2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km walk event at the 2006 European Championships was held on August 9, 2006 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the start at 17:15h.

Medalists edit

Gold   Ryta Turava
Belarus (BLR)
Silver   Olga Kaniskina
Russia (RUS)
Bronze   Elisa Rigaudo
Italy (ITA)

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
  personal best
  season best

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 2006 European Athletics Championships
World Record   Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) 1:24.50 March 4, 2001   Adler, Russia
Event Record   Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) 1:26.42 August 7, 2002   Munich, Germany

Results edit

Rank Athlete Time Note
    Ryta Turava (BLR) 1:27:08
    Olga Kaniskina (RUS) 1:28:35
    Elisa Rigaudo (ITA) 1:28:37  
4   Kjersti Plätzer (NOR) 1:28:45
5   Claudia Stef (ROM) 1:29:27  
6   Sabine Zimmer (GER) 1:29:56
7   Sylwia Korzeniowska (POL) 1:30:31 NR
8   Vera Santos (POR) 1:30:41  
9   Jolanta Dukure (LAT) 1:31:02 NR
10   Melanie Seeger (GER) 1:31:29
11   Ana Maria Groza (ROM) 1:31:35
12   Inês Henriques (POR) 1:31:58
13   Zuzana Malíková (SVK) 1:32:14 NR
14   Susana Feitor (POR) 1:32:19
15   María Vasco (ESP) 1:32:50  
16   Gisella Orsini (ITA) 1:33:10  
17   Galina Kolpakova (RUS) 1:33:39
18   Rossella Giordano (ITA) 1:33:56
19   María José Poves (ESP) 1:35:03
20   Beatriz Pascual (ESP) 1:36:03
21   Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU) 1:36:20
22   Monica Svensson (SWE) 1:38:25
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
  Kristina Saltanovič (LTU) DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
  Elena Ginko (BLR) DSQ

See also edit

References edit