1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain, held on Friday 27 August 1999, starting at 18:50h local time.

Medalists

Gold	Liu Hongyu PR China (CHN)
Silver	Wang Yan PR China (CHN)
Bronze	Kerry Saxby-Junna Australia (AUS)

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 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:27:30	May 1, 1995	Beijing, PR China
World Record	Nadezhda Ryashkina (RUS)	1:27:30	February 7, 1999	Adler, Russia
Event Record	New Event
Broken records during the 1999 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30.50	August 27, 1999	Seville, Spain

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
10 KILOMETRES
1	547	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	46:06
2	163	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	46:07
3	723	Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR)	46:07
4	762	Susana Feitor (POR)	46:07
5	41	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	46:07
15 KILOMETRES
1	163	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:08:39
2	762	Susana Feitor (POR)	1:08:40
3	169	Wang Yan (CHN)	1:08:40
4	829	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	1:08:40
5	40	Jane Saville (AUS)	1:08:40

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30:50	CR
	Wang Yan (CHN)	1:30:52
	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	1:31:18	SB
4	Susana Feitor (POR)	1:31:23
5	Katarzyna Radtke (POL)	1:31:34
6	Erica Alfridi (ITA)	1:32:04
7	Jane Saville (AUS)	1:32:13
8	Maya Sazonova (KAZ)	1:32:19
9	Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR)	1:32:42
10	María Vasco (ESP)	1:33:35
11	Claudia Iovan (ROM)	1:33:46
12	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:34:10
13	Christina Deskou (GRE)	1:34:39
14	Nataliya Misyulya (BLR)	1:35:03
15	Gao Hingmiao (CHN)	1:35:07
16	Yuan Yufang (MAS)	1:35:31
17	Irina Stankina (RUS)	1:35:42
18	Kristina Saltanovič (LTU)	1:35:51
19	Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)	1:35:54
20	Nora Leksir (FRA)	1:36:17
21	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	1:36:24
22	Mária Urbanik (HUN)	1:36:48
23	Fatiha Ouali (FRA)	1:36:57
24	Yuka Mitsumori (JPN)	1:37:13
25	María Guadalupe Sánchez (MEX)	1:37:31
26	Teresa Linares (ESP)	1:37:51
27	Rossella Giordano (ITA)	1:38:06
28	Anikó Szebenszky (HUN)	1:38:27
29	Jolanta Dukure (LAT)	1:38:34
30	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	1:39:56
31	Susan Armenta (USA)	1:40:20
32	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	1:40:33
33	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:40:51
34	Rosario Sánchez (MEX)	1:41:04
35	Teresita Collado (GUA)	1:41:12
36	Geovana Irusta (BOL)	1:41:17
37	Christina Kokotou (GRE)	1:42:50
38	Danielle Kirk (USA)	1:43:27
39	Kim Mi-Jung (PRK)	1:46:36
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
	Joanne Dow (USA)	DSQ
	Ivis Haydee Martinez (ESA)	DSQ
	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	DSQ
	Olga Kardopoltseva (BLR)	DSQ
	Graciela Mendoza (MEX)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
	Norica Câmpean (ROM)	DNF
	Larisa Ramazanova (BLR)	DNF
	Susan Vermeulen (RSA)	DNF
	Valentyna Savchuk (UKR)	DNF
	Mónika Pesti (HUN)	DNF
	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	DNF
	Celia Marcén (ESP)	DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
	Miriam Ramón (ECU)	DNS

References

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Events at the 1999 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
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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men