2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (women)
 
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| sport | athletics |
| discipline | 20 km walk |
| gender | Women |
| place | Destination: Beijing National Stadium |
| Attendees | 48 athletes from 31 countries |
| Competition phase | August 21, 2008 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Olga Kaniskina ( RUS )
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 silver |
Kjersti Plätzer ( NOR )
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 bronze |
Elisa Rigaudo ( ITA )
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The women's 20 km walk at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was held on the streets of Beijing on August 21, 2008. The goal was the national stadium . 51 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Russian Olga Kaniskina , silver went to Kjersti Plätzer from Norway, and bronze went to Italian Elisa Rigaudo .
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion 2004 |
Athanasia Tsoumeleka ( Greece )
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1:29:12 h | Athens 2004 |
| World Champion 2007 |
Olga Kaniskina ( Russia )
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1:30:09 h | Osaka 2007 |
| European Champion 2006 |
Ryta Turawa ( Belarus )
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1:27:08 h | Gothenburg 2006 |
| Pan American Champion 2007 |
Cristina López ( El Salvador )
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1:38:59 h | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
| 2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion | Claudia Ortega ( Mexico )
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50: 10.37 min - 10 km walking | Cali 2008 |
| South American Champion 2007 | Sandra Zapata ( Colombia )
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1: 37: 45.94 h | São Paulo 2007 |
| Asian Champion 2007 | Jiang Qiuyan ( People's Republic of China )
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1:36:16 h | Amman 2007 |
| Africa Champion 2008 |
Grace Wanjiru Njue ( Kenya )
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1:39:50 h | Addis Ababa 2008 |
| Oceania Champion 2008 | 20 km walking not in the championship program | Saipan 2008 | |
Existing records
| World record | 1:25:41 h |
Olimpiada Ivanova ( Russia )
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Helsinki , Finland | August 7, 2005 |
| 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 |
Starting position
The favorites for this competition were mainly Europeans. The reigning world champion and vice European champion Olga Kaniskina came from Russia . The European and World Champion of 2005 Ryta Turowa from Belarus belonged to this narrow group of favorites as well as the Spanish World Cup third in 2007 and World Cup fourth in 2005 Maria Vasco, the Norwegian World Cup fourth in 2007 and EC fourth Kjersti Plätzer, who Portuguese Susana feitor as WM -Fünfte of 2007 World Cup -Third of 2005, and the Italian Elisa Rigaudo as WM -Siebte of 2005 European Championship -Third. The Greek Olympic champion from 2004 Athanasia Tsoumeleka was also among the participants. However, it was no longer in the shape of 2004.
Course of competition
August 21, 2008 , 9:00 a.m.
From the beginning, Kaniskina put pressure on the competition at high speed and pulled away early. After only two kilometers she was all alone in front with a lead of seventeen seconds in front of a larger group of pursuers, which became smaller and smaller as the course progressed. Kaniskina increased the distance to her opponents steadily. After eight kilometers she was leading a group of ten by just 41 seconds, which after ten kilometers shrank to seven walkers. Turawa, Vasco, the Chinese Liu Hong and Yang Mingxia, the Russian Tatjana Kalmykowa, Plätzer and Rigaudo were now 45 seconds behind. After another two very fast kilometers, this small group also fell apart. Turawa had withdrawn and even got a little closer to the leading Kaniskina. She was 41 seconds behind, Plätzer and Vasco followed twelve seconds behind Turawa. In the further course Kaniskina increased the gap again, while Turawa ran out of strength more and more. Finally, Plätzer and Vasco came up to the Belarusian again, who then fell back to eleventh place by the end of the game. After eighteen kilometers, Kaniskina was more than a minute ahead of Plätzer and Vasco. Rigaudo followed in fourth, just eleven seconds behind the first two pursuers. On the last two kilometers, the leading Russian could not be denied victory. With a lead of 36 seconds, Olga Kaniskina won the gold medal ahead of Kjersti Plätzer. Elisa Rigaudo took the bronze medal five seconds back, ahead of Liu Hong. Maria Vasco fell back to fifth place, Beatriz Pascual was sixth, ahead of Olive Loughnane from Ireland and Ana Cabecinha from Portugal. Athanasia Tsoumeleka finished ninth.
Olga Kaniskina improved Wang Liping's Olympic record from 2000 by more than two and a half minutes.
In addition, six new national records were set.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:26 min | Olga Kaniskina 17 s in front of a larger group | 8:26 min |
| 4 km | 17:00 min | Olga Kaniskina 27 s in front of a group of 15 | 8:34 min |
| 6 km | 25:31 min | Olga Kaniskina 37 s in front of a group of 10 | 8:31 min |
| 8 kilometers | 34:09 min | Olga Kaniskina 41 s in front of a group of 10 | 8:38 min |
| 10 km | 42:43 min | Olga Kaniskina 45 s in front of a group of 7 | 8:34 min |
| 12 km | 51:15 min | Kaniskina / Turawa 41 s back / Plätzer and Vasco 53 s back | 8:41 min |
| 14 km | 59:51 min | Kaniskina / Turawa 48 s back / Plätzer and Vasco 1:01 min back | 8:36 min |
| 16 km | 1:08:31 h | Kaniskina / Turawa 59 s back / Plätzer and Vasco 1:09 min back | 8:40 min |
| 18 km | 1:17:24 h | Kaniskina / Plätzer and Vasco 1:01 min back / Rigaudo 1:12 min back | 8:53 min |
| 20 km | 1:26:31 h | Olga Kaniskina | 9:07 min |
result
Olympic champion Olga Kaniskina from Russia
Bronze medal for the Italian Elisa Rigaudo
The Chinese Olympic champion Liu Hong
The Spaniard Maria Vasco takes fifth place
Beatriz Pascual from Spain comes in sixth
The Portuguese Ana Cabecinha becomes Olympic eight
Vera Santos from Portugal is in tenth place
The seventeenth Vera Zozuļa from Ukraine
The German Melanie Seeger turns 23.
The Romanian Ana Maria Groza comes in 24th
The Portuguese Susana Feitor gives up the race after fourteen kilometers
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk, Women , accessed June 27, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 27, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 27, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Women's 20km Race Walk - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 20, 20082 on youtube.com, accessed June 27, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 18, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ 20 km go women ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 27, 2018
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