World Championships in Athletics 1999/20 km walking men
7. World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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Discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
Gender | Men | ||||||||
Participant | 39 walkers from 23 countries | ||||||||
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Competition venue | Circuit through Seville | ||||||||
Competition phase | 21.August | ||||||||
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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 | ![]() |
Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 8.May 1999[1] |
World Cup record | 1:19:37 h | ![]() |
World Cup 1991 in Tokyo, Japan | 24.August 1991 |

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



21.August 1999, 6:45 pm
Place | Name | Nation | Time (h) |
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1 | Ilya Markov | ![]() |
1:23:34 |
2 | Jefferson Pérez | ![]() |
1:24:19 |
3 | Daniel García | ![]() |
1:24:31 |
4 | Li Zewen | ![]() |
1:24:43 |
5 | Alessandro Gandellini | ![]() |
1:24:51 |
6 | Igor Kollár | ![]() |
1:25:15 |
7 | Nathan Deakes | ![]() |
1:25:26 |
8 | Giovanni De Benedictis | ![]() |
1:25:33 |
9 | Ivan Trotsky | ![]() |
1:25:54 |
10 | Michele Didoni | ![]() |
1:26:00 |
11 | Yauhen Missyulya | ![]() |
1:26:08 |
12 | Alejandro López | ![]() |
1:26:17 |
13 | Denis Langlois | ![]() |
1:26:25 |
14 | Yu Guohui | ![]() |
1:26:51 |
15 | Francisco Javier Fernández | ![]() |
1:27:23 |
16 | Hatem Ghoula | ![]() |
1:28:36 |
17 | Daisuke Ikeshima | ![]() |
1:29:03 |
18 | Mikel Odriozola | ![]() |
1:29:03 |
19 | Augusto Cardoso | ![]() |
1:29:33 |
20 | Liu Yunfeng | ![]() |
1:31:26 |
21 | Valeriy Borisov | ![]() |
1:31:38 |
22 | Fedosei Ciumacenco | ![]() |
1:32:08 |
23 | Claus Jørgensen | ![]() |
1:34:47 |
24 | Tim Seaman | ![]() |
States1:35:58 |
25 | José Urbano | ![]() |
1:37:50 |
26 | Nicholas A’Hern | ![]() |
1:38:08 |
DNF | Andreas Erm | ![]() |
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Aigars Fadejevs | ![]() |
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Roman Rasskasov | ![]() |
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Mikhail Khmelnitsky | ![]() |
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Bernardo Segura | ![]() |
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Sándor Urbanik | ![]() |
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Luis Fernando García | ![]() |
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DSQ | Birger Fält | ![]() |
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Julio René Martínez | ![]() |
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João Vieira | ![]() |
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Arturo Huerta | ![]() |
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Vladimir Andreyev | ![]() |
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Róbert Valícek | ![]() |
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Francisco Javier Fernández finished fifteenth and was later among the medal winners in major events
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Hatem Ghoula – Rank Sixteen
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Mikel Odriozola – eighteenth place
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Valeriy Borissov – rank 21
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Julio René Martínez – disqualified
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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
- Competition of the World Championships in Athletics 1999
- Athletics competition in Seville