2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

The 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 10 and 11 May 2008 in the streets of Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 10 km walk (junior event)	Aleksey Bartsaykin RUS	39:57 WJR	Chen Ding CHN	40:12 PB	Denis Strelkov RUS	40:17
Men's 20 km walk	Francisco Javier Fernández ESP	1:18:15 CR	Valeriy Borchin RUS	1:18:21 SB	Eder Sánchez MEX	1:18:34 PB
Men's 50 km walk	Denis Nizhegorodov RUS	3:34:14 WR	Vladimir Kanaykin RUS	3:36:55 PB	Alex Schwazer ITA	3:37:04 SB
Women's 10 km walk (junior event)	Tatyana Kalmykova RUS	42:44 CR	Irina Yumanova RUS	43:23	Elmira Alembekova RUS	44:39
Women's 20 km walk	Olga Kaniskina RUS	1:25:42 CR	Tatyana Sibileva RUS	1:26:29	Vera Santos POR	1:28:17 PB

Results

Shown below are the top 20 finishers in each of the senior events.

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Francisco Javier Fernández ESP	1:18:15	CR
2	Valeriy Borchin RUS	1:18:21	SB
3	Eder Sánchez MEX	1:18:34	PB
4	Ilya Markov RUS	1:19:04	SB
5	Andrey Krivov RUS	1:19:10
6	Erik Tysse NOR	1:19:11	NR
7	Luke Adams AUS	1:19:15	PB
8	Juan Manuel Molina ESP	1:19:19	PB
9	Robert Heffernan IRL	1:19:22	NR
10	Jared Tallent AUS	1:19:48
11	Hatem Ghoula TUN	1:19:54	SB
12	Rolando Saquipay ECU	1:20:40	SB
13	Benjamin Sánchez ESP	1:20:48	PB
14	Ivan Trotski BLR	1:20:56
15	João Vieira POR	1:21:13
16	Ivano Brugnetti ITA	1:21:19
17	Matej Tóth SVK	1:21:24	PB
18	Sérgio Vieira POR	1:21:25	PB
19	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi ITA	1:21:45	SB
20	Kim Hyun-Sub KOR	1:22:01

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Denis Nizhegorodov RUS	3:34:14	CR
2	Vladimir Kanaykin RUS	3:36:55	PB
3	Alex Schwazer ITA	3:37:04	SB
4	Trond Nymark NOR	3:44:59	SB
5	Mikel Odriozola ESP	3:47:30	SB
6	Horacio Nava MEX	3:47:55	PB
7	Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS	3:48:29	SB
8	André Höhne GER	3:49:03	SB
9	Marco De Luca ITA	3:49:21	SB
10	Ingus Janevics LAT	3:49:50	PB
11	Oleksiy Kazanin UKR	3:50:30	PB
12	Mario Iván Flores MEX	3:51:16	SB
13	José Alejandro Cambil ESP	3:51:20	PB
14	Jesús Sánchez MEX	3:51:29	PB
15	Jesús Angel García ESP	3:52:31	SB
16	Igors Kazakevics LAT	3:52:45	PB
17	António Pereira POR	3:53:11	SB
18	Daniel García MEX	3:53:42	SB
19	Diego Cafagna ITA	3:53:46	PB
20	Zhao Jianguo CHN	3:54:18	SB

Women's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Olga Kaniskina RUS	1:25:42	CR
2	Tatyana Sibileva RUS	1:26:29
3	Vera Santos POR	1:28:17	PB
4	Lyudmila Arkhipova RUS	1:28:29
5	María Vasco ESP	1:28:39	SB
6	Olive Loughnane IRL	1:29:17	PB
7	Jane Saville AUS	1:29:27	SB
8	María José Poves ESP	1:29:31	PB
9	Elena Ginko BLR	1:29:35	SB
10	Susana Feitor POR	1:29:38
11	Ana Cabecinha POR	1:29:39	PB
12	Sonata Milušauskaité LTU	1:30:35	NR
13	Sabine Zimmer GER	1:30:39	SB
14	Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE	1:30:40
15	Melanie Seeger GER	1:31:09
16	Vira Zozulya UKR	1:31:12
17	Kristina Saltanovic LTU	1:31:21	SB
18	Ana Maria Groza ROM	1:31:37	SB
19	Inês Henriques POR	1:32:35
20	Elisa Rigaudo ITA	1:32:38	SB

See also

• 2008 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Official site - IAAF.org
• Results - IAAF.org