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Athletics At The 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 3000 Metres
These are the official results of the Women's 3000 metres event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The final, held on August 10, 1984, was won by Maricica Puică of Romania. This was the first ever 3000 meters race for women at the Olympics. The race is still remembered because of the fall of world champion Mary Decker after a collision with Zola Budd. The winning margin was 3.51 seconds. This was the only time the women's 3,000 metres was won by more than one second at the Olympics. Mary Decker won the first heat to claim the new Olympic record. Maricica Puică improved upon the record in the third heat. South African teenager Zola Budd had obtained British citizenship controversially fast (through an agreement between her father, Frank Budd, and the London ''Daily Mail'') in order to enter the Olympics. The Apartheid government of South Africa had been banned from worldwide competition. Budd, who intentionally ran barefoot, was essentially ...
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Mary Decker
Mary Teresa Slaney (formerly Tabb, Married and maiden names, née Decker, born August 4, 1958) is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner. During her career, she won gold medals in the 1500 metres, 1500 meters and 3000 metres, 3000 meters at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, 1983 World Championships and was the world-record holder in the mile run, mile, 5000 metres, 5000 meters and 10,000 metres, 10,000 meters. In total, she set 17 official and unofficial List of world records in athletics, world records, and she was the first woman to break 4:20 for mile run world record progression, the mile. She also set 36 United States records in track and field, U.S. national records at distances ranging from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, and has held the U.S. record in the 2000 meters and 3000 meters since the early 1980s, while her 1500 meters record stood for 32 years and her mile record stood for 38 years. In 2003, she was inducted into the National Track an ...
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Helen Ritter
Helen Ritter (born 2 August 1957) is a Liechtenstein sprinter. She competed in the women's 200 metres and 400 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics as well as women's 1500 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Maria Ritter is her twin Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.MedicineNet > Definition of Twin Last Editorial Review: 19 June 2000 Twins can be either ''monozygotic'' ('identical'), meaning that they develop from one zygote, which splits and forms two ... sister. References 1957 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Liechtenstein female sprinters Liechtenstein female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Liechtenstein Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic female sprinters Female twins Liechtenstein twins {{Liechtenstein-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Raida Abdallah
Raida Abdallah Bader (; born February 22, 1965) is a Jordanian middle distance runner. She represented Jordan in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She was the first woman to represent Jordan at the Olympics. Olympic participation Bader was the youngest and the only female participant for Jordan in the 1984 Olympics The 1984 Olympics may refer to: *The 1984 Winter Olympics, which were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia *The 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an i ... aged only 19 years and 168 days. She was eliminated in Heat one of the 3000 metres event. References 1965 births Living people Jordanian female athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Jordan {{Jordan-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Roisin Smyth
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Hellen Kimaiyo
Hellen Kimaiyo Kipkoskei (born September 8, 1968 in Moiben) is a retired runner from Kenya. She won many continental competitions. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics aged less than 16 NYC MarathonWomen to Watch and at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She is also a multiple Kenyan champion. In addition, she was a successful road runner. She won the Peachtree Road Race three times a row (1996–1998) and Dam tot Damloop four times a row (1992–1995). Kimaiyo won Zevenheuvelenloop in 1995. She won in 1994. She held the African records for 1500 and 3000 metres. Kimaiyo went to the Singore Girls Secondary School in Iten Iten is a town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the Republic of Kenya and serves as the capital and is the largest town in the county. International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) awarded the town with a plaque recognising Iten as a Wo .... She is married to Charles Kipkorir, who is also a former Kenyan runner. Soon after the 1984 Olympics she became ...
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Jane Furniss
Jane Elizabeth Shields (née Furniss, born 23 August 1960) is a female English former middle and long-distance runner who competed at two Olympic Games. Biography At the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, she won a team gold medal in 1986, team silver in 1984 and team bronze in 1982, and had a best individual placing of fifth in 1984. She also finished seventh in the 3000 metres final at the 1983 World Championships, She represented Great Britain in the 3000 metres at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and in the 10,000 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She represented England in the 3,000 metres event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games The 1986 Commonwealth Games were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 24 July and 2 August 1986. This was the second Commonwealth Games to be held in Edinburgh. Thirty two of the eligible fifty nine countries (largely African, Asian and Caribbe ... in Edinburgh, Scotland. Shields became the List of British champions in 5000 metres, Br ...
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Agnese Possamai
Agnese Possamai (born 17 January 1953 in Lentiai) is a retired middle-distance runner from Italy. Her greatest achievements were the 1985 World Indoor silver medal as well as three European Indoor gold medals. Biography She won eleven medals at senior level (9 individual, 2 team) at the international athletics competitions. Her personal best times are 4:08.84 (1500 metres) and 8:37.96 (3000 metres). She has 60 caps in national team from 1977 to 1988. Achievements National titles Agnese Possamai has won 24 times the individual national championship. *Italian Athletics Championships **800 metres: 1978, 1979 (2) **3000 metres: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 (5) **1500 metres indoor: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986 (5) **3000 metres indoor: 1982, 1983, 1984 (3) **cross country running: 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 (7) * Italian Mountain Running Championships **Mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous te ...
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Dianne Rodger
Dianne Margaret Zorn-Rodger (born 9 November 1956 in Napier, New Zealand) is a New Zealand retired middle-distance runner. She competed in the 1500m at the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 3000 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics and placed ninth in 1984. She married the New Zealand rower Dave Rodger. In 1984, they became the first New Zealand married couple to compete at Olympics. After the 1976 Olympics, she had long breaks from major competitions due to multiple injuries. She recovered by 1982, and that year placed fourth in the 1500m and 3000m events at the Commonwealth Games and finished fifth at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. Zorn graduated from the William Colenso College in Napier, and already at the age 13 qualified for the national cross-country running championships. After marriage, she moved to Hamilton, and often competed in the marathon and cross-country races in the United States. She retired after suffering a stress fracture in 1988, and later gave bi ...
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Joan Hansen
Joan Elizabeth Hansen (born July 18, 1958) is a retired long-distance runner from the United States, who represented her native country in the women's 3,000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in eighth place. Her twin, Joy Hansen Leutner, is a triathlete. Hansen competed in the AIAW for the Arizona Wildcats track and field team, finishing runner-up in the 1500 m at the 1981 AIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships The 1981 AIAW Indoor Track And Field Championships, also known as the EAIAW Indoor Track and Field Championships, were the 4th annual Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team n .... References ARRS 1958 births Living people American female long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for the United States 20th-century American sportswomen Arizona Wildcats women's track and field athle ...
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Aurora Cunha
Aurora Cunha (born 31 May 1959, in Ronfe, near Guimarães) is a retired long-distance runner from Portugal, living in Póvoa de Varzim. From 1984 to 1992 she represented her native country in three consecutive Olympic Games. Cunha's greatest successes were in road running, at which she was a three-time World Champion. She also won several marathons during her career, including Paris (1988), Tokyo (1988), Chicago (1990) and Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ... (1992). International competitions References * 1959 births Living people Portuguese female long-distance runners Portuguese female marathon runners Olympic athletes for Portugal Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Oly ...
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Cornelia Bürki
Cornelia Bürki (born 3 October 1953) is a South African-born retired long-distance runner who represented Switzerland in three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1980, with her best result being fifth in the 1984 3000 metres final. She is a 47-time Swiss national outdoor champion, which includes a fifteen-year undefeated streak in cross country and fifteen consecutive titles over 1500 metres, from 1975 to 1989. She was voted the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 1978. That year, she finished fifth at the 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She was fourth in the 1500m and 3000m finals at the 1987 World Championships. Athletic career Born in Humansdorp, South Africa, Burki moved to Switzerland in 1973. She started with athletics in April 1974. After only 3 months of training, she already represented Switzerland at a match against Italy and France. One year later she broke the Swiss records in the 1500m and 3000m. In 1996, she added the 800m record to her n ...
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