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Athletics At The 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 Metres
These are the official results of the Women's 1.500 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 .... There were a total of 32 competitors. Medalists Results Heats Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified to the semifinals. Semifinals Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified to the final. Final See also * Men's 1500 metres References External links Official Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics At The 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's 1500 Metres 1 1500 metres at the Olympics 1996 in women's athletics Women's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centennial Olympic Stadium
Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Construction of the stadium began in 1993, and it was complete and ready for the opening ceremony in July 1996, where it hosted track and field events and the closing ceremony. After the Olympics and Paralympics, it was reconstructed into the baseball-specific Turner Field, used by the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball for 20 seasons (1997–2016). After the Braves departed for Truist Park, the facility was purchased by Georgia State University, which rebuilt the stadium a second time as Center Parc Stadium, designed for American football. History During the week-long athletics program, the stadium bore witness to Donovan Bailey of Canada winning the 100 m in a world record time of 9.84 s; Michael Johnson winning both the 200 and 400 metres titles, breaking the 200 m world record in the process; and France's Marie-José Pérec al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Wüstenhagen
Carmen Wüstenhagen (born 15 August 1973) is a German middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 1500 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1973 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics German female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Germany Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century German women {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Huber
Vicki Huber (born May 29, 1967) is a retired United States, American Middle distance running, middle distance and Cross country running, cross country runner. Biography Vicki Huber was born on May 29, 1967, in Wilmington, Delaware. Huber attended Concord High School (Wilmington, Delaware), Concord High School where she began running as conditioning for field hockey. Concord's coach, Joe McNichol, recalled seeing Huber as "el Caballo", a reference to Alberto Juantorena, a Cuban Olympic champion. McNichol said that she "ran exactly like" Juantorena and that she was "a real thoroughbred." Huber won five state titles as a prep athlete, setting state records in the 800 and 1600 meters. After graduating from high school, Huber attended Villanova University, where she continued her running career. Huber struggled at first due to the intensity of the training program. At the time, Villanova coach Marty Stern thought that Huber "was a wimp" and hoped "she'd leave and go home." Although sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Dukhnova
Natalya "Natasha" Stanislavovna Dukhnova ( be, Наталля «Наташа» Станіславаўна Духнова; born 16 July 1966) is a retired Belarusian middle distance runner who mainly competed in the 800 metres. She was born in Yaroslavl, but represented the club Grodno TU. She competed at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships without reaching the final. Her career peaked in the year 1994. She became European indoor champion in 1994, and in the same year she won the silver medal at the European Championships. She also finished third at the 1994 IAAF World Cup. She finished seventh in her special event 800 metres at the 1996 Olympic Games, and also competed in the 1500 metres without reaching the final. She returned with a silver medal at the 1997 World Indoor Championships, a seventh place at the 1998 European Championships and an eighth place at the 1999 World Championships. She also won a bronze medal at the 1995 Military World Games and silver medal at the 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Kühnemund
Sylvia Thier (née Kühnemund; born 25 July 1974 in Sangerhausen) is a retired German athlete who competed primarily in the 1500 metres events. She represented her country at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 1997 World Championships without qualifying for the final. Most of her successes came indoors where she made it to the final at the 1997 and 1999 World Indoor Championships, as well as at the 1996 and 1998 European Indoor Championships. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *1500 metres – 4:05.96 (Hengelo 1998) *One mile – 4:33.28 (Lausanne 1997) *3000 metres steeplechase – 10:25.38 (Hamburg 2002) Indoor *1500 metres – 4:06.56 (Paris 1997) *3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ... – 9:12.50 (Karlsruhe 1999) References 1974 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maite Zúñiga
María Teresa "Maite" Zúñiga Domínguez (born 28 December 1964 in Eibar) is a retired Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ... middle-distance runner. International competitions External links * 1964 births Living people Spanish female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Spain World Athletics Championships athletes for Spain Sportspeople from Eibar Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Athletes from the Basq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandine Bitzner-Ducret
Blandine Bitzner-Ducret (born 1 December 1965) is a former French athlete who specialized in distance races and cross-country. Blandine was born at Strasbourg in 1965. She distinguished herself at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships by winning the world team title in Belfast, along with Yamna Oubouhou-Belkacem, Fatima Maama-Yvelain and Céline Rajot. She also won the bronze medal for team cross country at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, alongside Fatima Maama-Yvelain, Yamna Oubouhou-Belkacem and Rakiya Maraoui-Quétier. At the European Cross Country Championships, Blandine Bitzner-Ducret won the silver team medal in 1995 and the bronze team medal in 1996. In track, she placed sixth in the 5000 metres during the 1998 European Athletics Championships in Budapest. She participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she reached the semi-finals of the 1500 metres. Nationally, she won the title of champion of France in the 1500m in 1993 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cătălina Gheorghiu
Cătălina Gheorghiu (born 21 June 1969) is a Romanian middle-distance runner. She competed in the at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Specializing in the 800 metres at a young age, she won the silver medals at both the 1987 European Athletics Championships and the 1988 World Junior Championships. She also competed individually at the 1987 World Championships without reaching the final, and was on the team that finished sixth in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1988 World Junior Championships. In 1989 she recorded lifetime bests of 2:00.02 minutes in the 800 metres and 4:06.94 minutes in the 1500 metres, both achieved in June and July in Bucureşti. Over the next years, she competed less on the highest international level, but finished sixth at the 1991 Summer Universiade and also competed at the 1995 Summer Universiade. Gheorghiu then returned to the world elite and finished fourth at the 1996 European Athletics Championships, reached the semi-final at the 1996 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Sacramento
Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento OIH (born 10 December 1971 in São Sebastião da Pedreira) is a middle distance runner from Portugal. Biography Sacramento won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships. Sacramento won her first national title in 1986 when she was only fifteen years old. She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long distance running since. Sacramento has run under 2 minutes for 800 m and 4 minutes for 1500 m many times, both of which marks are thought of as benchmarks of world class running. Sacramento competes for the Portuguese club Maratona Clube de Portugal but lives in Madrid. Her family is of Sao Tome SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Mugo
Naomi Mugo (born 2 January 1977, in Nyahururu) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and cross-country running. She was the 1999 winner of the Cross Internacional de Soria competition. International competitions Personal bests *1500 metres – 3:58.12 min (1998) *3000 metres – 8:43.55 min (2000) *5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ... – 15:25.13 min (2000) References External links *Pace Sports Management 1977 births Living people People from Nyandarua County Sportspeople from Central Province (Kenya) Kenyan female middle-distance runners Kenyan female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Kenya Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Borisova
Lyudmila Borisova (russian: Людмила Борисова; born 3 August 1966) is a retired Soviet and Russian runner who specialized in the 3000 metres. She holds the current world record in the rarely contested 4 x 800 metres relay (7:50.17 minutes with Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina and Irina Podyalovskaya Irina Podyalovskaya (born 9 October 1959) is a retired female middle distance runner who represented the USSR in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (1:55.69) on 22 June 1984 at a meet in Kiev. She ...). International competitions References * 1966 births Living people Russian female middle-distance runners Russian female long-distance runners Soviet female middle-distance runners Soviet female long-distance runners Olympic female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games Universiade medalists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Pells
Leah Marlee Pells (born November 9, 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired female track and field Athletics (sport), athlete from Canada who competed in the middle-distance running, middle distance events and was once ranked first in the world in the 1500 metres. She represented Canada at three consecutive Summer Olympics from Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 to 2000. Pells finished fourth in the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres, 1500 metre race in 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta. Pells won the silver medal in the women's 1500 metres at the Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games, 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. Pells published her autobiography ''Not About the Medal'' in 2012. In the book, she writes about being the daughter of an alcoholic, experiencing abuse and growing up impoverished. Pells has one son and now works as a trained counsellor. See also * Canadian records in track and field References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
