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Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held through the streets of Athens with the start and finish at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 23.

Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
VenueAthens Olympic Stadium
Dates23 August
Competitors57 from 35 nations
Winning time1:29.12
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Athanasia Tsoumeleka Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk Greece
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olimpiada Ivanova Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk Russia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jane Saville Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk Australia
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The race had started with a strong, good-sized bunch of fifty-seven walkers keeping together through the field. As the group left the stadium falling apart, Russia's Olimpiada Ivanova took the front of the pack on the opening 2k laps, followed by several of the anticipated favorites, which included 2000 Olympic champion Wang Liping, the Australian sisters Jane and Natalie Saville, and the Greek duo Athina Papayianni and Athanasia Tsoumeleka.

By the half way mark, fourteen walkers were still in close contention with Ivanova maintaining the lead and Belarus' Ryta Turava staying beside her to shorten the gap. As the Belarusian began to lose contact, Ivanova steadily broke away from the group to own the race, until Jane Saville set the pace much faster to chase her on the succeeding lap. With just 2k left to go, home favorite Tsoumeleka zoomed past the two remaining chasers Ivanova and Saville on a late charge to quickly build up a seemingly insurmountable lead.

Entering the Olympic Stadium with a rapturous welcome from the partisan crowd, Tsoumeleka walked jubilantly into the final stretch to deliver the Greeks their first ever Olympic track and field gold medal at these Games. She finished the race in 1:29.12, just four seconds ahead of the eventual silver medalist Ivanova. Meanwhile, Saville had finally erased her setback of being disqualified at the Sydney Olympics four years earlier to successfully claim the bronze, holding Turava off the podium to fourth.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Wang Yan (CHN) 1:26:22 Guangzhou, China 19 November 2001
Olympic record Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Wang Liping (CHN) 1:29:05 Sydney, Australia 28 September 2000

No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the women's 20 kilometres race walk, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 1:33:30 or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 1:38:00 or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Monday, 23 August 2004 09:00 Final

Results

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Athanasia Tsoumeleka Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Greece 1:29.12 PB
Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Olimpiada Ivanova Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Russia 1:29.16
Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Jane Saville Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Australia 1:29.25
4 Ryta Turava Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Belarus 1:29:39
5 Melanie Seeger Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Germany 1:29:52
6 Elisa Rigaudo Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Italy 1:29:57
7 María Vasco Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Spain 1:30:06
8 Wang Liping Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  China 1:30:16
9 Elena Ginko Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Belarus 1:30:22
10 Athina Papayianni Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Greece 1:30:37
11 Rossella Giordano Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Italy 1:30:39
12 Kjersti Plätzer Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Norway 1:30:49 SB
13 Yuliya Voyevodina Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Russia 1:31:02
14 Song Hongjuan Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  China 1:31:27
15 Valentina Tsybulskaya Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Belarus 1:31:49
16 Sabine Zimmer Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Germany 1:31:59
17 Yelena Nikolayeva Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Russia 1:32:16
18 Elisabetta Perrone Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Italy 1:32:21 SB
19 Kristina Saltanovič Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Lithuania 1:32:22
20 Susana Feitor Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Portugal 1:32:47
21 Sylwia Korzeniowska Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Poland 1:33:06
22 Zuzana Maliková Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Slovakia 1:33:17
23 Sonata Milušauskaitė Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Lithuania 1:33:36
24 Barbora Dibelková Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Czech Republic 1:33:37
25 Inês Henriques Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Portugal 1:33:53
26 Maribel Gonçalves Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Portugal 1:33:59
27 Norica Câmpean Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Romania 1:34:30
28 Svetlana Tolstaya Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Kazakhstan 1:34:43
29 Ana Maria Groza Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Romania 1:34:56
30 Rocío Florido Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Spain 1:35:32
31 Hristina Kokotou Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Greece 1:35:43
32 Jiang Jing Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  China 1:35:56
33 Yeliz Ay Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Turkey 1:36:02
34 Victoria Palacios Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Mexico 1:36:07
35 Yuan Yufang Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Malaysia 1:36:34
36 Natalie Saville Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Australia 1:36:54
37 Daniela Cîrlan Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Romania 1:37:14
38 Cheryl Webb Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Australia 1:37:40
39 Marie Polli Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Switzerland 1:37:53
40 Mayumi Kawasaki Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Japan 1:37:56
41 Geovana Irusta Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Bolivia 1:38:36
42 Vira Zozulya Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Ukraine 1:38:45
43 Teresa Vaill Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  United States 1:38:47
44 Edina Füsti Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Hungary 1:39:45
45 Anita Liepiņa Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Latvia 1:39:54
46 Sandra Zapata Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Colombia 1:42:22
47 Nicolene Cronje Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  South Africa 1:42:37
48 Alessandra Picagevicz Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Brazil 1:46:21
49 Teresita Collado Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Guatemala 1:46:41
50 Yelena Kuznetsova Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Kazakhstan 1:49:08
51 Yolene Raffin Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Mauritius 1:49:28
52 Fumilay Fonseca Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  São Tomé and Príncipe 2:04:54 PB
Olive Loughnane Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Ireland DNF
Rosario Sánchez Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Mexico DNF
Nevena Mineva Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Bulgaria DNF
María Teresa Gargallo Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  Spain DSQ
Kim Mi-jung Athletics At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 Kilometres Walk  South Korea DSQ

References

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