2000 in race walking

none This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2000 in both the men's and the women's race walking distances: 20 km and 50 km (outdoor). The main events during this season took place at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds WR world recordAR area recordCR event recordNR national recordPB personal best Men's 20 km Records Standing records prior to the 2000 season in track and fieldWorld Record Julio René Martínez GUA 1:17:46 May 8, 1999 GER Eisenhüttenstadt, GermanyEqualled records during the 2000 season in track and fieldWorld Record Roman Rasskazov RUS 1:17:46 May 19, 2000 RUS Moscow, Russia 2000 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 1:17:46 Roman Rasskazov RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 WR 2 1:18:14 Mikhail Khmelnitskiy BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 3 1:18:16 Vladimir Andreyev RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 4 1:18:22 Robert Korzeniowski POL Hildesheim, Germany 09 07 2000 5 1:18:23 Andrey Makarov BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 6 1:18:42 Andreas Erm GER Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 7 1:18:56 Paquillo Fernández ESP Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 8 1:19:03 Noé Hernández MEX Sydney, Australia 22 09 2000 9 1:19:15 Artur Meleshkevich BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 10 1:19:18 Jiří Malysa CZE Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 Men's 50 km Records Standing records prior to the 2000 season in track and field World Record Andrey Perlov URS 3:37:41 August 5, 1989 URS Leningrad, Soviet UnionBroken records during the 2000 season in track and field World Record Valeriy Spitsyn RUS 3:37:26 May 21, 2000 RUS Moscow, Russia 2000 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 3:36:39 Valeriy Spitsyn RUS Moscow, Russia 21 05 2000 WR 2 3:39:21 Vladimir Potemin RUS Moscow, Russia 21 05 2000 3 3:39:34 Valentin Kononen FIN Dudince, Slovakia 25 03 2000 4 3:41:50 Robert Korzeniowski POL Ponte de Sôr, Portugal 05 03 2000 5 3:42:02 Nikolay Matyukhin RUS Moscow, Russia 21 05 2000 6 3:42:51 Jesús Ángel García ESP Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 18 06 2000 7 3:43:40 Aigars Fadejevs LAT Sydney, Australia 29 09 2000 8 3:43:52 Miguel Rodríguez MEX Poza Rica, Mexico 09 04 2000 9 3:44:30 Andrey Plotnikov RUS Moscow, Russia 21 05 2000 10 3:44:33 Yevgeniy Shmalyuk RUS Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 18 06 2000 Women's 20 km Records Standing records prior to the 2000 season in track and fieldWorld Record Liu Hongyu CHN 1:27:30 May 1, 1995 CHN Beijing, PR China Nadezhda Ryashkina RUS 1:27:30 February 2, 1999 RUS Adler, RussiaBroken records during the 2000 season in track and field World Record Tatyana Gudkova RUS 1:25:18 May 19, 2000 RUS Moscow, Russia 2000 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 1:25:18 Tatyana Gudkova RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 WR 2 1:25:20 Olga Polyakova RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 3 1:25:29 Irina Stankina RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 4 1:25:59 Tamara Kovalenko RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 5 1:26:08 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 6 1:27:42 Elisabetta Perrone ITA Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 7 1:27:53 Kjersti Plätzer NOR Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 8 1:27:55 Liu Hongyu CHN Rio Maior, Portugal 15 04 2000 9 1:28:06 Nadezhda Ryashkina RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 10 1:28:06 Erica Alfridi ITA Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 11 1:28:19 Susana Feitor POR Hildesheim, Germany 09 07 2000 12 1:28:24 Natalya Misyulya BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 13 1:28:27 Wang Yan CHN Rio Maior, Portugal 15 04 2000 14 1:28:33 Wang Liping CHN Dalian, PR China 03 06 2000 15 1:28:38 Annarita Sidoti ITA Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 16 1:28:52 Natalya Fedoskina RUS Hildesheim, Germany 09 07 2000 17 1:28:56 Jane Saville AUS Vallensbæk, Denmark 06 05 2000 18 1:28:56 Larisa Ramazanova BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 19 1:28:59 Norica Câmpean ROM Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 17 06 2000 20 1:29:06 Valentina Savchuk UKR Adler, Russia 20 02 2000 21 1:29:23 Lyudmila Dolgopolova BLR Soligorsk, Belarus 13 05 2000 22 1:29:36 Kerry Saxby-Junna AUS Naumburg, Germany 30 04 2000 23 1:29:39 Claudia Stef ROM Békéscsaba, Hungary 09 04 2000 24 1:29:39 Yuliya Voyevodina RUS Moscow, Russia 19 05 2000 25 1:29:47 Rossella Giordano ITA Hildesheim, Germany 09 07 2000 References IAAF Women's 20 km Year Ranking 2000 Race Walking Year Ranking, 2000