2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 2007 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		women
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

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)
Silver	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)
Bronze	María Vasco (ESP)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
DSQ	disqualified
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

World record Championship record

1:25:41

Olimpiada Ivanova

Russia

Helsinki, Finland

7 August 2005

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	22:21
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	22:41
3	112	Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)	23:00
4	116	María Vasco (ESP)	23:22
5	107	Song Hongjuan (CHN)	23:23
10 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	44:33
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	45:17
3	116	María Vasco (ESP)	45:53
4	112	Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)	45:58
5	105	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	46:23
15 KILOMETRES
1	101	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	1:06:46
2	111	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	1:07:42
3	116	María Vasco (ESP)	1:08:09
4	105	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	1:08:46
5	129	Susana Feitor (POR)	1:08:51

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	1:30:09
	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	1:30:42
	María Vasco (ESP)	1:30:47
4	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	1:31:24
5	Susana Feitor (POR)	1:32:01
6	Claudia Stef (ROM)	1:32:47
7	Inês Henriques (POR)	1:33:06
8	Sabine Zimmer (GER)	1:33:23
9	Tatyana Sibileva (RUS)	1:33:29
10	Mayumi Kawasaki (JPN)	1:33:35
11	Vera Santos (POR)	1:34:28
12	María José Poves (ESP)	1:35:06
13	Beatriz Pascual (ESP)	1:35:13
14	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:35:30
15	Song Hongjuan (CHN)	1:35:44
16	Elena Ginko (BLR)	1:35:59
17	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	1:36:00
18	Zuzana Malíková (SVK)	1:36:26
19	Liu Hong (CHN)	1:36:40
20	Barbora Dibelková (CZE)	1:36:45
21	Marie Polli (SUI)	1:36:54
22	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	1:37:28
23	Sylwia Korzeniowska (POL)	1:37:38
24	Mária Gáliková (SVK)	1:38:54
25	Johanna Jackson (GBR)	1:39:34
26	Kim Mi-Jung (KOR)	1:41:33
27	Masumi Fuchise (JPN)	1:41:49
28	Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)	1:41:54
29	Yadira Guamán (ECU)	1:42:17
30	Tania Regina Spindler (BRA)	1:43:56
31	Sandra Zapata (COL)	1:44:42
32	Yeliz Ay (TUR)	1:45:52
33	Geovana Irusta (BOL)	1:47:15	SB
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Ryoko Sakakura (JPN)	DSQ
—	Jane Saville (AUS)	DSQ
—	Teresa Vaill (USA)	DSQ
—	Miriam Ramón (ECU)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	DNF
—	Elisa Rigaudo (ITA)	DNF
—	Jolanta Dukure (LAT)	DNF
—	Jiang Jing (CHN)	DNF
—	Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE)	DNF

References

• Full results - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite