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

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

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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	women
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
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 20 km walk event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 21 at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.^[1] The qualifying standards were 1:33.30 (A standard) and 1:38.00 (B standard).^[2]

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

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)

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

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.