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

GoldOlga Kaniskina
 Russia (RUS)
SilverTatyana Shemyakina
 Russia (RUS)
BronzeMaría Vasco
 Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations

  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNSdid not start
DQdisqualified
NMno mark
WRworld record
WLworld leading
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

World record
Championship record
1:25:41Olimpiada IvanovaRussiaHelsinki, Finland7 August 2005

Intermediates

RankNumberAthleteNationTime
5 KILOMETRES
1101Olga Kaniskina  Russia (RUS)22:21
2111Tatyana Shemyakina  Russia (RUS)22:41
3112Tatyana Sibileva  Russia (RUS)23:00
4116María Vasco  Spain (ESP)23:22
5107Song Hongjuan  China (CHN)23:23
10 KILOMETRES
1101Olga Kaniskina  Russia (RUS)44:33
2111Tatyana Shemyakina  Russia (RUS)45:17
3116María Vasco  Spain (ESP)45:53
4112Tatyana Sibileva  Russia (RUS)45:58
5105Kjersti Plätzer  Norway (NOR)46:23
15 KILOMETRES
1101Olga Kaniskina  Russia (RUS)1:06:46
2111Tatyana Shemyakina  Russia (RUS)1:07:42
3116María Vasco  Spain (ESP)1:08:09
4105Kjersti Plätzer  Norway (NOR)1:08:46
5129Susana Feitor  Portugal (POR)1:08:51

Final ranking

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