2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Olga Kaniskina   Russia (RUS)
Silver	Tatyana Shemyakina   Russia (RUS)
Bronze	María Vasco   Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
DQ	disqualified
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

World record Championship record

1:25:41

Olimpiada Ivanova

Russia

Helsinki, Finland

7 August 2005

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Nation	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina	Russia (RUS)	22:21
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina	Russia (RUS)	22:41
3	112	Tatyana Sibileva	Russia (RUS)	23:00
4	116	María Vasco	Spain (ESP)	23:22
5	107	Song Hongjuan	China (CHN)	23:23
10 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina	Russia (RUS)	44:33
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina	Russia (RUS)	45:17
3	116	María Vasco	Spain (ESP)	45:53
4	112	Tatyana Sibileva	Russia (RUS)	45:58
5	105	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway (NOR)	46:23
15 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina	Russia (RUS)	1:06:46
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina	Russia (RUS)	1:07:42
3	116	María Vasco	Spain (ESP)	1:08:09
4	105	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway (NOR)	1:08:46
5	129	Susana Feitor	Portugal (POR)	1:08:51

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Note
	Olga Kaniskina	Russia (RUS)	1:30:09
	Tatyana Shemyakina	Russia (RUS)	1:30:42
	María Vasco	Spain (ESP)	1:30:47
4	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway (NOR)	1:31:24
5	Susana Feitor	Portugal (POR)	1:32:01
6	Claudia Stef	Romania (ROM)	1:32:47
7	Inês Henriques	Portugal (POR)	1:33:06
8	Sabine Zimmer	Germany (GER)	1:33:23
9	Tatyana Sibileva	Russia (RUS)	1:33:29
10	Mayumi Kawasaki	Japan (JPN)	1:33:35
11	Vera Santos	Portugal (POR)	1:34:28
12	María José Poves	Spain (ESP)	1:35:06
13	Beatriz Pascual	Spain (ESP)	1:35:13
14	Melanie Seeger	Germany (GER)	1:35:30
15	Song Hongjuan	China (CHN)	1:35:44
16	Elena Ginko	Belarus (BLR)	1:35:59
17	Olive Loughnane	Ireland (IRL)	1:36:00
18	Zuzana Malíková	Slovakia (SVK)	1:36:26
19	Liu Hong	China (CHN)	1:36:40
20	Barbora Dibelková	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:36:45
21	Marie Polli	Switzerland (SUI)	1:36:54
22	Sonata Milušauskaitė	Lithuania (LTU)	1:37:28
23	Sylwia Korzeniowska	Poland (POL)	1:37:38
24	Mária Gáliková	Slovakia (SVK)	1:38:54
25	Johanna Jackson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:39:34
26	Kim Mi-Jung	South Korea (KOR)	1:41:33
27	Masumi Fuchise	Japan (JPN)	1:41:49
28	Svetlana Tolstaya	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1:41:54
29	Yadira Guamán	Ecuador (ECU)	1:42:17
30	Tania Regina Spindler	Brazil (BRA)	1:43:56
31	Sandra Zapata	Colombia (COL)	1:44:42
32	Yeliz Ay	Turkey (TUR)	1:45:52
33	Geovana Irusta	Bolivia (BOL)	1:47:15	SB
—	Ryoko Sakakura	Japan (JPN)	DQ
—	Jane Saville	Australia (AUS)	DQ
—	Teresa Vaill	United States (USA)	DQ
—	Miriam Ramón	Ecuador (ECU)	DQ
—	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia (RUS)	DNF
—	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Jolanta Dukure	Latvia (LAT)	DNF
—	Jiang Jing	China (CHN)	DNF
—	Athanasia Tsoumeleka	Greece (GRE)	DNF

References

• - IAAF.org
• - IAAF.org
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite