Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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.

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

Medal summary

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Linford Christie  Great Britain	9.96	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	10.02	Dennis Mitchell  United States	10.04
200 metres	Michael Marsh  United States	20.01	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	20.13	Michael Bates  United States	20.38
400 metres	Quincy Watts  United States	43.50 (OR)	Steve Lewis  United States	44.21	Samson Kitur  Kenya	44.24
800 metres	William Tanui  Kenya	1:43.66	Nixon Kiprotich  Kenya	1:43.70	Johnny Gray  United States	1:43.97
1500 metres	Fermín Cacho  Spain	3:40.12	Rachid El Basir  Morocco	3:40.62	Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar	3:40.69
5000 metres	Dieter Baumann  Germany	13:12.52	Paul Bitok  Kenya	13:12.71	Fita Bayisa  Ethiopia	13:13.03
10,000 metres	Khalid Skah  Morocco	27:46.70	Richard Chelimo  Kenya	27:47.72	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia	28:00.07
110 metres hurdles	Mark McKoy  Canada	13.12	Tony Dees  United States	13.24	Jack Pierce  United States	13.26
400 metres hurdles	Kevin Young  United States	46.78 (WR)	Winthrop Graham  Jamaica	47.66	Kriss Akabusi  Great Britain	47.82
3000 metres steeplechase	Matthew Birir  Kenya	8:08.84	Patrick Sang  Kenya	8:09.55	William Mutwol  Kenya	8:10.74
4 × 100 metres relay	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	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	Hwang Young-cho  South Korea	2:13:23	Kōichi Morishita  Japan	2:13:45	Stephan Freigang  Germany	2:14:00
20 kilometres walk	Daniel Plaza  Spain	1:21.25	Guillaume LeBlanc  Canada	1:22.25	Giovanni De Benedictis  Italy	1:23.11
50 kilometres walk	Andrey Perlov  Unified Team (Russia)	3:50.13	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	3:52.09	Ronald Weigel  Germany	3:53.45
High jump	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	Maksim Tarasov  Unified Team (Russia)	5.80 m	Igor Trandenkov  Unified Team (Russia)	5.80 m	Javier García  Spain	5.75 m
Long jump	Carl Lewis  United States	8.67 m	Mike Powell  United States	8.64 m	Joe Greene  United States	8.34 m
Triple jump	Mike Conley  United States	18.17 m w	Charles Simpkins  United States	17.60 m	Frank Rutherford  Bahamas	17.36 m
Shot put	Mike Stulce  United States	21.70 m	Jim Doehring  United States	20.96 m	Vyacheslav Lykho  Unified Team (Russia)	20.94 m
Discus throw	Romas Ubartas  Lithuania	65.12 m	Jürgen Schult  Germany	64.94 m	Roberto Moya  Cuba	64.12 m
Hammer throw	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	Jan Železný  Czechoslovakia	89.66 m	Seppo Räty  Finland	86.60 m	Steve Backley  Great Britain	83.38 m
Decathlon	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	Gail Devers  United States	10.82	Juliet Cuthbert  Jamaica	10.83	Irina Privalova  Unified Team (Russia)	10.84
200 metres	Gwen Torrence  United States	21.81	Juliet Cuthbert  Jamaica	22.02	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.09
400 metres	Marie-José Pérec  France	48.83	Olha Bryzhina  Unified Team (Ukraine)	49.05	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	49.64
800 metres	Ellen van Langen  Netherlands	1:55:54	Liliya Nurutdinova  Unified Team (Russia)	1:55:99	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	1:56.80
1500 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	3:55.30	Lyudmila Rogachova  Unified Team (Russia)	3:56.91	Qu Yunxia  China	3:57.08
3000 metres	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	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	31:06.02	Elana Meyer  South Africa	31:11.75	Lynn Jennings  United States	31:19.89
100 metres hurdles	Voula Patoulidou  Greece	12.64	LaVonna Martin  United States	12.69	Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria	12.70
400 metres hurdles	Sally Gunnell  Great Britain	53.23	Sandra Farmer-Patrick  United States	53.69	Janeene Vickers  United States	54.31
4 × 100 metres relay	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	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	Valentina Yegorova  Unified Team (Russia)	2:32:41	Yuko Arimori  Japan	2:32:49	Lorraine Moller  New Zealand	2:33:59
10 kilometres walk	Chen Yueling  China	44:32	Yelena Nikolayeva  Unified Team (Russia)	44:33	Li Chunxiu  China	44:41
High jump	Heike Henkel  Germany	2.02 m	Galina Astafei  Romania	2.00 m	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.97 m
Long jump	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.14 m	Inessa Kravets  Unified Team (Ukraine)	7.12 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	7.07 m
Shot put	Svetlana Krivelyova  Unified Team (Russia)	21.06 m	Huang Zhihong  China	20.47 m	Kathrin Neimke  Germany	19.78 m
Discus throw	Maritza Martén  Cuba	70.06 m	Tsvetanka Khristova  Bulgaria	67.78 m	Daniela Costian  Australia	66.24 m
Javelin throw	Silke Renk  Germany	68.34 m	Natalya Shikolenko  Unified Team (Belarus)	68.26 m	Karen Forkel  Germany	66.86 m
Heptathlon	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