2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk explained

The Women's 20 km race walk event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 7 in the streets of Helsinki with the start at 11:35h local time, and the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Russia's Olimpiada Ivanova won the race in a world record time of 1:25:41 hours.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Olimpiada Ivanova Russia (RUS)
Silver	Ryta Turava Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Susana Feitor Portugal (POR)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
5 kilometres
1	635		21:43
2	112		21:43
3	116		22:02
4	60		22:02
5	391		22:14
10 kilometres
1	635		42:54
2	60		43:59
3	116		43:59
4	177		44:04
5	337		44:05
15 kilometres
1	635		1:04:05
2	60		1:05:26
3	391		1:05:57
4	337		1:06:04
5	197		1:06:10

Finishing times

1. Olimpiada Ivanova, Russia 1:25:41 (WR)
2. Ryta Turava, Belarus 1:27:05 (NR)
3. Susana Feitor, Portugal 1:28:44 (SB)
4. María Vasco, Spain 1:28:51 (SB)
5. Barbora Dibelková, Czech Republic 1:29:05 (NR)
6. Athina Papayianni, Greece 1:29:21 (SB)
7. Elisa Rigaudo, Italy 1:29:52
8. Claudia Stef, Romania 1:30:07
9. Song Hongjuan, China 1:30:32
10. Yuliya Voyevodina, Russia 1:30:34
11. Melanie Seeger, Germany 1:31:00
12. Kristina Saltanovic, Lithuania 1:31:23 (SB)
13. Elena Ginko, Belarus 1:31:36
14. Ana Maria Groza, Romania 1:31:48 (SB)
15. Vera Santos, Portugal 1:32:17
16. Maria Teresa Gargallo, Spain 1:32:24
17. Svetlana Tolstaya, Kazakhstan 1:32:40
18. Tatyana Gudkova, Russia 1:33:05
19. Geovana Irusta, Bolivia 1:33:19
20. Jane Saville, Australia 1:33:44
21. Cheryl Webb, Australia 1:33:58
22. Jolanta Dukure, Latvia 1:34:24 (SB)
23. Sabine Zimmer, Germany 1:34:24
24. Mária Gáliková, Slovakia 1:34:38 (PB)
25. Gisella Orsini, Italy 1:35:05
26. Vira Zozulya, Ukraine 1:35:12
27. Inês Henriques, Portugal 1:35:44
28. María José Poves, Spain 1:36:12
29. Kim Mi-Jung, South Korea 1:37:01
30. Sonata Milušauskaitė, Lithuania 1:37:17
31. Mayumi Kawasaki, Japan 1:37:30
32. Monica Svensson, Sweden 1:38:11
33. Graciela Mendoza, Mexico 1:39:56
34. Mabel Oncebay, Peru 1:40:46
35. Outi Sillanpää, Finland 1:41:03

Athletes who did not finish

• Sachiko Konishi, Japan
• Teresa Vaill, United States
• Yelena Nikolayeva, Russia
• Miriam Ramón, Ecuador
• Nataliya Misyulya, Belarus
• Wang Liping, China

Athletes disqualified

• Olive Loughnane, Ireland
• Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greece
• Cristina López, El Salvador
• Jiang Jing, China
• Evelyn Núñez, Guatemala
• Gulnara Mammadova, Azerbaijan

See also

• 2005 Race Walking Year Ranking

External links

• IAAF results

Notes and References

1. News: Sokolova just manages to head-off Kirdyapkina and clocks 1:25:08 World record. https://web.archive.org/web/20110228231816/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=59405.html. dead. February 28, 2011. IAAF. 2011-02-26. 2011-02-27.