Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athletics
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Athletics; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
	Pictogram for athletics
Dates	July 31 August 9, 1992
No. of events	43
Competitors	1725 from 156 nations

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 43 events in athletics were contested, 24 events by men and 19 by women. The competition ran from July 31, 1992, to August 9, 1992. Fourteen world record-holders (eight men and six women) were among the contenders. Thirty former Olympic champions competed, and a total number of 1725 athletes from 156 countries.

Medal summary

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Linford Christie Great Britain	9.96	Frankie Fredericks Namibia	10.02	Dennis Mitchell United States	10.04
200 metres	Michael Marsh United States	20.01	Frankie Fredericks Namibia	20.13	Michael Bates United States	20.38
400 metres	Quincy Watts United States	43.50 (OR)	Steve Lewis United States	44.21	Samson Kitur Kenya	44.24
800 metres	William Tanui Kenya	1:43.66	Nixon Kiprotich Kenya	1:43.70	Johnny Gray United States	1:43.97
1500 metres	Fermín Cacho Spain	3:40.12	Rachid El Basir Morocco	3:40.62	Mohamed Suleiman Qatar	3:40.69
5000 metres	Dieter Baumann Germany	13:12.52	Paul Bitok Kenya	13:12.71	Fita Bayisa Ethiopia	13:13.03
10,000 metres	Khalid Skah Morocco	27:46.70	Richard Chelimo Kenya	27:47.72	Addis Abebe Ethiopia	28:00.07
110 metres hurdles	Mark McKoy Canada	13.12	Tony Dees United States	13.24	Jack Pierce United States	13.26
400 metres hurdles	Kevin Young United States	46.78 (WR)	Winthrop Graham Jamaica	47.66	Kriss Akabusi Great Britain	47.82
3000 metres steeplechase	Matthew Birir Kenya	8:08.84	Patrick Sang Kenya	8:09.55	William Mutwol Kenya	8:10.74
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis James Jett*	37.40 (WR)	Nigeria (NGR) Oluyemi Kayode Chidi Imoh Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa*	37.98	Cuba (CUB) Andrés Simón Joel Lamela Joel Isasi Jorge Aguilera	38.00
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts Michael Johnson Steve Lewis Darnell Hall* Charles Jenkins*	2:55.74 (WR)	Cuba (CUB) Lázaro Martínez Héctor Herrera Norberto Téllez Roberto Hernández	2:59.51	Great Britain (GBR) Roger Black David Grindley Kriss Akabusi John Regis Du'aine Ladejo* Mark Richardson*	2:59.73
Marathon	Hwang Young-Cho South Korea	2:13:23	Koichi Morishita Japan	2:13:45	Stephan Freigang Germany	2:14:00
20 kilometres walk	Daniel Plaza Spain	1:21.25	Guillaume LeBlanc Canada	1:22.25	Giovanni De Benedictis Italy	1:23.11
50 kilometres walk	Andrey Perlov Unified Team ( Russia)	3:50.13	Carlos Mercenario Mexico	3:52.09	Ronald Weigel Germany	3:53.45
High jump	Javier Sotomayor Cuba	2.34 m	Patrik Sjöberg Sweden	2.34 m	Hollis Conway United States	2.34 m
					Tim Forsyth Australia
					Artur Partyka Poland
Pole vault	Maksim Tarasov Unified Team ( Russia)	5.80 m	Igor Trandenkov Unified Team ( Russia)	5.80 m	Javier García Spain	5.75 m
Long jump	Carl Lewis United States	8.67 m	Mike Powell United States	8.64 m	Joe Greene United States	8.34 m
Triple jump	Mike Conley United States	18.17 m w	Charles Simpkins United States	17.60 m	Frank Rutherford Bahamas	17.36 m
Shot put	Mike Stulce United States	21.70 m	Jim Doehring United States	20.96 m	Vyacheslav Lykho Unified Team ( Russia)	20.94 m
Discus throw	Romas Ubartas Lithuania	65.12 m	Jürgen Schult Germany	64.94 m	Roberto Moya Cuba	64.12 m
Hammer throw	Andrey Abduvaliyev Unified Team ( Tajikistan)	82.54 m	Igor Astapkovich Unified Team ( Belarus)	81.96 m	Igor Nikulin Unified Team ( Russia)	81.38 m
Javelin throw	Jan Železný Czechoslovakia	89.66 m	Seppo Räty Finland	86.60 m	Steve Backley Great Britain	83.38 m
Decathlon	Robert Změlík Czechoslovakia	8611	Antonio Peñalver Spain	8412	Dave Johnson United States	8309

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Gail Devers United States	10.82	Juliet Cuthbert Jamaica	10.83	Irina Privalova Unified Team ( Russia)	10.84
200 metres	Gwen Torrence United States	21.81	Juliet Cuthbert Jamaica	22.02	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	22.09
400 metres	Marie-José Pérec France	48.83	Olga Bryzgina Unified Team ( Ukraine)	49.05	Ximena Restrepo Colombia	49.64
800 metres	Ellen van Langen Netherlands	1:55:54	Liliya Nurutdinova Unified Team ( Russia)	1:55:99	Ana Fidelia Quirot Cuba	1:56.80
1500 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka Algeria	3:55.30	Lyudmila Rogachova Unified Team ( Russia)	3:56.91	Qu Yunxia China	3:57.08
3000 metres	Yelena Romanova Unified Team ( Russia)	8:46.04	Tetyana Dorovskikh Unified Team ( Ukraine)	8:46.85	Angela Chalmers Canada	8:47.22
10,000 metres	Derartu Tulu Ethiopia	31:06.02	Elana Meyer South Africa	31:11.75	Lynn Jennings United States	31:19.89
100 metres hurdles	Voula Patoulidou Greece	12.64	LaVonna Martin United States	12.69	Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria	12.70
400 metres hurdles	Sally Gunnell Great Britain	53.23	Sandra Farmer-Patrick United States	53.69	Janeene Vickers United States	54.31
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Evelyn Ashford Esther Jones Carlette Guidry Gwen Torrence Michelle Finn*	42.11	Unified Team (EUN) Olga Bogoslovskaya Galina Malchugina Marina Trandenkova Irina Privalova	42.16	Nigeria (NGR) Beatrice Utondu Faith Idehen Christy Opara-Thompson Mary Onyali	42.81
4 × 400 metres relay	Unified Team (EUN) Yelena Ruzina Lyudmila Dzhigalova Olga Nazarova Olga Bryzgina Liliya Nurutdinova* Marina Shmonina*	3:20.20	United States (USA) Natasha Kaiser Gwen Torrence Jearl Miles Rochelle Stevens Denean Hill* Dannette Young*	3:20.92	Great Britain (GBR) Phylis Smith Sandra Douglas Jennifer Stoute Sally Gunnell	3:24.23
Marathon	Valentina Yegorova Unified Team ( Russia)	2:32:41	Yuko Arimori Japan	2:32:49	Lorraine Moller New Zealand	2:33:59
10 kilometres walk	Chen Yueling China	44:32	Yelena Nikolayeva Unified Team ( Russia)	44:33	Li Chunxiu China	44:41
High jump	Heike Henkel Germany	2.02 m	Galina Astafei Romania	2.00 m	Joanet Quintero Cuba	1.97 m
Long jump	Heike Drechsler Germany	7.14 m	Inessa Kravets Unified Team ( Ukraine)	7.12 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States	7.07 m
Shot put	Svetlana Krivelyova Unified Team ( Russia)	21.06 m	Huang Zhihong China	20.47 m	Kathrin Neimke Germany	19.78 m
Discus throw	Maritza Martén Cuba	70.06 m	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria	67.78 m	Daniela Costian Australia	66.24 m
Javelin throw	Silke Renk Germany	68.34 m	Natalya Shikolenko Unified Team ( Belarus)	68.26 m	Karen Forkel Germany	66.86 m
Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States	7044	Irina Belova Unified Team ( Russia)	6845	Sabine Braun Germany	6649

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	8	10	30
2	Unified Team (EUN)	7	11	3	21
3	Germany (GER)	4	1	5	10
4	Kenya (KEN)	2	4	2	8
5	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	4	7
6	Spain (ESP)	2	1	1	4
7	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	4	6
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	0	0	2
9	China (CHN)	1	1	2	4
10	Canada (CAN)	1	1	1	3
11	Morocco (MAR)	1	1	0	2
12	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	0	2	3
13	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
19	Jamaica (JAM)	0	3	1	4
20	Japan (JPN)	0	2	0	2
20	Namibia (NAM)	0	2	0	2
22	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
22	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	1	2
24	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
29	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
30	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 entries)		43	43	45	131

Participating nations

A total of 156 nations participated in the different Athletics events at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Albania (1 athlete)
Algeria (9)
Andorra (1)
Angola (5)
Antigua and Barbuda (5)
Argentina (4)
Aruba (2)
Australia (35)
Austria (16)
Bahamas (8)
Bahrain (6)
Bangladesh (4)
Barbados (8)
Belgium (7)
Belize (5)
Benin (4)
Bermuda (4)
Bolivia (6)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4)
Botswana (5)
Brazil (24)
British Virgin Islands (1)
Bulgaria (21)
Burkina Faso (3)
Cameroon (7)
Canada (48)
Cayman Islands (1)
Central African Republic (8)
Chad (4)
Chile (3)
China (33)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Colombia (5)
Republic of the Congo (6)
Cook Islands (1)
Costa Rica (8)
Ivory Coast (9)
Croatia (2)
Cuba (34)
Cyprus (5)
Czechoslovakia (18)
Denmark (3)
Djibouti (5)
Ecuador (7)
El Salvador (2)
Equatorial Guinea (7)
Estonia (5)
Ethiopia (15)
Fiji (7)
Finland (26)
France (57)
Gabon (2)
The Gambia (5)
Germany (79)
Ghana (8)
Great Britain (91)
Greece (11)
Grenada (4)
Guam (2)
Guinea (5)
Guyana (3)
Haiti (2)
Honduras (4)
Hong Kong (3)
Hungary (24)
Iceland (4)
Independent Olympic Participants (9)
India (2)
Iran (2)
Ireland (19)
Israel (4)
Italy (39)
Jamaica (28)
Japan (31)
Jordan (2)
Kenya (38)
Kuwait (4)
Laos (5)
Latvia (7)
Lebanon (1)
Lesotho (6)
Libya (1)
Liechtenstein (2)
Lithuania (8)
Madagascar (5)
Malaysia (1)
Malawi (4)
Maldives (5)
Mali (3)
Malta (2)
Mauritania (6)
Mauritius (3)
Mexico (24)
Mongolia (1)
Morocco (13)
Mozambique (3)
Myanmar (3)
Namibia (3)
Nepal (1)
Netherlands (15)
Netherlands Antilles (1)
New Zealand (13)
Nicaragua (1)
Niger (3)
Nigeria (14)
North Korea (3)
Norway (9)
Oman (4)
Pakistan (4)
Panama (1)
Papua New Guinea (6)
Paraguay (3)
Peru (2)
Philippines (3)
Poland (24)
Portugal (36)
Puerto Rico (7)
Qatar (11)
Romania (25)
Rwanda (7)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (6)
San Marino (5)
Saudi Arabia (2)
Senegal (9)
Seychelles (4)
Sierra Leone (11)
Slovenia (4)
South Africa (16)
South Korea (11)
Spain (59)
Sri Lanka (7)
Sudan (3)
Suriname (2)
Swaziland (5)
Sweden (19)
Switzerland (15)
Syria (3)
Tanzania (4)
Thailand (18)
Togo (4)
Tonga (4)
Trinidad and Tobago (5)
Tunisia (1)
Turkey (2)
Uganda (4)
Unified Team (99)
United Arab Emirates (4)
United States (117)
Uruguay (2)
Vanuatu (6)
Vietnam (4)
Virgin Islands (10)
Yemen (3)
Zaire (7)
Zambia (4)
Zimbabwe (7)

References

External links

Athletics Australia

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