Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 kilometres walk

Women's 10 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 3
Competitors	44 from 20 nations
Winning time	44:32 OR
Medalists
Chen Yueling  China Yelena Nikolayeva  Unified Team Li Chunxiu  China

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

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.^[1]

Inside the stadium, Alina Ivanova and Chen Yueling were locked in a tight battle. With 200 metres to go, Ivanova accelerated for what looked like would be a gold/bronze combination for the former Soviet athletes. Chen maintained her pace to stay ahead of Yelena Nikolayeva, sprinting to chase her down, pulling away from Chen's Chinese teammate Li Chunxiu. Well ahead, Ivanova bounded across the finish line in first, but her final sprint only earned her a disqualification. Ileana Salvador sprinted past Li at the line, also earning a disqualification, giving Chen the gold medal and China the gold/bronze combination. Chen also took the Olympic record in the first time Olympic event.

Medalists

Gold	Chen Yueling  China
Silver	Yelena Nikolayeva  Unified Team
Bronze	Li Chunxiu  China

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics
World Record	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	41:30	August 27, 1988	Canberra, Australia
Olympic Record	New Event
Broken records at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Chen Yueling (CHN)	44:32	August 3, 1992	Barcelona, Spain

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Chen Yueling (CHN)	44:32	OR
	Yelena Nikolayeva (EUN)	44:33
	Li Chunxiu (CHN)	44:41
4	Sari Essayah (FIN)	45:08
5	Cui Yingzi (CHN)	45:15
6	Madelein Svensson (SWE)	45:17
7	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	45:23
8	Yelena Sayko (EUN)	45:23
9	Anne Judkins (NZL)	45:28
10	Mari Cruz Díaz (ESP)	45:32
11	Katarzyna Radtke (POL)	45:45
12	Mária Urbanik (HUN)	45:50
13	Ildikó Ilyés (HUN)	45:54
14	Encarna Granados (ESP)	46:00
15	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	46:01
16	Beate Anders (GER)	46:31
17	Beata Kaczmarska (POL)	46:34
18	Andrea Alföldi (HUN)	46:35
19	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	46:43
20	Michelle Rohl (USA)	46:45
21	Tina Poitras (CAN)	46:50
22	Emilia Cano (ESP)	47:03
23	Miki Itakura (JPN)	47:11
24	Yuko Sato (JPN)	47:43
25	Janice McCaffrey (CAN)	48:05
26	Debbi Lawrence (USA)	48:23
27	Victoria Herazo (USA)	48:26
28	Maricela Chávez (MEX)	48:39
29	Pascale Grand (CAN)	49:14
30	Eva Machuca (MEX)	50:02
31	Gabrielle Blythe (AUS)	50:13
32	Betty Sworowski (GBR)	50:14
33	Kathrin Born-Boyde (GER)	50:21
34	Isilda Gonçalves (POR)	50:23
35	Lisa Langford (GBR)	51:44
36	Miriam Ramón (ECU)	51:56
37	Perri Williams (IRL)	54:53
38	Kada Delić (BIH)	55:24
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Alina Ivanova (EUN)	DSQ
—	Ileana Salvador (ITA)	DSQ
—	Susana Feitor (POR)	DSQ
—	Graciela Mendoza (MEX)	DSQ
—	Vicky Lupton (GBR)	DSQ
—	Ma Kyin Lwan (MYA)	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