Details: Category: 2000 Olympic Games Sydney - (Athletics); Last Updated: 27 June 2019; Published: 23 March 2016; Hits: 208

Tags:

Host City: Sydney, Australia

Date Started: September 28, 2000

Date Finished: September 28, 2000

(Entries 57; Countries: 31)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Overview by IAAF

Disqualification was the principal theme of this race. With 4Km to go the lead was held by Liu Hongyu of China in 1:11:07, who was trailed by one second by Elisabeta Perrone (ITA) and Australia’s Jane Saville. Of the eventual medallists Plätzer (1:11:15) was closest, with Vasco another 44 seconds behind. Liu and Perrone were disqualified shortly after, leaving Saville in the lead. The Aussie herself was disqualified with 150m to go, and was distraught enough to ask for a gun “to shoot myself.” However, she later supported the judge’s decision. Wang had made her move on Plätzer with 3Km to go gaining 10 seconds between 16 and 18Km.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The women’s walk distance was moved up to 20 kilometers in 2000. The favorite was 1999 World Champion Liu Hongyu of China. She led the race thru 15 km., but was then disqualified. The silver medalist from 1996 in the 10 km., Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) then went ahead, but also received a red flag. This left Australia’s Jane Saville in the lead, which she held to the stadium track but there, she too, was disqualified. This left Wang Liping in first place on the track and she won by almost 30 seconds.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics
World record	Tatyana Gudkova (RUS)	1:25:18	19 May 2000	Moscow, Russia
Olympic record	New event after the 10 km was contested previously

		Results

*20 km walk*	Women	Final	28 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	1.29.05	Wang Liping	China	CHN	8 Jul 76
2	1.29.33	Kjersti Tysse Plätzer	Norway	NOR	18 Jan 72
3	1.30.23	María Vasco	Spain	ESP	26 Dec 75
4	1.31.25	Erica Alfridi	Italy	ITA	22 Feb 68
5	1.31.33	Guadalupe Sánchez	Mexico	MEX	14 Feb 74
6	1.31.50	Norica Cîmpean	Romania	ROU	22 Mar 72
7	1.32.02	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	AUS	2 Jun 61
8	1.32.35	Tatyana Gudkova	Russia	RUS	23 Dec 77
9	1.33.08	Natalya Misyulya	Belarus	BLR	14 Apr 66
10	1.33.10	Gillian O'Sullivan	Ireland	IRL	21 Aug 76
11	1.33.14	Athiná Papayiánni	Greece	GRE	18 Aug 80
12	1.33.22	Valentina Savchuk	Ukraine	UKR	19 Jan 75
13	1.33.38	Ana Maria Groza	Romania	ROU	1 Jun 76
14	1.33.53	Susana Feitor	Portugal	POR	28 Jan 75
15	1.34.19	Yuan Yufang	Malaysia	MAS	1 Feb 76
16	1.34.24	Kristina Saltanovič	Lithuania	LTU	20 Feb 75
17	1.34.26	Michelle Rohl	United States	USA	12 Nov 65
18	1.34.45	Mária Urbanik-Rosza	Hungary	HUN	12 Feb 67
19	1.34.59	Beate Gummelt	Germany	GER	4 Feb 68
20	1.35.06	Encarna Granados	Spain	ESP	30 Jan 72
21	1.35.19	Svetlana Tolstaya	Kazakhstan	KAZ	9 Aug 71
22	1.35.29	Nora Genebrier	France	FRA	13 May 74
23	1.35.35	Fatiha Ouali	France	FRA	28 Oct 74
24	1.35.43	Vira Zozulya	Ukraine	UKR	31 Aug 70
25	1.36.09	Kim Mi-Jung	South Korea	KOR	10 Jun 79
26	1.36.17	Mara Ibáñez	Mexico	MEX	17 Dec 74
27	1.36.35	Eva Pérez	Spain	ESP	18 Jul 75
28	1.36.44	Valentina Tsybulskaya	Belarus	BLR	19 Feb 68
29	1.36.46	Anikó Szebenszky	Hungary	HUN	12 Aug 65
30	1.36.54	Jolanta Dukure	Latvia	LAT	20 Sep 79
31	1.37.14	Sonata Milušauskaitė	Lithuania	LTU	31 Aug 73
32	1.37.39	Larisa Khmelnitskaya	Belarus	BLR	23 Sep 71
33	1.37.47	Lisa Kehler	Great Britain	GBR	15 Mar 67
34	1.38.07	Ivis Martínez	El Salvador	ESA	5 Jan 71
35	1.38.23	Olive Loughnane	Ireland	IRL	14 Jan 76
36	1.38.52	Hristína Kokótou	Greece	GRE	9 Jan 72
37	1.39.17	Anita Liepiņa	Latvia	LAT	17 Nov 67
38	1.39.36	Chen Yueling	United States	USA	1 Apr 68
39	1.40.57	Lisa Sheridan-Paolini	Australia	AUS	10 Dec 62
40	1.42.45	Yelena Kuznetsova	Kazakhstan	KAZ	4 Jul 77
41	1.43.28	Natividad Teresita Collado	Guatemala	GUA	20 Nov 71
42	1.43.34	Geovanna Irusta	Bolivia	BOL	26 Sep 75
43	1.44.03	Zuzana Blažeková	Slovakia	SVK	1 Jul 80
44	1.47.20	Debbi Lawrence	United States	USA	15 Oct 61
45	1.52.50	Bahia Boussad	Algeria	ALG	31 Jan 79
	DQ	Liu Hongyu	China	CHN	11 Jan 75
	DQ	Maria Graciela Mendoza	Mexico	MEX	22 Mar 63
	DQ	Janice McCaffrey	Canada	CAN	20 Oct 59
	DQ	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	ITA	9 Jul 68
	DQ	Jane Saville	Australia	AUS	5 Nov 74
	DNF	Irina Stankina	Russia	RUS	25 Mar 77
	DNF	Maya Sazonova	Kazakhstan	KAZ	28 May 65
	DNF	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	ITA	25 Jul 69
	DNF	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland	POL	31 Aug 69
	DNF	Olga Polyakova	Russia	RUS	23 Sep 80
	DNF	Aida Isayeva	Azerbaijan	AZE	12 Sep 73
	DNF	Kathrin Boyde	Germany	GER	4 Dec 70