Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 km walk event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 21 at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. The qualifying standards were 1:33.30 (A standard) and 1:38.00 (B standard).

Women's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	21 August 2008
Competitors	48 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:26:31 OR
Medalists
Olga Kaniskina  Russia Kjersti Plätzer  Norway Elisa Rigaudo  Italy

Records

Prior to this event, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:25:41	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
Olympic record	Wang Liping (CHN)	1:29:05	Sydney, Australia	28 September 2000

Schedule

All times are China standard time (UTC 8)

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 21 August 2008	09:00	Final

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1:26:31	OR
	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	1:27:07	NR
	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	1:27:12	PB
4	Liu Hong	China	1:27:17	PB
5	María Vasco	Spain	1:27:25	NR
6	Beatriz Pascual	Spain	1:27:44	PB
7	Olive Loughnane	Ireland	1:27:45	PB
8	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal	1:27:46	NR
9	Vera Santos	Portugal	1:28:14	PB
10	Ryta Turava	Belarus	1:28:26	SB
11	Tatyana Sibileva	Russia	1:28:28
12	Shi Na	China	1:29:08	SB
13	Mayumi Kawasaki	Japan	1:29:43
14	Sabine Zimmer	Germany	1:30:19
15	Sonata Milušauskaité	Lithuania	1:30:26	NR
16	Vira Zozulya	Ukraine	1:30:31
17	María José Poves	Spain	1:30:52
18	Kristina Saltanovic	Lithuania	1:31:03	SB
19	Jane Saville	Australia	1:31:17
20	Sylwia Korzeniowska	Poland	1:31:19
21	Johanna Jackson	Great Britain	1:31:33	NR
22	Melanie Seeger	Germany	1:31:56
23	Ana Maria Groza	Romania	1:32:16
24	Evaggelía Xinoú	Greece	1:32:19	PB
25	Sachiko Konishi	Japan	1:32:21
26	Zuzana Schindlerová	Czech Republic	1:32:57	PB
27	Claire Woods	Australia	1:33:02	=PB
28	Kim Mi-Jung	South Korea	1:33:55
29	Svetlana Tolstaya	Kazakhstan	1:34:03	SB
30	Joanne Dow	United States	1:34:15	SB
31	Zuzana Malíková	Slovakia	1:34:33	SB
32	Sniazhana Yurchanka	Belarus	1:35:33
33	Nadiya Prokopuk	Ukraine	1:35:50
34	Sandra Zapata	Colombia	1:36:18
35	Johana Ordóñez	Ecuador	1:36:26
36	Tania Regina Spindler	Brazil	1:36:46
37	Verónica Colindres	El Salvador	1:36:52	SB
38	Edina Füsti	Hungary	1:37:03
39	Kellie Wapshott	Australia	1:37:59
40	Déspina Zapounídou	Greece	1:39:11
41	Jolanta Dukure	Latvia	1:41:03
42	Evelyn Núñez	Guatemala	1:44:13
	Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	DQ
	Yang Mingxia	China	DQ
	Elena Ginko	Belarus	DQ
	Athanasía Tsoumeléka	Greece	1:27:54	DSQ
	Yuan Yufang	Malaysia	DNF
	Susana Feitor	Portugal	DNF

OR - Olympic Record, NR - National Record, PB - Personal Best (= - Equaled), SB - Season Best

Intermediates

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
4 km	1. Olga Kaniskina	Russia	17:00
	2. María Vasco	Spain	0:27
	3. Vera Santos	Portugal	s.t.
	4. Ryta Turava	Belarus	s.t.
	5. Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	s.t.
8 km	1. Olga Kaniskina	Russia	34:09
	2. Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	0:41
	3. Ryta Turava	Belarus	s.t.
	4. Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	0:42
	5. Beatriz Pascual	Spain	s.t.
12 km	1. Olga Kaniskina	Russia	51:19
	2. Ryta Turava	Belarus	0:41
	3. Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	0:49
	4. María Vasco	Spain	s.t.
	5. Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	0:56
16 km	1. Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1:08:31
	2. Ryta Turava	Belarus	0:59
	3. Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	1:09
	4. María Vasco	Spain	s.t.
	5. Hong Liu	China	1:20

s.t. - same time.