Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2010)
Dates	July 31   August 9, 1992
No. of events	43
Competitors	1725 from 156 nations
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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 details	Linford Christie   Great Britain	9.96	Frankie Fredericks   Namibia	10.02	Dennis Mitchell   United States	10.04
200 metres details	Michael Marsh   United States	20.01	Frankie Fredericks   Namibia	20.13	Michael Bates   United States	20.38
400 metres details	Quincy Watts   United States	43.50 (OR)	Steve Lewis   United States	44.21	Samson Kitur   Kenya	44.24
800 metres details	William Tanui   Kenya	1:43.66	Nixon Kiprotich   Kenya	1:43.70	Johnny Gray   United States	1:43.97
1500 metres details	Fermín Cacho   Spain	3:40.12	Rachid El Basir   Morocco	3:40.62	Mohamed Suleiman   Qatar	3:40.69
5000 metres details	Dieter Baumann   Germany	13:12.52	Paul Bitok   Kenya	13:12.71	Fita Bayisa   Ethiopia	13:13.03
10,000 metres details	Khalid Skah   Morocco	27:46.70	Richard Chelimo   Kenya	27:47.72	Addis Abebe   Ethiopia	28:00.07
110 metres hurdles details	Mark McKoy   Canada	13.12	Tony Dees   United States	13.24	Jack Pierce   United States	13.26
400 metres hurdles details	Kevin Young   United States	46.78 (WR)	Winthrop Graham   Jamaica	47.66	Kriss Akabusi   Great Britain	47.82
3000 metres steeplechase details	Matthew Birir   Kenya	8:08.84	Patrick Sang   Kenya	8:09.55	William Mutwol   Kenya	8:10.74
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Hwang Young-cho   South Korea	2:13:23	Kōichi Morishita   Japan	2:13:45	Stephan Freigang   Germany	2:14:00
20 kilometres walk details	Daniel Plaza   Spain	1:21.25	Guillaume LeBlanc   Canada	1:22.25	Giovanni De Benedictis   Italy	1:23.11
50 kilometres walk details	Andrey Perlov   Unified Team ( Russia)	3:50.13	Carlos Mercenario   Mexico	3:52.09	Ronald Weigel   Germany	3:53.45
High jump details	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 details	Maksim Tarasov   Unified Team ( Russia)	5.80 m	Igor Trandenkov   Unified Team ( Russia)	5.80 m	Javier García   Spain	5.75 m
Long jump details	Carl Lewis   United States	8.67 m	Mike Powell   United States	8.64 m	Joe Greene   United States	8.34 m
Triple jump details	Mike Conley   United States	18.17 m w	Charles Simpkins   United States	17.60 m	Frank Rutherford   Bahamas	17.36 m
Shot put details	Mike Stulce   United States	21.70 m	Jim Doehring   United States	20.96 m	Vyacheslav Lykho   Unified Team ( Russia)	20.94 m
Discus throw details	Romas Ubartas   Lithuania	65.12 m	Jürgen Schult   Germany	64.94 m	Roberto Moya   Cuba	64.12 m
Hammer throw details	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 details	Jan Železný   Czechoslovakia	89.66 m	Seppo Räty   Finland	86.60 m	Steve Backley   Great Britain	83.38 m
Decathlon details	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 details	Gail Devers   United States	10.82	Juliet Cuthbert   Jamaica	10.83	Irina Privalova   Unified Team ( Russia)	10.84
200 metres details	Gwen Torrence   United States	21.81	Juliet Cuthbert   Jamaica	22.02	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	22.09
400 metres details	Marie-José Pérec   France	48.83	Olha Bryzhina   Unified Team ( Ukraine)	49.05	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	49.64
800 metres details	Ellen van Langen   Netherlands	1:55.54	Liliya Nurutdinova   Unified Team ( Russia)	1:55.99	Ana Fidelia Quirot   Cuba	1:56.80
1500 metres details	Hassiba Boulmerka   Algeria	3:55.30	Lyudmila Rogachova   Unified Team ( Russia)	3:56.91	Qu Yunxia   China	3:57.08
3000 metres details	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 details	Derartu Tulu   Ethiopia	31:06.02	Elana Meyer   South Africa	31:11.75	Lynn Jennings   United States	31:19.89
100 metres hurdles details	Voula Patoulidou   Greece	12.64	LaVonna Martin   United States	12.69	Yordanka Donkova   Bulgaria	12.70
400 metres hurdles details	Sally Gunnell   Great Britain	53.23	Sandra Farmer-Patrick   United States	53.69	Janeene Vickers   United States	54.31
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	Unified Team  (EUN) Yelena Ruzina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova Olga Nazarova Olha Bryzhina 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 details	Valentina Yegorova   Unified Team ( Russia)	2:32:41	Yuko Arimori   Japan	2:32:49	Lorraine Moller   New Zealand	2:33:59
10 kilometres walk details	Chen Yueling   China	44:32	Yelena Nikolayeva   Unified Team ( Russia)	44:33	Li Chunxiu   China	44:41
High jump details	Heike Henkel   Germany	2.02 m	Galina Astafei   Romania	2.00 m	Ioamnet Quintero   Cuba	1.97 m
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler   Germany	7.14 m	Inessa Kravets   Unified Team ( Ukraine)	7.12 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee   United States	7.07 m
Shot put details	Svetlana Krivelyova   Unified Team ( Russia)	21.06 m	Huang Zhihong   China	20.47 m	Kathrin Neimke   Germany	19.78 m
Discus throw details	Maritza Martén   Cuba	70.06 m	Tsvetanka Khristova   Bulgaria	67.78 m	Daniela Costian   Australia	66.24 m
Javelin throw details	Silke Renk   Germany	68.34 m	Natalya Shikolenko   Unified Team ( Belarus)	68.26 m	Karen Forkel   Germany	66.86 m
Heptathlon details	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

  *   Host nation (Spain)

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
	Namibia  (NAM)	0	2	0	2
22	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	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)

See also

• 1992 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Athletics Australia