Olympedia – Road Race, Women

Road Race, Women

Date	26 July 1992 — 17:30
Status	Olympic
Location	Sant Sadurní Cycling Circuit, Sant Sadurní d'Anoia
Participants	57 from 26 countries
Format	81.0 km. (50.3 miles) mass start race.

Date

26 July 1992 — 17:30

Status

Olympic

Location

Sant Sadurní Cycling Circuit, Sant Sadurní d'Anoia

Participants

57 from 26 countries

Format

81.0 km. (50.3 miles) mass start race.

As always, Jeannie Longo of France was the favorite, hoping to win the Olympic gold medal that had eluded her in 1984 and 1988. Strong competition was expected from the Dutch team, which featured defending champion Monique Knol and reigning World Champion Leontien Van Moorsel . However, Knol and Van Moorsel had a personal feud and refused to work for each other during the race. Near the end of the race, Longo rode with a group of 33 riders when she broke away three kilometers from the finish. She stayed away and at first thought she had finally won her gold medal. But due to poor information from the course directors, most of the pack had missed the fact that Australian Kathy Watt had pulled away from the field at the beginning of the final lap. Watt made this break while the pack was catching an earlier break, and it was not noticed. Watt opened up a big lead quickly and stayed away for the entire final circuit to win the gold medal. Watt was a top rider, having won the 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medal, and finishing third that year at the female Giro d’Italia. Longo was second, ahead of defending champion, Monique Knol, who sprinted to the bronze medal ahead of the pack.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Kathy Watt	AUS	2-04:42	–	Gold
2	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	FRA	–	at 0:20	Silver
3	Monique Knol	NED	–	at 0:21	Bronze
4	Nataliya Kyshchuk	EUN	–	at 0:21
5	Monica Valvik	NOR	–	at 0:21
6	Jeanne Golay	USA	–	at 0:21
7	Kathleen Shannon	AUS	–	at 0:21
8	Luzia Zberg	SUI	–	at 0:21
9	Marie Höljer	SWE	–	at 0:21
10	Sally Zack	USA	–	at 0:21
11	Karina Skibby	DEN	–	at 0:21
12	Alison Sydor	CAN	–	at 0:21
13	Jacqui Uttien	AUS	–	at 0:21
14	Aiga Zagorska	LTU	–	at 0:21
15	Kristel Werckx	BEL	–	at 0:21
16	Zinaida Stahurskaya	EUN	–	at 0:21
17	Valeria Cappellotto	ITA	–	at 0:21
18	Laima Zilporytė	LTU	–	at 0:21
19	Viola Paulitz	GER	–	at 0:21
20	Daiva Čepelienė	LTU	–	at 0:21
21	Catherine Marsal	FRA	–	at 0:21
22	Petra Walczewski	SUI	–	at 0:21
23	Leontien van Moorsel	NED	–	at 0:21
24	Marie Purvis	GBR	–	at 0:21
25	Tea Vikstedt-Nyman	FIN	–	at 0:21
26	Inga Thompson	USA	–	at 0:21
27	Elisabeth Westman	SWE	–	at 0:21
28	Petra Roßner	GER	–	at 0:21
29	Petra Grimbergen	NED	–	at 0:21
30	Joann Burke	NZL	–	at 0:21
31	Kelly-Ann Way	CAN	–	at 0:21
32	Maria Paola Turcutto	ITA	–	at 0:21
33	Marion Clignet	FRA	–	at 0:31
34	Ainhoa Artolazábal	ESP	–	at 0:31
35	Belén Cuevas	ESP	–	at 0:44
36	Maria Hawkins	CAN	–	at 0:51
37	Gunhild Ørn	NOR	–	at 1:04
38	Madeleine Lindberg	SWE	–	at 1:04
39	Roberta Bonanomi	ITA	–	at 1:16
40	Louise Jones	GBR	–	at 3:31
41	Ingunn Bollerud	NOR	–	at 5:00
42	Dori Ruano	ESP	–	at 5:00
43	Barbara Heeb	SUI	–	at 5:00
44	Jutta Niehaus	GER	–	at 5:00
45	Sally Hodge	GBR	–	at 9:28
46	Jackie Martin	RSA	–	at 11:00
47	Yvonne Elkuch	LIE	–	at 16:50
48	Cláudia Carceroni	BRA	–	at 19:10
49	Roz Reekie	NZL	–	at 19:10
50	Yumiko Suzuki	JPN	–	at 24:40
51	Éva Izsák	HUN	–	at 24:40
52	Margaret Bean	GUM	–	at 24:40
53	Pak Chun-Hwa	PRK	–	at 33:56
54	Kim Gyong-Hui	PRK	–	at 35:01
DNF	Svetlana Samokhvalova	EUN	–	–
DNF	Choi In-Ae	PRK	–	–
DNF	Camille Solis	BIZ	–	–

Pos

Competitor

NOC

Time

Margin

Kathy Watt

AUS