1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

The 1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 19 and 20 April 1997 in the streets of Poděbrady, Czech Republic. The course followed a loop around Lázeňský park.

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given for the IAAF.

Complete results were published.

Medallists MenMen's 20 km walkJefferson Pérez 1:18:24Daniel García 1:18:27Ilya Markov 1:18:30Men's 50 km walkJesús Ángel García 3:39:54Oleg Ishutkin 3:40:12Valentin Kononen 3:41:09 Team (Men)Lugano Trophy (team men overall) 865 pts 803 pts 802 ptsTeam (Men 20 km) 431 pts 413 pts 403 ptsTeam (Men 50 km) 434 pts 415 pts 407 pts WomenWomen's 10 km walkIrina Stankina 41:52Olimpiada Ivanova 41:59Gu Yan 42:15 Team (women)Eschborn Cup (Women 10 km) 440 pts 435 pts 425 pts

Results

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Notes Jefferson Pérez 1:18:24   Daniel García 1:18:27   Ilya Markov 1:18:30   4 Li Zewen 1:18:32   5 Julio René Martínez 1:18:51   6 Yevgeniy Misyulya 1:18:55   7 Rishat Shafikov 1:19:27   8 Artur Meleshkevich 1:19:33   9 Mikhail Shchennikov 1:19:45   10 Vladimir Andreyev 1:19:46   11 Andrey Makarov 1:19:54   12 Nicholas A'Hern 1:20:04   13 Joel Sánchez 1:20:05   14 Igor Kollár 1:20:09   15 Aigars Fadejevs 1:20:13   16 Daisuke Ikeshima 1:20:27   17 Alessandro Gandellini 1:20:31   18 Denis Langlois 1:20:35   19 Valentí Massana 1:20:39   20 Sándor Urbanik 1:20:41 21 Thierry Toutain 1:20:43 22 Giovanni De Benedictis 1:20:49 23 Walter Arena 1:20:50 24 Mikhail Khmelnitsky 1:20:51 25 Sérgio Vieira 1:20:58 26 Róbert Valíček 1:20:58 27 João Vieira 1:20:59 28 Fernando Vázquez 1:20:59 29 Andreas Erm 1:21:05 30 Valdas Kazlauskas 1:21:29 31 Mariusz Ornoch 1:21:33 32 Robert Ihly 1:21:47 33 Sergio Galdino 1:21:50 34 Valeriy Borisov 1:21:51 35 Omar Zepeda 1:21:59 36 Vladimir Druchik 1:22:03 37 Jean-Olivier Brosseau 1:22:04 38 Modris Liepiņš 1:22:04 39 Yu Guohui 1:22:08 40 Aleksandar Raković 1:22:12 41 Cláudio Bertolino 1:22:31 42 Sergey Korepanov 1:22:32 43 Roberto Oscal 1:22:34 44 José Urbano 1:22:40 45 Marco Giungi 1:22:41 46 Paquillo Fernández 1:22:41 47 Yuriy Kuko 1:23:05 48 Hubert Sonnek 1:23:08 49 Dion Russell 1:23:40 50 Jan Staaf 1:23:50 51 Jiří Malysa 1:23:55 52 Nathan Deakes 1:23:58 53 Roman Magdziarczyk 1:24:01 54 Vitaliy Stetsyshyn 1:24:13 55 Juan Antonio Porras 1:24:28 56 Yuriy Gordeyev 1:24:34 57 Chris Britz 1:24:35 58 Gintaras Andriuškevičius 1:24:37 59 Curt Clausen 1:24:41 60 Eddy Riva 1:24:47 61 Narinder Harbans Singh 1:24:50 62 Gyula Dudás 1:24:56 63 Michele Didoni 1:24:59 64 Pascal Servanty 1:25:00 65 Miroslav Bosko 1:25:13 66 Sigitas Vainauskas 1:25:14 67 Brent Vallance 1:25:23 68 Luis García 1:25:42 69 Ademar Kammler 1:25:46 70 Grzegorz Sudoł 1:25:47 71 Arvydas Vainauskas 1:25:51 72 Arturo Huerta 1:25:55 73 Augusto Cardoso 1:25:57 74 Andrew Hermann 1:26:07 75 Philip Dunn 1:26:36 76 Nikolay Kalitka 1:26:40 77 Ján Záhončík 1:26:46 78 Andrew Penn 1:26:49 79 Anatoliy Krot 1:27:10 80 Leonid Mizernyuk 1:27:24 81 Bengt Bengtsson 1:27:32 82 Tomáš Kratochvíl 1:27:43 83 Pedro Martins 1:27:51 84 Mark Easton 1:28:02 85 Stanley Valentine 1:28:03 86 Kazimir Verkin 1:28:12 87 Trond Nymark 1:28:15 88 Aigars Saleniks 1:28:35 89 Dimítrios Orfanopoulos 1:29:26 90 Tomáš Hlavenka 1:29:27 91 Graham White 1:29:27 92 Birger Fält 1:29:29 93 Marius Kristiansen 1:29:47 94 Sandis Sarna 1:29:51 95 Paul Copeland 1:29:53 96 Nelson Funes 1:29:55 97 Marco Sowa 1:29:55 98 Gergely Zaborszky 1:30:03 99 Zbignevas Stankevičius 1:30:38 100 Roman Bílek 1:30:57 101 André Höhne 1:31:07 102 Tim Seaman 1:31:12 103 Sabir Sharuyayev 1:31:16 104 Balay Thirukumaran 1:31:17 105 Sidinei Rodrigues 1:31:29 106 Riecus Blignaut 1:31:32 107 Hamed Farag 1:31:51 108 Klaus Jensen 1:31:56 109 Abdulkader Öz 1:32:40 110 Teoh Boon Lim 1:32:51 111 Dave McGovern 1:33:29 112 András Gyöngyi 1:33:36 113 Stefan Wögerbauer 1:34:33 114 Jacques Lubbe 1:34:45 115 Claus Jørgensen 1:34:54 116 Martin Engelsviken 1:35:03 117 Saravanin Govindasamy 1:35:16 118 Karsten Godtfredsen 1:35:43 119 Yeóryios Aryirópoulos 1:35:46 120 Ioánnis Maris 1:35:46 121 Nenad Filipović 1:36:22 122 Bernard Binggeli 1:37:04 123 Nicolás Soto 1:38:39 124 Rami Al-Deeb 1:39:13 125 Renzo Toscanelli 1:39:32 126 Daniele Carrobio 1:40:50 127 Zoran Ivanković 1:48:39 128 Johann Siegele 1:48:50 129 Dietmar Hirschmugl 1:49:31 130 Wilfried Siegele 1:50:14 131 Dip Chand 1:50:29 132 Pradeep Chand 1:50:31 133 Caleb Maybir 1:55:07 — Tan Mingjun DQ — Bernardo Segura DQ — Daniel Plaza DQ Doping† — Darrell Stone DNF — Alejandro López DNF — Konrad Morawczyński DNF — Johan Moerdyk DNF †: Daniel Plaza from was initially 20th (1:20:40), but disqualified because of doping violations.

Team (20 km men) The list below as published in the source might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification. Place Country Points 431 pts 413 pts 403 pts 4 392 pts 5 388 pts 6 378 pts 7 357 pts 8 356 pts 9 347 pts 10 344 pts 11 328 pts 12 325 pts 13 318 pts 14 312 pts 15 310 pts 16 310 pts 17 300 pts 18 297 pts 19 291 pts 20 269 pts 21 262 pts 22 258 pts 23 247 pts 24 241 pts 25 230 pts 26 221 pts 27 215 pts 28 196 pts 29 191 pts 30 165 pts 31 164 pts 32 144 pts

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Notes Jesús Ángel García 3:39:54   Oleg Ishutkin 3:40:12   Valentin Kononen 3:41:09   4 Nikolay Matyukhin 3:41:36   5 Tomasz Lipiec 3:41:58   6 Miguel Rodríguez 3:42:45   7 Sylvain Caudron 3:46:38   8 René Piller 3:47:19   9 Roman Mrázek 3:48:22   10 Andrey Plotnikov 3:48:35   11 Štefan Malík 3:48:52   12 Viktor Ginko 3:49:23   13 Zoltán Czukor 3:50:26   14 Oleg Merkulov 3:50:31   15 Thomas Wallstab 3:51:19   16 Peter Tichý 3:51:30   17 Jan Holender 3:52:48   18 Ma Hongye 3:52:58   19 Dmitriy Savaytan 3:53:35   20 Peter Zanner 3:54:17   21 Santiago Pérez 3:54:28 22 Germán Sánchez 3:54:31 23 Orazio Romanzi 3:54:55 24 Jaime Barroso 3:55:04 25 Ruben Arikado 3:55:05 26 Massimo Fizialetti 3:55:16 27 Arturo Di Mezza 3:55:42 28 Miloš Holuša 3:55:52 29 Paolo Bianchi 3:57:28 30 José Magalhães 3:57:30 31 Denis Trautmann 3:57:58 32 Christophe Cousin 3:59:00 33 Alain Lemercier 3:59:49 34 Julio Urías 4:00:12 35 Alexaev Novikov 4:00:42 36 Yu Chaohong 4:00:47 37 José Manuel Rodríguez 4:00:50 38 Anatoliy Gorshkov 4:01:01 39 Dirk Nicque 4:02:55 40 Jaroslav Makovec 4:03:15 41 Ervin Leczky 4:03:46 42 Chris Maddocks 4:05:42 43 Antero Lindman 4:06:55 44 Andrzej Chylinski 4:07:15 45 Duane Cousins 4:07:17 46 Bo Gustafsson 4:07:36 47 Hrístos Karayeóryios 4:07:54 48 Mikel Odriozola 4:08:07 49 Vitaliy Gordey 4:08:27 50 Francisco Pantoja 4:08:47 51 Gábor Lengyel 4:09:13 52 Fredrik Svensson 4:09:22 53 Jean-Marc Starck 4:09:52 54 Juha Kinnunen 4:09:57 55 Peter Korčok 4:10:02 56 Chris Cheeseman 4:10:23 57 František Kmenta 4:10:45 58 Henk Plasman 4:11:37 59 Ulf-Peter Sjöholm 4:11:53 60 Virgilho Soares 4:12:20 61 Stanisław Stosik 4:13:07 62 Mark Green 4:13:16 63 Hugo López 4:13:43 64 Michael Harvey 4:14:09 65 Dominic McGrath 4:14:49 66 Les Morton 4:16:12 67 Karl Atton 4:16:30 68 Marco Evoniuk 4:17:24 69 Harold van Beek 4:17:46 70 Marcel van Gemert 4:18:59 71 Vladimir Soyka 4:19:31 72 Carl Schueler 4:19:46 73 Aleksey Shelest 4:20:32 74 Jiří Mašita 4:22:18 75 Anatoliy Malivskiy 4:22:49 76 Balázs Tóth 4:24:35 77 Jacob Sørensen 4:25:53 78 Andreas Paspaliaris 4:26:43 79 Shane Pearson 4:28:53 80 Pedro Huntjens 4:29:18 81 Karoly Kirszt 4:32:33 82 Miloš Zedník 4:35:48 83 José Pinto 4:38:00 84 Luc Nicque 4:39:33 85 Bernard Cossy 4:44:13 86 Kees Lambrechts 4:49:58 87 Saturnino Salazar 4:58:48 88 Frank Buytaert 5:08:19 — Tim Berrett DQ — Zhang Huiqiang DQ — Craig Barrett DQ — Manuel Oyao DQ — Jacek Müller DQ — Roby Ponzio DQ — Anton Trotskiy DNF — Zhao Yongsheng DNF — Axel Noack DNF — Mynor Vasquez DNF — Giovanni Perricelli DNF — Ignacio Zamudio DNF — Sonny Díaz DNF — Luís Ribeiro DNF — German Skurygin DNF — Pascal Charrière DNF — Peter Malik DNF — Peter Ferrari DNF — Vitaliy Popovich DNF — Jonathan Matthews DNF

Team (50 km men) Place Country Points 434 pts 415 pts 407 pts 4 405 pts 5 399 pts 6 388 pts 7 388 pts 8 377 pts 9 377 pts 10 362 pts 11 356 pts 12 339 pts 13 313 pts 14 308 pts 15 306 pts 16 299 pts 17 298 pts 18 293 pts 19 282 pts 20 280 pts 21 250 pts 22 215 pts 23 83 pts 24 82 pts

Lugano Trophy (combined team men) The results list as published in the source contains some obvious errors that were tentatively corrected. Moreover, there are inconsistencies when summing up the points of the 20 km and 50 km team results and the results list as published in the source. It is speculated that the 20 km team results might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification. Place Country Points 865 pts 803 pts 802 pts 4 785 pts 5 772 pts 6 771 pts 7 771 pts 8 702 pts 9 688 pts 10 666 pts 11 654 pts 12 645 pts 13 630 pts 14 594 pts 15 575 pts 16 568 pts 17 560 pts 18 549 pts 19 509 pts 20 362 pts 21 329 pts 22 327 pts 23 320 pts 24 311 pts 25 282 pts 26 280 pts 27 247 pts 28 247 pts 29 230 pts 30 222 pts 31 215 pts 32 196 pts 33 191 pts 34 165 pts 35 144 pts 36 82 pts

Women's 10 km Place Athlete Nation Time Notes Irina Stankina 41:52   Olimpiada Ivanova 41:59   Gu Yan 42:15   4 Erica Alfridi 42:31   5 Rossella Giordano 42:37   6 Annarita Sidoti 42:41   7 Larisa Khmelnitskaya 42:46   8 Tamara Kovalenko 42:51   9 Beate Gummelt 42:52   10 Wang Liping 42:53   11 Valentina Tsybulskaya 42:54   12 Liu Hongyu 42:57   13 Olga Kardopoltseva 43:08   14 Nataliya Misyulya 43:08   15 Olga Panfyorova 43:08   16 Yelena Sayko 43:20   17 Norica Câmpean 43:21   18 Lyudmila Dolgopolova 43:32   19 Anikó Szebenszky 43:41   20 Mária Urbanik 43:41   21 Maya Sazonova 43:52 22 María Vasco 43:54 23 Wang Yuntao 43:55 24 Kathrin Born-Boyde 44:00 25 Elisabetta Perrone 44:10 26 Anita Liepiņa 44:29 27 Valentina Savchuk 44:30 28 Kong Yan 44:35 29 Cristiana Pellino 44:36 30 Rie Mitsumori 44:39 31 Graciela Mendoza 44:48 32 Yuka Kamioka 44:52 33 Francisca Martínez 44:58 34 Claudia Iovan 45:03 35 Geovana Irusta 45:03 36 Vira Zozulya 45:07 37 Svetlana Tolstaya 45:09 38 Nathalie Marchand-Fortain 45:10 39 Ryoko Sakakura 45:14 40 Jane Saville 45:19 41 Jill Maybir-Barrett 45:20 42 Tina Poitras 45:21 43 Svitlana Kalitka 45:25 44 Celia Marcén 45:25 45 Cheng Tong Lean 45:27 46 Annastasia Raj 45:29 47 Ildikó Ilyés 45:56 48 Natalie Saville 46:19 49 Nora Leksir 46:29 50 Victoria Herazo 46:31 51 Gabriele Herold 46:33 52 Sofia Avoila 46:36 53 Simone Wolowiec 46:45 54 Melanie Seeger 46:49 55 Fatiha Ouali 46:55 56 Andrea Szabó 46:58 57 Victoria Palacios 47:06 58 Vicky Lupton 47:16 60 Wendy Muldoon 47:22 61 Joanne Dow 47:23 62 Isilda Gonçalves 47:23 63 María Guadalupe Sánchez 47:24 64 Sonata Milušauskaitė 47:28 65 Kristina Saltanovič 47:31 66 Gretchen Eastler 47:45 67 Joni Bender 47:50 68 Rocío Florido 48:00 69 Mónika Pesti 48:06 70 Ivonne Varas 48:11 71 Valérie Lévèque-Nadaud 48:13 72 Hanne Liland 48:22 73 Dana Yarbrough 48:26 74 Zuzana Zemková 48:34 75 Laura Ferreiro 48:45 76 Tatiana Denize 48:46 77 Anne Haaland Simonsen 48:49 78 Iveta Skadmane 48:56 79 Hilde Gustafsen 49:00 80 Sylvia Saunders/Black 49:00 81 Bożena Górecka 49:06 82 Sara Standley 49:22 83 Mária Gáliková 49:28 84 Yelena Kuznetsova 49:33 85 Blanka Kožíková 49:36 86 Ligia Gonçalves 49:37 87 Aleksandra Kot 49:37 88 Zuzana Blažeková 49:46 89 Elina Risto 49:48 90 Nagwa Ibrahim 49:51 91 Hristína Kokótou 49:55 92 Jonna Voronkoff 50:11 93 Krista Ranta-Pere 50:13 94 Verity Larby-Snook 50:14 95 Tamara Heroldová 50:21 96 Anna Brnová 50:22 97 Tarja Jaskari 50:38 98 Gražina Kiliūtė 50:40 99 50:56 100 Susan Hornung 51:17 101 Lisa Crump 51:20 102 Kaisa Suhonen 51:54 103 Nancy Lai 52:13 104 Dana Vavřačová 52:33 105 Kamila Holpuchová 52:58 106 Lena Launikonytė 53:13 107 Eva Seidlova 53:18 108 Pavla Choderová 53:33 109 Anica Djokic 56:11 110 Maja Vucijevic 56:26 111 Yeliz Ay 58:43 112 Jelena Jeremic 59:15 — Teoh Tay Wah DQ — Yelena Veremeychuk DQ — Encarna Granados DNF — Jolanta Dukure DNF — Susana Feitór DNF

Team (women)