| Host City: Seville, Spain |
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| Dates: August 20–29, 1999 |
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| Nations participating: 201 |
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| Athletes participating: 1821 |
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Main venue: Estadio Olímpico
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| Overview by IAAF |
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| China’s only medals of the championships came here as Liu Hongyu and Wang Yan entered the stadium well clear of the rest and just two strides apart. Covering the final 5 kilometres in a vicious 22:11, Liu (24) won the inaugural world title at this distance. She had already won the World Cup race earlier in the year in 1:27:32, just 2 sec outside the world record she shared. Wang, who became the youngest ever world record breaker when setting 5000m figures in 1986, aged 14, added a silver to her Olympic bronze of 1996. The bronze went to a real veteran in 38 year-old Junna-Saxby, 12 years after taking silver; although she thought she was fourth when she finished. Fedoskina, who set a world junior best of 1:27:35 for second in the World Cup, was disqualified when in third place just seven minutes from the finish, while defending champion Sidoti was a non-finisher due to stomach trouble. |
| The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain, held on Friday 27 August 1999, starting at 18:50h local time. |
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20km Race Walk |
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27 August |
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| Women 20km Walk Final Chinese Liu Hongyu, holder of the 20km walk all-time best performance, is the first World Champion in this event. Consequently her time of 1:30.50, only two seconds ahead of compatriot Yan Wang becomes a World Championship record . The bronze medal was for evergreen Australian Kerry Saxby-Junna (38 years old), who battled it out in the final few kilometres against Portugal's Susana Feitor, 1998 European Championship bronze medallist. The race was lead in the first kilometres by the Belarussian Kardopoltseva, who soon had to reduce her pace due to two warnings (finally she was disqualified). After this a compact group was formed, which broke around the 15 kilometre point. The Chinese duo and Russia's Natalia Fedoskina took the lead, but the Russian was later disqualified. Defending champion Italian Annarita Sidoti had problems in the second part of the race and was not able to finish. |
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Final |
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| 1 |
Liu Hongyu |
CHN |
11 Jan 75 |
1.30.50 |
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Wang Yan |
CHN |
3 May 71 |
1.30.52 |
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| 3 |
Kerry Saxby-Junna |
AUS |
2 Jun 61 |
1.31.18 |
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Susana Feitor |
POR |
28 Jan 75 |
1.31.23 |
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| 5 |
Katarzyna Radtke |
POL |
31 Aug 69 |
1.31.34 |
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| 6 |
Erica Alfridi |
ITA |
22 Feb 68 |
1.32.04 |
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| 7 |
Jane Saville |
AUS |
5 Nov 74 |
1.32.13 |
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| 8 |
Maya Sazonova |
KAZ |
28 May 65 |
1.32.19 |
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| 9 |
Kjersti Tysse Plätzer |
NOR |
18 Jan 72 |
1.32.42 |
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| 10 |
María Vasco |
ESP |
26 Dec 75 |
1.33.35 |
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| 11 |
Claudia Ştef |
ROU |
25 Feb 78 |
1.33.46 |
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| 12 |
Yelena Nikolayeva |
RUS |
17 Mar 66 |
1.34.10 |
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| 13 |
Hristína Deskou |
GRE |
27 May 73 |
1.34.39 |
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| 14 |
Natalya Misyulya |
BLR |
14 Apr 66 |
1.35.03 |
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| 15 |
Gao Hongmiao |
CHN |
17 Mar 74 |
1.35.07 |
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| 16 |
Yuan Yufang |
MAS |
1 Feb 76 |
1.35.31 |
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| 17 |
Irina Stankina |
RUS |
25 Mar 77 |
1.35.42 |
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| 18 |
Kristina Saltanovič |
LTU |
20 Feb 75 |
1.35.51 |
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| 19 |
Svetlana Tolstaya |
KAZ |
9 Aug 71 |
1.35.54 |
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| 20 |
Nora Genebrier |
FRA |
13 May 74 |
1.36.17 |
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| 21 |
Elisabetta Perrone |
ITA |
9 Jul 68 |
1.36.24 |
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| 22 |
Mária Urbanik-Rosza |
HUN |
12 Feb 67 |
1.36.48 |
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| 23 |
Fatiha Ouali |
FRA |
28 Oct 74 |
1.36.57 |
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| 24 |
Yuka Mitsumori |
JPN |
8 Jan 72 |
1.37.13 |
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| 25 |
Guadalupe Sánchez |
MEX |
14 Feb 74 |
1.37.31 |
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| 26 |
Teresa Linares |
ESP |
29 Apr 69 |
1.37.51 |
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| 27 |
Rossella Giordano |
ITA |
1 Dec 72 |
1.38.06 |
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| 28 |
Anikó Szebenszky |
HUN |
12 Aug 65 |
1.38.27 |
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| 29 |
Jolanta Dukure |
LAT |
20 Sep 79 |
1.38.34 |
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| 30 |
Sonata Milušauskaitė |
LTU |
31 Aug 73 |
1.39.56 |
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| 31 |
Susan Armenta |
USA |
19 Sep 73 |
1.40.20 |
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| 32 |
Gillian O'Sullivan |
IRL |
21 Aug 76 |
1.40.33 |
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| 33 |
Melanie Seeger |
GER |
8 Jan 77 |
1.40.51 |
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| 34 |
Rosario Sánchez |
MEX |
26 Oct 73 |
1.41.04 |
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| 35 |
Natividad Teresita Collado |
GUA |
20 Nov 71 |
1.41.12 |
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| 36 |
Geovanna Irusta |
BOL |
26 Sep 75 |
1.41.17 |
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| 37 |
Hristína Kokótou |
GRE |
9 Jan 72 |
1.42.50 |
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| 38 |
Danielle Kirk |
USA |
14 Feb 74 |
1.43.27 |
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Kim Mi-Jung |
KOR |
10 Jun 79 |
1.46.36 |
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Norica Cîmpean |
ROU |
22 Mar 72 |
DNF |
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Larisa Ramazanova-Khmelnitskaya |
BLR |
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DNF |
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Susan Vermeulen |
RSA |
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DNF |
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Valentina Savchuk |
UKR |
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DNF |
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Monika Pesti |
HUN |
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DNF |
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Annarita Sidoti |
ITA |
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DNF |
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Celia Marcen |
ESP |
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DNF |
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Joanne Dow |
USA |
19 Mar 64 |
DQ |
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Ivis Martínez |
ESA |
5 Jan 71 |
DQ |
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Natalya Fedoskina |
RUS |
25 Jun 80 |
DQ |
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Olga Kardopoltseva |
BLR |
11 Sep 66 |
DQ |
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Maria Graciela Mendoza |
MEX |
22 Mar 63 |
DQ |
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Miriam Ramón |
ECU |
10 Feb 73 |
DNS |
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