These are the official results of the Women's Individual Pursuit at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The races were held on July 30, and July 31, 1992 at the Velòdrom d'Hortawith a race distance of 3 km. This was the Olympic debut of this event for the women.

Medalists Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Results Q Denotes qualified for next round. q Denotes qualified for classification round. OVTK Denotes overtaken by opponent during heat. CAP Denotes captured your opponent. DNS Denotes did not start. WR Denotes New world record. OR Denotes New Olympic record

Qualifying round Held, July 30

The seventeen riders raced against each other in matches of two. Qualification for the next round was not based on who won those matches, however. The cyclists with the eight fastest times advanced to the quarter-finals, regardless of whether they won or lost their match.

Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. Notes 1 Kathy Watt 3:41.886 48.673 km/h Q OR 2 Petra Rossner 3:43.091 48.410 km/h Q 3 Rebecca Twigg 3:43.218 48.383 km/h Q 4 Svetlana Samokhvalova 3:43.326 48.359 km/h Q 5 Hanne Malmberg 3:45.230 47.950  km/h Q 6 Jeannie Longo 3:46.935 47.590 km/h Q 7 Leontien van Moorsel 3:46.956 47.586 km/h Q OR 8 Tea Vikstedt-Nyman 3:47.516 47.469 km/h Q 9 Kristel Werckx 3:50.051 46.946 km/h 10 Jacqui Nelson 3:51.259 46.700 km/h 11 Seiko Hashimoto 3:51.674 46.617 km/h OR 12 Gabriella Pregnolato 3:52.376 46.476 km/h 13 Aiga Zagorska 3:52.450 46.461 km/h 14 Kelly-Ann Way 3:54.284 46.097 km/h 15 Zhou Lingmei 4:04.085 44.247 km/h 16 Olga Sacasa 4:32.671 39.608 km/h OR - Margaret Bean OVTK

Quarter-finals Held July 30 In the first round of actual match competition, cyclists were seeded into matches based on their times from the qualifying round. The winners of the four heats of advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Hanne Malmberg 3:46.959 47.585 km/hQ 2 Svetlana Samokhvalova 3:47.444 47.484 km/h Heat 2 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Rebecca Twigg 3:46.508 47.680 km/h Q 2 Jeannie Longo 3:46.547 47.672 km/h Heat 3 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual.Notes 1 Petra Rossner 3:41.509 48.756 km/h QOR 2 Leontien van Moorsel 3:49.795 46.998 km/h Heat 4 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Kathy Watt 3:45.305 47.935 km/hQ 2 Tea Vikstedt-Nyman 3:48.918 47.178 km/h

Semi-finals Held July 31 The winner of the two heats advance to the finals, for the gold medal. The loser with the fastest semi-final time wins the bronze.

Heat 1 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Kathy Watt 3:49.790 46.999 km/h Q 2 Rebecca Twigg 3:52.429 46.465 km/h Heat 2 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed Qual. 1 Petra Rossner 3:48.517 47.261 km/h Q 2 Hanne Malmberg 3:53.516 46.249 km/h

Final Held July 31 Pos. Athlete NOC Time Ave. Speed 1 Petra Rossner 3:41.753 48.702 km/h 2 Kathy Watt 3:43.438 48.335 km/h

Final classification Final resultsPos. Athlete NOC 1. Petra Rossner 2. Kathy Watt 3. Rebecca Twigg 4. Hanne Malmberg 5. Jeannie Longo 6. Svetlana Samokhvalova 7. Tea Vikstedt-Nyman 8. Leontien van Moorsel

References

External links Official Olympic Report