1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Introduction The '''1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup''' was held on 19 and 20 April 1997 in the streets of Poděbrady, Czech Republic. The course followed a loop around Lázeňský park.Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given for the IAAF.Complete results were published.
Medallists  '''Men'''Men's 20 km walkJefferson Pérez  1:18:24Daniel García  1:18:27Ilya Markov  1:18:30Men's 50 km walkJesús Ángel García  3:39:54Oleg Ishutkin  3:40:12Valentin Kononen  3:41:09 '''Team (Men)'''Lugano Trophy (team men overall)  865 pts  803 pts  802 ptsTeam (Men 20 km)  431 pts  413 pts  403 ptsTeam (Men 50 km)  434 pts  415 pts  407 pts '''Women'''Women's 10 km walkIrina Stankina  41:52Olimpiada Ivanova  41:59Gu Yan  42:15 '''Team (women)'''Eschborn Cup (Women 10 km)  440 pts  435 pts  425 pts
Results ===Men's 20 km=== Place  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes   Jefferson Pérez    1:18:24      Daniel García    1:18:27      Ilya Markov    1:18:30    4  Li Zewen    1:18:32    5  Julio René Martínez    1:18:51    6  Yevgeniy Misyulya    1:18:55    7  Rishat Shafikov    1:19:27    8  Artur Meleshkevich    1:19:33    9  Mikhail Shchennikov    1:19:45    10  Vladimir Andreyev    1:19:46    11  Andrey Makarov    1:19:54    12  Nicholas A'Hern    1:20:04    13  Joel Sánchez    1:20:05    14  Igor Kollár    1:20:09    15  Aigars Fadejevs    1:20:13    16  Daisuke Ikeshima    1:20:27    17  Alessandro Gandellini    1:20:31    18  Denis Langlois    1:20:35    19  Valentí Massana    1:20:39     20  Sándor Urbanik    1:20:41    21  Thierry Toutain    1:20:43    22  Giovanni De Benedictis    1:20:49    23  Walter Arena    1:20:50    24  Mikhail Khmelnitsky    1:20:51    25  Sérgio Vieira    1:20:58    26  Róbert Valíček    1:20:58    27  João Vieira    1:20:59    28  Fernando Vázquez    1:20:59    29  Andreas Erm    1:21:05    30  Valdas Kazlauskas    1:21:29    31  Mariusz Ornoch    1:21:33    32  Robert Ihly    1:21:47    33  Sergio Galdino    1:21:50    34  Valeriy Borisov    1:21:51    35  Omar Zepeda    1:21:59    36  Vladimir Druchik    1:22:03    37  Jean-Olivier Brosseau    1:22:04    38  Modris Liepiņš    1:22:04    39  Yu Guohui    1:22:08    40  Aleksandar Raković    1:22:12    41  Cláudio Bertolino    1:22:31    42  Sergey Korepanov    1:22:32    43  Roberto Oscal    1:22:34    44  José Urbano    1:22:40    45  Marco Giungi    1:22:41    46  Paquillo Fernández    1:22:41    47  Yuriy Kuko    1:23:05    48  Hubert Sonnek    1:23:08    49  Dion Russell    1:23:40    50  Jan Staaf    1:23:50    51  Jiří Malysa    1:23:55    52  Nathan Deakes    1:23:58    53  Roman Magdziarczyk    1:24:01    54  Vitaliy Stetsyshyn    1:24:13    55  Juan Antonio Porras    1:24:28    56  Yuriy Gordeyev    1:24:34    57  Chris Britz    1:24:35    58  Gintaras Andriuškevičius    1:24:37    59  Curt Clausen    1:24:41    60  Eddy Riva    1:24:47    61  Narinder Harbans Singh    1:24:50    62  Gyula Dudás    1:24:56    63  Michele Didoni    1:24:59    64  Pascal Servanty    1:25:00    65  Miroslav Bosko    1:25:13    66  Sigitas Vainauskas    1:25:14    67  Brent Vallance    1:25:23    68  Luis García    1:25:42    69  Ademar Kammler    1:25:46    70  Grzegorz Sudoł    1:25:47    71  Arvydas Vainauskas    1:25:51    72  Arturo Huerta    1:25:55    73  Augusto Cardoso    1:25:57    74  Andrew Hermann    1:26:07    75  Philip Dunn    1:26:36    76  Nikolay Kalitka    1:26:40    77  Ján Záhončík    1:26:46    78  Andrew Penn    1:26:49    79  Anatoliy Krot    1:27:10    80  Leonid Mizernyuk    1:27:24    81  Bengt Bengtsson    1:27:32    82  Tomáš Kratochvíl    1:27:43    83  Pedro Martins    1:27:51    84  Mark Easton    1:28:02    85  Stanley Valentine    1:28:03    86  Kazimir Verkin    1:28:12    87  Trond Nymark    1:28:15    88  Aigars Saleniks    1:28:35    89  Dimítrios Orfanopoulos    1:29:26    90  Tomáš Hlavenka    1:29:27    91  Graham White    1:29:27    92  Birger Fält    1:29:29    93  Marius Kristiansen    1:29:47    94  Sandis Sarna    1:29:51    95  Paul Copeland    1:29:53    96  Nelson Funes    1:29:55    97  Marco Sowa    1:29:55    98  Gergely Zaborszky    1:30:03    99  Zbignevas Stankevičius    1:30:38   100  Roman Bílek    1:30:57   101  André Höhne    1:31:07   102  Tim Seaman    1:31:12   103  Sabir Sharuyayev    1:31:16   104  Balay Thirukumaran    1:31:17   105  Sidinei Rodrigues    1:31:29   106  Riecus Blignaut    1:31:32   107  Hamed Farag    1:31:51   108  Klaus Jensen    1:31:56   109  Abdulkader Öz    1:32:40   110  Teoh Boon Lim    1:32:51   111  Dave McGovern    1:33:29   112  András Gyöngyi    1:33:36   113  Stefan Wögerbauer    1:34:33   114  Jacques Lubbe    1:34:45   115  Claus Jørgensen    1:34:54   116  Martin Engelsviken    1:35:03   117  Saravanin Govindasamy    1:35:16   118  Karsten Godtfredsen    1:35:43   119  Yeóryios Aryirópoulos    1:35:46   120  Ioánnis Maris    1:35:46   121  Nenad Filipović    1:36:22   122  Bernard Binggeli    1:37:04   123  Nicolás Soto    1:38:39   124  Rami Al-Deeb    1:39:13   125  Renzo Toscanelli    1:39:32   126  Daniele Carrobio    1:40:50   127  Zoran Ivanković    1:48:39   128  Johann Siegele    1:48:50   129  Dietmar Hirschmugl    1:49:31   130  Wilfried Siegele    1:50:14   131  Dip Chand    1:50:29   132  Pradeep Chand    1:50:31   133  Caleb Maybir    1:55:07    —   Tan Mingjun     DQ     —   Bernardo Segura     DQ     —   Daniel Plaza     DQ   Doping†  —   Darrell Stone     DNF     —   Alejandro López     DNF     —   Konrad Morawczyński     DNF     —   Johan Moerdyk     DNF   †: Daniel Plaza from  was initially 20th (1:20:40), but disqualified because of doping violations.====Team (20 km men)====The list below as published in the source might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification. Place  Country  Points     431 pts     413 pts     403 pts  4    392 pts  5    388 pts  6    378 pts  7    357 pts  8    356 pts  9    347 pts 10    344 pts 11    328 pts 12    325 pts 13    318 pts 14    312 pts 15    310 pts 16    310 pts 17    300 pts 18    297 pts 19    291 pts 20    269 pts 21    262 pts 22    258 pts 23    247 pts 24    241 pts 25    230 pts 26    221 pts 27    215 pts 28    196 pts 29    191 pts 30    165 pts 31    164 pts 32    144 pts===Men's 50 km=== Place  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes   Jesús Ángel García    3:39:54      Oleg Ishutkin    3:40:12      Valentin Kononen    3:41:09    4  Nikolay Matyukhin    3:41:36    5  Tomasz Lipiec    3:41:58    6  Miguel Rodríguez    3:42:45    7  Sylvain Caudron    3:46:38    8  René Piller    3:47:19    9  Roman Mrázek    3:48:22    10  Andrey Plotnikov    3:48:35    11  Štefan Malík    3:48:52    12  Viktor Ginko    3:49:23    13  Zoltán Czukor    3:50:26    14  Oleg Merkulov    3:50:31    15  Thomas Wallstab    3:51:19    16  Peter Tichý    3:51:30    17  Jan Holender    3:52:48    18  Ma Hongye    3:52:58    19  Dmitriy Savaytan    3:53:35    20  Peter Zanner    3:54:17     21  Santiago Pérez    3:54:28    22  Germán Sánchez    3:54:31    23  Orazio Romanzi    3:54:55    24  Jaime Barroso    3:55:04    25  Ruben Arikado    3:55:05    26  Massimo Fizialetti    3:55:16    27  Arturo Di Mezza    3:55:42    28  Miloš Holuša    3:55:52    29  Paolo Bianchi    3:57:28    30  José Magalhães    3:57:30    31  Denis Trautmann    3:57:58    32  Christophe Cousin    3:59:00    33  Alain Lemercier    3:59:49    34  Julio Urías    4:00:12    35  Alexaev Novikov    4:00:42    36  Yu Chaohong    4:00:47    37  José Manuel Rodríguez    4:00:50    38  Anatoliy Gorshkov    4:01:01    39  Dirk Nicque    4:02:55    40  Jaroslav Makovec    4:03:15    41  Ervin Leczky    4:03:46    42  Chris Maddocks    4:05:42    43  Antero Lindman    4:06:55    44  Andrzej Chylinski    4:07:15    45  Duane Cousins    4:07:17    46  Bo Gustafsson    4:07:36    47  Hrístos Karayeóryios    4:07:54    48  Mikel Odriozola    4:08:07    49  Vitaliy Gordey    4:08:27    50  Francisco Pantoja    4:08:47    51  Gábor Lengyel    4:09:13    52  Fredrik Svensson    4:09:22    53  Jean-Marc Starck    4:09:52    54  Juha Kinnunen    4:09:57    55  Peter Korčok    4:10:02    56  Chris Cheeseman    4:10:23    57  František Kmenta    4:10:45    58  Henk Plasman    4:11:37    59  Ulf-Peter Sjöholm    4:11:53    60  Virgilho Soares    4:12:20    61  Stanisław Stosik    4:13:07    62  Mark Green    4:13:16    63  Hugo López    4:13:43    64  Michael Harvey    4:14:09    65  Dominic McGrath    4:14:49    66  Les Morton    4:16:12    67  Karl Atton    4:16:30    68  Marco Evoniuk    4:17:24    69  Harold van Beek    4:17:46    70  Marcel van Gemert    4:18:59    71  Vladimir Soyka    4:19:31    72  Carl Schueler    4:19:46    73  Aleksey Shelest    4:20:32    74  Jiří Mašita    4:22:18    75  Anatoliy Malivskiy    4:22:49    76  Balázs Tóth    4:24:35    77  Jacob Sørensen    4:25:53    78  Andreas Paspaliaris    4:26:43    79  Shane Pearson    4:28:53    80  Pedro Huntjens    4:29:18    81  Karoly Kirszt    4:32:33    82  Miloš Zedník    4:35:48    83  José Pinto    4:38:00    84  Luc Nicque    4:39:33    85  Bernard Cossy    4:44:13    86  Kees Lambrechts    4:49:58    87  Saturnino Salazar    4:58:48    88  Frank Buytaert    5:08:19    —   Tim Berrett     DQ     —   Zhang Huiqiang     DQ     —   Craig Barrett     DQ     —   Manuel Oyao     DQ     —   Jacek Müller     DQ     —   Roby Ponzio     DQ     —   Anton Trotskiy     DNF     —   Zhao Yongsheng     DNF     —   Axel Noack     DNF     —   Mynor Vasquez     DNF     —   Giovanni Perricelli     DNF     —   Ignacio Zamudio     DNF     —   Sonny Díaz     DNF     —   Luís Ribeiro     DNF     —   German Skurygin     DNF     —   Pascal Charrière     DNF     —   Peter Malik     DNF     —   Peter Ferrari     DNF     —   Vitaliy Popovich     DNF     —   Jonathan Matthews     DNF   ====Team (50 km men)==== Place  Country  Points     434 pts     415 pts     407 pts  4    405 pts  5    399 pts  6    388 pts  7    388 pts  8    377 pts  9    377 pts 10    362 pts 11    356 pts 12    339 pts 13    313 pts 14    308 pts 15    306 pts 16    299 pts 17    298 pts 18    293 pts 19    282 pts 20    280 pts 21    250 pts 22    215 pts 23    83 pts 24    82 pts===Lugano Trophy (combined team men)===The results list as published in the source contains some obvious errors that were tentatively corrected. Moreover, there are inconsistencies when summing up the points of the 20 km and 50 km team results and the results list as published in the source. It is speculated that the 20 km team results might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification. Place  Country  Points     865 pts     803 pts     802 pts  4    785 pts  5    772 pts  6    771 pts  7    771 pts  8    702 pts  9    688 pts 10    666 pts 11    654 pts 12    645 pts 13    630 pts 14    594 pts 15    575 pts 16    568 pts 17    560 pts 18    549 pts 19    509 pts 20    362 pts 21    329 pts 22    327 pts 23    320 pts 24    311 pts 25    282 pts 26    280 pts 27    247 pts 28    247 pts 29    230 pts 30    222 pts 31    215 pts 32    196 pts 33    191 pts 34    165 pts 35    144 pts 36    82 pts===Women's 10 km=== Place  Athlete  Nation  Time  Notes   Irina Stankina    41:52      Olimpiada Ivanova    41:59      Gu Yan    42:15    4  Erica Alfridi    42:31    5  Rossella Giordano    42:37    6  Annarita Sidoti    42:41    7  Larisa Khmelnitskaya    42:46    8  Tamara Kovalenko    42:51    9  Beate Gummelt    42:52    10  Wang Liping    42:53    11  Valentina Tsybulskaya    42:54    12  Liu Hongyu    42:57    13  Olga Kardopoltseva    43:08    14  Nataliya Misyulya    43:08    15  Olga Panfyorova    43:08    16  Yelena Sayko    43:20    17  Norica Câmpean    43:21    18  Lyudmila Dolgopolova    43:32    19  Anikó Szebenszky    43:41    20  Mária Urbanik    43:41     21  Maya Sazonova    43:52    22  María Vasco    43:54    23  Wang Yuntao    43:55    24  Kathrin Born-Boyde    44:00    25  Elisabetta Perrone    44:10    26  Anita Liepiņa    44:29    27  Valentina Savchuk    44:30    28  Kong Yan    44:35    29  Christiana Pellino    44:36    30  Rie Mitsumori    44:39    31  Graciela Mendoza    44:48    32  Yuka Kamioka    44:52    33  Francisca Martínez    44:58    34  Claudia Iovan    45:03    35  Geovana Irusta    45:03    36  Vira Zozulya    45:07    37  Svetlana Tolstaya    45:09    38  Nathalie Marchand-Fortain    45:10    39  Ryoko Sakakura    45:14    40  Jane Saville    45:19    41  Jill Maybir-Barrett    45:20    42  Tina Poitras    45:21    43  Svitlana Kalitka    45:25    44  Celia Marcén    45:25    45  Cheng Tong Lean    45:27    46  Annastasia Raj    45:29    47  Ildikó Ilyés    45:56    48  Natalie Saville    46:19    49  Nora Leksir    46:29    50  Victoria Herazo    46:31    51  Gabriele Herold    46:33    52  Sofia Avoila    46:36    53  Simone Wolowiec    46:45    54  Melanie Seeger    46:49    55  Fatiha Ouali    46:55    56  Andrea Szabó    46:58    57  Victoria Palacios    47:06    58  Vicky Lupton    47:16    60  Wendy Muldoon    47:22    61  Joanne Dow    47:23    62  Isilda Gonçalves    47:23    63  María Guadalupe Sánchez    47:24    64  Sonata Milušauskaitė    47:28    65  Kristina Saltanovič    47:31    66  Gretchen Eastler    47:45    67  Joni Bender    47:50    68  Rocío Florido    48:00    69  Mónika Pesti    48:06    70  Ivonne Varas    48:11    71  Valérie Lévèque-Nadaud    48:13    72  Hanne Liland    48:22    73  Dana Yarbrough    48:26    74  Zuzana Zemková    48:34    75  Laura Ferreiro    48:45    76  Tatiana Denize    48:46    77  Anne Haaland Simonsen    48:49    78  Iveta Skadmane    48:56    79  Hilde Gustafsen    49:00    80  Sylvia Saunders/Black    49:00    81  Bożena Górecka    49:06    82  Sara Standley    49:22    83  Mária Gáliková    49:28    84  Yelena Kuznetsova    49:33    85  Blanka Kožíková    49:36    86  Ligia Gonçalves    49:37    87  Aleksandra Kot    49:37    88  Zuzana Blažeková    49:46    89  Elina Risto    49:48    90  Nagwa Ibrahim    49:51    91  Hristína Kokótou    49:55    92  Jonna Voronkoff    50:11    93  Krista Ranta-Pere    50:13    94  Verity Larby-Snook    50:14    95  Tamara Heroldová    50:21    96  Anna Brnová    50:22    97  Tarja Jaskari    50:38    98  Gražina Kiliūtė    50:40    99  Monika Banka    50:56   100  Susan Hornung    51:17   101  Lisa Crump    51:20   102  Kaisa Suhonen    51:54   103  Nancy Lai    52:13   104  Dana Vavřačová    52:33   105  Kamila Holpuchová    52:58   106  Lena Launikonytė    53:13   107  Eva Seidlova    53:18   108  Pavla Choderová    53:33   109  Anica Djokic    56:11   110  Maja Vucijevic    56:26   111  Yeliz Ay    58:43   112  Jelena Jeremic    59:15    —   Teoh Tay Wah     DQ     —   Yelena Veremeychuk     DQ     —   Encarna Granados     DNF     —   Jolanta Dukure     DNF     —   Susana Feitór     DNF   ====Team (women)==== Place  Country  Points     440 pts     435 pts     425 pts  4    419 pts  5    380 pts  6    379 pts  7    373 pts  8    366 pts  9    356 pts 10    345 pts 11    342 pts 12    341 pts 13    334 pts 14    308 pts 15    297 pts 16    292 pts 17    286 pts 18    279 pts 19    274 pts 20    270 pts 21    265 pts 22    247 pts 23    239 pts 24    233 pts 25    222 pts 26    206 pts
Participation The participation of 365 athletes (248 men/117 women) from 47 countries is reported. * (9/5)* (4/-)* (9/5)* (3/-)* (-/1)* (4/-)* (2/3)* (7/5)* (10/5)* (4/-)* (1/-)* (1/1)* (3/-)* (3/5)* (10/5)* (7/4)* (5/1)* (7/-)* (9/5)* (10/5)* (1/3)* (4/3)* (4/3)* (5/4)* (1/-)* (4/4)* (10/5)* (5/-)* (1/-)* (3/3)* (1/-)* (3/-)* (8/3)* (9/4)* (1/-)* (-/2)* (10/5)* (10/5)* (5/-)* (10/5)* (7/-)* (6/-)* (1/1)* (10/4)* (8/4)* (10/5)* Yugoslavia (3/3)
See also * 1997 Race Walking Year Ranking
References
External links * Official IAAF website for the 1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup* IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures - IAAF.org