Athletics 1992

Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held from 31 July to 9 August 1992 at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc.

For the first time in history, women competed in the 10 kilometres race walk.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	12	8	10	30
2	Unified Team	7	11	3	21
3	Germany	4	1	5	10
4	Kenya	2	4	2	8
5	Cuba	2	1	4	7
6	Spain	2	1	1	4
7	Great Britain	2	0	4	6
8	Czechoslovakia	2	0	0	2
9	China	1	1	2	4
10	Canada	1	1	1	3
11	Morocco	1	1	0	2
12	Ethiopia	1	0	2	3
13	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	0	1
19	Jamaica	0	3	1	4
20	Japan	0	2	2	4
	Namibia	0	2	2	4
22	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Nigeria	0	1	1	2
24	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
	South Africa	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
29	Australia	0	0	2	2
30	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
100 m	Linford Christie	Frank Fredericks	Dennis Mitchell
200 m	Mike Marsh	Frank Fredericks	Michael Bates
400 m	Quincy Watts	Steve Lewis	Samson Kitur
800 m	William Tanui	Nixon Kiprotich	Johnny Gray
1500 m	Fermin Cacho Ruiz	Rachid El-Basir	Mohamed Sulaiman
5000 m	Dieter Baumann	Paul Bitok	Fita Bayisa
10000 m	Khalid Skah	Richard Chelimo	Addis Abebe
Marathon	Hwang Young-cho	Koichi Morishita	Stephan Timo Freigang
110 m hurdles	Mark McCoy	Tony Dees	Jack Pierce
400 m hurdles	Kevin Young	Winthrop Graham	Kriss Akabusi
3000 m steeplechase	Mathew Birir	Patrick Sang	William Mutwol
4x100 m	United States Leroy Burrell James Jett Carl Lewis Mike Marsh Dennis Mitchell	Nigeria Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa Chidi Imoh Oluyemi Kayode	Cuba Jorge Luis Aguilera Ruiz Joel Isasi Gonzalez Joel Lamela Loaces Andres Simon Gomez
4x400 m	United States Darnell Hall Charles Jenkins Michael Johnson Steve Lewis Andrew Valmon Quincy Watts	Cuba Roberto Hernandez Prendes Hector Herrera Ortiz Lazaro Martinez Despaigne Norberto Tellez	Great Britain Kriss Akabusi Roger Black David Grindley Duaine Ladejo John Regis Mark Richardson
20 km walk	Daniel Plaza	Guillaume Leblanc	Giovanni de Benedictis
50 km walk	Andrey Perlov	Carlos Mercenario	Ronald Weigel
High jump	Javier Sotomayor	Patrik Sjoeberg	Tim Forsythe Artur Partyka Hollis Conway
Pole vault	Maxim Tarassov	Igor Trandenkov	Javier Garcia
Long jump	Carl Lewis	Mike Powell	Joe Greene
Triple jump	Michael Conley	Charles Simpkins	Frank Rutherford
Shot put	Michael Stulce	James Doehring	Vyacheslav Lykho
Discus throw	Romas Ubartas	Jurgen Schult	Roberto Moya
Hammer throw	Andrey Abduvaliyev	Igor Astapkovich	Igor Nikulin
Javelin throw	Jan Zelezny	Seppo Raty	Steve Backley
Decathlon	Robert Zmelik	Antonio Penalver	David Johnson

Women

Event
100 m	Gail Devers	Juliet Cuthbert	Irina Privalova
200 m	Gwen Torrence	Juliet Cuthbert	Merlene Ottey
400 m	Marie-Jose Perec	Olga Bryzgina	Ximena Restrepo Gaviria
800 m	Ellen van Langen	Lilia Nurutdinova	Ana Fidelia Quirot Moret
1500 m	Hassiba Boulmerka	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Qu Yunxia
3000 m	Elena Romanova	Tatiana Dorovskikh	Angela Chalmers
10000 m	Derartu Tulu	Elana Meyer	Lynn Jennings
Marathon	Valentina Yegorova	Yuko Arimori	Lorraine Moller
100 m hurdles	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Lavonna Martin	Yordanka Donkova
400 m hurdles	Sally Gunnell	Sandra Farmer-Patrick	Janeene Vickers
4x100 m	United States Evelyn Ashford Michelle Finn Carlette Guidry Esther Jones Gwen Torrence	Unified Team Olga Bogoslovskaya Galina Malchugina Irina Privalova Marina Trandenkova	Nigeria Faith Idehen Mary Onyali Charity Opara-Thompson Beatrice Utondu
4x400 m	Unified Team Olga Bryzgina Lioudmila Dzhigalova Olga Nazarova Lilia Nurutdinova Yelena Ruzina Marina Shmonina	United States Denean Hill Natasha Kaiser Jearl Miles Rochelle Stevens Gwen Torrence Dannette Young	Great Britain Sandra Douglas Sally Gunnell Phylis Smith Jennifer Stoute
10 km walk	Chen Yueling	Elena Nikolaeva	Li Chunxiu
High jump	Heike Henkel	Galina Astafei	Joanet Quintero
Long jump	Heike Drechsler	Inessa Kravets	Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Shot put	Svetlana Kriveleva	Huang Zhihong	Kathrin Neimke
Discus throw	Maritza Marten	Tsvetanka Khristova	Daniela Costian
Javelin throw	Silke Renk	Natalya Shikolenko	Karen Forkel
Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Irina Belova	Sabine Braun

Trivia

• There were 1725 total athletes from 156 countries.
• Leonie Mani was the youngest participant with 15 years and 78 days.
• Luis Lopez Roger was the oldest participant with 43 years and 26 days.
• 42 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony, the highest number out of all sports.
• United States won 30 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Unified Team won 21 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Morocco won 2 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Kenya won its only 8 medals of Barcelona 1992.
• Jamaica won its only 4 medals of Barcelona 1992.
• Ethiopia won its only 3 medals of Barcelona 1992.
• Bahamas and Colombia won their only medal of Barcelona 1992.
• Spain won their first-ever 2 gold medals in the sport.
• Algeria, China, and South Korea won their first-ever gold medal in the sport.
• Bahamas and Lithuania won their first-ever medal in the sport.
• Namibia and Qatar won their first-ever Olympic medals.
• South Africa won its first medal in the sport since the post-apartheid era.
• Japan won its first 2 medals in the sport since Mexico City 1968.
• Greece won its first medal in the sport since Melbourne 1956.
• France and Netherlands won their first gold medal in the sport since Los Angeles 1984.

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