The Closest Ever Women's 100m final at the Olympics - Barcelona 1992 | Throwback Thursday

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Enjoy the review of the Women's 100m Sprint Final at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona (Spain)! It was a head-to-head race between Gail Devers (USA), Juliet Cuthbert (JAM), and Irina Privalova (EUN). Who has made it in the end?
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What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know in the comments below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!

[@Sakshams_]

Sir please upload rio boxing all fainal fight plz🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@shahbazali14]

When Hima Das won

[@sailingintosunshine]

Matthias Steiner winning after the tragic death of his wife and holding her picture in the ceremony

[@aureliofeldman2294]

Maurice Greene winning the 100m dash at the 2000 Olympics and Allen Johnson winning the 110 hurdles at the 1996 Olympics.

[@aureliofeldman2294]

SFP winning the 2008 100m dash at the 2008 Olympics.

[@tia0120]

I guess KZbin will be my 2020 Olympics.

[@litascott3237]

I told my friend the same thing.

[@a55tech]

hope u enjoyed tokyo 2021!

[@randyevermore9323]

Always thought Merlene Ottey was the most beautiful woman in sports. And she continued sprinting at a world-class level into her 50s. Just unbelievable.

[@mohamadoubambaniang7734]

She will remain the Queen of the sprint.. it is sad at the end she was not running for Jaica the terrific Island.

[@CHEETAH69]

Randy Evermore she was spectacular. But she wasn’t “world-class level” in her 50s. I think she was breaking age-group records. But not among the elite anymore.

[@brettwilkinson9529]

I agree entirely. What a spunk !!!

[@jamezkpal2361]

Just spectacular. I met her back in 1982.

[@Luciana-Superluci-Marchi]

She’s a goddess. An amazing career. But always looked not mentally strong enough.

[@muc390]

5 women under 10.90, and with a negative -1.0 wind! Only other time it happened was in 2012. Amazing fact that Gail Devers won 2 olympic golds in the 100m, but 0 in her favorite event, not even a bronze!

[@chibwemasamo6750]

It’s strange but won in the world championships 3 times

[@mianaomipost9885]

She overcame so much for this victory ❤️💯🏃🏾‍♀️💨 Gail will always be one of my favorite runners!

[@prestonmatthews725]

She is mines as well and as a Jamaican I often get in trouble. Lol

[@avagates2039]

@@prestonmatthews725 mines?

[@dr.feelgood.1330]

And she wasn’t favourite for this race but thankfully she won because of her hurdles race which she fell in I was heart broken at the time loved Gail ❤️❤️❤️☘️🇺🇸

[@kenrolston]

Just met Gail Devers at the US Olympic marathon trials in Atlanta 2 months ago. She was running a half/marathon and spoke at a pre race meeting. Wonderful person, full of happiness.

[@tequilashots875]

Too bad there won’t be an Olympics this year.

[@MsSlucyna]

Good for her.

[@wannacdz]

I played in Gail Devers stadium. National City in San Diego California. She’s a hometown legend gold medalist!!!

[@amirhosseinsadeghian]

This must be one of the closest 100 meter races ever.

[@willflo3277]

Hear Hear. I remember that race like it was yesterday. Phenomenal Stuff.

[@henrylister5530]

The women’s 100m the next Olympics was closer I think

[@sir_sack]

@@henrylister5530 literally look at the title lol, unless it’s wrong so idk

[@henrylister5530]

@@sir_sack it is wrong, it was factually close in 1996

[@sir_sack]

@@henrylister5530 I think it is referring to the fact that 5 runners were within a stride, that’s why is said the closest 100m final because over half the race was within a stride

[@timothykang1070]

This was a stacked field. Any one of the top 5 ladies could've won this race. They are all gold medalists in the Olympics or the World Championships.

[@isaz597]

Cuthbert was so underrated. She's hardly remembered

[@Hever73]

She was a very fine sprinter Jamaica has ever produced just before Marlene Ottey, and the others

[@isaz597]

@@Hever73 I don't think Jamaica have had a more complete sprinter over the two shorter sprints. If you know what I mean? Basically she was world class over both sprints & was always capable of medalling in both. Which she did in Barcelona 1992 Olympics with two silvers.

[@RKRKRK78]

She really only peaked for a short period of time, in 1992. Was usually injured. After her injury at these Olympics in the relay, she was never really the same.

[@marshallcampbell6498]

Ottey, what a legend in athletics, nobody stayed on top as long as her

[@rahlohmcdonogh4855]

Top of what?She always lost.

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

You just played yourself boo boo and that person's response shut you down

[@marshallcampbell6498]

Can you lot read?? Ottey ran professionaly from 1978 to 2012 as a professional athlete.

[@rahlohmcdonogh4855]

@@marshallcampbell6498 We can read but obviously you cant count!

[@marshallcampbell6498]

The most decorated Jamaican Olympian of all time

[@xidiamond6851]

GD was the best dipper that won her most of her races.

[@ronaldinan2619]

The closest top 5 ever. Congrats Gail Devers of USA!!!👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@eliteharrington7377]

Gail Devers won the gold medal on that day...congratulations, but Merlene Ottey...😘💓😘💓

[@user-gc3yb7fv1q]

Jamaicans are not only fast, they are pretty too.

[@liberalegypt]

Wow 82 83 84 86 88 ! what a close race with 5 under 89!

[@yendrishernandez174]

Nice to see Liliana Allen from Cuba in the 100 final.

[@cesarmirandaabreu6091]

Aliuska López and Odalys Adams ran the 100 m/hurdless final.

[@mohamednawsar6754]

What a finish .5 in same line

[@jmcd31]

Been to the Olympic stadium 🏟 in the last couple of years when visiting Barcelona. Well worth a visit, along with the museum

[@tiffany3784]

Loving the throwbacks. Love the old school track suits!

[@ormeormeable]

5 women are under 10.90! Great run ever.

[@epluribusunum3596]

Please show one of the most exciting women's football matches ever played in the Olympics between USA and Canada in the 2012 London Olympics semi-final match. Several of the matches of women's soccer from 2012 are already posted on the Olympic channel, but this match has not been posted. It was an intense, back-and-forth nail biter, truly a classic match in women's football history. Thank you.

[@TheTmat007]

Merlene ottey had good top speed. But she needed to work on her start.

[@Hever73]

FREAKING SO SLOW! NO REACTION! THAT'S WHEN SHE REALLY NEEDED TO WIN!

[@neilnelmar8007]

She was able to run her fastest when it matters most

[@multiplemodemsmusicetc]

Plus in those days, nobody spoke about drive phase or execution!

[@agaspalee4939]

My all time Olympics moment is London 2012.... I will cherish those moments for the rest of my life,esp the men 4×1relay finals

[@avahow6208]

Olympics should post the same events but from different olympic years each day

[@zulfikrizulfahmi4658]

Please upload women badminton final, I really want to see my first gold medal for Indonesia and I want to see susi susanti emotional tears

[@kyngnick8723]

Merlene😍😍🇯🇲

[@eliteharrington7377]

I second that 😘💓

[@NevaUndaPressure]

Yes, Merlene was the favorite at these games, loved her camera time from 07:31 - 07:37

[@susanmathai2266]

Wow! You have got to be standing to watch this! Great memory❤️

[@annetteelliott1494]

Gosh these ladies have super figures!

[@stonew1927]

That had to be one of the closest 100 m races in history with the middle 5 women all coming within a half stride of each other while crossing the finish line.

[@lakmalranahansa3519]

Privalova 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 love her. In 2000 this iron women won the girl in 400 hurdles. What a carrier

[@terryhatfield1758]

2023 and still one of my all time favourite 100m races to watch

[@paul2587]

A great bunch of 1990's talent right there! Many of those same finalists would go on to contest the next Olympic final four years later in Atlanta, which Devers would win very narrowly again at the expense of the great Merlene Ottey, arguably the greatest female sprinter never to have won an Olympic Gold. After Atlanta, Irina Privalova, realizing that she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m, went on to retrain for the 400m, for which she won gold at the Sydney 2000 OIympics!

[@RKRKRK78]

A few errors: Privalova moved to the 400mh not the open 400m. She didn't switch because she realized she'd never be able to beat Devers in the 100m. By then, Devers was long gone, Privalova ran 10.83 as late as 1998, but she suffered from a lot of injuries training for sprints and thus moved up. Plus there was Marion Jones.

[@paul2587]

@@RKRKRK78 Thanks for your input!

[@markdrinkwater1508]

I thought Cathy Freeman won the Sydney 400m?

[@Anonymouse-nn9td]

For all those who want to skip the first few parts, the race starts at 3:13

[@seleticativakalakeba7306]

I will never forget that race, Cuthbert was the contender but Gail did it, she had to go to her mx achieving her pb in the process awesome❤❤

[@donnam.5578]

Brings back so many memories, and I saw Patrick Ewing and Magic Johnson in the stands.

[@ja8ames]

This is my favorite Olympic moment of all time.

[@ajrocks12x]

Merlene Ottey is one of my all time favorite runners, but her performances were sometimes rather strange. At the major events when you think she would win, she would provide a subpar performance.

[@ajrocks12x]

@JK Rai I guess. Asafa Powell is another one.

[@prestonmatthews725]

@@ajrocks12x took the word out my mouth. Lol

[@sublimeandcoke]

Couldn't compete with the major doping

[@ajrocks12x]

@@sublimeandcoke Are you aware that Merlene was suspended for PED at least once?

[@gman1474]

I'm not for participation trophies but they should've given out 5 medals for this race

[@andreyshipovalov5186]

Best running of women's. Last fighting between USA and ussr

[@couch.patati-patata]

Ottey was fifth. So sad.

[@kinbruno7524]

Nah she was third bronz

[@gregoryparrish9528]

She was 5th.

[@couch.patati-patata]

Gail Devers, Juliette Cuthbert, Privalova, Torrence, Ottey.

[@showmebear]

If you freeze it at 5:40 Ottey looks so much farther behind Torrence than Torrence looks behind Privalova, but both differences in time are .02. I consider this the best womens 100m race of all time in an Olympic or World Championship final based on the blazing times and the razor-thin margins between the top 5 ladies (all well under 11:00).

[@karanSingh-rl5zt]

Always love to see Olympic Games

[@linrob1312]

John Walker of New Zealand winning the 1500 m...fantastic moment for us. Favourite moment.😊

[@cornellstephenson3057]

My favorite moment was the 2008 women's 4x400 final!

[@adrianotatausilva9596]

The 100m Men Atlanta 1996

[@LyricSkye]

This is how you win with grace. The new generation could learn from this. No yelling, cursing or show boating.

[@Rosannasfriend]

I heard some yelling…

[@666dr]

​@@Rosannasfriendbeat it

[@Happy-dq9iu]

Help! What part of the body must cross the finish line first?

[@boricuafrican1]

torso

[@TheHuskyK9]

Torso/chest

[@Happy-dq9iu]

@JK Rai Why are they allowing Runners to win if they Dive across the line?i

[@samanimations2002]

@@Happy-dq9iu their torso crossed first

[@Happy-dq9iu]

@@samanimations2002 Thanks

[@darylkanofski9327]

At the start when they were calling out the names the cameraman was always at the next lady

[@angelmendez6638]

Me acuerdo de aquella final y me gustaría que hubiera ganado Ottey o Cuberth, entonces eran mis favoritas.

[@multiplemodemsmusicetc]

Yo tambien

[@lucasramos7333]

Great race! Devers was a magnificent!

[@danielrosenke1758]

1996 was actually closer 😂

[@MyWissam]

T2:23 I like the spirit of this Nigerian runner...All power.

[@veronicalee2457]

How about the 1988 Women's 4x100 Meter Relay in Seoul

[@therealsongstress]

Congrats gail ❤️

[@NavneetKumar-wj7zt]

400 MTR 2016

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

If Gail Deaver came in first I guess the white gal and 4 others came in first and three quarters. What a amazing race. I wish I could run even a little bit. It don't have to be far, I'll settle for twenty yards, I mean twenty feet.

[@olukayodetalabi4815]

I see you Mary Onyali

[@raysr5770]

Too! The line!

[@dionthomas5418]

Gail Devers the best of the best

[@rudraprashad]

I have so much respect for Marilyn Otty. She was a very fine sprinter but her luck did not work in Big events like the Olympics. The opposite is Shally-ann, no matter the pace she lost in the normal season but in Big events, her luck makes her achieve peak form. Despite being Jeter in the top form from 2009 - 2012, Shally made all shocked in London 2012.

[@RKRKRK78]

Evidently not enough respect to even get her first name right. Jeez.

[@francisnguyen6349]

Nice running.

[@itsme3246]

Voula patoulidou wining Barcelona’92

[@charles-iii6759]

Anybody, go to Wikipedia and notice how the site refers to Gail Devers as "he." Then they change to "her." I thought it was a [honest] mistake. But when I read further, they go back to make reference as "he." And this back and forth "he"-"she" continues all the way to the end. Anybody, what's your take on this?

[@newproduct8107]

Julitet cuthbert almost catch her

[@jamiedavid8023]

i just saw a white woman sprinting in a final

[@terryhatfield1758]

And came third 🥉

[@yorukkizigeziyor]

vert nice :))

[@GeoAce777]

Privalova and Torrence seemed closer vs. Devers and Cuthbert on the overhead cam

[@HenryAmaris]

Los mejores 100 mts de la historia

[@vittoriapiretto4983]

Wow😍

[@ameliabedelia7018]

Imagine if Flo Jo wouldn’t have retired.

[@zabag]

Irina Privalova would’ve won if she had a proper dip.

[@steviesly7908]

GAIL WAS NOT PLAYING AROUND) SHE RAN HER RACE) AND TOO IT WITH THE HEALTH ISSUES) SOME PEOPLE SAID SHE WAS JUICED UP) THAT WHAT I HEARD) PEACE)

[@ihatesugar2530]

And after the playing field was leveled, there were no more close races😀

[@professorxaviour3649]

What do you mean by that?

[@ConsciousFBA]

That's our girl!!!!!!!

[@xidiamond6851]

The outfits have changed over the years. These are bikinis

[@GusWurm]

Ottey, beauty black queen.....

[@katherinejones7975]

No coronavirus 🤔🤔🤔🤔 the world was so much better than 🤸🤸🤸

[@karenvanwyk5307]

It was so close.

[@mr.charles5589]

Noway she won that race

[@seanwilson5516]

How is this the closest, when Ottey and Devers were so inseparable, they given the same time 4 years later? This is one of or the second closest.

[@sir_sack]

They are talking about how 5 women were within a stride of each other

[@seanwilson5516]

@@sir_sack Touche, as opposed to the first 4 in 1996.

[@eventeklay4618]

How this is so cool

[@quiddy]

Just when you thought this race couldn’t be any closer, 1996 in Atlanta was even closer, and it was between the same 2 women and the same outcome.

[@diamonddog13]

Devers won 2 gold medals by less than 1/100th combined.

[@quiddy]

diamonddog13 I love Gail Devers. Do you know if there was any suspicion about her taking any PED’s? I remember Gwen Torrence getting some flak for insinuating such after she lost in the 100m in Barcelona (but somewhat redeemed herself when she won the 200m).

[@eyeswideshot7347]

6 KATrin KRABbe 10 89

[@mycarmist3692]

All doped up to the gills

[@mcthiccynugets7723]

Simone Biles looks like the girl who won........

[@tequilashots875]

Uh you mean Simone looks like her. That “girl “ is 53 years old.

[@dfuseidazza6129]

juiced to the gills

[@jimmyblount9356]

Roy Jones jr

[@hxmasclips7840]

hi

[@marshabailey8312]

She was on drug... stole most of Marlene ottey medal

[@reneedaughter]

Please to remember that Gail Devers passed her all her test while competing whereas Marlene Ottey had both her A and B samples show up positive for banned steroids.

[@sublimeandcoke]

All through the 80s. US, East Germany and Russia. Couldn't beat the doping

[@roshonbody3199]

Gail Devers never took PED.

[@vlepo2000]

Why is that man from Bulgaria racing with the woman ? Lol

[@yeniyeni9625]

👍👍

[@perasaran1379]

😔😪😪😪Irina Privalova

[@user-of4sx9zr4z]

Лайк я

[@Julieya89]

USA>>>>

[@nellyblancaflor5559]

I think Jamaica won by a hair

[@Derrickkingstonpe5878]

No

[@HotMessMemories1]

Who do the Jamaican girls’ wigs stay on during the race?

[@andrepickergills4588]

That's her real hair you idiot

[@keneishaedwards532]

It’s their real hair

[@brettwilkinson9529]

Wish the coach wouldn't carry on like that. Takes all the class away from the event.

[@kanevparise]

More like mens final 🤣🤣🤣🤢🤮

[@Gertzy41]

Ottey was just another big time drama queen and drug cheat😭😭😭😭😭