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

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

| DNS | did not start |
| - | - |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| WL | world leading |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

### Records

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 |

## Final ranking

| 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 | Anne Haaland-Simonsen (NOR) | 1:37:11 | |
| 18 | Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU) | 1:37:33 | |
| 19 | Debbi Lawrence (USA) | 1:37:57 | SB |
| 20 | Karen Foan (CAN) | 1:38:09 | PB |
| 21 | Sofia Avoila (POR) | 1:39:10 | |
| 22 | Mara Ibañez (MEX) | 1:39:26 | |
| 23 | Fatiha Ouali (FRA) | 1:40:16 | |
| 24 | Kaori Nikaido (JPN) | 1:40:57 | |
| 25 | Jill Zenner (USA) | 1:42:43 | |
| 26 | Teresita Collado (GUA) | 1:42:43 | |
| 27 | Angela Keogh (NFI) | 2:08:46 | |
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) ||||
| — | Liu Hongyu (CHN) | DSQ | |
| — | Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL) | DSQ | |
| — | Natalya Fedoskina (RUS) | DSQ | |
| — | Ryoko Tadamasa (JPN) | DSQ | |
| — | Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ) | DSQ | |
| — | Inês Henriques (POR) | DSQ | |
| — | Sun Chunfang (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 | |
