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
	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

See also

• 1996 Women's Olympic 10km Walk (Atlanta)
• 1998 Women's European Championships 10km Walk (Budapest)
• 1999 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 2000 Women's Olympic 20km Walk (Sydney)
• 2002 Women's European Championships 20km Walk (Munich)

References

• Results
• trackandfieldnews
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite