2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 57 athletes from 34 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Athens (start and finish) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 23, 2004 | ||||||||
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The women's 20 km walk at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 23, 2004 on a circuit south of the Athens Olympic Stadium. 57 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Greek Athanasia Tsoumeleka . She won ahead of Russian Olimpiada Iwanowa and Australian Jane Saville .
Melanie Seeger and Sabine Krantz from Germany took part. Seeger was fifth, Krantz sixteen.
The Swiss Marie Polli was 39.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion 2000 |
Wang Liping ( People's Republic of China )
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1:29:05 h | Sydney 2000 |
| World Champion 2003 |
Jelena Nikolajewa ( Russia )
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1:26:52 h | Paris 2003 |
| European Champion 2002 |
Olimpiada Ivanova ( Russia )
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1:26:42 h | Munich 2002 |
| Pan American Champion 2003 |
Victoria Palacios ( Mexico )
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1:35:16 h | Santo Domingo 2003 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | María del Rosario Sánchez ( Mexico )
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49:06 h - 10 km | St. George's 2003 |
| South American Champion 2003 | Geovana Irusta ( Bolivia )
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1:35:25 h | Los Ángeles 2004 |
| Asian Champion 2003 | Ha Mingming ( People's Republic of China )
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1:31:47 h | Manila 2003 |
| African champion 2004 |
Grace Wanjiru Njue ( Kenya )
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1:42:45 h | Brazzaville 2004 |
| Oceania Champion 2002 | Competition not in the championship program | Christchurch 2002 | |
Existing records
| World record | 1:26:22 h |
Wang Yan ( People's Republic of China )
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Guangzhou , People's Republic of China | November 19, 2001 |
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Jelena Nikolajewa ( Russia )
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Cheboksary , Russia | May 18, 2003 | ||
| Olympic record | 1:29:05 h |
Wang Liping ( People's Republic of China )
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20km walk from Sydney , Australia | September 28, 2000 |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Routing
The competition was started in the Olympic Stadium in Athens. The participants left the stadium and were The competition started in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Immediately afterwards, the route ran outside the stadium and headed south on a circuit two kilometers long. This circuit initially ran south across the Lavrou to Kapodistriou . There was a turning point here when the route led back. It went in a loop eastwards to the Neapoleos . After nine laps the way led back to the stadium.
initial situation
The favorites were the two Russians Olimpiada Ivanova as the reigning European champion , 2001 world champion and co-owner of the world record, and Jelena Nikolajewa as the reigning world champion . Chancenreich at the start beyond the Chinese were Olympic champion also co-owner of the world record, the Australian Jane Saville and the Greek local hero - Wang Liping WM -Siebte Athanasia Tsoumeleka.
Course of competition
Date: August 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m. / temperature at start: 24 ° C
The field of walkers stayed together for an unusually long time. Ivanova took over the leadership position early on and walked a steady pace with times between 4:30 and 4:40 minutes per 1000 meter section. That wasn't too fast and meant that no walker could break away for a long time. From the eighth kilometer on, the pace was increased a little, the kilometer times fell below 4:30 minutes. Halfway through the race, a leading group of fifteen walkers formed, with Ivanova almost always ahead. By sixteen miles, the group had gradually reduced to ten walkers. Now a decisive phase began. Tsoumeleka took the initiative and increased the pace considerably with two 1000 meter sections of 4:16 minutes. At first she left together with Saville, the previous top group fell apart more and more. Saville also had to let go and together with Iwanowa formed a small chasing group, only five seconds behind Tsoumeleka. Another ten seconds behind went the Italian Elisa Rigaudo, the Belarusian Ryta Turawa and Wang Liping. The German Melanie Seeger and the Spaniard Maria Vasco were also seven and eight, two kilometers from the finish line, only fifteen seconds behind the leaders. These last two kilometers remained exciting. The small gap between Tsoumeleka and Iwanowa did not increase, the Greek had to fight to the end, while Saville was now losing ground. To the cheers of the local spectators, Athanasia Tsoumeleka finally won the competition by four seconds ahead of Olimpiada Iwanowa. Jane Saville won the bronze medal another nine seconds behind Ivanova. Ryta Turawa finished fourth, Melanie Seeger worked her way up to fifth. Places six to eight went to Elisa Rigaudo, María Vasco and Wang Liping.
Athanasia Tsoumeleka was the first Greek Olympic and medalist in women's walking . Jane Saville won the first Australian medal in the discipline.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 9:13 min | Olimpiada Ivanova with a large field | 9:01 min |
| 4 km | 18:18 min | Olimpiada Ivanova with a large field | 9:05 min |
| 6 km | 27:20 min | Olimpiada Ivanova with a large field | 9:02 min |
| 8 kilometers | 36:17 min | Jelena Nikolajewa with a large field | 8:57 min |
| 10 km | 45:16 min | Olimpiada Iwanowa with a field of 14 | 8:59 min |
| 12 km | 54:12 min | Olimpiada Iwanowa with a field of 14 | 8:56 min |
| 14 km | 1:03:03 h | Olimpiada Iwanowa with a field of 11 | 8:51 min |
| 16 km | 1:11:55 h | Olimpiada Iwanowa with a field of 10 | 8:52 min |
| 18 km | 1:20:27 h | Athanasia Tsoumeleka 5 s ahead of Saville and Iwanowa | 8:32 min |
| 20 km | 1:29:12 h | Athanasia Tsoumeleka | 8:45 min |
Result
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The German Melanie Seeger finished fifth in the Olympics
Elisa Rigaudo from Italy came in sixth
The Portuguese Inês Henriques came in 25th place
The Romanian Ana Maria Groza finished 29th
Daniela Cârlan from Romania came in 37th
The Swiss Marie Polli was 39.
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed May 12, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 12, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 12, 2018
Video
- Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Athanasia Tsoumeleka - Women's 20 km walk , published July 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on May 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF world records, 20 km walking women , accessed on May 12, 2018
- ↑ Description of the route on Runscore.com (fr.) , Accessed on May 12, 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
Men: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 110 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | 50 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Decathlon
Women: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 100 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Heptathlon