2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Medalists

Gold	Olimpiada Ivanova Russia (RUS)
Silver	Yelena Nikolayeva Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Erica Alfridi Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:24.50	March 4, 2001	Adler, Russia
Event Record	New Event

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:26:42	SB
	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	1:28:20
	Erica Alfridi (ITA)	1:28:33	SB
4	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	1:28:46	SB
5	Claudia Stef  (ROM)	1:29:57	SB
6	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	1:30:25	SB
7	Kristina Saltanovič (LTU)	1:30:44	SB
8	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	1:31:19
9	Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE)	1:31:25	SB
10	Eva Pérez (ESP)	1:31:38	SB
11	Athina Papayianni (GRE)	1:31:45	SB
12	Beatriz Pascual (ESP)	1:32:38	SB
13	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	1:33:08
14	Melanie Seeger (GER)	1:33:40
15	Inês Henriques (POR)	1:35:07	SB
16	Nevena Mineva (BUL)	1:35:28
17	Vera Santos (POR)	1:37:19
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	María Vasco (ESP)	DNF
—	Sonata Milušauskaitė (LTU)	DNF
—	Susana Feitor (POR)	DNF
—	Jolanta Dukure (LAT)	DNF
—	Natalya Fedoskina (RUS)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DQ)
—	Yelena Ginko  (BLR)	DQ
—	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	DQ
—	Olga Lukyanchuk (UKR)	DQ
—	Norica Câmpean (ROM)	DQ

See also

• 1999 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Seville)
• 2000 Women's Olympic 20km Walk (Sydney)
• 2001 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Edmonton)
• 2002 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 2003 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Paris)
• 2004 Women's Olympic 20km Walk (Athens)
• 2005 Women's World Championships 20km Walk (Helsinki)

References

• Results
• Official Results Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine