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1997 World Championships in Athletics Athens, Greece

1997 6th IAAF World Championships - Athens - Men's 20km Race Walk

 

 

Host City: Athens, Greece
Dates: August 1–10, 1997
Nations participating: 198
Athletes participating: 1882
    Main venue: Olympic Stadium
Overview by IAAF   oaka7 
With defending champion Didoni finishing seventh and Olympic gold medallist Pérez 14th, the race looked to be going the way of Olympic silver medallist Markov, who by halfway had built up a 19-second lead over Shchennikov in 40:05. He, however, was disqualified just before 15k, at which point Garcia held a 5-second advantage and the Mexican doubled that over the final 5Km. Victory was especially sweet as he had been disqualified late in the race when in medal position both in 1993 and 1995. On this occasion, after a cautious start (9th at halfway in 40:50), he received two warnings, as did silver medallist Shchennikov while the third placed Khmelnitskiy finished with a clean sheet from the judges. Disqualified this time, in retrospect for a doping violation dating back to 1996, was 1992 Olympic Daniel Plaza (originally 10th).
 These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1997 World Championships held on Saturday 2 August 1997 in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 49 participating athletes.

Records

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
Event RecordNarinder Singh1:24:5019 April 1997Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
World Record  Bu Lingtang (CHN) 1:18.04 April 7, 1994 China Beijing, PR China
Event Record  Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:19.37 August 24, 1991 Japan Tokyo, Japan
 
 
  20km Race Walk 2 August

Event report men 20km walk

Mexican Daniel García had tonight his biggest revenge by winning the 20 Km race walk that finished at the sunset of the first day of competitions of the 6th IAAF World Championships. García, who had been disqualified at the two previous editions of the World Championships won in 1:21:43. The 5th Km of the race that took place on a nice evening with 30° C and 45% of humidity, was covered in 20:11 by Russians Mikhail Shchennikov, Ilya Markov and the defending World Champion, Italian Michele Didoni. The 2nd group, which had the Olympic Champion Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador and García, was 9 seconds behind them. At 33 minutes, Markov who was the lonely leader after leaving his countryman behind, had already received his first warning a couple of minutes earlier. The first half was covered in 40:05 by Markov, followed by Shchennikov 19 seconds behind, and 21 seconds later was the group that included Pérez, García and Belarus’ Mikhail Khmelnitsky. García and Pérez left Khmelnitsky behind and caught Shchennikov at the minute 48th. Two minutes later Markov received his second warning of the evening, but that didn’t make him ease his pace. García and Shchennikov left Pérez behind at the 51 minute, and 2 minutes later occurred a radical change in the race. With 2 laps to go at the loop that the walkers had to cover 5 times, Markov received his 3 warning, and was disqualified. After that García left Shchennikov and reached the 15 Km mark in 1:00:55, with the Russian 5 seconds behind, Khmelnitsky in 3rd place and Pérez falling back. García who was warned for the first time at 44 minutes, received his 2nd card with 1:10 minutes covered in the race, but Shchennikov also had two warnings and couldn’t risk much more, so he had to settle for the Silver Medal, with Khmelnitsky taking the bronze. Pérez who has the fastest time of the year, kept falling and finished 14th. Among other walkers disqualified were Guatemalan Julio Martínez, a man who had the 5th best time of the year among the 49 walkers that started the race.
  Final
1 Daniel García MEX 28 Oct 71 1.21.43
2 Mikhail Shchennikov RUS 24 Dec 67 1.21.53
3 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy BLR 24 Jul 69 1.22.01
4 Yu Guohui CHN 30 Apr 77 1.22.57
5 Li Zewen CHN 5 Dec 73 1.23.03
6 Yevgeniy Misyulya BLR 9 Mar 64 1.23.10
7 Michele Didoni ITA 7 Mar 74 1.23.14
8 Giovanni De Benedictis ITA 8 Jan 68 1.23.33
9 Hatem Ghoula TUN 7 Jun 73 1.23.49
10 Daniel Plaza ESP 3 Jul 66 1.23.53
11 Robert Ihly GER 5 May 63 1.24.12
12 Alessandro Gandellini ITA 30 Apr 73 1.24.24
13 Igor Kollár SVK 26 Jun 65 1.24.37
14 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1 Jul 74 1.24.46
15 Jacek Müller POL 3 Nov 73 1.24.47
16 Joel Sánchez MEX 16 Mar 74 1.24.48
17 Denis Langlois FRA 10 Oct 68 1.25.27
18 Omar Zepeda MEX 8 Jul 77 1.25.38
19 Nick A'Hern AUS 6 Jan 69 1.25.46
20 Artur Meleshkevich BLR 11 Apr 75 1.25.47
21 Sérgio Galdino BRA 7 May 69 1.25.50
22 Roberto Oscal GUA 3 Jul 74 1.26.20
23 Marco Giungi ITA 30 Oct 74 1.26.23
24 Modris Liepiņš LAT 3 Aug 66 1.26.24
25 Jean-Oliver Brosseau FRA 23 Jun 67 1.26.39
26 Sándor Urbanik HUN 15 Dec 64 1.26.50
27 Gyula Dudás HUN 20 Aug 66 1.27.17
28 José Urbano POR 1 Mar 66 1.27.25
29 Miloš Holuša CZE 2 May 65 1.27.27
30 Feodosii Ciumacenco MDA 27 Jan 73 1.28.51
31 Luis García GUA 13 Sep 74 1.28.51
32 Dion Russell AUS 8 May 75 1.30.49
33 Róbert Valíček SVK 10 Mar 69 1.31.28
34 Curt Clausen USA 9 Oct 67 1.32.05
35 Valeriy Borisov KAZ 18 Sep 66 1.32.32
36 Dimitrios Orfanopoulos GRE 9 May 64 1.32.37
37 Fernando Vázquez ESP 4 May 71 1.32.44
38 Chris Britz RSA 13 Jan 63 1.34.02
- Aigars Fadejevs LAT DNF
- Scott Nelson NZL DNF
- Claus Jorgensen DEN DNF
- Thierry Toutain FRA DNF
- Vladimir Andreyev RUS DNF
- Jan Staaf SWE DQ
- Andreas Erm GER DQ
- Julio Rene Martinez GUA DQ
- Ilya Markov RUS DQ
- Rami Ali Deeb PAL DQ
- Narinder Singh Al Harbans Singh MAS DQ

02 AUG 1997 19:20 

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 1997
1 Jefferson Pérez ECU ECU 1:18:24 1:18:24
2 Daniel García Cordova MEX MEX 1:18:27 1:18:27
3 Ilya Markov RUS RUS 1:18:30 1:18:30
4 Zewen Li CHN CHN 1:18:32 1:18:32
5 Julio René Martínez GUA GUA 1:18:51 1:18:51
6 Yevgeniy Misyulya BLR BLR 1:18:18 1:18:55
7 Vladimir Andreyev RUS RUS 1:18:32 1:18:59
8 Hatem Ghoula TUN TUN 1:19:02 1:19:02
9 Mikhail Shchennikov RUS RUS 1:18:36 1:19:05
10 Artur Meleshkevich BLR BLR 1:19:29 1:19:29
11 Aigars Fadejevs LAT LAT 1:19:36 1:19:36
12 Nicholas A'Hern AUS AUS 1:19:33 1:20:04
13 Joel Sánchez MEX MEX    
14 Igor Kollár SVK SVK 1:18:41 1:20:09
15 Modris Liepinš LAT LAT 1:22:04 1:22:04
16 Alessandro Gandellini ITA ITA 1:20:31 1:20:31
17 Denis Langlois FRA FRA 1:20:35 1:20:35
18 Daniel Plaza ESP ESP 1:20:40 1:20:40
19 Sándor Urbanik HUN HUN 1:20:41 1:20:41
20 Thierry Toutain FRA FRA 1:20:43 1:20:43
21 Valeriy Borissov KAZ KAZ 1:19:55 1:21:51
22 Giovanni De Benedictis ITA ITA 1:20:29 1:20:49
23 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy BLR BLR 1:20:51 1:20:51
24 Róbert Valícek SVK SVK 1:20:58 1:20:58
25 Jacek Müller POL POL 1:25:24  
26 Fernando Vázquez ESP ESP 1:20:59 1:20:59
27 Andreas Erm GER GER 1:21:05 1:21:05
28 Robert Ihly GER GER 1:19:59 1:21:47
29 Sérgio Galdino BRA BRA 1:19:56 1:21:50
30 Michele Didoni ITA ITA 1:19:59 1:21:56
31 Gyula Dudás HUN HUN 1:24:56 1:24:56
32 Miloš Holuša CZE CZE 1:21:58 1:21:58
33 Omar Zepeda MEX MEX 1:21:59 1:21:59
34 Jean-Olivier Brosseau FRA FRA 1:22:04 1:22:04
35 Guohui Yu CHN CHN 1:19:38 1:22:08
36 Luis García GUA GUA 1:25:42 1:25:42
37 Roberto Oscal GUA GUA 1:22:34 1:22:34
38 Jan Staaf SWE SWE 1:23:50 1:23:50
39 José Urbano POR POR 1:21:41 1:22:40
40 Marco Giungi ITA ITA 1:22:41 1:22:41
41 Dion Russell AUS AUS 1:23:40 1:23:40
42 Scott Nelson NZL NZL 1:23:04  
43 Chris Britz RSA RSA 1:22:21 1:24:35
44 Curt Clausen USA USA 1:24:41 1:24:41
45 Narinder Singh Harbans Singh MAS MAS 1:24:50 1:24:50
46 Fedosei Ciumacenco MDA MDA 1:27:57  
47 Claus Jørgensen DEN DEN 1:22:18 1:34:54
48 Dimitrios Orfanopoulos GRE GRE 1:29:26 1:29:26
49 Rami Abdelhadi Al-Deeb PLE PLE    

 

 

 

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