Women's 20k walk

At the same time I watched the 10k swim, I followed the live splits and live blogging of the women's 20k walk. Incredibly, the top 13 women all came in under the old Olympic record time!

Here are the results. USA's Joanne Dow finished in a season best 1:34:15; at age 44 she is the oldest USA track and field athlete.

Aug. 20, 2008, Start time: 9:00 PM ETAug. 21, 2008, Start time: 9:00
Women's 20km Race walk Final
Results
Lane Athlete Country Time Record
1 Olga Kaniskina Russia 1:26:31 Olympic Record
2 Kjersti Platzer Norway 1:27:07 National Record
3 Elisa Rigaudo Italy 1:27:12 Personal Best
4 Hong Liu China 1:27:17 Personal Best
5 Maria Vasco Spain 1:27:25 National Record
6 Beatriz Pascual Spain 1:27:44 Personal Best
7 Olive Loughnane Ireland 1:27:45 Personal Best
8 Ana Cabecinha Portugal 1:27:46 National Record
9 Athanasia Tsoumeleka Greece 1:27:54 National Record
10 Vera Santos Portugal 1:28:14 Personal Best
11 Ryta Turava Belarus 1:28:26 Season's Best
12 Tatyana Sibileva Russia 1:28:28
13 Na Shi China 1:29:08 Season's Best
14 Mayumi Kawasaki Japan 1:29:43
15 Sabine Zimmer Germany 1:30:19
16 Sonata Milusauskaite Lithuania 1:30:26 National Record
17 Vira Zozulya Ukraine 1:30:31
18 Maria Jose Poves Spain 1:30:52
19 Kristina Saltanovic Lithuania 1:31:03 Season's Best
20 Jane Saville Australia 1:31:17
21 Sylwia Korzeniowska Poland 1:31:19
22 Johanna Jackson Britain 1:31:33 National Record
23 Melanie Seeger Germany 1:31:56
24 Ana Maria Groza Romania 1:32:16
25 Evaggelia Xinou Greece 1:32:19 Personal Best
26 Sachiko Konishi Japan 1:32:21
27 Zuzana Schindlerova Czech Republic 1:32:57 Personal Best
28 Claire Woods Australia 1:33:02 Equal Personal Best
29 Mi-jung Kim South Korea 1:33:55
30 Svetlana Tolstaya Kazakhstan 1:34:03 Season's Best
31 Joanne Dow United States 1:34:15 Season's Best
32 Zuzana Malikova Slovakia 1:34:33 Season's Best
33 Sniazhana Yurchanka Belarus 1:35:33
34 Nadiya Borovska-Prokopuk Ukraine 1:35:50
35 Sandra Zapata Colombia 1:36:18
36 Johana Ordonez Ecuador 1:36:26
37 Tania Regina Spindler Brazil 1:36:46
38 Veronica Colindres El Salvador 1:36:52 Season's Best
39 Edina Fusti Hungary 1:37:03
40 Kellie Wapshott Australia 1:37:59