2003 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 2003 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
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

The official results of the Women's 20 km Walk at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France, held on 24 August 2003.

Gold	Yelena Nikolayeva Russia (RUS)
Silver	Gillian O'Sullivan Ireland (IRL)
Bronze	Valentina Tsybulskaya Belarus (BLR)

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Standing records prior to the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:24:50	March 4, 2001	Adler, Russia
Event Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:27:48	August 9, 2001	Edmonton, Canada
Broken records during the 2003 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:26:52	August 24, 2003	Paris, France

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:26:52	CR
	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	1:27:34
	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)	1:28:10	NR
4	Tatyana Gudkova (RUS)	1:28:53
5	Claudia Ștef (ROU)	1:29:09	PB
6	Rossella Giordano (ITA)	1:29:14	SB
7	Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE)	1:29:34	NR
8	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:29:44	NR
9	Susana Feitor (POR)	1:30:15
10	Elisa Rigaudo (ITA)	1:30:34	SB
11	Jane Saville (AUS)	1:30:51	SB
12	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	1:30:53
13	Xu Aihui (CHN)	1:31:34
14	Kristina Saltanovič (LTU)	1:32:13
15	Vera Santos (POR)	1:32:43	PB
16	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	1:32:58
17	Vira Zozulya (UKR)	1:33:34
18	Geovana Irusta (BOL)	1:33:42	AR
19	Fatiha Ouali (FRA)	1:34:01
20	Sabine Zimmer (GER)	1:34:08
21	Barbora Dibelková (CZE)	1:34:44
22	Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)	1:35:11
23	Daniela Cârlan (ROU)	1:36:02
24	Joanne Dow (USA)	1:36:32
25	Ryoko Sakakura (JPN)	1:38:00
26	Gabrielle Gorst (NZL)	1:38:51
27	Monica Svensson (SWE)	1:39:21
28	Teresita Collado (GUA)	1:41:19
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Song Hongjuan (CHN)	DSQ
—	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	DSQ
—	Mi-Jung Kim (KOR)	DSQ
—	Gao Kelian (CHN)	DSQ
—	Yuan Yufang (MAS)	DSQ
—	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	DSQ
—	Olga Kardopoltseva (BLR)	DSQ
—	Mari Cruz Díaz (ESP)	DSQ
—	Norica Câmpean (ROU)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Rosario Sánchez (MEX)	DNF
—	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	DNF
—	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	DNF
—	María Vasco (ESP)	DNF
—	Maria Teresa Gargallo (ESP)	DNF

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