Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

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Men's marathon
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Estadio Olimpico de Montjuic - panoramio.jpg
Estadio Olimpico de Montjuic (2007)
Venue Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona
DateAugust 9
Competitors110 from 72 nations
Winning time2:13:23
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Hwang Young-Cho
Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea
Silver medal icon.svg Koichi Morishita
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg Stephan Freigang
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
  1988
1996  
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The men's marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was held on Sunday August 9, 1992. The race started at 18:30h local time. One hundred and ten athletes from 72 nations started; 87 athletes completed the race, with Pyambuugiin Tuul from Mongolia finishing in last position in 4:00:44 (the first Olympic marathon runner to finish over 4 hours since 1908). [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Hwang Young-Cho of South Korea, the nation's first Olympic men's marathon medal. Koichi Morishita's silver was Japan's first medal in the event since 1968. Stephan Freigang of Germany took bronze, the first medal for Germany in the event though East Germany had won two golds (both by Waldemar Cierpinski) during partition.

Background

This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1988 marathon included seven of the top eight finishers: gold medalist Gelindo Bordin of Italy, silver medalist Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya, bronze medalist Hussein Ahmed Salah of Djibouti, fourth-place finisher Takeyuki Nakayama of Japan, fifth-place finisher Steve Moneghetti and eighth-place finisher Robert de Castella of Australia, and seventh-place finisher Juma Ikangaa of Tanzania. The world record holder, Belayneh Dinsamo of Ethiopia, did not enter; the 1991 World champion, Hiromi Taniguchi of Japan, did. The field was "very wide open as nobody had dominated the event in the preceding years." [2]

Aruba, Bahrain, Cameroon, Liechtenstein, Mauritania, Mongolia, Namibia, San Marino, Slovenia, and Syria each made their first appearance in Olympic men's marathons; some former Soviet republics appeared as the Unified Team in the team's only Summer Games. The United States made its 21st appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format and course

As all Olympic marathons, the competition was a single race. The marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards was run over a point-to-point route starting at Mataró and finishing at the Olympic Stadium. The course ran along the Catalan coast, finishing with a "brutal" climb of 150 metres up Montjuïc to the stadium. Because of the timing of the race so close to the closing ceremony, an alternate finish line outside the stadium was used for runners finishing in over 2 hours and 45 minutes. [2]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World recordFlag of Ethiopia (1996-2009).svg  Belayneh Dinsamo  (ETH)2:06:50 Rotterdam, Netherlands 17 April 1988
Olympic recordFlag of Portugal.svg  Carlos Lopes  (POR)2:09:21 Los Angeles, United States 12 August July 1984

No new world or Olympic bests were set during the competition.

Schedule

It was a hot day, 27 °C (81 °F), somewhat mitigated by the late start at 6:30 p.m. The schedule put the top finishers in the stadium just before the closing ceremony started, but slower runners could not finish in the stadium due to the ceremony.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 9 August 199218:30Final

Results

RankAthleteNationTime
Gold medal icon.svg Hwang Young-Cho Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 2:13:23
Silver medal icon.svg Kōichi Morishita Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:13:45
Bronze medal icon.svg Stephan Freigang Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:14:00
4 Takeyuki Nakayama Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:14:02
5 Salvatore Bettiol Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:14:15
6 Salah Kokaich Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2:14:25
7 Jan Huruk Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:14:32
8 Hiromi Taniguchi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:14:42
9 Diego García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:14:56
10 Kim Jae-Ryong Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 2:15:01
11 Harri Hänninen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:15:19
12 Steve Spence Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:15:21
13 Ed Eyestone Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:15:23
14 Boniface Merande Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:15:46
15 Bert van Vlaanderen Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2:15:47
16 Rex Wilson Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:15:51
17 Bob Kempainen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:15:53
18 Rodrigo Gavela Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:16:23
19 Karel David Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 2:16:34
20 Leszek Beblo Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:16:38
21 Wiesław Perszke Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:16:38
22 Yakov Tolstikov Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 2:17:04
23 Tena Negere Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg  Ethiopia 2:17:07
24 Osmiro Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:17:16
25 Abel Mokibe South African Olympic Flag.svg  South Africa 2:17:24
26 Robert de Castella Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:17:44
27 Steve Brace Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:17:49
28 Kim Wan-gi Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 2:18:32
29 Isidro Rico Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:18:52
30 Hussein Ahmed Salah Flag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti 2:19:04
31 Dominique Chauvelier Flag of France.svg  France 2:19:09
32 José Montiel Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:19:15
33 Thabiso Moqhali Flag of Lesotho (1987-2006).svg  Lesotho 2:19:28
34 Juma Ikangaa Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 2:19:34
35 Derek Froude Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:19:37
36 Douglas Wakiihuri Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:19:38
37 Ibrahim Hussein Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:19:49
38 Gyula Borka Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:20:46
39 Dave Long Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:20:51
40 Mirko Vindiš Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 2:21:03
41 Paul Davies-Hale Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 2:21:15
42 Elphas Ginindza Flag of Swaziland.svg  Swaziland 2:21:15
43 Rolando Vera Flag of Ecuador (1900-2009).svg  Ecuador 2:21:30
44 Alessio Faustini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:21:37
45 Luis Soares Flag of France.svg  France 2:21:57
46 Paul Kuété Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon 2:22:43
47 Helmut Schmuck Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2:23:38
48 Steve Moneghetti Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:23:42
49 Konrad Dobler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:23:44
50 Ralombo Mwenze Flag of Zaire (1971-1997).svg  Zaire 2:23:47
51 John Treacy Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 2:24:11
52 Herman Suizo Flag of the Philippines (1936-1985, 1986-1998).svg  Philippines 2:25:18
53 Peter Reynierse Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba 2:25:31
54 Nelson Zamora Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 2:25:32
55 Daniel Böltz Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 2:25:50
56 Joseildo da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:26:00
57 Juan Camacho Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 2:26:01
58 Cephas Matafi Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 2:26:17
59 Mohamed Selmi Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 2:26:56
60 Ildephonse Sehirwa Flag of Rwanda (1962-2001).svg  Rwanda 2:27:44
61 Zerehune Gizaw Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg  Ethiopia 2:28:25
62 Jaime Ojeda Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 2:28:39
63 Smartex Tambala Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi 2:29:02
64 Pascal Zilliox Flag of France.svg  France 2:30:02
65 Luis López Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 2:30:26
66 Gian Luigi Macina Flag of San Marino (before 2011).svg  San Marino 2:30:45
67 Abdou Manzo Flag of Niger.svg  Niger 2:31:15
68 Roland Willie Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Liechtenstein 2:31:32
69 Frank Kayele Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 2:31:41
70 Hari Bahadur Rokaya Flag of Nepal.svg  Nepal 2:32:26
71 Kuruppu Karunaratne Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 2:32:26
72 Tommy Hughes Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland 2:32:55
73 William Aguirre Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 2:34:18
74 Ferdinand Amadi Flag of the Central African Republic.svg  Central African Republic 2:35:39
75 Mohamed Khamis Taher Flag of Libya (1977-2011).svg  Libya 2:35:46
76 Dieudonné LaMothe Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti 2:36:11
77 Myint Kan Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg  Myanmar 2:37:39
78 Calvin Dallas Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Virgin Islands 2:38:11
79 Saad Mubarak Ali Flag of Bahrain (1972-2002).svg  Bahrain 2:39:19
80 Ryu Ok-hyon Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea 2:40:51
81 Alain Razahasoa Flag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar 2:41:41
82 Michael Lopeyok Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 2:42:54
83 Benjamin Keleketu Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana 2:45:57
84 Moussa El-Hariri Flag of Syria.svg  Syria 2:47:06
85 Lưu Văn Hùng Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 2:56:42
86 Hussein Haleem Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 3:04:16
87 Pyambuugiin Tuul Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia 4:00:44
Apolinario Belisle Flag of Honduras (before 2022).svg  Honduras DNF
Abebe Mekonnen Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg  Ethiopia DNF
Bineshwar Prasad Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji DNF
Peter Maher Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada DNF
Diamantino dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil DNF
Luketz Swartbooi Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia DNF
John Burra Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania DNF
Dionicio Cerón Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico DNF
Jorge González Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg  Puerto Rico DNF
António Pinto Coelho Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DNF
Gelindo Bordin Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF
Carlos Grisales Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia DNF
Alberto Cuba Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba DNF
Talal Omar Abdillahi Flag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti DNF
Csaba Szűcs Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary DNF
Andy Ronan Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland DNF
Mohamed Ould Khalifa Flag of Mauritania (1959-2017).svg  Mauritania DNF
Tonnie Dirks Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands DNF
Dionísio Castro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DNF
Joaquim Pinheiro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DNF
Jan Tau South African Olympic Flag.svg  South Africa DNF
Zithulele Sinqe South African Olympic Flag.svg  South Africa DNF
Simon Robert Naali Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania DNF
Vladimir BukhanovOlympic flag.svg  Unified Team DNS
Salvador García Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico DNS

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