Estonia at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Estonia at the 1992 Summer Olympics
IOC code	EST
NOC	Estonian Olympic Committee
Website	www.eok.ee  (in Estonian)
in Barcelona
Competitors	37 (33 men and 4 women) in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Heino Lipp
Medals Ranked 34th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 2
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Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1908–1912)   Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Estonia competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first Olympiad after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Estonia was one of three ex-Soviet republics to compete individually, with Latvia and Lithuania being the other two, instead of competing on the Unified Team. 37 competitors, 33 men and 4 women, took part in 35 events in 13 sports. ^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Erika Salumäe	Cycling	Women's sprint	31 July
Bronze	Tõnu Tõniste Toomas Tõniste	Sailing	Men's 470	3 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ^[2]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	1	0	1
Athletics	4	1	5
Canoeing	1	0	1
Cycling	2	1	3
Fencing	2	0	2
Judo	1	0	1
Modern pentathlon	1	–	1
Rowing	7	0	7
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	2	1	3
Swimming	4	0	4
Table tennis	1	0	1
Wrestling	4	–	4
Total	33	4	37

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Estonia sent one man to its first independent Olympic archery competition. He did not qualify for the elimination rounds.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Rank
Raul Kivilo	Individual	1245	52	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Valeri Bukrejev	Men's pole vault	5.50	18	Did not advance
Jüri Tamm	Men's hammer throw	78.16	4 Q	77.52	5

Combined events – Men's decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	100H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Andrei Nazarov	Result	11.03	7.13	13.11	2.09	49.03	14.60	44.58	4.80	54.56	4:26.19	8052	14
	Points	854	845	674	887	860	899	758	849	656	770
Erki Nool	Result	11.08	7.79	12.14	1.97	49.76	15,95	35.42	5.00	NM	DNS	DNF
	Points	843	1007	615	776	826	738	572	910	0	0

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Anu Kaljurand	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.81	6	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Anu Kaljurand	Result	13.64	1.73	12.83	25.29	6.35	47.42	2:19.61	6095	17
	Points	1030	891	716	860	959	810	829

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tiit Tikerpe	C-1 500 m	1.57,95	4 Q	1.56,24	2 Q	2.06,24	9	Did not advance
	C-1 1000 m	4.14,73	5 Q	4.05,05	3 Q	DQ		Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Three cyclists, two men and one woman, represented Estonia in 1992. Erika Salumäe won gold in the women's sprint.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lauri Aus	Men's road race	4:35.56	5
Raido Kodanipork		4:35.56	9

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round	Repechage	Quarter-finals	Classification 5–8	Semifinals	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Erika Salumäe	Women's individual sprint	11.857	6 Q	Neumann  (GER)   Larreal  (VEN) W 12.377	—	Yenyukhina  (EUN) W 12.192 12.090	—	Ballanger  (FRA) W 11.937 12.423	Neumann  (GER) W 12.667 12.24

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Two male fencers represented Estonia in 1992.

Men

Individual

Athlete	Event	Elimination Round	Round I	Repechage Round I	Round II	Repechage Round II	Round III	Repechage Round III	Round IV	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kaido Kaaberma	Individual épée	13 Q	Handry Lenzun (INA) W 5:1;1:5;5:3	BYE	Lee Sang-ki  (KOR) W 5:2;5:3	BYE	Fernando de la Peña  (ESP) W 6:4;6:5	BYE	Éric Srecki  (FRA) W 5:3;3:5;6:5	Mauricio Rivas  (COL) W 5:3;5:3	Éric Srecki  (FRA) L 2:5;3:5	Jean-Michel Henry  (FRA) L 5:2;2:5;3:5	4
Viktor Zuikov		38 Q	Szerhij Kravcsuk  (EUN) L 5:6;4:6	Did not advance									39

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Repechage Final	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Indrek Pertelson	−95 kg	BYE	Raymond Stevens  (GBR) L 0001–0000	—			BYE	Radu Ivan  (ROU) W 1000–0000	Belarmino Salgado Martinez  (CUB) W 1000–0000	Robert Van De Walle  (BEL) W 1000–0000	Theo Meijer  (NED) L 0000–0100	5

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented Estonia in 1992.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)	Fencing (épée one touch)	Swimming (200 m freestyle)	Riding (show jumping)	Running (3000 m)	Total points	Final rank
		Points	Points	Points	Points	Points
Imre Tiidemann	Men's	1030	796	1208	1276	670	4980	39

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals C-D		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jüri Jaanson	Single sculls	6.59,14	2 R	7.05,52	1 Q	—		6.53,40	2 Q	7.12,92	5
Roman Lutoškin Priit Tasane	Men's double sculls	6.44,79	4 R	6.38,58	2 Q	—		6.21,43	2 Q	6.21,43	4
Marek Avamere Vjatšeslav Divonin Toomas Vilpart Tarmo Virkus	Men's coxless four	6.27,97	5 R	6.30,63	5 Q	—				6.38,76	14

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Kaijo Kuusing	Lechner A-390	PMS	17	8	22	24	22	21	20	16	29	233	21
Tõnu Tõniste Toomas Tõniste	470	10	11	7	4	6	28	2	—			68,70

Women

Athlete	Event	Race										Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Krista Kruuv	Europe	3	8	3	9	9	6	16	—			67,10	6

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Inna Rose	25 m pistol	567	35	Did not advance
	10 m air pistol	376	21	Did not advance

Open

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Andrei Inešin	Skeet	145	25	Did not advance
Peeter Päkk		144	33	Did not advance
Urmas Saaliste	Trap	137	39	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final B		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ilmar Ojase	100 m backstroke	57.08	20	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:05.76	30	Did not advance
Marco Pachel	100 m breaststroke	1:03.40	19	Did not advance
Indrek Sei	50 m freestyle	23.68	31	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	51.47	32	Did not advance
Aldo Suurväli	100 m butterfly	55.78	30	Did not advance
Ilmar Ojase Marco Pachel Aldo Suurväli Indrek Sei	4 × 100 m Medley Relay	3:46.87	15	—		Did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Igor Solopov	Men's singles	Kang Hee-Chan  (KOR) L 0–2	Mourad Sta  (TUN) W 2–0	Jan-Ove Waldner  (SWE) L 0–2	3	Did not advance

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Küllo Kõiv	−68 kg	Georg Schwabenland  (GER) L 2–4	Ko Young-ho  (KOR) L 1–3	—				8	Did not advance
Arvi Aavik	−100 kg	Manabu Nakanishi  (JPN) W 4–0	Subhash Verma  (IND) L 0–3	Heiko Balz  (GER) L 0–3	Kazem Gholami  (IRI) L 4–8	—		6	Did not advance

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool							Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Rank	Final round Result	Rank
Valeri Nikitin	−68 kg	Kim Sung-Moon  (KOR) W 9–6	Abdollah Chamangoli  (IRN) L 5–7	Islam Dugushiev  (EUN) L 0–4	—			7	Did not advance
Helger Hallik	−100 kg	Jörgen Olsson  (SWE) W 1–0	BYE	Andrzej Wroński  (POL) L 0–2	Dennis Koslowski  (USA) L 0–2	—		5	Miloš Govedarica  (IOP) L 0–2	10

Remarks

• Wrestler Andreas Steinbach, born in Tartu, Estonia, competed for   Germany  (GER) (→ 5th place )

References

1. "Estonia at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
2. Estonia at the 1992 Summer Olympics

External links

• EOK – Barcelona 1992 (in Estonian)