World Championships in Athletics 1999/20 km walking men

7. World Athletics Championships
Discipline	20 km walk
Gender	Men
Participant	39 walkers from 23 countries
Venue	Sevilla
Competition venue	Circuit through Seville
Competition phase	21.August
	Medalists
	Ilya Markov RUS)
	Jefferson Pérez ECU)
	Daniel García MEX)

The men’s 20km walk at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on the streets of the Spanish city of Seville on 21 August 1999.

World Champion became the Russian Olympic silver medallist of 1996 and reigning European Champion Ilya Markov. Second place went to the Olympic Champion of 1996 and winner of the Pan American Games 1995 Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador. Bronze went to the Mexican defending champion and two-time runner-up of the Pan American Games (1995/1999) Daniel García.

Existing records

World best time	1:17:46 h	Guatemala Julio René Martínez	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	8.May 1999^[1]
World Cup record	1:19:37 h	Italy Maurizio Damilano	World Cup 1991 in Tokyo, Japan	24.August 1991

Plaza de España, Seville, in 1999

Note:
Records were not kept in marathon running and road walking at the time, except for championship records, because of the different nature of the courses.

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Implementation

There was no preliminary round here, all 39 walkers competed together in the final.

Result

After silver at the Olympics in 1996 and European Championship gold in 1998, there was now world championship gold for Ilya Markov

Jefferson Pérez, 1996 Olympic champion, was runner-up in the world championships

Seventh-ranked Nathan Deakes went on to medal and win later in his career

21.August 1999, 6:45 pm

Place	Name	Nation	Time (h)
1	Ilya Markov	Russia Russia	1:23:34
2	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador Ecuador	1:24:19
3	Daniel García	Mexico Mexico	1:24:31
4	Li Zewen	China People’s Republic People’s Republic of China	1:24:43
5	Alessandro Gandellini	Italy Italy	1:24:51
6	Igor Kollár	Slovakia Slovakia	1:25:15
7	Nathan Deakes	Australia Australia	1:25:26
8	Giovanni De Benedictis	Italy Italy	1:25:33
9	Ivan Trotsky	Belarus Belarus	1:25:54
10	Michele Didoni	Italy Italy	1:26:00
11	Yauhen Missyulya	Belarus Belarus	1:26:08
12	Alejandro López	Mexico Mexico	1:26:17
13	Denis Langlois	France France	1:26:25
14	Yu Guohui	China People’s Republic People’s Republic of China	1:26:51
15	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain Spain	1:27:23
16	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia Tunisia	1:28:36
17	Daisuke Ikeshima	Japan Japan	1:29:03
18	Mikel Odriozola	Spain Spain	1:29:03
19	Augusto Cardoso	Portugal Portugal	1:29:33
20	Liu Yunfeng	China People’s Republic People’s Republic of China	1:31:26
21	Valeriy Borisov	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	1:31:38
22	Fedosei Ciumacenco	Moldova Republic Moldova	1:32:08
23	Claus Jørgensen	Denmark Denmark	1:34:47
24	Tim Seaman	UnitedStates USA	1:35:58
25	José Urbano	Portugal Portugal	1:37:50
26	Nicholas A’Hern	Australia Australia	1:38:08
DNF	Andreas Erm	Germany Germany
	Aigars Fadejevs	Latvia Latvia
	Roman Rasskasov	Russia Russia
	Mikhail Khmelnitsky	Belarus Belarus
	Bernardo Segura	Mexico Mexico
	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary Hungary
	Luis Fernando García	Guatemala Guatemala
DSQ	Birger Fält	Sweden Sweden
	Julio René Martínez	Guatemala Guatemala
	João Vieira	Portugal Portugal
	Arturo Huerta	Canada Canada
	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia Russia
	Róbert Valícek	Slovakia Slovakia

Francisco Javier Fernández finished fifteenth and was later among the medal winners in major events
Hatem Ghoula – Rank Sixteen
Mikel Odriozola – eighteenth place
Valeriy Borissov – rank 21
Julio René Martínez – disqualified
João Vieira – disqualified

Video

Men’s 20km Walk (incomplete) – 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, retrieved July 16, 2020

Web links

7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics (English), retrieved 16 July 2020
Men 20km Walk Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Seville (ESP) on todor66.com (English), retrieved 16 July 2020
Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Men 20km Walk, Seville 1999, p. 216 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, retrieved 16 July 2020

Individual references

↑ IAAF World Records. 20 km walking men on rekorde-im-sport.de, retrieved 16 July 2020

[1] IAAF World Records. 20 km walking men on rekorde-im-sport.de, retrieved 16 July 2020

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