon. Among the favorites, the German Utta Pippig, who was born in East Germany she had left to settle in the west early in 1990. Winner in Berlin in 1990.1992 and 1995; in New York in 1993; in Boston in 1994.1995 and 1996, she was face serious client. It will itself get lost in a rapid exit strategy that proved not pay, in fact she wanted to build a great advantage when the thermometer was low before the seconds taken other soon overwhelmed by the hots do gently melt in the sun, hoping to keep a minimum advance on arrival. Unfortunately for her, the temperature remains fairly stable from one end to another of the event, and it will overflow before mid-race before retiring.

This serious candidate is being self-destroyed, was up against other "clients", starting with the defending champion Yegorova; Portuguese Machado, who took over from his compatriot Mota retaining the European title in Portugal in 1994 in Helsinki, then by winning the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995; Japanese Arimori medalist in Barcelona and came back just in time after a series of injuries that had disabled the two Olympiads; Katrin Doerre another German, Romanian Lidia Simon and the young Ethiopian Fatuma Roba. You could also put among the favorites Xijuan Chinese Ren, not knowing what to stick with these athletes who had seen a number of impressive results achieved by athletes previously unknown, with four Chinese propelled into the top ten time ever achieved by marathon !! But it was too good to be true, especially since, however qu'enflaient doping rumors that the facts would soon support, the Chinese continued their raid record on middle distance and background. Coach Ma Juren forward that the secret of success of his troops standing in the blood they drank turtle ... In Atlanta in all cases, no Chinese was not firing on all cylinders and Xijuan Ren merely the ninth square.

But back to the race, after the flying start of Pippig, she was joined by the Ethiopian Roba to the twentieth kilometer, and it passes the halfway lead in 1h12'31 ", beating Yegorova, Arimori and Machado nine seconds. from there, the race will be only alone the Ethiopian, which will widen the gap to reach with two minutes early arrival, the biggest gap female OJ !! it Yegorova ahead of the defending and Arimori who finished second in Barcelona, like what the podium is almost the same. almost as this young Ethiopian showed great class, recalling in his way of running the largest Bikila . it is imposed for the fourth time for his sixth marathon. She had made a winning start by winning the marathon in 2:44:20 Addis Ababa to 2440 meters in 1993. his time formed in Atlanta, conditions far from ideal, a new record of Ethiopia in 2:23:21 she wore during her second victory in Boston in 1998 while a first success had validated his Olympic title in 1997.