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Host City: Barcelona, Spain

Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the final.

Date Started: August 1, 1992

Format: Top four in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Date Finished: August 5, 1992

Format: Top four in each heat and next eight fastest advanced to the quarter-finals

(Competitors: 41; Countries: 29; Finalists: 8)

Venue(s): Montjuïc Olympic Stadium, Barcelona

Overview by IAAF

Pérec ran the fastest time before the final, clocking 49.48 to win her semi-final from Restrepo and Bryzgina, who both ran 49.76. Richardson won the other semi-final in 50.02. Smith was the slowest qualifier with 50.40, but was off fastest in the final. The field soon caught up, and by 200m Bryzgina was a metre up on Pérec, with the field bunched within 5m. The reigning champion and Pérec drew clear over the third 100m section, with the Ukrainian ahead by half a metre coming into the straight. Pérec, the World Champion, made up the margin quickly, and inexorably drew away to win by 2m from Bryzgina. Restrepo set her second national record in three days to hold off Nazarova for the bronze medal.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The defending champion, Olga Bryzgina, now of the Unified Team and the Ukraine, was back, but the favorite was the 1991 World Champion, Marie-José Pérec. Pérec was French but had been born in Guadeloupe. Both Bryzgina and Pérec qualified easily for the final. The leader around the bend was Phylis Smith of Great Britain. But Bryzgina had taken over by 200 metres. Pérec closed slightly around the final curve but pulled even with 60 metres to go and crept ahead for the gold medal, Bryzgina coming in second. The bronze medal went to Ximena Restrepo, who won the first medal ever for Colombia in athletics and the first by a woman from that country.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	47.60	Marita Koch	Canberra (AUS)	October 6, 1985
Olympic Record	48.65	Olga Bryzgina	Seoul (KOR)	September 26, 1988

		Results

*400 m*	Women	Final	5 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	48.83	Marie-José Pérec	France	FRA	9 May 68
2	49.05	Olga Bryzgina	Ukraine	UKR	30 Jun 63
3	49.64	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	COL	10 Mar 69	AR
4	49.69	Olga V. Nazarova	Russia	RUS	1 Jun 65
5	49.93	Jillian Richardson Briscoe	Canada	CAN	10 Mar 65
6	50.11	Rochelle Stevens	United States	USA	8 Sep 66
7	50.19	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	JAM	6 Nov 68
8	50.87	Phylis Smith	Great Britain	GBR	29 Sep 65
*400 m*	Women	Semifinal 1	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	49.48	Marie-José Pérec	France	FRA	9 May 68
2	49.76	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	COL	10 Mar 69
3	49.76	Olga Bryzgina	Ukraine	UKR	30 Jun 63
4	50.40	Phylis Smith	Great Britain	GBR	29 Sep 65
5	50.57	Jearl Miles-Clark	United States	USA	4 Sep 66
6	50.60	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	USA	14 May 67
7	50.78	Michelle Lock	Australia	AUS	29 Mar 67
8	51.30	Yelena Ruzina	Russia	RUS	23 Jul 64
*400 m*	Women	Semifinal 2	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	50.02	Jillian Richardson Briscoe	Canada	CAN	10 Mar 65
2	50.31	Olga V. Nazarova	Russia	RUS	1 Jun 65
3	50.35	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	JAM	6 Nov 68
4	50.37	Rochelle Stevens	United States	USA	8 Sep 66
5	51.75	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	COL	21 Jan 64
6	51.96	Sandra Douglas	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 67
7	52.09	Renée Poetschka	Australia	AUS	1 May 71
8	52.85	Elsa Devassoigne	France	FRA	17 Oct 70
*400 m*	Women	Heat 1	2 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	50.63	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	COL	10 Mar 69
2	50.68	Olga Bryzgina	Ukraine	UKR	30 Jun 63
3	50.71	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	USA	14 May 67
4	51.41	Sandra Douglas	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 67
5	51.52	Cathy Freeman	Australia	AUS	16 Feb 73
6	52.39	Aïssatou Tandian	Senegal	SEN	29 Aug 66
7	53.55	Jayamini Illeperuma	Sri Lanka	SRI	3 Jul 67
8	54.24	Judit Forgács	Hungary	HUN	25 May 59
*400 m*	Women	Heat 2	2 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	50.95	Jillian Richardson Briscoe	Canada	CAN	10 Mar 65
2	51.27	Jearl Miles-Clark	United States	USA	4 Sep 66
3	51.30	Olga V. Nazarova	Russia	RUS	1 Jun 65
4	51.71	Michelle Lock	Australia	AUS	29 Mar 67
5	52.05	Anja Rücker	Germany	GER	20 Dec 72
6	52.12	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	JAM	17 Mar 70
7	52.34	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	MOZ	7 Jul 73	NJR
8	54.92	Ruth Morris	United States Virgin Islands	ISV	7 Oct 66
*400 m*	Women	Heat 3	2 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	51.32	Phylis Smith	Great Britain	GBR	29 Sep 65
2	51.75	Elsa Devassoigne	France	FRA	17 Oct 70
3	52.05	Renée Poetschka	Australia	AUS	1 May 71
4	52.23	Yelena Ruzina	Russia	RUS	23 Jul 64
5	52.43	Julia Merino	Spain	ESP	3 Mar 71
6	52.84	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	JAM	8 Jan 76
7	53.78	Suzie Tanefo	Cameroon	CMR	22 May 69
8	54.90	Noodang Phimphoo	Thailand	THA	15 Oct 68
*400 m*	Women	Heat 4	2 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	50.70	Rochelle Stevens	United States	USA	8 Sep 66
2	50.76	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	JAM	6 Nov 68
3	50.89	Marie-José Pérec	France	FRA	9 May 68
4	51.65	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	COL	21 Jan 64
5	53.37	Myra Wilkinson	Puerto Rico	PUR	5 May 65
6	53.60	Lorraine Hanson	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 65
7	53.60	Zoila Stewart Lee	Costa Rica	CRC	1 Nov 68
8	53.80	Alimata Kone	Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	22 Jan 65
*400 m*	Women	Heat 1	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	51.41	Natasha Kaiser-Brown	United States	USA	14 May 67
2	52.34	Ximena Restrepo	Colombia	COL	10 Mar 69
3	52.90	Julia Merino	Spain	ESP	3 Mar 71
4	53.69	Juliet Campbell	Jamaica	JAM	17 Mar 70
5	54.37	Ruth Morris	United States Virgin Islands	ISV	7 Oct 66
6	55.09	Prisca Phillips	Barbados	BAR
7	61.97	Fanta Dao	Mali	MLI	7 Mar 73
*400 m*	Women	Heat 2	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	52.56	Sandie Richards	Jamaica	JAM	6 Nov 68
2	52.79	Jearl Miles-Clark	United States	USA	4 Sep 66
3	52.91	Sandra Douglas	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 67
4	54.14	Jayamini Illeperuma	Sri Lanka	SRI	3 Jul 67
5	55.48	Charmaine Gilgeous	Antigua and Barbuda	ANT	17 Dec 71
6	55.49	Shermaine Ross	Grenada	GRN	20 Jul 72
*400 m*	Women	Heat 3	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	52.09	Elsa Devassoigne	France	FRA	17 Oct 70
2	52.44	Olga Bryzgina	Ukraine	UKR	30 Jun 63
3	52.49	Michelle Lock	Australia	AUS	29 Mar 67
4	52.66	Lorraine Hanson	Great Britain	GBR	22 Apr 65
5	52.93	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	MOZ	7 Jul 73
6	53.72	Zoila Stewart Lee	Costa Rica	CRC	1 Nov 68
7	55.75	Mary Estelle Kapalu	Vanuatu	VAN	11 Aug 66
*400 m*	Women	Heat 4	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	51.99	Jillian Richardson Briscoe	Canada	CAN	10 Mar 65
2	52.09	Olga V. Nazarova	Russia	RUS	1 Jun 65
3	52.18	Norfalia Carabalí	Colombia	COL	21 Jan 64
4	52.24	Anja Rücker	Germany	GER	20 Dec 72
5	52.29	Aïssatou Tandian	Senegal	SEN	29 Aug 66
6	53.37	Suzie Tanefo	Cameroon	CMR	22 May 69
7	56.78	Jacqueline Soliz	Bolivia	BOL	22 Sep 64
*400 m*	Women	Heat 5	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	53.59	Phylis Smith	Great Britain	GBR	29 Sep 65
2	53.64	Marie-José Pérec	France	FRA	9 May 68
3	53.70	Cathy Freeman	Australia	AUS	16 Feb 73
4	53.75	Myra Wilkinson	Puerto Rico	PUR	5 May 65
5	54.87	Judit Forgács	Hungary	HUN	25 May 59
6	54.88	Ngozi Mwanamwambwa	Zambia	ZAM	26 Feb 71
7	55.67	Melrose Mansaray	Sierra Leone	SLE	19 Jul 72
*400 m*	Women	Heat 6	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	52.42	Rochelle Stevens	United States	USA	8 Sep 66
2	52.85	Renée Poetschka	Australia	AUS	1 May 71
3	52.94	Yelena Ruzina	Russia	RUS	23 Jul 64
4	52.97	Claudine Williams	Jamaica	JAM	8 Jan 76
5	53.76	Alimata Kone	Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	22 Jan 65
6	54.28	Noodang Phimphoo	Thailand	THA	15 Oct 68
7	63.32	Ruth Mangue	Equatorial Guinea	GEQ	23 Jun 75