World Athletics Championships 1999/20 km women's walk
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 51 walkers from 28 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Seville circuit | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 27 | ||||||||
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The women's 20 km walk at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27, 1999 in the streets of the Spanish city of Seville .
For the first time, the walking distance for women was twenty kilometers, which was the same as the shorter of the two walking distances for men. Previously, the women walked over ten kilometers.
In this competition, the Chinese walkers achieved a double success. Liu Hongyu became world champion . She won ahead of bronze medalist of 1996 about 10-km walk Wang Yan . Bronze went to the Australian World Cup third in 1987 - at that time over the distance of ten kilometers - Kerry Saxby-Junna .
Records / best performances
Existing records
| World record | 1:27:30 h |
 Nadezhda Ryashkina
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Adler , Russia | February 7, 1999 |
| World championship record | No World Cup records yet, competition is new to the program. | |||
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 Chinese world champion Liu Hongyu set the first world championship record in the competition on August 28 with 1:30:50 h .
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 51 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 27, 1999, 6:50 p.m.
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Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 28, 2020
- Women 20km Walk Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed on July 28, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 20km Walk, Seville 1999, p. 361 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 28, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km go women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 28, 2020