Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon

Women's marathon at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona
Dates	August 1
Competitors	47 from 31 nations
Winning time	2:32:41
Medalists
Valentina Yegorova  Unified Team Yuko Arimori  Japan Lorraine Moller  New Zealand
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Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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The Women's Marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain was held on Saturday August 1, 1992. The race started on 6.30 p.m. local time. A total number of 37 athletes completed the race, with Bakombo Kungu from Zaire finishing in last position in 3:29:10. There were 47 competitors from 31 countries. Nine of them did not finish.^[1] The winning margin was 8 seconds.

After finishing fourth, Madina Biktagirova of the Unified Team tested positive for norephedrine and became the first Olympic marathoner disqualified for failing a drug test.^[2]

Gold	Valentina Yegorova  Unified Team
Silver	Yuko Arimori  Japan
Bronze	Lorraine Moller  New Zealand

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Standing records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Olympic Record	Joan Benoit (USA)	2:24:52	August 5, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Season Best	Olga Markova (RUS)	2:23:43	April 20, 1992	Boston, United States

Place	Athlete	Time
	Valentina Yegorova (EUN)	2:32:41
	Yuko Arimori (JPN)	2:32:49
	Lorraine Moller (NZL)	2:33:59
4.	Sachiko Yamashita (JPN)	2:36:26
5.	Katrin Dörre (GER)	2:36:48
6.	Mun Gyong-ae (PRK)	2:37:03
7.	Manuela Machado (POR)	2:38:22
8.	Ramilya Burangulova (EUN)	2:38:46
9.	Colleen De Reuck (RSA)	2:39:03
10.	Cathy O'Brien (USA)	2:39:42
11.	Karolina Szabó (HUN)	2:40:10
12.	Francie Larrieu Smith (USA)	2:41:09
13.	Sally Eastall (GBR)	2:41:20
14.	Ritva Lemettinen (FIN)	2:41:48
15.	Birgit Jerschabek (GER)	2:42:45
16.	Véronique Marot (GBR)	2:42:55
17.	Márcia Narloch (BRA)	2:44:32
18.	Emma Scaunich (ITA)	2:46:14
19.	Odette Lapierre (CAN)	2:46:18
20.	Anna Villani (ITA)	2:46:44
21.	Janis Klecker (USA)	2:47:17
22.	Wanda Panfil (POL)	2:47:27
23.	Bettina Sabatini (ITA)	2:50:09
24.	Alena Peterková (TCH)	2:53:30
25.	Lee Mi-Ok (KOR)	2:54:21
26.	Małgorzata Birbach (POL)	2:54:33
27.	Sally Ellis (GBR)	2:54:41
28.	Pascaline Wangui (KEN)	2:56:46
29.	Yumi Kokamo (JPN)	2:58:18
30.	Addis Gezahegn (ETH)	2:58:27
31.	Janete Mayal (BRA)	3:00:23
32.	Elena Murgoci (ROU)	3:01:46
33.	Vilma Peña (CRC)	3:03:34
34.	Ena Guevara (PER)	3:05:50
35.	Ana Gutiérrez (ISV)	3:14:02
36.	Jen Allred (GUM)	3:14:45
37.	Christine Bakombo (ZAI)	3:29:10
—	Aurora Cunha (POR)	DNF
—	Olga Appell (MEX)	DNF
—	Franziska Moser (SUI)	DNF
—	Đặng Thị Tèo (VIE)	DNF
—	Lizanne Bussieres (CAN)	DNF
—	Maria Rebelo (FRA)	DNF
—	Cornelia Melis (ARU)	DNF
—	Marguerite Buist (NZL)	DNF
—	Lisa Ondieki (AUS)	DNF
—	Madina Biktagirova (EUN)	DSQ

• 1990 Women's European Championships Marathon (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships Marathon (Tokyo)
• 1992 Marathon Year Ranking
• 1993 Women's World Championships Marathon (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Women's European Championships Marathon (Helsinki)

Specific

General

• (in French) Marathon Info