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. 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.
Medalists
Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markOR olympic recordWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best
Records Standing records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics World Record 2:21:06 April 21, 1985 London, United Kingdom Olympic Record 2:24:52 August 5, 1984 Los Angeles, United States Season Best 2:23:43 April 20, 1992 Boston, United States
Final ranking Place Athlete Time2:32:412:32:492:33:594.2:36:265.2:36:486.2:37:037.2:38:228.2:38:469.2:39:0310.2:39:4211.2:40:1012.2:41:0913.2:41:2014.2:41:4815.2:42:4516.2:42:5517.2:44:3218.2:46:1419.2:46:1820.2:46:4421.2:47:1722.2:47:2723.2:50:0924.2:53:3025.2:54:2126.2:54:3327.2:54:4128.2:56:4629.2:58:1830.2:58:2731.3:00:2332.3:01:4633.3:03:3434.3:05:5035.3:14:0236.3:14:4537.3:29:10—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DNF—DSQ
See also 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)
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General Marathon Info