World Athletics Championships 1995/10 km women's walking
5th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
discipline | 10 km walk | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 45 walkers from 26 countries | ||||||||
venue |
![]() |
||||||||
Competition location | Round trip through Gothenburg | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 7th | ||||||||
|
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/00_3143_G%C3%B6teborg_-_Gustav_Adolf_Torg.jpg/440px-00_3143_G%C3%B6teborg_-_Gustav_Adolf_Torg.jpg)
The 10-km walk for women in the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was in the streets of 7 August 1995 the Swedish city of Gothenburg held.
In this competition, the Russian walkers won two medals, gold and bronze. Irina Stankina became world champion . She won ahead of the Italian Elisabetta Perrone . Bronze went to Jelena Nikolajewa, who finished second in 1992 and took third place in the European Championship in 1994 .
The gaps in this competition were very close. There were only three seconds between first and second place, the walkers in third and fourth place crossed the finish line at the same time, seven seconds behind the winner. Even behind that, the gaps were within narrow ranges.
Records / best performances
Existing records
World record | 41:29 min |
![]() |
Izhevsk , Russia | 4th June 1994 |
World championship record | 42:57 min |
![]() |
1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan | August 24, 1991 |
Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
Record improvement
The Russian world champion Irina Stankina improved the existing world championship record on August 7th by 44 seconds to 42:13 minutes.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 45 walkers competed together.
Result
August 7, 1995, 5:25 p.m.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Sari_Essayah_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Sari_Essayah_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Video
- 4174 World Track & Field 1995 10km Walk Women on youtube.com, accessed June 9, 2020
Web links
- 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 9, 2020
- Women 10km Walk Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 9, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10km Walk, Gothenborg 1995, p. 360f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 9, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Track and Field Statistics Records Progression - World Records. Women, 10 km Road Walk on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 9, 2020