The Women's 20 km race walk event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 7 in the streets of Helsinki with the start at 11:35h local time, and the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Russia's Olimpiada Ivanova won the race in a world record time of 1:25:41 hours.
Medalists Gold Olimpiada IvanovaRussia (RUS)Silver Ryta TuravaBelarus (BLR)Bronze Susana FeitorPortugal (POR)
Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startDSQ disqualifiedNM no markWR world recordWL world leadingAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best
Intermediates RankNumberAthleteTime5 kilometres 1 635 21:43 2 112 21:43 3 116 22:02 4 60 22:02 5 391 22:1410 kilometres 1 635 42:54 2 60 43:59 3 116 43:59 4 177 44:04 5 337 44:0515 kilometres 1 635 1:04:05 2 60 1:05:26 3 391 1:05:57 4 337 1:06:04 5 197 1:06:10
Finishing times Olimpiada Ivanova, Russia 1:25:41 (WR) Ryta Turava, Belarus 1:27:05 (NR) Susana Feitor, Portugal 1:28:44 (SB) María Vasco, Spain 1:28:51 (SB) Barbora Dibelková, Czech Republic 1:29:05 (NR) Athina Papayianni, Greece 1:29:21 (SB) Elisa Rigaudo, Italy 1:29:52 Claudia Stef, Romania 1:30:07 Song Hongjuan, China 1:30:32 Yuliya Voyevodina, Russia 1:30:34 Melanie Seeger, Germany 1:31:00 Kristina Saltanovic, Lithuania 1:31:23 (SB) Elena Ginko, Belarus 1:31:36 Ana Maria Groza, Romania 1:31:48 (SB) Vera Santos, Portugal 1:32:17 Maria Teresa Gargallo, Spain 1:32:24 Svetlana Tolstaya, Kazakhstan 1:32:40 Tatyana Gudkova, Russia 1:33:05 Geovana Irusta, Bolivia 1:33:19 Jane Saville, Australia 1:33:44 Cheryl Webb, Australia 1:33:58 Jolanta Dukure, Latvia 1:34:24 (SB) Sabine Zimmer, Germany 1:34:24 Mária Gáliková, Slovakia 1:34:38 (PB) Gisella Orsini, Italy 1:35:05 Vira Zozulya, Ukraine 1:35:12 Inês Henriques, Portugal 1:35:44 María José Poves, Spain 1:36:12 Kim Mi-Jung, South Korea 1:37:01 Sonata Milušauskaitė, Lithuania 1:37:17 Mayumi Kawasaki, Japan 1:37:30 Monica Svensson, Sweden 1:38:11 Graciela Mendoza, Mexico 1:39:56 Mabel Oncebay, Peru 1:40:46 Outi Sillanpää, Finland 1:41:03
Athletes who did not finish Sachiko Konishi, Japan Teresa Vaill, United States Yelena Nikolayeva, Russia Miriam Ramón, Ecuador Nataliya Misyulya, Belarus Wang Liping, China
Athletes disqualified Olive Loughnane, Ireland Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greece Cristina López, El Salvador Jiang Jing, China Evelyn Núñez, Guatemala Gulnara Mammadova, Azerbaijan
See also 2005 Race Walking Year Ranking
References
External links IAAF results