2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.


Medallists edit

Gold Olga Kaniskina
  Russia (RUS)
Silver Tatyana Shemyakina
  Russia (RUS)
Bronze María Vasco
  Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations edit

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

Records edit

World record
Championship record
1:25:41 Olimpiada Ivanova Russia Helsinki, Finland 7 August 2005

Intermediates edit

Rank Number Athlete Nation Time
5 KILOMETRES
1 101 Olga Kaniskina   Russia (RUS) 22:21
2 111 Tatyana Shemyakina   Russia (RUS) 22:41
3 112 Tatyana Sibileva   Russia (RUS) 23:00
4 116 María Vasco   Spain (ESP) 23:22
5 107 Song Hongjuan   China (CHN) 23:23
10 KILOMETRES
1 101 Olga Kaniskina   Russia (RUS) 44:33
2 111 Tatyana Shemyakina   Russia (RUS) 45:17
3 116 María Vasco   Spain (ESP) 45:53
4 112 Tatyana Sibileva   Russia (RUS) 45:58
5 105 Kjersti Plätzer   Norway (NOR) 46:23
15 KILOMETRES
1 101 Olga Kaniskina   Russia (RUS) 1:06:46
2 111 Tatyana Shemyakina   Russia (RUS) 1:07:42
3 116 María Vasco   Spain (ESP) 1:08:09
4 105 Kjersti Plätzer   Norway (NOR) 1:08:46
5 129 Susana Feitor   Portugal (POR) 1:08:51

Final ranking edit

Rank Athlete Nation Time Note
  Olga Kaniskina   Russia (RUS) 1:30:09
  Tatyana Shemyakina   Russia (RUS) 1:30:42
  María Vasco   Spain (ESP) 1:30:47
4 Kjersti Plätzer   Norway (NOR) 1:31:24
5 Susana Feitor   Portugal (POR) 1:32:01  
6 Claudia Stef   Romania (ROM) 1:32:47  
7 Inês Henriques   Portugal (POR) 1:33:06
8 Sabine Zimmer   Germany (GER) 1:33:23
9 Tatyana Sibileva   Russia (RUS) 1:33:29
10 Mayumi Kawasaki   Japan (JPN) 1:33:35
11 Vera Santos   Portugal (POR) 1:34:28
12 María José Poves   Spain (ESP) 1:35:06
13 Beatriz Pascual   Spain (ESP) 1:35:13
14 Melanie Seeger   Germany (GER) 1:35:30
15 Song Hongjuan   China (CHN) 1:35:44
16 Elena Ginko   Belarus (BLR) 1:35:59
17 Olive Loughnane   Ireland (IRL) 1:36:00
18 Zuzana Malíková   Slovakia (SVK) 1:36:26
19 Liu Hong   China (CHN) 1:36:40
20 Barbora Dibelková   Czech Republic (CZE) 1:36:45
21 Marie Polli   Switzerland (SUI) 1:36:54
22 Sonata Milušauskaitė   Lithuania (LTU) 1:37:28
23 Sylwia Korzeniowska   Poland (POL) 1:37:38
24 Mária Gáliková   Slovakia (SVK) 1:38:54
25 Johanna Jackson   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 1:39:34
26 Kim Mi-Jung   South Korea (KOR) 1:41:33
27 Masumi Fuchise   Japan (JPN) 1:41:49
28 Svetlana Tolstaya   Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1:41:54
29 Yadira Guamán   Ecuador (ECU) 1:42:17
30 Tania Regina Spindler   Brazil (BRA) 1:43:56
31 Sandra Zapata   Colombia (COL) 1:44:42
32 Yeliz Ay   Turkey (TUR) 1:45:52
33 Geovana Irusta   Bolivia (BOL) 1:47:15 SB
Ryoko Sakakura   Japan (JPN) DQ
Jane Saville   Australia (AUS) DQ
Teresa Vaill   United States (USA) DQ
Miriam Ramón   Ecuador (ECU) DQ
Olimpiada Ivanova   Russia (RUS) DNF
Elisa Rigaudo   Italy (ITA) DNF
Jolanta Dukure   Latvia (LAT) DNF
Jiang Jing   China (CHN) DNF
Athanasia Tsoumeleka   Greece (GRE) DNF

References edit