These are the official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The race was held on Thursday 28 September 2000, starting at 10:45h.

The event may be best remembered for the disqualification of hometown athlete Jane Saville. Saville was leading the race and entered the final stretch of the race inside the stadium before she was flagged for her third violation for lifting her feet off the ground, which led to her disqualification.

Medalists

Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markOR olympic recordWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best

Records Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics World record 1:25:18 19 May 2000 Moscow, Russia Olympic record New event after the 10 km was contested previously No new world record was established in the competition. By winning the event, Wang Liping established the Olympic record, 1:29.05.

Final ranking RankAthleteCountryTimeNote Wang Liping 1:29.05 OR Kjersti Plätzer 1:29.33 María Vasco 1:30.23 4 Erica Alfridi 1:31.25 5 María Guadalupe Sánchez 1:31.33 6 Norica Câmpean 1:31.50 7 Kerry Saxby-Junna 1:32.02 8 Tatyana Gudkova 1:32.35 9 Nataliya Misyulya 1:33.08 10 Gillian O'Sullivan 1:33.10 11 Athina Papayianni 1:33.14 PB 12 Valentyna Savchuk 1:33.22 13 Ana Maria Groza 1:33.38 14 Susana Feitor 1:33.53 15 Yuan Yufang 1:34.19 SB 16 Kristina Saltanovič 1:34.24 17 Michelle Rohl 1:34.26 18 Mária Urbanik 1:34.45 19 Beate Gummelt 1:34.59 20 Encarna Granados 1:35.06 21 Svetlana Tolstaya 1:35.19 22 Nora Leksir 1:35.29 23 Fatiha Ouali 1:35.35 24 Vira Zozulya 1:35.43 25 Kim Mi-Jung 1:36.09 NR 26 Mara Ibañez 1:36.17 27 Eva Pérez 1:36.35 28 Valentina Tsybulskaya 1:36.44 29 Anikó Szebenszky 1:36.46 30 Jolanta Dukure 1:36.54 31 Sonata Milušauskaitė 1:37.14 32 Larisa Ramazanova 1:37.39 33 Lisa Kehler 1:37.47 34 Ivis Martínez 1:38.07 35 Olive Loughnane 1:38.23 36 Khristina Kokotou 1:38.52 37 Anita Liepiņa 1:39.17 38 Chen Yueling 1:39.36 39 Lisa Sheridan-Paolini 1:40.57 40 Yelena Kuznetsova 1:42.45 41 Teresita Collado 1:43.28 42 Geovana Irusta 1:43.34 43 Zuzana Blažeková 1:44.03 44 Debbi Lawrence 1:47.20 45 Bahia Boussad 1:52.50 — Kathrin Born-Boyde DNF — Aida İsayeva DNF — Olga Polyakova DNF — Katarzyna Radtke DNF — Annarita Sidoti DNF — Maya Sazonova DNF — Irina Stankina DNF — Liu Hongyu DSQ — Graciela Mendoza DSQ — Janice McCaffrey DSQ — Elisabetta Perrone DSQ — Jane Saville DSQ

See also 1997 Women's World Championships 10 km Walk (Athens) 1998 Women's European Championships 10 km Walk (Budapest) 1999 Women's World Championships 20 km Walk (Seville) 2000 Race Walking Year Ranking 2001 Women's World Championships 20 km Walk (Edmonton) 2002 Women's European Championships 20 km Walk (Munich) 2003 Women's World Championships 20 km Walk (Paris)

References

External links Official Report Results Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics