World Athletics Championships 1997/10 km women's walking
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 10 km walk | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 walkers from 9 countries | ||||||||
venue | Athens | ||||||||
Competition location | Circuit through Athens | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 7th | ||||||||
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The women's 10 km at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 7, 1997 in the streets of the Greek capital, Athens .
The discipline was in this form for the last time on the program of athletics world championships . From 1999 the length of the route was increased to the usual distance of twenty kilometers for men.
In this competition the Belarusian walkers won two medals, silver and bronze. World champion was the Italian Annarita Sidoti , who had previously done successfully as the winner in 1990 and runner-up in 1994 , especially at European championships . Silver went to the Vice European Champion from 1990 Wolha Kardapolzawa . Valjanzina Zybulskaja won the bronze medal.
Existing records / best performances
World record | 41:04 min | Elena Nikolaeva | Sochi , Russia | April 20, 1996 |
World championship record | 42:13 min | Irina Stankina | World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden | August 7, 1995 |
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.
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
doping
The walking competition was overshadowed by a doping case.
The Russian Olimpiada Iwanowa , initially a silver medalist, was convicted of doping with steroids and was disqualified.
The main victim was the Belarusian Valjanzina Zybulskaja , who received her bronze medal late and was unable to attend the award ceremony.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all twenty walkers competed together for the final.
Result
August 7, 1997, 6:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Annarita Sidoti | Italy | 42: 55.49 WL |
2 | Wolha Kardapolzawa | Belarus | 43: 30.20 |
3 | Valyanzina Zybulskaya | Belarus | 43: 49.24 |
4th | Liu Hongyu | People's Republic of China | 43: 56.86 |
5 | Erica Alfridi | Italy | 43: 59.73 |
6th | Anikó Szebenszky | Hungary | 44: 14.94 |
7th | Gu Yan | People's Republic of China | 44: 24.17 |
8th | Anita Liepina | Latvia | 45: 00.56 |
9 | Elena Nikolaeva | Russia | 45: 01.90 |
10 | Elisabetta Perrone | Italy | 45: 16.64 |
11 | Maria Urbánikné-Rosza | Hungary | 45: 36.57 |
12 | Wang Yan | People's Republic of China | 46: 21.69 |
13 | Svetlana Tolstaya | Kazakhstan | 47: 09.51 |
14th | Yuka Mitsumori | Japan | 47: 24.22 |
DNF | Laryssa Kmyalnitskaya | Belarus | |
Beate Gummelt | Germany | ||
DSQ | Olga Panfyorova | Russia | |
Irina Stankina | Russia | ||
Maya Sazonova | Kazakhstan | ||
DOP | Olimpiada Ivanova | Russia |
Video
- ATLETICA MONDIALI ATENE 1997 10KM MARCIA DONNE ORO ANNARITA SIDOTI , video published on February 18, 2015 on youtube.com (Italian), accessed on July 4, 2020
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
- Women 10km Walk Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 4, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10km Walk, Athens 1997, p. 361 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 4, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Track and Field Statistics Records Progression - World Records. Women, 10 km Road Walk on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 4, 2020
- ↑ Ivanova stripped of silver after positive drug test on apnews.com, August 10, 1997, accessed June 29, 2020