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1992: Shower of surprises soaked the tracks
NEW YORK. Dec 18: It was Sergi Bubka's year. Just not his Olympics. Katrin Krabbe didn't get to the
Olympics. And the American team that did won its most medals in a boycott-free Games since 1956, reports AP.
The Americans' 30-medal Olympic haul was achieved during an unpredictable Games tn which such overwhelming favourites as Bubka, 1,500-meter world record-holder Noureddine Morccii of Algeria. 200-meter runner Michael Johnson of the United States and 1 10-meter hurdler Colin Jackson of Britain didn't even win a medal.
Meanwhile, three nations which never had won track and field gold medals got their first — Spain, with Fermin Cacho in the men's 1,500: Algeria, with Hassiba Boul-merka In the women's 1,500, and South Korea, with Hwang Young- Jo In the men's marathon.
Furthermore, -Greece won thetr first women's gold medal, as Paraskeyi Patoulldou, who never had been world ranked and could do no better than fifth at the Balkan Games, . took the women's 100-meter hurdles. Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu became the first black woman champion from an African nation, winning the 10,000 meters.
And South Africa, back in thc Olympics after being banned for 32 years because of its racial policies,*-collccted one medal, a silver, by Elana Meyer, in the women's 10,000.
Three world records were broken al thc Games, all by American men.
Thc most shocking came in the men's. 400 hurdles, as Kevin Young shattered Edwin Moses' 9-year-old record of 47.02 seconds, winning in 46.78.
The other two were in the relays. The team of Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell and Carl Lewis won the 400 1n 37.40, breaking the mark of 37.50, set a year earlier with a U.S learn also anchored by Lewis. And Andrew Valmon. Quincy Walls. Johnson and Steve jz-wts Ux>k, thc 1.600 tn 2:55.74. craving thc record of 2:56.16 set by US teams at the 1968 and 1988 Games
Carl Lewis, after failing to make the US team in the 100 and 200 because he was competing with a severe virus at thc trials, beat world record-holder Mike Powell in the long Jump, giving Lewis eight gold medals and one silver tn nine Olympic finals over three Games.
Marsh and Watts also won gold medals. Marsh in the 200 in 20.01, after missing the world record of 19.72 by onehundredth of a second tn the semifinals, and Watts tn the 400, running an Olympic record 43.71 in the semifinals and breaking it in the final with 43.50.
Other surprise men's winners included Britain's 32-year-old Linford Christie, the oldest ever to take the 100; Germany's Dieter Buamann in the 5.000, as he upset the favoured Africans; Canada’s Mark McKoy, who was suspended after leaving the '88 Games following the Ben Johnson disqualification, in
400-meter relay team.
There was no major doping scandal at the Games similar to the Ben Johnson furor In 1988, but drugs, .however, were prominent throughout the rest of the year.
The biggest offender, caught was Germany's Krabbe, the 1991 world champion in the women's 100 and 200.
Butch Reynolds, the world record-holder at 400 meters, had his two-year suspension extended 4 1/2 months after ’ defying an International Amateur Athletic Federation edict and competing In thc US Olympic Trials.
World records also abounded throughout the year.
Bubka vindicated himself for his Olympic flop by breaking his world pole vault record four times, three times outdoors and once indoors, raising both marks to 6.13 meters (20 fcct-1 1/4 inches).
■ Morceli also redeemed himself for his Olympic failure, lowering thc world 1,500-
There were several notable retirements during the year.
Among them were Britain's Daley Thompson, two-time Olympic decathlon gold medalist and former world recordholder; New Zealander John Walker, 1976 Olympic gold medalist at 1,500 meters and thc first to break 3:50 in the mile; Britain's Fatima Whitbread. former world record -holder and world champion in thc women's Javelin; 1984' women's Olympic shot put! champion Claudia Losch of Germany; American 110-meteil hurdler Tonie Campbell; New. Zealand distance runner Anec; Audain; German 400 hurdler< Sabine Busch; Swiss distance! runner Markus Ryffel; Finnish! 1 10 hurdler Arto Bryggare,; and Canadian sprinter Atlee; Mahorn.
Winners of the big mara-1 thpns were Kenya’s Ibrahim! Hussein and Russia’s Olga; Markova at Boston, and South; Africa's Willie Mtolo and* Ondlekl at New York.
thc 110 hurdles, and Maksim Tarasov of ihc Unified Team In the pole vault, after Bubka failed to clear a height.
Also. Mike Sluice of thc Untied States tn thc Shot put. leading a I -2-3 finish by athletes who all came off drug suspensions early in the year, and Robert Zmelik of Czechoslovakia In the decathlon. after Dan O'Brien failed to make the US team and Dave Johnson, competing with a stress fracture of the ankle, finished third.
The women's competition also produced some unexpected winners.
They included hurdles , specialist Gal Devers of the United States in thc 100. and Valentina Ycgorova ’of the Unified Team in the marathon, as favourities Wanda Panfil of Poland finished 22nd and Lisa Ondieki of Australia dropped out
Jackie Joyncr-Kcrscc of the United States won her second straight heptathlon gold, but couldn't successfully defend her long Jump title, placing third, beaten by long-time rival Heike Drechsler of Germany.
Evelyn Ashford won her fourth Olympic gold, equalling the all-time women's record. She led off thc winning US
meter record to three .minutes. 28.86 seconds. O’Brien, instead of a possible Olytnpic medal, settled for thc world decathlon record with 8,891 points.
Moses Kiptanul, surprisingly kept off Kenya's Olympic team, set two world records within three days following the Games. First, he set the 3,000-meter mark (7:28.96). then the 3.000-meter steeplechase record (8:05.35).
Powell, with a leap of 8.99 (29-6). and Drechsler, who soared 7.63 125-0 1-2), had the best long Jumps ever, but neither was acceptable for a world record because they were wind-aided. Czechoslovakia's Jan Zelezny, thc Olympic Javelin gold medalist with a Game's record 89.66 (204-2) surpassed the world record earlier with a heave of 94.74 (310-10), but it was disallowed because he used an Improper Implement. The record of 91.78 (301-1) was set early in thc year by Britain's Steve Backlcy.
American Mike Conley set an Olympic triple Jump record of 17.63 (57-10 1-4) and won with a wind-aided 18.17 (59-7 1-2). the second-longest Jump