# 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

## Medallists

| Gold | Olga Kaniskina Russia (RUS) |
| Silver | Tatyana Shemyakina Russia (RUS) |
| Bronze | María Vasco Spain (ESP) |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| DQ | disqualified |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| WL | world leading |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

| World record Championship record | 1:25:41 | Olimpiada Ivanova | Russia | Helsinki, Finland | 7 August 2005 |

## Intermediates

| Rank | Number | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| 5 KILOMETRES |||||
| 1 | 101 | Olga Kaniskina | Russia (RUS) | 22:21 |
| 2 | 111 | Tatyana Shemyakina | Russia (RUS) | 22:41 |
| 3 | 112 | Tatyana Sibileva | Russia (RUS) | 23:00 |
| 4 | 116 | María Vasco | Spain (ESP) | 23:22 |
| 5 | 107 | Song Hongjuan | China (CHN) | 23:23 |
| 10 KILOMETRES |||||
| 1 | 101 | Olga Kaniskina | Russia (RUS) | 44:33 |
| 2 | 111 | Tatyana Shemyakina | Russia (RUS) | 45:17 |
| 3 | 116 | María Vasco | Spain (ESP) | 45:53 |
| 4 | 112 | Tatyana Sibileva | Russia (RUS) | 45:58 |
| 5 | 105 | Kjersti Plätzer | Norway (NOR) | 46:23 |
| 15 KILOMETRES |||||
| 1 | 101 | Olga Kaniskina | Russia (RUS) | 1:06:46 |
| 2 | 111 | Tatyana Shemyakina | Russia (RUS) | 1:07:42 |
| 3 | 116 | María Vasco | Spain (ESP) | 1:08:09 |
| 4 | 105 | Kjersti Plätzer | Norway (NOR) | 1:08:46 |
| 5 | 129 | Susana Feitor | Portugal (POR) | 1:08:51 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Note |
| | Olga Kaniskina | Russia (RUS) | 1:30:09 | |
| | Tatyana Shemyakina | Russia (RUS) | 1:30:42 | |
| | María Vasco | Spain (ESP) | 1:30:47 | |
| 4 | Kjersti Plätzer | Norway (NOR) | 1:31:24 | |
| 5 | Susana Feitor | Portugal (POR) | 1:32:01 | |
| 6 | Claudia Stef | Romania (ROM) | 1:32:47 | |
| 7 | Inês Henriques | Portugal (POR) | 1:33:06 | |
| 8 | Sabine Zimmer | Germany (GER) | 1:33:23 | |
| 9 | Tatyana Sibileva | Russia (RUS) | 1:33:29 | |
| 10 | Mayumi Kawasaki | Japan (JPN) | 1:33:35 | |
| 11 | Vera Santos | Portugal (POR) | 1:34:28 | |
| 12 | María José Poves | Spain (ESP) | 1:35:06 | |
| 13 | Beatriz Pascual | Spain (ESP) | 1:35:13 | |
| 14 | Melanie Seeger | Germany (GER) | 1:35:30 | |
| 15 | Song Hongjuan | China (CHN) | 1:35:44 | |
| 16 | Elena Ginko | Belarus (BLR) | 1:35:59 | |
| 17 | Olive Loughnane | Ireland (IRL) | 1:36:00 | |
| 18 | Zuzana Malíková | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:36:26 | |
| 19 | Liu Hong | China (CHN) | 1:36:40 | |
| 20 | Barbora Dibelková | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:36:45 | |
| 21 | Marie Polli | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:36:54 | |
| 22 | Sonata Milušauskaitė | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:37:28 | |
| 23 | Sylwia Korzeniowska | Poland (POL) | 1:37:38 | |
| 24 | Mária Gáliková | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:38:54 | |
| 25 | Johanna Jackson | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 1:39:34 | |
| 26 | Kim Mi-Jung | South Korea (KOR) | 1:41:33 | |
| 27 | Masumi Fuchise | Japan (JPN) | 1:41:49 | |
| 28 | Svetlana Tolstaya | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:41:54 | |
| 29 | Yadira Guamán | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:42:17 | |
| 30 | Tania Regina Spindler | Brazil (BRA) | 1:43:56 | |
| 31 | Sandra Zapata | Colombia (COL) | 1:44:42 | |
| 32 | Yeliz Ay | Turkey (TUR) | 1:45:52 | |
| 33 | Geovana Irusta | Bolivia (BOL) | 1:47:15 | SB |
| — | Ryoko Sakakura | Japan (JPN) | DQ | |
| — | Jane Saville | Australia (AUS) | DQ | |
| — | Teresa Vaill | United States (USA) | DQ | |
| — | Miriam Ramón | Ecuador (ECU) | DQ | |
| — | Olimpiada Ivanova | Russia (RUS) | DNF | |
| — | Elisa Rigaudo | Italy (ITA) | DNF | |
| — | Jolanta Dukure | Latvia (LAT) | DNF | |
| — | Jiang Jing | China (CHN) | DNF | |
| — | Athanasia Tsoumeleka | Greece (GRE) | DNF | |