European Athletics Championships 2010/20 km walking women

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	20 km walk
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Circuit through Barcelona
Competition phase	July 28th
	Medalists
	Anisja Kirdjapkina ( RUS )
	Vera Sokolova ( RUS )
	Melanie Seeger ( GER )

View of Barcelona

The women's 20 km walk at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Barcelona on July 28, 2010 .

In this competition, the Russian walkers achieved a double victory. European champion was the World Championship -Third of 2009 Anisja Kirdjapkina . She won ahead of Vera Sokolova . The German Melanie Seeger won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	1:25:41 h	Russia Olimpiada Ivanova	Helsinki , Finland	August 7, 2005
European best time
Championship record	1:26:42 h		EM Munich , Germany	August 7, 2002

Note:
The previous practice of not keeping records in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records has not been used since 2003. Since then there have also been official records in these road competitions.

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

For the Russian Olga Kaniskina , who was originally the first to arrive , all results between August 5, 2009 and October 15, 2012 were canceled for doping abuse following a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March 2016.

Here, too, the doping fraud was not without consequences for other participants. Two athletes in particular were affected:

Anisja Kirdjapkina only received her gold medal after the European Championships had long since ended.
Bronze medalist Melanie Seeger also had to wait a long time for her medal. She could not take part in the award ceremony, and she lost funding and sponsorship money.

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 22 walkers went to the final together.

Result

2009 World Cup third and now European Champion: Anisja Kirdjapkina

Vice European Champion Vera Sokolova

July 28, 2010 , 8:05 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Anisja Kirdjapkina	Russia Russia	1:28:55
2	Vera Sokolova	Russia Russia	1:29:32
3	Melanie Seeger	Germany Germany	1:29:43
4th	Beatrice Pascual	Spain Spain	1:29:52
5	Vera Santos	Portugal Portugal	1:30:52
6th	Kristina Saltanovič	Lithuania Lithuania	1:31:40
7th	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal Portugal	1:31:48
8th	Inês Henriques	Portugal Portugal	1:32:26
9	Jo Atkinson	United Kingdom Great Britain	1:33:33
10	María José Poves	Spain Spain	1:34:19
11	Agnieszka Dygacz	Poland Poland	1:34:51
12	Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė	Lithuania Lithuania	1:35:00
13	Nastassja Yazewitsch	Belarus 1995 Belarus	1:36:59
14th	Neringa Aidietytė	Lithuania Lithuania	1:37:32
15th	Lucie Pelantová	Czech Republic Czech Republic	1:41:35
DNF	Olive Loughnane	Ireland Ireland
	Zuzana Malíková	Slovakia Slovakia
	Elina Matveyuk	Belarus 1995 Belarus
	Maria Vasco	Spain Spain
DSQ	Paulina Buziak	Poland Poland
DSQ	Sibilla Di Vincenzo	Italy Italy
DOP	Olga Kaniskina	Russia Russia

Bronze medalist Melanie Seeger
Beatriz Pascual came in fourth place
Vera Santos came in fifth
Ana Cabecinha (here the leading walker) came in seventh
Inês Henriques (later very successful in the 50 km distance) finished eighth
María José Poves - tenth place
Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė (right) - twelfth place
Neringa Aidietytė - place fourteen
María Vasco - not at the finish
Paulina Buziak - disqualified
Olga Kaniskina (here as world champion two years earlier) - convicted of doping abuse, result canceled