Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's individual pursuit

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.[1]

Medalists

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
 Petra Rossner (GER)  Kathy Watt (AUS)  Rebecca Twigg (USA)

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.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.Notes
1Kathy Watt Australia3:41.88648.673 km/hQOR
2Petra Rossner Germany3:43.09148.410 km/hQ
3Rebecca Twigg United States3:43.21848.383 km/hQ
4Svetlana Samokhvalova Unified Team3:43.32648.359 km/hQ
5Hanne Malmberg Denmark3:45.23047.950  km/hQ
6Jeannie Longo France3:46.93547.590 km/hQ
7Leontien van Moorsel Netherlands3:46.95647.586 km/hQOR
8Tea Vikstedt-Nyman Finland3:47.51647.469 km/hQ
9Kristel Werckx Belgium3:50.05146.946 km/h
10Jacqui Nelson New Zealand3:51.25946.700 km/h
11Seiko Hashimoto Japan3:51.67446.617 km/hOR
12Gabriella Pregnolato Italy3:52.37646.476 km/h
13Aiga Zagorska Lithuania3:52.45046.461 km/h
14Kelly-Ann Way Canada3:54.28446.097 km/h
15Zhou Lingmei China4:04.08544.247 km/h
16Olga Sacasa Nicaragua4:32.67139.608 km/hOR
-Margaret Bean GuamOVTK

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.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.
1Hanne Malmberg Denmark3:46.95947.585 km/hQ
2Svetlana Samokhvalova Unified Team3:47.44447.484 km/h

Heat 2

Pos.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.
1Rebecca Twigg United States3:46.50847.680 km/hQ
2Jeannie Longo France3:46.54747.672 km/h

Heat 3

Pos.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.Notes
1Petra Rossner Germany3:41.50948.756 km/hQOR
2Leontien van Moorsel Netherlands3:49.79546.998 km/h

Heat 4

Pos.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.
1Kathy Watt Australia3:45.30547.935 km/hQ
2Tea Vikstedt-Nyman Finland3:48.91847.178 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.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.
1Kathy Watt Australia3:49.79046.999 km/hQ
2Rebecca Twigg United States3:52.42946.465 km/h

Heat 2

Pos.AthleteNOCTimeAve. SpeedQual.
1Petra Rossner Germany3:48.51747.261 km/hQ
2Hanne Malmberg Denmark3:53.51646.249 km/h

Final

Held July 31

Pos.AthleteNOCTimeAve. Speed
1Petra Rossner Germany3:41.75348.702 km/h
2Kathy Watt Australia3:43.43848.335 km/h

Final classification

Final results
Pos.AthleteNOC
1.Petra Rossner Germany
2.Kathy Watt Australia
3.Rebecca Twigg United States
4.Hanne Malmberg Denmark
5.Jeannie Longo France
6.Svetlana Samokhvalova Unified Team
7.Tea Vikstedt-Nyman Finland
8.Leontien van Moorsel Netherlands

References

  1. ↑ "Cycling at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Women's Individual Pursuit, 3,000 metres". Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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