Olympic Games 1984 - Los Angeles

MEN MARATHON - 2:09:21 Carlos LOPES (por)
WOMEN MARATHON - 2:24:52 Joan BENOIT (usa)

The men's marathon was held on Sunday August 12, 1984. The race started at 5 p.m. local time. A total number of 78 athletes completed the race, with Dieudonné LaMothe from Haiti finishing in last position in 2:52:18. There were 107 competitors from 59 countries. Twenty-nine of them did not finish.

Results
1°	Carlos	Lopes	Portugal	2:09:21
2°	John	Treacy	Ireland	2:09:56
3°	Charlie	Spedding	Great Britain	2:09:58
4°	Takeshi	So	Japan	2:10:55
5°	Robert	de Castella	Australia	2:11:09
6°	Juma	Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:11:10
7°	Joseph	Nzau	Kenya	2:11:28
8°	Djama	Robleh	Djibouti	2:11:39
9°	Jerry	Kiernan	Ireland	2:12:20
10°	Rod	Dixon	New Zealand	2:12:57
11°	Pete	Pfitzinger	United States of America	2:13:53
12°	Hugh	Jones	Great Britain	2:13:57
13°	Jorge	González	Puerto Rico	2:14:00
14°	Toshihiko	Seko	Japan	2:14:13
15°	Alberto	Salazar	United States of America	2:14:19
16°	Mehmet	Terzi	Turkey	2:14:20
17°	Shigeru	So	Japan	2:14:38
18°	Ralf	Salzmann	West Germany	2:15:29
19°	Henrik	Jørgensen	Denmark	2:15:55
20°	Ahmed	Salah	Djibouti	2:15:59
21°	Agapius	Masong	Tanzania	2:16:25
22°	Gidamis	Shahanga	Tanzania	2:16:27
23°	Eloi	Schleder	Brazil	2:16:35
24°	Karel	Lismont	Belgium	2:17:07
25°	Allan	Zachariassen	Denmark	2:17:10
26°	Michail	Koussis	Greece	2:17:38
27°	Pertti	Tiainen	Finland	2:17:43
28°	Alain	Lazare	France	2:17:52
29°	Vincent	Ruguga	Uganda	2:17:54
30°	Armand	Parmentier	Belgium	2:18:10
31°	César	Mercado	Puerto Rico	2:19:09
32°	Charmarke	Abdilahi	Djibouti	2:19:11
33°	Øyvind	Dahl	Norway	2:19:28
34°	Derek	Froude	New Zealand	2:19:44
35°	Giovanni	d'Aleo	Italy	2:20:12
36°	Jesús	Herrera	Mexico	2:20:33
37°	Lee	Hong-Yul	Korea	2:20:56
38°	Juan Rodrigo	Camacho	Bolivia	2:21:04
39°	Cor	Vriend	Netherlands	2:21:08
40°	France	Ntaole	Lesotho	2:21:09
41°	Johan	Geirnaert	Belgium	2:21:35
42°	Jacques	Boxberger	France	2:22:00
43°	Marco	Marchei	Italy	2:22:38
44°	Art	Boileau	Canada	2:22:43
45°	Samuel	Hlawe	Swaziland	2:22:45
46°	Baikuntha	Manandhar	Nepal	2:22:52
47°	Ahmed Mohamed	Ismail	Somalia	2:23:27
48°	Chae	Hong-Nak	Korea	2:23:33
49°	Joseph	Maisiba Otieno	Kenya	2:24:13
50°	Bruno	LaFranchi	Switzerland	2:24:38
51°	Dick	Hooper	Ireland	2:24:41
52°	Derrick	Adamson	Jamaica	2:25:02
53°	Claudio	Caban	Puerto Rico	2:27:16
54°	Marc	Agoata	Luxembourg	2:27:41
55°	Wilson	Theleso	Botswana	2:29:20
56°	Chang-Ming	Chen	Chinese Taipei	2:29:53
57°	Alejandro	Silva	Chile	2:29:53
58°	Kim	Won-Sick	Korea	2:30:57
59°	Ruben	Aguiar	Argentina	2:31:18
60°	Sabag	Shemtov	Israel	2:31:34
61°	Vincent	Rakabaele	Lesotho	2:32:15
62°	Marios	Kassianidis	Cyprus	2:32:51
63°	Arjun	Pandit	Nepal	2:32:53
64°	Ismael	Mahmoud	Jordan	2:33:30
65°	Alain	Bordeleau	Canada	2:34:27
66°	Tau John	Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	2:36:36
67°	Patric	Nyambariro-Nhauro	Zimbabwe	2:37:18
68°	Kimurgor	Ngeny	Kenya	2:37:19
69°	Amira Prasad	Yadav	Nepal	2:38:10
70°	Adolphe	Ambowode	Central African Republic	2:41:26
71°	Carloa	Avila	Honduras	2:42:03
72°	Jules	Randrianarivelo	Madagascar	2:43:05
73°	Ahmed Abdul	Lahij	Somalia	2:44:39
74°	George	Mambosasa	Malawi	2:46:14
75°	Marlon	Williams	Virgin Islands	2:46:50
76°	Johnaon	Mbangiwa	Botswana	2:48:12
77°	Leonardo	Illut	Philippines	2:49:39
78°	Dieudonné	LaMothe	Haiti	2:52:18
Did not finish
DNF	Gerhard	Hartmann	Austria
DNF	Bigboy Josie	Matlapeng	Botswana
DNF	David	Edge	Canada
DNF	Omar	Aguilar	Chile
DNF	Domingo	Tibaduiza	Colombia
DNF	Ronald	Lanzoni	Costa Rica
DNF	Filippos	Filippou	Cyprus
DNF	Martti	Vainio	Finland
DNF	Geoff	Smith	Great Britain
DNF	Nimley	Twegbe	Liberia
DNF	Matthews	Kambale	Malawi
DNF	Miguel Angel	Cruz	Mexico
DNF	Rodolfo	Gómez	Mexico
DNF	Cor	Lambregts	Netherlands
DNF	Gerard	Nijboer	Netherlands
DNF	Stig	Roar Husby	Norway
DNF	Awadh Shaban	Al-Sameer	Oman
DNF	Cidálio	Caetano	Portugal
DNF	Delfim	Moreira	Portugal
DNF	Santiago	de la Parte	Spain
DNF	Juan	Trsapaderne	Spain
DNF	Tommy	Persson	Sweden
DNF	Kjell-Erik	Ståhl	Sweden
DNF	Ahmet	Altun	Turkey
DNF	Mehmet	Yurdadön	Turkey
DNF	Wilaon	Achia	Uganda
DNF	John	Tuttle	United States of America
DNF	Rumbanza	Situ	Zaire
DNF	Tommy	Lazarua	Zimbabwe
Did not start
Disqualified

The women's marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held on August 5, 1984, was the first ever marathon for women in the history of the Olympic Games. A total number of 44 athletes completed the race, with Eleonora Mendonca from Brasil finishing in last position in 2:52:19. There were fifty competitors from 28 countries (six of them did not finish). Joan Benoit took an early lead and stretched her 6 seconds lead at kilometer 5 to 51 seconds at kilometer 15. The second pack included Grete Waitz, Lorraine Moller, Sylvie Ruegger, Lisa Martin, Priscilla Welch, Ingrid Kristiansen, and Rosa Mota. Benoit extended her advantage to nearly 2 minutes by kilometer 25 and won the gold medal by 1:26 over Waitz. Mota finished strongly for the bronze medal ahead of Kristiansen. The race is still remembered for the stunning entrance in the Olympic Stadium of Gabriela Andersen-Schiess from Switzerland. She was dehydrated, and dragged herself toward the finish line for the last 400 meters. To many the Swiss runner became a symbol of courage, although she finished in 37th place.

Results
1°	Joan	Benoit	United States of America	2:24:52
2°	Grete	Waitz	Norway	2:26:18
3°	Rosa	Mota	Portugal	2:26:57
4°	Ingrid	Kristiansen	Norway	2:27:34
5°	Lorraine	Moller	New Zealand	2:28:54
6°	Priscilla	Welch	Great Britain	2:28:54
7°	Lisa	Martin	Australia	2:29.03
8°	Sylvie	Ruegger	Canada	2:29:09
9°	Laura	Fogli	Italy	2:29:28
10°	Tujia	Toivonen	Finland	2:32:07
11°	Joyce	Smith	Great Britain	2:32:48
12°	Alba	Milana	Italy	2:33:01
13°	Dorthe	Rasmussen	Denmark	2:33:40
14°	Sarah	Rowell	Great Britain	2:34:08
15°	Sinikka	Keskitalo	Finland	2:35:15
16°	Charlotte	Teske	West Germany	2:35:56
17°	Annemarie	Malone	Canada	2:36:33
18°	Marie-Louise	Hamrin	Sweden	2:36:41
19°	Nanae	Sasaki	Japan	2:37:04
20°	Paola	Moro	Italy	2:37:06
21°	Ria	van Landeghem	Belgium	2:37:11
22°	Carla	Beurskens	Netherlands	2:37:51
23°	Regina	Joyce	Ireland	2:37:57
24°	Marie-Christine	Deurbroeck	Belgium	2:38:01
25°	Maria	Trujillo	Mexico	2:38:50
26°	Bente	Moe	Norway	2:40:52
27°	Mary	O'Connor	New Zealand	2:41:22
28°	Carey	May	Ireland	2:41:27
29°	Francine	Peeters	Belgium	2:42:22
30°	Zehava	Shmueli	Israel	2:42:27
31°	Winnie	Lai Chu Ng	Hong Kong	2:42:38
32°	Monica	Regonessi	Chile	2:44:44
33°	Naydi	Nazario	Puerto Rico	2:45:49
34°	Yuko	Gordon	Hong Kong	2:46:12
35°	Ena	Guevara	Peru	2:46:50
36°	Julie	Brown	United States of America	2:47:33
37°	Gabriela	Andersen-Schiess	Switzerland	2:48:42
38°	Rita	Borralho	Portugal	2:50:58
39°	Maria	Ferreira	Portugal	2:50:58
40°	Maria	Cardenas	Mexico	2:51:03
41°	Maria Luisa	Ronquillo	Mexico	2:51:04
42°	Nelly	Wright	Bolivia	2:51:35
43°	Mary	Wagaki	Kenya	2:52:00
44°	Eleonora	Mendonca	Brazil	2:52:19
Did not finish
DNF	Jacqueline	Gareau	Canada
DNF	Leda	Díaz de Cano	Honduras
DNF	Akemi	Masuda	Japan
DNF	Anne	Audain	New Zealand
DNF	Ifeoma	Mbanugo	Nigeria
DNF	Julie	Isphording	United States of America
Did not start
Disqualified