Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueStadium Australia
Date28 September
Competitors57 from 30 nations
Winning time1:29:05 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Liping Wang
 China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kjersti Plätzer
 Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) María Vasco
 Spain
2004 →

These are the official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The race was held on Thursday 28 September 2000, starting at 10:45h.[1]

The event may be best remembered for the disqualification of hometown athlete Jane Saville. Saville was leading the race and entered the final stretch of the race inside the stadium before she was flagged for her third violation for lifting her feet off the ground, which led to her disqualification.

Medalists

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Gold Wang Liping
 China
Silver Kjersti Plätzer
 Norway
Bronze María Vasco
 Spain

Abbreviations

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

Records

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Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics
World record  Tatyana Gudkova (RUS) 1:25:18 19 May 2000 Russia Moscow, Russia
Olympic record New event after the 10 km was contested previously

No new world record was established in the competition. By winning the event, Wang Liping established the Olympic record, 1:29.05.

Final ranking

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Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wang Liping  China 1:29.05 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kjersti Plätzer  Norway 1:29.33
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) María Vasco  Spain 1:30.23
4 Erica Alfridi  Italy 1:31.25
5 María Guadalupe Sánchez  Mexico 1:31.33
6 Norica Câmpean  Romania 1:31.50
7 Kerry Saxby-Junna  Australia 1:32.02
8 Tatyana Gudkova  Russia 1:32.35
9 Nataliya Misyulya  Belarus 1:33.08
10 Gillian O'Sullivan  Ireland 1:33.10
11 Athina Papayianni  Greece 1:33.14 PB
12 Valentyna Savchuk  Ukraine 1:33.22
13 Ana Maria Groza  Romania 1:33.38
14 Susana Feitor  Portugal 1:33.53
15 Yuan Yufang  Malaysia 1:34.19 SB
16 Kristina Saltanovič  Lithuania 1:34.24
17 Michelle Rohl  United States 1:34.26
18 Mária Urbanik  Hungary 1:34.45
19 Beate Gummelt  Germany 1:34.59
20 Encarna Granados  Spain 1:35.06
21 Svetlana Tolstaya  Kazakhstan 1:35.19
22 Nora Leksir  France 1:35.29
23 Fatiha Ouali  France 1:35.35
24 Vira Zozulya  Ukraine 1:35.43
25 Kim Mi-Jung  South Korea 1:36.09 NR
26 Mara Ibañez  Mexico 1:36.17
27 Eva Pérez  Spain 1:36.35
28 Valentina Tsybulskaya  Belarus 1:36.44
29 Anikó Szebenszky  Hungary 1:36.46
30 Jolanta Dukure  Latvia 1:36.54
31 Sonata Milušauskaitė  Lithuania 1:37.14
32 Larisa Ramazanova  Belarus 1:37.39
33 Lisa Kehler  Great Britain 1:37.47
34 Ivis Martínez  El Salvador 1:38.07
35 Olive Loughnane  Ireland 1:38.23
36 Khristina Kokotou  Greece 1:38.52
37 Anita Liepiņa  Latvia 1:39.17
38 Chen Yueling  United States 1:39.36
39 Lisa Sheridan-Paolini  Australia 1:40.57
40 Yelena Kuznetsova  Kazakhstan 1:42.45
41 Teresita Collado  Guatemala 1:43.28
42 Geovana Irusta  Bolivia 1:43.34
43 Zuzana Blažeková  Slovakia 1:44.03
44 Debbi Lawrence  United States 1:47.20
45 Bahia Boussad  Algeria 1:52.50
Kathrin Born-Boyde  Germany DNF
Aida İsayeva  Azerbaijan DNF
Olga Polyakova  Russia DNF
Katarzyna Radtke  Poland DNF
Annarita Sidoti  Italy DNF
Maya Sazonova  Kazakhstan DNF
Irina Stankina  Russia DNF
Liu Hongyu  China DSQ
Graciela Mendoza  Mexico DSQ
Janice McCaffrey  Canada DSQ
Elisabetta Perrone  Italy DSQ
Jane Saville  Australia DSQ

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
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