Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

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 marathon
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Estadio Olimpico de Montjuic (2007)
VenueEstadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona
DateAugust 9
Competitors110 from 72 nations
Winning time2:13:23
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hwang Young-Cho
 South Korea
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Koichi Morishita
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Stephan Freigang
 Germany
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Background

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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 course

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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]

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World record   Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH) 2:06:50 Rotterdam, Netherlands 17 April 1988
Olympic record   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

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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.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 9 August 1992 18:30 Final

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Time
  Hwang Young-Cho   South Korea 2:13:23
  Kōichi Morishita   Japan 2:13:45
  Stephan Freigang   Germany 2:14:00
4 Takeyuki Nakayama   Japan 2:14:02
5 Salvatore Bettiol   Italy 2:14:15
6 Salah Kokaich   Morocco 2:14:25
7 Jan Huruk   Poland 2:14:32
8 Hiromi Taniguchi   Japan 2:14:42
9 Diego García   Spain 2:14:56
10 Kim Jae-Ryong   South Korea 2:15:01
11 Harri Hänninen   Finland 2:15:19
12 Steve Spence   United States 2:15:21
13 Ed Eyestone   United States 2:15:23
14 Boniface Merande   Kenya 2:15:46
15 Bert van Vlaanderen   Netherlands 2:15:47
16 Rex Wilson   New Zealand 2:15:51
17 Bob Kempainen   United States 2:15:53
18 Rodrigo Gavela   Spain 2:16:23
19 Karel David   Czechoslovakia 2:16:34
20 Leszek Beblo   Poland 2:16:38
21 Wiesław Perszke   Poland 2:16:38
22 Yakov Tolstikov   Unified Team 2:17:04
23 Tena Negere   Ethiopia 2:17:07
24 Osmiro Silva   Brazil 2:17:16
25 Abel Mokibe   South Africa 2:17:24
26 Robert de Castella   Australia 2:17:44
27 Steve Brace   Great Britain 2:17:49
28 Kim Wan-gi   South Korea 2:18:32
29 Isidro Rico   Mexico 2:18:52
30 Hussein Ahmed Salah   Djibouti 2:19:04
31 Dominique Chauvelier   France 2:19:09
32 José Montiel   Spain 2:19:15
33 Thabiso Moqhali   Lesotho 2:19:28
34 Juma Ikangaa   Tanzania 2:19:34
35 Derek Froude   New Zealand 2:19:37
36 Douglas Wakiihuri   Kenya 2:19:38
37 Ibrahim Hussein   Kenya 2:19:49
38 Gyula Borka   Hungary 2:20:46
39 Dave Long   Great Britain 2:20:51
40 Mirko Vindiš   Slovenia 2:21:03
41 Paul Davies-Hale   Great Britain 2:21:15
42 Elphas Ginindza   Swaziland 2:21:15
43 Rolando Vera   Ecuador 2:21:30
44 Alessio Faustini   Italy 2:21:37
45 Luis Soares   France 2:21:57
46 Paul Kuété   Cameroon 2:22:43
47 Helmut Schmuck   Austria 2:23:38
48 Steve Moneghetti   Australia 2:23:42
49 Konrad Dobler   Germany 2:23:44
50 Ralombo Mwenze   Zaire 2:23:47
51 John Treacy   Ireland 2:24:11
52 Herman Suizo   Philippines 2:25:18
53 Peter Reynierse   Aruba 2:25:31
54 Nelson Zamora   Uruguay 2:25:32
55 Daniel Böltz   Switzerland 2:25:50
56 Joseildo da Silva   Brazil 2:26:00
57 Juan Camacho   Bolivia 2:26:01
58 Cephas Matafi   Zimbabwe 2:26:17
59 Mohamed Selmi   Algeria 2:26:56
60 Ildephonse Sehirwa   Rwanda 2:27:44
61 Zerehune Gizaw   Ethiopia 2:28:25
62 Jaime Ojeda   Chile 2:28:39
63 Smartex Tambala   Malawi 2:29:02
64 Pascal Zilliox   France 2:30:02
65 Luis López   Costa Rica 2:30:26
66 Gian Luigi Macina   San Marino 2:30:45
67 Abdou Manzo   Niger 2:31:15
68 Roland Willie   Liechtenstein 2:31:32
69 Frank Kayele   Namibia 2:31:41
70 Hari Bahadur Rokaya   Nepal 2:32:26
71 Kuruppu Karunaratne   Sri Lanka 2:32:26
72 Tommy Hughes   Ireland 2:32:55
73 William Aguirre   Nicaragua 2:34:18
74 Ferdinand Amadi   Central African Republic 2:35:39
75 Mohamed Khamis Taher   Libya 2:35:46
76 Dieudonné LaMothe   Haiti 2:36:11
77 Myint Kan   Myanmar 2:37:39
78 Calvin Dallas   Virgin Islands 2:38:11
79 Saad Mubarak Ali   Bahrain 2:39:19
80 Ryu Ok-hyon   North Korea 2:40:51
81 Alain Razahasoa   Madagascar 2:41:41
82 Michael Lopeyok   Uganda 2:42:54
83 Benjamin Keleketu   Botswana 2:45:57
84 Moussa El-Hariri   Syria 2:47:06
85 Lưu Văn Hùng   Vietnam 2:56:42
86 Hussein Haleem   Maldives 3:04:16
87 Pyambuugiin Tuul   Mongolia 4:00:44
Apolinario Belisle   Honduras DNF
Abebe Mekonnen   Ethiopia DNF
Bineshwar Prasad   Fiji DNF
Peter Maher   Canada DNF
Diamantino dos Santos   Brazil DNF
Luketz Swartbooi   Namibia DNF
John Burra   Tanzania DNF
Dionicio Cerón   Mexico DNF
Jorge González   Puerto Rico DNF
António Pinto Coelho   Portugal DNF
Gelindo Bordin   Italy DNF
Carlos Grisales   Colombia DNF
Alberto Cuba   Cuba DNF
Talal Omar Abdillahi   Djibouti DNF
Csaba Szűcs   Hungary DNF
Andy Ronan   Ireland DNF
Mohamed Ould Khalifa   Mauritania DNF
Tonnie Dirks   Netherlands DNF
Dionísio Castro   Portugal DNF
Joaquim Pinheiro   Portugal DNF
Jan Tau   South Africa DNF
Zithulele Sinqe   South Africa DNF
Simon Robert Naali   Tanzania DNF
Vladimir Bukhanov   Unified Team DNS
Salvador García   Mexico DNS

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ a b "Marathon, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
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