2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 2003 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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The Men's 20 km Walk at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France was held on 4 August 2003, with the start at 08.30h local time.

Medalists

Gold	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador (ECU)
Silver	Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Roman Rasskazov Russia (RUS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
	personal best
	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:17.22	April 28, 2002	Turku, Finland
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19.37	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Broken records during the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17.21	August 23, 2003	Paris, France
Event Record

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	19:29
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	19:35
3	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	19:35
4	1164	Viktor Burayev (RUS)	19:36
5	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	19:36
10 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	38:38
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	39:10
3	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	39:11
4	1181	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	39:11
5	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	39:11
15 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	58:03
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	58:19
3	1181	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	58:34
4	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	58:38
5	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	58:39

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21
	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:18:00
	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	1:18:07
4	Noé Hernández (MEX)	1:18:14
5	Luke Adams (AUS)	1:19:35
6	Ivan Trotski (BLR)	1:19:40
7	David Márquez (ESP)	1:19:46
8	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:20:14
9	José David Dominguez (ESP)	1:20:15
10	Alejandro López (MEX)	1:20:24
11	Lorenzo Civallero (ITA)	1:20:34
12	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:20:38
13	André Höhne (GER)	1:20:44
14	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:21:12
15	Yu Chaohong (CHN)	1:21:18
16	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:21:23
17	João Vieira (POR)	1:22:07
18	Kevin Eastler (USA)	1:22:25
19	Erik Tysse (NOR)	1:22:43
20	Akinori Matsuzaki (JPN)	1:24:22
21	Alessandro Gandellini (ITA)	1:24:45
22	Predrag Filipović (SCG)	1:25:15
23	Xu Xingde (CHN)	1:25:41
24	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:26:48
25	Feodosiy Chumachenko (MDA)	1:27:27
26	Benjamin Kuciński (POL)	1:27:41
27	Jiří Malysa (CZE)	1:30:17
28	Allan Segura (CRC)	1:30:53	NR
29	Ronald Huayta (BOL)	1:31:15
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Toshihito Fujinohara (JPN)	DSQ
—	Eiichi Yoshizawa (JPN)	DSQ
—	Julius Sawe (KEN)	DSQ
—	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	DSQ
—	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Bernardo Segura (MEX)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Lee Dae-Ro (KOR)	DSQ
—	Viktor Burayev (RUS)	DSQ

See also

• Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Men's 20 kilometres walk
• 2003 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Results
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite