Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
April 20, 2024
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.
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 courseedit
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]
Recordsedit
These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.
No new world or Olympic bests were set during the competition.
Scheduleedit
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.
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External linksedit
(in French) Marathon Info
April 20, 2024
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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 Men s marathonat the Games of the XXV OlympiadEstadio Olimpico de Montjuic 2007 VenueEstadi Olimpic Lluis Companys BarcelonaDateAugust 9Competitors110 from 72 nationsWinning time2 13 23MedalistsHwang Young Cho South KoreaKoichi Morishita JapanStephan Freigang Germany 19881996 Official Video Highlights Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format and course 3 Records 4 Schedule 5 Results 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksBackground editThis 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 editAs 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 Mataro and finishing at the Olympic Stadium The course ran along the Catalan coast finishing with a brutal climb of 150 metres up Montjuic 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 editThese were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics World record nbsp Belayneh Dinsamo ETH 2 06 50 Rotterdam Netherlands 17 April 1988 Olympic record nbsp 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 editIt 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 Date Time Round Sunday 9 August 1992 18 30 FinalResults editRank Athlete Nation Time nbsp Hwang Young Cho nbsp South Korea 2 13 23 nbsp Kōichi Morishita nbsp Japan 2 13 45 nbsp Stephan Freigang nbsp Germany 2 14 00 4 Takeyuki Nakayama nbsp Japan 2 14 02 5 Salvatore Bettiol nbsp Italy 2 14 15 6 Salah Kokaich nbsp Morocco 2 14 25 7 Jan Huruk nbsp Poland 2 14 32 8 Hiromi Taniguchi nbsp Japan 2 14 42 9 Diego Garcia nbsp Spain 2 14 56 10 Kim Jae Ryong nbsp South Korea 2 15 01 11 Harri Hanninen nbsp Finland 2 15 19 12 Steve Spence nbsp United States 2 15 21 13 Ed Eyestone nbsp United States 2 15 23 14 Boniface Merande nbsp Kenya 2 15 46 15 Bert van Vlaanderen nbsp Netherlands 2 15 47 16 Rex Wilson nbsp New Zealand 2 15 51 17 Bob Kempainen nbsp United States 2 15 53 18 Rodrigo Gavela nbsp Spain 2 16 23 19 Karel David nbsp Czechoslovakia 2 16 34 20 Leszek Beblo nbsp Poland 2 16 38 21 Wieslaw Perszke nbsp Poland 2 16 38 22 Yakov Tolstikov nbsp Unified Team 2 17 04 23 Tena Negere nbsp Ethiopia 2 17 07 24 Osmiro Silva nbsp Brazil 2 17 16 25 Abel Mokibe nbsp South Africa 2 17 24 26 Robert de Castella nbsp Australia 2 17 44 27 Steve Brace nbsp Great Britain 2 17 49 28 Kim Wan gi nbsp South Korea 2 18 32 29 Isidro Rico nbsp Mexico 2 18 52 30 Hussein Ahmed Salah nbsp Djibouti 2 19 04 31 Dominique Chauvelier nbsp France 2 19 09 32 Jose Montiel nbsp Spain 2 19 15 33 Thabiso Moqhali nbsp Lesotho 2 19 28 34 Juma Ikangaa nbsp Tanzania 2 19 34 35 Derek Froude nbsp New Zealand 2 19 37 36 Douglas Wakiihuri nbsp Kenya 2 19 38 37 Ibrahim Hussein nbsp Kenya 2 19 49 38 Gyula Borka nbsp Hungary 2 20 46 39 Dave Long nbsp Great Britain 2 20 51 40 Mirko Vindis nbsp Slovenia 2 21 03 41 Paul Davies Hale nbsp Great Britain 2 21 15 42 Elphas Ginindza nbsp Swaziland 2 21 15 43 Rolando Vera nbsp Ecuador 2 21 30 44 Alessio Faustini nbsp Italy 2 21 37 45 Luis Soares nbsp France 2 21 57 46 Paul Kuete nbsp Cameroon 2 22 43 47 Helmut Schmuck nbsp Austria 2 23 38 48 Steve Moneghetti nbsp Australia 2 23 42 49 Konrad Dobler nbsp Germany 2 23 44 50 Ralombo Mwenze nbsp Zaire 2 23 47 51 John Treacy nbsp Ireland 2 24 11 52 Herman Suizo nbsp Philippines 2 25 18 53 Peter Reynierse nbsp Aruba 2 25 31 54 Nelson Zamora nbsp Uruguay 2 25 32 55 Daniel Boltz nbsp Switzerland 2 25 50 56 Joseildo da Silva nbsp Brazil 2 26 00 57 Juan Camacho nbsp Bolivia 2 26 01 58 Cephas Matafi nbsp Zimbabwe 2 26 17 59 Mohamed Selmi nbsp Algeria 2 26 56 60 Ildephonse Sehirwa nbsp Rwanda 2 27 44 61 Zerehune Gizaw nbsp Ethiopia 2 28 25 62 Jaime Ojeda nbsp Chile 2 28 39 63 Smartex Tambala nbsp Malawi 2 29 02 64 Pascal Zilliox nbsp France 2 30 02 65 Luis Lopez nbsp Costa Rica 2 30 26 66 Gian Luigi Macina nbsp San Marino 2 30 45 67 Abdou Manzo nbsp Niger 2 31 15 68 Roland Willie nbsp Liechtenstein 2 31 32 69 Frank Kayele nbsp Namibia 2 31 41 70 Hari Bahadur Rokaya nbsp Nepal 2 32 26 71 Kuruppu Karunaratne nbsp Sri Lanka 2 32 26 72 Tommy Hughes nbsp Ireland 2 32 55 73 William Aguirre nbsp Nicaragua 2 34 18 74 Ferdinand Amadi nbsp Central African Republic 2 35 39 75 Mohamed Khamis Taher nbsp Libya 2 35 46 76 Dieudonne LaMothe nbsp Haiti 2 36 11 77 Myint Kan nbsp Myanmar 2 37 39 78 Calvin Dallas nbsp Virgin Islands 2 38 11 79 Saad Mubarak Ali nbsp Bahrain 2 39 19 80 Ryu Ok hyon nbsp North Korea 2 40 51 81 Alain Razahasoa nbsp Madagascar 2 41 41 82 Michael Lopeyok nbsp Uganda 2 42 54 83 Benjamin Keleketu nbsp Botswana 2 45 57 84 Moussa El Hariri nbsp Syria 2 47 06 85 Lưu Văn Hung nbsp Vietnam 2 56 42 86 Hussein Haleem nbsp Maldives 3 04 16 87 Pyambuugiin Tuul nbsp Mongolia 4 00 44 Apolinario Belisle nbsp Honduras DNF Abebe Mekonnen nbsp Ethiopia DNF Bineshwar Prasad nbsp Fiji DNF Peter Maher nbsp Canada DNF Diamantino dos Santos nbsp Brazil DNF Luketz Swartbooi nbsp Namibia DNF John Burra nbsp Tanzania DNF Dionicio Ceron nbsp Mexico DNF Jorge Gonzalez nbsp Puerto Rico DNF Antonio Pinto Coelho nbsp Portugal DNF Gelindo Bordin nbsp Italy DNF Carlos Grisales nbsp Colombia DNF Alberto Cuba nbsp Cuba DNF Talal Omar Abdillahi nbsp Djibouti DNF Csaba Szucs nbsp Hungary DNF Andy Ronan nbsp Ireland DNF Mohamed Ould Khalifa nbsp Mauritania DNF Tonnie Dirks nbsp Netherlands DNF Dionisio Castro nbsp Portugal DNF Joaquim Pinheiro nbsp Portugal DNF Jan Tau nbsp South Africa DNF Zithulele Sinqe nbsp South Africa DNF Simon Robert Naali nbsp Tanzania DNF Vladimir Bukhanov nbsp Unified Team DNS Salvador Garcia nbsp Mexico DNSSee also edit1990 Men s European Championships Marathon Split 1991 Men s World Championships Marathon Tokyo 1992 Marathon Year Ranking 1993 Men s World Championships Marathon Stuttgart References edit Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games Men s Marathon sports reference com Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 20 May 2017 a b Marathon Men Olympedia Retrieved 28 August 2020 External links edit in French Marathon Info Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics Men 27s marathon amp oldid 1181847524, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
