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

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]

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 →

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   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
  Wang Liping   China 1:29.05 OR
  Kjersti Plätzer   Norway 1:29.33
  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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