2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, held on Thursday 9 August 2001.

Medalists[]

Gold	Olimpiada Ivanova Russia (RUS)
Silver	Valentina Tsybulskaya Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Elisabetta Perrone Italy (ITA)

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:24:50	March 4, 2001	Adler, Russia
Event Record	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	1:30:50	August 27, 1999	Seville, Spain
Broken records during the 2001 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:27:48	August 9, 2001	Edmonton, Canada

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:27:48	CR
	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)	1:28:49	PB
	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	1:28:56
4	Erica Alfridi (ITA)	1:29:48
5	María Vasco (ESP)	1:30:19
6	Norica Câmpean (ROM)	1:30:39
7	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:30:41	NR
8	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	1:31:40	SB
9	María Guadalupe Sánchez (MEX)	1:32:27	SB
10	Victoria Palacios (MEX)	1:33:52	PB
11	Athina Papayianni (GRE)	1:34:56
12	Nevena Mineva (BUL)	1:35:18	PB
13	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	1:35:24
14	Kim Mi-Jung (KOR)	1:35:30
15	Vira Zozulya (UKR)	1:35:32
16	Geovana Irusta (BOL)	1:36:50
17	(NOR)	1:37:11
18	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	1:37:33
19	Debbi Lawrence (USA)	1:37:57	SB
20	(CAN)	1:38:09	PB
21	(POR)	1:39:10
22	Mara Ibañez (MEX)	1:39:26
23	Fatiha Ouali (FRA)	1:40:16
24	(JPN)	1:40:57
25	(USA)	1:42:43
26	Teresita Collado (GUA)	1:42:43
27	(NFI)	2:08:46
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	DSQ
—	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	DSQ
—	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	DSQ
—	(JPN)	DSQ
—	Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Inês Henriques (POR)	DSQ
—	(CHN)	DSQ
—	Jane Saville (AUS)	DSQ
—	Michelle Rohl (USA)	DSQ
—	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)	DSQ
—	Maya Sazonova (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Hristina Kokotou (GRE)	DSQ
—	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	DSQ
—	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	DSQ
—	Susana Feitor (POR)	DSQ

Events at the 2001 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
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