Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athletics [track and field] at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Dates	July 31 August 9
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	Koichi 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	Olga Bryzgina  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 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 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	Joanet 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[]

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 nations)		43	43	45	131

Participating nations[]

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

See also[]

• 1992 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• Athletics Australia