The Women's 10 km Walk at the 1992 Summer Olympics was held on August 3, 1992, in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 44 competitors, with six athletes who were disqualified.

Inside the stadium, Alina Ivanova of the Unified Team and Chen Yueling of China were locked in a tight battle. With 200 metres to go, Ivanova accelerated, and began sprinting for what looked like would be a gold/bronze combination for the former Soviet athletes as Chen maintained her pace to stay ahead of Yelena Nikolayeva and Chen's teammate Li Chunxiu.

Ivanova crossed the finish line in first, but her final sprint saw her confronted by officials and disqualified as replays showed conclusively both her feet off the ground during this burst; in the midst of this, Ileana Salvador of Italy sprinted past Li at the line, and she too was disqualified.

This gave Chen the gold medal and Li the bronze, while Chen also took the inaugural Olympic record.

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 41:30 August 27, 1988 Canberra, Australia Olympic Record New EventBroken records at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic Record 44:32 August 3, 1992 Barcelona, Spain

Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote 44:32 OR 44:33 44:41 4 45:08 5 45:15 6 45:17 7 45:23 8 45:23 9 45:28 10 45:32 11 45:45 12 45:50 13 45:54 14 46:00 15 46:01 16 46:31 17 46:34 18 46:35 19 46:43 20 46:45 21 46:50 22 47:03 23 47:11 24 47:43 25 48:05 26 48:23 27 48:26 28 48:39 29 49:14 30 50:02 31 50:13 32 50:14 33 50:21 34 50:23 35 51:44 36 51:56 37 54:53 38 55:24 DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)— DSQ— DSQ— DSQ— DSQ— DSQ— DSQ

See also 1987 Women's World Championships 10km Walk (Rome) 1990 Women's European Championships 10km Walk (Split) 1991 Women's World Championships 10km Walk (Tokyo) 1992 Race Walking Year Ranking 1993 Women's World Championships 10km Walk (Stuttgart) 1994 Women's European Championships 10km Walk (Helsinki)

References

External links Official Report Results