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Host City: Atlanta, United States

Date Started: July 29, 1996

Date Finished: July 29, 1996

(Competitors: 44; Countries: 26)

Venue(s): Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

Overview by IAAF

Nikolayeva had won silver in Barcelona as well as two world championship medals, but had never taken gold at the top level. She and Irina Stankina, her compatriot who had won the ’95 world title, led through halfway. Stankina was disqualified 800m later, and Nikolayeva extended the lead over the Italians to 27 seconds at 8Km. Giordano dropped back as the Chinese attacked in the last two kilometres, but Perrone was a safe second, finishing 23 seconds behind Nikolayeva. Gao Hongmiao was the first Chinese to finish, just ahead of Wang, but was disqualified for “lifting.”

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The 1995 World Champion was Russian Irina Stankina. She her teammate, Yelena Nikolayeva, took the early lead but Stankina was disqualified at the six kilometer mark. Nikolayeva had no major titles, having finished 2nd at the 1995 World Cup, 3rd at the 1995 World Championships, and 2nd at the 1992 Olympics, but she had set three track world records and one road world best at the distance, the last coming earlier in 1996. With Stankina out, Nikolayeva was unchallenged in winning her first major gold medal.

		Results

*10 km walk*	Women	Final	29 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	41.49	Yelena Nikolayeva	Russia	RUS	17 Mar 66
2	42.12	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	ITA	9 Jul 68
3	42.19	Wang Yan	China	CHN	3 May 71
4	42.34	Gu Yan	China	CHN	17 Mar 74
5	42.43	Rossella Giordano	Italy	ITA	1 Dec 72
6	43.02	Olga Kardopoltseva	Belarus	BLR	11 Sep 66
7	43.05	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland	POL	31 Aug 69
8	43.21	Valentina Tsybulskaya	Belarus	BLR	19 Feb 68
9	43.32	Mária Urbanik-Rosza	Hungary	HUN	12 Feb 67
10	43.5	Yelena Gruzinova	Russia	RUS	24 Dec 67
11	43.57	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	ITA	25 Jul 69
12	43.59	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	AUS	2 Jun 61
13	44.24	Susana Feitor	Portugal	POR	28 Jan 75
14	44.29	Michelle Rohl	United States	USA	12 Nov 65
15	44.5	Kathrin Boyde	Germany	GER	4 Dec 70
16	45.02	Sari Essayah	Finland	FIN	21 Feb 67
17	45.11	Natalya Misyulya	Belarus	BLR	14 Apr 66
18	45.13	Maria Graciela Mendoza	Mexico	MEX	22 Mar 63
19	45.27	Anne Manning	Australia	AUS	13 Nov 59
20	45.32	Debbi Lawrence	United States	USA	15 Oct 61
21	45.35	Svetlana Tolstaya	Kazakhstan	KAZ	9 Aug 71
22	45.35	Anita Liepiņa	Latvia	LAT	17 Nov 67
23	45.47	Deirdre Gallagher	Ireland	IRL	13 Jul 74
24	45.47	Anastasia Karen Silvaraj	Malaysia	MAS	26 Jul 75
25	45.47	Janice McCaffrey	Canada	CAN	20 Oct 59
26	45.56	Jane Saville	Australia	AUS	5 Nov 74
27	45.57	Anikó Szebenszky	Hungary	HUN	12 Aug 65
28	46.09	María Vasco	Spain	ESP	26 Dec 75
29	46.19	Norica Cîmpean	Romania	ROU	22 Mar 72
30	46.25	Tatyana Ragozina	Ukraine	UKR	3 Sep 64
31	46.43	Nathalie Fortain	France	FRA	12 Jul 69
32	46.51	Tina Poitras	Canada	CAN	5 Oct 70
33	47.05	Vicky Lupton	Great Britain	GBR	17 Apr 72
34	47.13	Geovanna Irusta	Bolivia	BOL	26 Sep 75
35	47.33	Maya Sazonova	Kazakhstan	KAZ	28 May 65
36	47.49	Valérie Nadaud	France	FRA	16 Mar 68
37	48.05	Sonata Milušauskaitė	Lithuania	LTU	31 Aug 73
38	48.47	Kada Delic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	7 Jul 65
	DQ	Irina Stankina	Russia	RUS	25 Mar 77
	DNF	Encarna Granados	Spain	ESP	30 Jan 72
	DQ	Gao Hongmiao	China	CHN	17 Mar 74
	DQ	Yuka Mitsumori	Japan	JPN	8 Jan 72
	DQ	Beate Gummelt	Germany	GER	4 Feb 68
	DQ	Victoria Herazo	United States	USA	2 Jun 59