1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain, held on Friday 27 August 1999, starting at 18:50h local time.

Medalists edit

Gold   Liu Hongyu
PR China (CHN)
Silver   Wang Yan
PR China (CHN)
Bronze   Kerry Saxby-Junna
Australia (AUS)

Abbreviations edit

  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
WL world leading
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Liu Hongyu (CHN) 1:27:30 May 1, 1995   Beijing, PR China
  Nadezhda Ryashkina (RUS) 1:27:30 February 7, 1999   Adler, Russia
Event Record New Event
Broken records during the 1999 World Athletics Championships
Event Record   Liu Hongyu (CHN) 1:30.50 August 27, 1999   Seville, Spain

Startlist edit

Intermediates edit

Rank Number Athlete Time
10 KILOMETRES
1 547   Annarita Sidoti (ITA) 46:06
2 163   Liu Hongyu (CHN) 46:07
3 723   Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR) 46:07
4 762   Susana Feitor (POR) 46:07
5 41   Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS) 46:07
15 KILOMETRES
1 163   Liu Hongyu (CHN) 1:08:39
2 762   Susana Feitor (POR) 1:08:40
3 169   Wang Yan (CHN) 1:08:40
4 829   Natalya Fedoskina (RUS) 1:08:40
5 40   Jane Saville (AUS) 1:08:40

Final ranking edit

Rank Athlete Time Note
    Liu Hongyu (CHN) 1:30:50 CR
    Wang Yan (CHN) 1:30:52
    Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS) 1:31:18 SB
4   Susana Feitor (POR) 1:31:23
5   Katarzyna Radtke (POL) 1:31:34
6   Erica Alfridi (ITA) 1:32:04
7   Jane Saville (AUS) 1:32:13
8   Maya Sazonova (KAZ) 1:32:19
9   Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR) 1:32:42
10   María Vasco (ESP) 1:33:35
11   Claudia Iovan (ROM) 1:33:46
12   Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) 1:34:10
13   Christina Deskou (GRE) 1:34:39
14   Nataliya Misyulya (BLR) 1:35:03
15   Gao Hingmiao (CHN) 1:35:07
16   Yuan Yufang (MAS) 1:35:31
17   Irina Stankina (RUS) 1:35:42
18   Kristina Saltanovič (LTU) 1:35:51
19   Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ) 1:35:54
20   Nora Leksir (FRA) 1:36:17
21   Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) 1:36:24
22   Mária Urbanik (HUN) 1:36:48
23   Fatiha Ouali (FRA) 1:36:57
24   Yuka Mitsumori (JPN) 1:37:13
25   María Guadalupe Sánchez (MEX) 1:37:31
26   Teresa Linares (ESP) 1:37:51
27   Rossella Giordano (ITA) 1:38:06
28   Anikó Szebenszky (HUN) 1:38:27
29   Jolanta Dukure (LAT) 1:38:34
30   Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU) 1:39:56
31   Susan Armenta (USA) 1:40:20
32   Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL) 1:40:33
33   Melanie Seeger (GER) 1:40:51
34   Rosario Sánchez (MEX) 1:41:04
35   Teresita Collado (GUA) 1:41:12
36   Geovana Irusta (BOL) 1:41:17
37   Christina Kokotou (GRE) 1:42:50
38   Danielle Kirk (USA) 1:43:27
39   Kim Mi-Jung (PRK) 1:46:36
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
  Joanne Dow (USA) DSQ
  Ivis Haydee Martinez (ESA) DSQ
  Natalya Fedoskina (RUS) DSQ
  Olga Kardopoltseva (BLR) DSQ
  Graciela Mendoza (MEX) DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
  Norica Câmpean (ROM) DNF
  Larisa Ramazanova (BLR) DNF
  Susan Vermeulen (RSA) DNF
  Valentyna Savchuk (UKR) DNF
  Mónika Pesti (HUN) DNF
  Annarita Sidoti (ITA) DNF
  Celia Marcén (ESP) DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
  Miriam Ramón (ECU) DNS

See also edit

References edit