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Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenueEstadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates5 August 1992 (heats)
6 August 1992 (final)
Competitors43 from 35 nations
Winning time3:55.30
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hassiba Boulmerka
 Algeria
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lyudmila Rogachova
 Unified Team
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Qu Yunxia
 China
← 1988
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Official Video Highlights
@ 15:30

These are the official results of the Women's 1500 metres event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of 43 participating athletes. The three qualifying heats were held on August 5, followed by the two semi-finals on August 6. The final was held on August 8, 1992.[1]

This field was stacked with the world championship podium of Algerian Hassiba Boulmerka with Tetyana Dorovskikh and Lyudmila Rogachova, who had represented the Soviet Union, but after the demise of that political entity just over eight months earlier were representing the "Unified Team." Other key competitors look to be '84 silver medalist / 800 metre gold medalist Doina Melinte, and the wild card of 800 meter specialist Maria Mutola moving up in distance. Another wild card were two young Chinese athletes, 21 year old Liu Li and 19 year old Qu Yunxia who had qualified for the final. While the Soviet Union had virtually owned the event for the previous two decades, the Chinese had no history in this event. In the World Championships the previous year, the only, token, Chinese representative finished dead last in her qualifying heat.

This was not going to be a slow tactical final. Rogachova went to the front, quickly marked by Melinte and a third former Soviet, double 1983 medalist Yekaterina Podkopayeva. Left behind at the line, Liu rushed forward on the outside, chased by Boulmerka. In dead last place, Qu had to work her way around PattiSue Plumer and Mutola who had dropped back expecting to pick up the pieces with her finishing kick. Dorovskikh rushed to join the party at the front, followed by Qu who had a noticeably less refined running style, rocking from side to side, looking strained. Boulmerka aggressively stuck behind Rogachova at the front, the only one to break up the Unified former Soviet bloc at the front of the pack. 700 metres into the race, Qu rocked her way past Melinte and Liu onto third place Podkopayeva's back. As the two leaders started to break, Qu followed onto Boulmerka's back. With a lap to go, the field had strung out. Only the remaining green Unified team members were able to struggle to hold on to the three leaders with a gap back to Plummer and Mutola leading the second group. As she was falling back through the field, Melinte walked off the track at the end of the third lap. Mutola launched into what would be a long final kick, but after leaving Plummer, she wasn't making any headway. Down the backstretch, Boulmerka made her one move, accelerating past Rogachova. Rogachova couldn't answer, just holding her same speed. Dorovskikh stuck to Qu's back and made her move for bronze off the final turn. Qu looked at her and sprinted away gaining rapidly on Rogachova toward the finish. Boulmerka celebrated, flexing her muscles while the rest of the field looked exhausted. A little over a year later, Qu would set the world record that would last for 22 years.

Medalists

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Gold Hassiba Boulmerka
 Algeria
Silver Lyudmila Rogachova
 Unified Team
Bronze Qu Yunxia
 China

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record 3:52.47 Soviet Union Tatyana Kazankina Zürich (SUI) August 13, 1980
Olympic Record 3:53.96 Romania Paula Ivan Seoul (KOR) September 26, 1988

Final

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria 3:55.30
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lyudmila Rogachova  Unified Team 3:56.91
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Qu Yunxia  China 3:57.08
4 Tetyana Dorovskikh  Unified Team 3:57.92
5 Liu Li  China 4:00.20
6 Maite Zúñiga  Spain 4:00.59
7 Małgorzata Rydz  Poland 4:01.91
8 Yekaterina Podkopayeva  Unified Team 4:02.03
9 Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique 4:02.60
10 PattiSue Plumer  United States 4:03.42
11 Elena Fidatov  Romania 4:06.44
Doina Melinte  Romania DNF

Semi finals

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria 4:03.81
2 Lyudmila Rogachova  Unified Team 4:03.85
3 Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique 4:04.20
4 Liu Li  China 4:04.35
5 Elena Fidatov  Romania 4:04.55
6 Angela Chalmers  Canada 4:04.87
7 Violeta Beclea  Romania 4:05.46
8 Letitia Vriesde  Suriname 4:09.64
9 Kirsty Wade  Great Britain 4:11.36
10 Maria Akraka  Sweden 4:14.30
11 Anna Brzezińska  Poland 4:15.53
12 Regina Jacobs  United States 4:21.55
13 Marie Pierre Duros  France 4:26.61


Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Tetyana Dorovskikh  Unified Team 4:03.79
2 Małgorzata Rydz  Poland 4:03.83
3 Qu Yunxia  China 4:03.86
4 Yekaterina Podkopayeva  Unified Team 4:03.93
5 Maite Zúñiga  Spain 4:04.00
6 PattiSue Plumer  United States 4:04.23
7 Doina Melinte  Romania 4:04.42
8 Paula Schnurr  Canada 4:04.80
9 Carla Sacramento  Portugal 4:05.54
10. Fabia Trabaldo  Italy 4:06.05
11 Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland 4:06.24
12 Theresia Kiesl  Austria 4:07.46
13 Debbie Bowker  Canada 4:12.50

Heats

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria 4:09.91
2 Tetyana Dorovskikh  Unified Team 4:09.94
3 Paula Schnurr  Canada 4:09.99
4 Elena Fidatov  Romania 4:10.00
5 Carla Sacramento  Portugal 4:10.01
6 Liu Li  China 4:10.08
7 Marie-Pierre Duros  France 4:10.14
8 Maxine Newman  Great Britain 4:15.16
9 Simone Meier  Switzerland 4:15.64
10 Susan Sirma  Kenya 4:17.73
11 Suzy Favor  United States 4:22.36
12 Laurence Niyonsaba  Rwanda 4:24.87
13 Bigna Samuel  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4:33.41
14 Mantokoane Pitso  Lesotho 4:39.96
15 Rosemary Turare  Papua New Guinea 5:10.52


Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Maite Zúñiga  Spain 4:07.82
2 Doina Melinte  Romania 4:08.58
3 Małgorzata Rydz  Poland 4:09.47
4 Lyudmila Rogachova  Unified Team 4:09.54
5 Letitia Vriesde  Suriname 4:10.63
6 Debbie Bowker  Canada 4:11.27
7 Regina Jacobs  United States 4:13.87
8 Sriyani Dhammika Manike  Sri Lanka 4:26.22
9 Carol Galea  Malta 4:33.41
10 Rosalie Gangué  Chad 5:06.31
Ann Williams  Great Britain DQ
Fabia Trabaldo  Italy DNF
Maria Akraka  Sweden DNF
Ellen Kießling  Germany DNF


Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Qu Yunxia  China 4:07.40
2 Yekaterina Podkopayeva  Unified Team 4:07.55
3 Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique 4:07.59
4 Violeta Beclea  Romania 4:07.60
5 Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland 4:07.70
6 Angela Chalmers  Canada 4:07.75
7 Theresia Kiesl  Austria 4:07.81
8 Kirsty Wade  Great Britain 4:08.30
9 Anna Brzezińska  Poland 4:08.35
10. PattiSue Plumer  United States 4:09.47
11 Getenesh Urge  Ethiopia 4:18.09
12 Khin Khin Htwe  Myanmar 4:18.81
13 Brigitte Nganaye  Central African Republic 4:33.57 (NR)
14 Ana Isabel Elias  Angola 4:33.66

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Games: Women's 1500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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