2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 57 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Stadium Australia (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | September 28, 2000 | ||||||||
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The women's 20 km at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 28, 2000 on a circuit in Sydney. The start and finish was the Australia Stadium . 57 athletes took part, 45 made it to the finish line. For the first time, the women's walking competition was held on the 20 km distance. In 1992 and 1996 the competition as a 10 km walk was on the program.
The Chinese Wang Liping became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Norwegian Kjersti Plätzer and the Spanish María Vasco .
Kathrin Boyde and Beate Gummelt started for the German team. Boyde had to give up the race, Gummelt finished in nineteenth place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion 1996 |
Jelena Nikolajewna Nikolajewa ( Russia ) - 10 km walk
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Atlanta 1996 | |
| World Champion 1999 |
Liu Hongyu ( People's Republic of China )
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1:30:50 h | Seville 1999 |
| European Champion 1998 |
Annarita Sidoti ( Italy ) - 10 km walk
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Budapest 1998 | |
| Pan American Champion 1999 |
María Graciela Mendoza ( Mexico )
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1:34:19 h | Winnipeg 1999 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | Teresa Ramos ( Guatemala ) - 10 km walk
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Bridgetown 1999 | |
| South America Champion | Geovana Irusta ( Bolivia )
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1:46:46 h | Lima 2000 |
| Asian Champion 2000 | Competition not in the championship program | ||
| African champion 2000 | Bahia Boussad ( Algeria ) - 10 km walk
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Algiers 2000 | |
| Oceania Champion 2000 | Competition not in the championship program | ||
Existing records
| World record | 1:25:18 h |
Tatiana Gudkowa ( Russia )
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Moscow , Russia | May 19, 2000 |
| Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | |||
Remarks:
- World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
- All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
Routing
It started with five laps on the Australia Stadium track . Then the stadium was left. The route headed north on Edwin Flack Avenue through a tunnel . Shortly before Olympic Boulevard , the route turned right and turned into Pondage Link , which connects Edwin Flack Avenue with Hill Road . From here began a T-shaped circuit two kilometers in length, which had to be completed eight times. This course led initially to the right into Hill Road . Shortly after the bridge over Haslams Creek there was a turn and it went back to the confluence of the Old Hill Link . Here we turned again with a small arch into the Pondage Link and the path led back to Hill Road . After completing the circuit, the route went back to the stadium, where the goal was reached, on the same route as on the way there.
initial situation
The women's walking competition was held for the third time, here in Sydney for the first time over a distance of twenty kilometers, after the route was previously only half as long.
Two Chinese women had already been ahead at the World Championships last year. The Chinese walkers were among the favorites here too, especially world champion Liu Hongyu and vice-world champion Wang Yan. Other highly rated athletes were the Russian Tatiana Gudkowa , who set a new world record in May of the Olympic year, the Australian World Cup third Kerry Saxby-Junna and the Italian European and World Champion from 1997 - over 10 km each - Annarita Sidoti
Course of competition
September 28, 2000, start at 10:45 a.m.
First, the US American Chen Yueling took the initiative and went a few seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Then the Belarusian Valjanzina Zybulskaja increased the pace significantly and after six kilometers had worked out a lead of eighteen seconds over her competitor. At eight kilometers, the two Italians Elisabetta Perrone and Erica Alfridi were only seven seconds behind her. Zybulskaja now had to pay tribute to her increased tempo and fell behind. World champion Hongyu took the lead in front of a field of seven. At twelve kilometers, Perrone and the Australian Jane Saville caught up. The leadership work alternated between these three athletes so that they could keep a lead of seven seconds over the first pursuers. However, all three were disqualified in quick succession after three warnings for non-compliance with the walking rules. As a result, at kilometer eighteen, Wang Liping from China, who had worked her way up in the course of the competition, was in the lead. She secured the Olympic victory 28 seconds ahead of Norwegian Kjersti Plätzer, who in turn had 50 seconds ahead of Spanish bronze medalist María Vasco. Erica Alfridi was fourth, ahead of the Mexican María Guadalupe Sánchez and Norica Câmpean from Romania. The two favorite walkers, Kerry Saxby-Junna and Tatjana Gudkowa , came in seventh and eighth.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 9:01 min | Yueling 2 s before Sidoti and 3 s before the big field | 9:01 min |
| 4 km | 18:13 min | Zybulskaja 6 seconds before the next walkers | 9:12 min |
| 6 km | 27:01 min | Zybulskaja 18 s before the next walkers | 8:48 min |
| 8 kilometers | 35:55 min | Zybulskaja 7 seconds before Perrone and Alfridi | 8:54 min |
| 10 km | 44:54 min | Hongyu 1 s ago 7 walkers | 8:59 min |
| 12 km | 53:40 min | Hongyu / Perrone / Saville 1 s before 2 walkers | 8:46 min |
| 14 km | 1:02:25 h | Plätzer / Perrone 1 s before Hongyu / Saville and 1 s before Liping | 8:45 min |
| 16 km | 1:11:07 h | Hongyu 1 s before Perrone / Saville, 8 s before Plätzer and 12 s before Liping | 8:42 min |
| 18 km | 1:20:11 h | Liping 6 seconds before Platzer and 57 seconds before Vasco | 9:04 min |
| 20 km | 1:29:05 h | Wang Liping | 8:54 min |
Result
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Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed April 14, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 14, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 14, 2018
Video
- Elisabetta Perrone Sydney 2000 (avi), published September 24, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed April 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 808 , accessed on April 14, 2018
- ↑ Route course ( memento of the original from December 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, p. 12), from runscore.com, accessed on April 14, 2018 (English).
- ↑ IAAF competition rules (PDF, p. 180), accessed on March 27, 2018.
10 km walking: Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996
20 km walking: Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 | Beijing 2008 | London 2012 | Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Tokyo 2020
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