2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 61 athletes from 33 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | London | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 11, 2012 | ||||||||
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The women's 20km walk at the London 2012 Olympics was held on August 11, 2012 on a circuit in central London. 61 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Russian Jelena Laschmanowa. She won ahead of the two Chinese women Qoijing Gyi and Liu Hong .
Sabine Krantz and Melanie Seeger started for Germany . While Krantz had to give up the race, Seeger finished in eighteenth place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion |
Olga Kaniskina ( Russia )
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1:26:31 h | Beijing 2008 |
| world champion |
Liu Hong ( People's Republic of China )
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1:30:00 h | Daegu 2011 |
| European champion |
Vera Sokolova ( Russia )
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1:30:02 h | Olhão , Portugal 2011 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion |
Jamy Franco ( Guatemala )
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1:37:53 h | San Salvador 2011 |
| South America Champion | Arabelly Orjuela ( Colombia )
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1:34:40 h | Salinas , Ecuador 2012 |
| Asian champion | Huiqin Ding ( People's Republic of China )
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1:30:14 h | Nomi , Japan 2012 |
| African champion | Chaima Trabelsi ( Tunisia )
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1: 37: 43.4 h | Radès , Tunisia 2009 |
| Oceania champion | Claire Tallent ( Australia )
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1:32:58 h | Hobart 2012 |
Existing records
| World record |
Vera Sokolova ( Russia )
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1:25:08 h | Sochi , Russia | February 26, 2011 |
| Olympic record |
Olga Kaniskinabert Korzeniowski ( Russia )
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1:26:31 h | 20 km walk from Beijing , People's Republic of China | August 21, 2008 |
Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
doping
The Russian Olga Kaniskina was banned for doping abuse for three years with retroactive effect from October 2012 in January 2015. Her biological passport showed abnormalities. On March 24, 2016, all results between August 2009 and October 15, 2012 were withdrawn from her, including the silver medal she had initially won in London.
Routing
The walkers had to complete ten times a two-kilometer loop that led over The Mall along St. James's Park to the Victoria Memorial . The course turned onto Constitution Hill and passed Buckingham Palace along Green Park . After a turning point, it went back to the start and finish point.
Course of competition
August 11, 2012, 5 p.m.
Due to her disqualification due to doping, the Russian Olympic champion of 2008 Olga Kaniskina will not play a role in the following description of the course of the competition.
The Chinese Liu Hong set a fast pace from the start. So the field of walkers quickly tore open and numerous smaller and larger groups formed. Up to eight kilometers, Liu steadily increased her lead to 38 seconds. Behind her came a field of pursuers with the Russians Jelena Laschmanowa and Anissja Kirdjapkina and the Chinese Qoijing Gyi and Lü Xiuzhi. Until halfway through the track, the distance between Liu and this group of four remained constant for the time being.
While Lü lost contact with the group, Laschmanowa, Kirdjapkina and Qoijing caught up with Liu in the lead over the next five kilometers. The pace remained high, the 2-kilometer sections were walked between 8:25 min and 8:44 min. At sixteen kilometer Kirdjapkina and Liu dropped out of the leading group. Only Laschmanowa and Qoijing were now ahead, and they were now stepping up the pace. Behind them, Kirdjapkina lost touch with Liu. It was only on the last kilometer that Laschmanowa was able to break away decisively from her last competitor and reached the goal as the winner in a new world record time . Fourteen seconds behind, Qoijing finished second. Liu was third, Kirdjapkina fourth and Lü fifth.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:38 min | Liu Hong 5 seconds in front of a group of 11 | 8:38 min |
| 4 km | 17:03 min | Liu 18 s in front of a group of 8 | 8:25 min |
| 6 km | 25:32 min | Liu 31 s in front of a group of 6 | 8:29 min |
| 8 kilometers | 34:06 min | Liu 38 s before Kirdjapkina, Qoijing, Laschmanowa and Ortíz | 8:34 min |
| 10 km | 42:50 min | Liu 38 s before Kirdjapkina, Laschmanowa, Qoijing and Lü | 8:44 min |
| 12 km | 51:27 min | Liu 21 s before Laschmanowa, Kirdjapkina, Qoijing and Lü | 8:37 min |
| 14 km | 1:00:09 h | Liu 3 s back before Laschmanowa, Kirdjapkina and Qoijing / Lü another 16 s | 8:42 min |
| 16 km | 1:08:35 h | Laschmanowa and Qoijing 3 s before Liu / Kirdjapkina another 3 s back Lü another 41 s back | 8:40 min |
| 18 km | 1:16:55 h | Laschmanowa and Qoijing 25 s before Hong / Kirdjapkina back 11 s back Lü another 47 s back | 8:20 min |
| 20 km | 1:25:02 h | Elena Laschmanova | 8:07 min |
Result
Picture gallery
Olympic champion Jelena Laschmanowa, Russia
Bronze medalist Liu Hong from China
The Russian Anissja Kirdjapkina took fourth place
The Italian Elisa Rigaudo was sixth in the Olympics
Beatriz Pascual from Spain came in seventh
The Portuguese Ana Cabecinha - here in second place in another competition - took eighth place
The Spaniard María Vasco came in ninth place
The Spaniard María José Povés took eleventh place
The German Melanie Seeger reached rank eighteen
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed on September 23, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 23, 2018
- Results of the women's 20 km walk on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Association (English) , accessed on September 23, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Women's 20km Walk - London 2012 Olympic Games on youtube.com, broadcast live on August 11, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 808 , accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ a b report of the FAZ from March 24, 2016 , accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ Route map at ICM Gerson (English), page 2 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2016 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. , accessed on September 23, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181 (PDF) , accessed on September 23, 2018
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