2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, held on Thursday 9 August 2001.

Medalists

Gold	Olimpiada Ivanova Russia (RUS)
Silver	Valentina Tsybulskaya Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Elisabetta Perrone Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:24:50	March 4, 2001	Adler, Russia
Event Record	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30:50	August 27, 1999	Seville, Spain
Broken records during the 2001 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:27:48	August 9, 2001	Edmonton, Canada

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:27:48	CR
	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)	1:28:49	PB
	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	1:28:56
4	Erica Alfridi (ITA)	1:29:48
5	María Vasco (ESP)	1:30:19
6	Norica Câmpean (ROM)	1:30:39
7	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:30:41	NR
8	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	1:31:40	SB
9	María Guadalupe Sánchez (MEX)	1:32:27	SB
10	Victoria Palacios (MEX)	1:33:52	PB
11	Athina Papayianni (GRE)	1:34:56
12	Nevena Mineva (BUL)	1:35:18	PB
13	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	1:35:24
14	Kim Mi-Jung (KOR)	1:35:30
15	Vira Zozulya (UKR)	1:35:32
16	Geovana Irusta (BOL)	1:36:50
17	Anne Haaland-Simonsen (NOR)	1:37:11
18	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	1:37:33
19	Debbi Lawrence (USA)	1:37:57	SB
20	Karen Foan (CAN)	1:38:09	PB
21	Sofia Avoila (POR)	1:39:10
22	Mara Ibañez (MEX)	1:39:26
23	Fatiha Ouali (FRA)	1:40:16
24	Kaori Nikaido (JPN)	1:40:57
25	Jill Zenner (USA)	1:42:43
26	Teresita Collado (GUA)	1:42:43
27	Angela Keogh (NFI)	2:08:46
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	DSQ
—	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	DSQ
—	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	DSQ
—	Ryoko Tadamasa (JPN)	DSQ
—	Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Inês Henriques (POR)	DSQ
—	Sun Chunfang (CHN)	DSQ
—	Jane Saville (AUS)	DSQ
—	Michelle Rohl (USA)	DSQ
—	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	DSQ
—	Maya Sazonova (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Hristina Kokotou (GRE)	DSQ
—	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	DSQ
—	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	DSQ
—	Susana Feitor (POR)	DSQ

See also

• 1998 Women's European Championships 10km Walk (Budapest)
• 2000 Women's Olympic 20km Walk (Sydney)
• 2001 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 2002 Women's European Championships 20km Walk (Munich)
• 2004 Women's Olympic 20km Walk (Athens)

References

• Results
• IAAF
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite