1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1997 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	18th
Date	April 19–20
Host city	Poděbrady, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
Location	Lázeňský park
Nations participating	47
Athletes participating	365
Races	3
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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.^[1]

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given for the IAAF.^[2][3][4]

Complete results were published.^[5][6][7][8]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Men's 20 km walk	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:18:24	Daniel García  Mexico	1:18:27	Ilya Markov  Russia	1:18:30
Men's 50 km walk	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:39:54	Oleg Ishutkin  Russia	3:40:12	Valentin Kononen  Finland	3:41:09
Team (Men)
Lugano Trophy (Team Men Overall)	Russia	865 pts	Mexico	803 pts	Belarus	802 pts
Team (Men 20 km)	Russia	431 pts	Belarus	413 pts	Mexico	403 pts
Team (Men 50 km)	Russia	434 pts	Slovakia	415 pts	Spain	407 pts
Women
Women's 10 km walk	Irina Stankina  Russia	41:52	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	41:59	Gu Yan  China	42:15
Team (Women)
Eschborn Cup (Women 10 km)	Russia	440 pts	Italy	435 pts	China	425 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Jefferson Pérez  ECU	1:18:24
02 !	Daniel García  MEX	1:18:27
03 !	Ilya Markov  RUS	1:18:30
4	Li Zewen  CHN	1:18:32
5	Julio René Martínez  GUA	1:18:51
6	Yevgeniy Misyulya  BLR	1:18:55
7	Rishat Shafikov  RUS	1:19:27
8	Artur Meleshkevich  BLR	1:19:33
9	Mikhail Shchennikov  RUS	1:19:45
10	Vladimir Andreyev  RUS	1:19:46
11	Andrey Makarov  RUS	1:19:54
12	Nicholas A'Hern  AUS	1:20:04
13	Joel Sánchez  MEX	1:20:05
14	Igor Kollár  SVK	1:20:09
15	Aigars Fadejevs  LAT	1:20:13
16	Daisuke Ikeshima  JPN	1:20:27
17	Alessandro Gandellini  ITA	1:20:31
18	Denis Langlois  FRA	1:20:35
19	Valentí Massana  ESP	1:20:39
20	Sándor Urbanik  HUN	1:20:41
21	Thierry Toutain  FRA	1:20:43
22	Giovanni De Benedictis  ITA	1:20:49
23	Walter Arena  ITA	1:20:50
24	Mikhail Khmelnitsky  BLR	1:20:51
25	Sérgio Vieira  POR	1:20:58
26	Róbert Valíček  SVK	1:20:58
27	João Vieira  POR	1:20:59
28	Fernando Vázquez  ESP	1:20:59
29	Andreas Erm  GER	1:21:05
30	Valdas Kazlauskas  LTU	1:21:29
31	Mariusz Ornoch  POL	1:21:33
32	Robert Ihly  GER	1:21:47
33	Sergio Galdino  BRA	1:21:50
34	Valeriy Borisov  KAZ	1:21:51
35	Omar Zepeda  MEX	1:21:59
36	Vladimir Druchik  UKR	1:22:03
37	Jean-Olivier Brosseau  FRA	1:22:04
38	Modris Liepiņš  LAT	1:22:04
39	Yu Guohui  CHN	1:22:08
40	Aleksandar Raković YUG	1:22:12
41	Cláudio Bertolino  BRA	1:22:31
42	Sergey Korepanov  KAZ	1:22:32
43	Roberto Oscal  GUA	1:22:34
44	José Urbano  POR	1:22:40
45	Marco Giungi  ITA	1:22:41
46	Paquillo Fernández  ESP	1:22:41
47	Yuriy Kuko  BLR	1:23:05
48	Hubert Sonnek  CZE	1:23:08
49	Dion Russell  AUS	1:23:40
50	Jan Staaf  SWE	1:23:50
51	Jiří Malysa  CZE	1:23:55
52	Nathan Deakes  AUS	1:23:58
53	Roman Magdziarczyk  POL	1:24:01
54	Vitaliy Stetsyshyn  UKR	1:24:13
55	Juan Antonio Porras  ESP	1:24:28
56	Yuriy Gordeyev  KAZ	1:24:34
57	Chris Britz  RSA	1:24:35
58	Gintaras Andriuškevičius  LTU	1:24:37
59	Curt Clausen  USA	1:24:41
60	Eddy Riva  FRA	1:24:47
61	Narinder Harbans Singh  MAS	1:24:50
62	Gyula Dudás  HUN	1:24:56
63	Michele Didoni  ITA	1:24:59
64	Pascal Servanty  FRA	1:25:00
65	Miroslav Bosko  SVK	1:25:13
66	Sigitas Vainauskas  LTU	1:25:14
67	Brent Vallance  AUS	1:25:23
68	Luis García  GUA	1:25:42
69	Ademar Kammler  BRA	1:25:46
70	Grzegorz Sudoł  POL	1:25:47
71	Arvydas Vainauskas  LTU	1:25:51
72	Arturo Huerta  CAN	1:25:55
73	Augusto Cardoso  POR	1:25:57
74	Andrew Hermann  USA	1:26:07
75	Philip Dunn  USA	1:26:36
76	Nikolay Kalitka  UKR	1:26:40
77	Ján Záhončík  SVK	1:26:46
78	Andrew Penn  GBR	1:26:49
79	Anatoliy Krot  UKR	1:27:10
80	Leonid Mizernyuk  UKR	1:27:24
81	Bengt Bengtsson  SWE	1:27:32
82	Tomáš Kratochvíl  CZE	1:27:43
83	Pedro Martins  POR	1:27:51
84	Mark Easton  GBR	1:28:02
85	Stanley Valentine  RSA	1:28:03
86	Kazimir Verkin  SVK	1:28:12
87	Trond Nymark  NOR	1:28:15
88	Aigars Saleniks  LAT	1:28:35
89	Dimítrios Orfanopoulos  GRE	1:29:26
90	Tomáš Hlavenka  CZE	1:29:27
91	Graham White  GBR	1:29:27
92	Birger Fält  SWE	1:29:29
93	Marius Kristiansen  NOR	1:29:47
94	Sandis Sarna  LAT	1:29:51
95	Paul Copeland  AUS	1:29:53
96	Nelson Funes  GUA	1:29:55
97	Marco Sowa  LUX	1:29:55
98	Gergely Zaborszky  HUN	1:30:03
99	Zbignevas Stankevičius  LTU	1:30:38
100	Roman Bílek  CZE	1:30:57
101	André Höhne  GER	1:31:07
102	Tim Seaman  USA	1:31:12
103	Sabir Sharuyayev  KAZ	1:31:16
104	Balay Thirukumaran  MAS	1:31:17
105	Sidinei Rodrigues  BRA	1:31:29
106	Riecus Blignaut  RSA	1:31:32
107	Hamed Farag  EGY	1:31:51
108	Klaus Jensen  DEN	1:31:56
109	Abdulkader Öz  TUR	1:32:40
110	Teoh Boon Lim  MAS	1:32:51
111	Dave McGovern  USA	1:33:29
112	András Gyöngyi  HUN	1:33:36
113	Stefan Wögerbauer  AUT	1:34:33
114	Jacques Lubbe  RSA	1:34:45
115	Claus Jørgensen  DEN	1:34:54
116	Martin Engelsviken  NOR	1:35:03
117	Saravanin Govindasamy  MAS	1:35:16
118	Karsten Godtfredsen  DEN	1:35:43
119	Yeóryios Aryirópoulos  GRE	1:35:46
120	Ioánnis Maris  GRE	1:35:46
121	Nenad Filipović YUG	1:36:22
122	Bernard Binggeli   SUI	1:37:04
123	Nicolás Soto  PUR	1:38:39
124	Rami Al-Deeb  PLE	1:39:13
125	Renzo Toscanelli   SUI	1:39:32
126	Daniele Carrobio   SUI	1:40:50
127	Zoran Ivanković YUG	1:48:39
128	Johann Siegele  AUT	1:48:50
129	Dietmar Hirschmugl  AUT	1:49:31
130	Wilfried Siegele  AUT	1:50:14
131	Dip Chand  FIJ	1:50:29
132	Pradeep Chand  FIJ	1:50:31
133	Caleb Maybir  FIJ	1:55:07
—	Tan Mingjun  CHN	DQ
—	Bernardo Segura  MEX	DQ
—	Daniel Plaza  ESP	DQ	Doping†
—	Darrell Stone  GBR	DNF
—	Alejandro López  MEX	DNF
—	Konrad Morawczyński  POL	DNF
—	Johan Moerdyk  RSA	DNF

^†: Daniel Plaza from  Spain was initially 20th (1:20:40), but disqualified because of doping violations.^[5]

Team (20 km Men)

The list below as published in the source^[5] might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification.

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Russia	431 pts
02 !	Belarus	413 pts
03 !	Mexico	403 pts
4	Italy	392 pts
5	Spain	388 pts
6	France	378 pts
7	Portugal	357 pts
8	Slovakia	356 pts
9	Australia	347 pts
10	Guatemala	344 pts
11	Latvia	328 pts
12	Kazakhstan	325 pts
13	Brazil	318 pts
14	Germany	312 pts
15	Lithuania	310 pts
16	Poland	310 pts
17	Ukraine	300 pts
18	Hungary	297 pts
19	Czech Republic	291 pts
20	United States	269 pts
21	Sweden	262 pts
22	China	258 pts
23	South Africa	247 pts
24	United Kingdom	241 pts
25	Malaysia	230 pts
26	Yugoslavia	221 pts
27	Norway	215 pts
28	Greece	196 pts
29	Denmark	191 pts
30	Austria	165 pts
31	Switzerland	164 pts
32	Fiji	144 pts

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Jesús Ángel García  ESP	3:39:54
02 !	Oleg Ishutkin  RUS	3:40:12
03 !	Valentin Kononen  FIN	3:41:09
4	Nikolay Matyukhin  RUS	3:41:36
5	Tomasz Lipiec  POL	3:41:58
6	Miguel Rodríguez  MEX	3:42:45
7	Sylvain Caudron  FRA	3:46:38
8	René Piller  FRA	3:47:19
9	Roman Mrázek  SVK	3:48:22
10	Andrey Plotnikov  RUS	3:48:35
11	Štefan Malík  SVK	3:48:52
12	Viktor Ginko  BLR	3:49:23
13	Zoltán Czukor  HUN	3:50:26
14	Oleg Merkulov  RUS	3:50:31
15	Thomas Wallstab  GER	3:51:19
16	Peter Tichý  SVK	3:51:30
17	Jan Holender  POL	3:52:48
18	Ma Hongye  CHN	3:52:58
19	Dmitriy Savaytan  BLR	3:53:35
20	Peter Zanner  GER	3:54:17
21	Santiago Pérez  ESP	3:54:28
22	Germán Sánchez  MEX	3:54:31
23	Orazio Romanzi  ITA	3:54:55
24	Jaime Barroso  ESP	3:55:04
25	Ruben Arikado  MEX	3:55:05
26	Massimo Fizialetti  ITA	3:55:16
27	Arturo Di Mezza  ITA	3:55:42
28	Miloš Holuša  CZE	3:55:52
29	Paolo Bianchi  ITA	3:57:28
30	José Magalhães  POR	3:57:30
31	Denis Trautmann  GER	3:57:58
32	Christophe Cousin  FRA	3:59:00
33	Alain Lemercier  FRA	3:59:49
34	Julio Urías  GUA	4:00:12
35	Alexaev Novikov  BLR	4:00:42
36	Yu Chaohong  CHN	4:00:47
37	José Manuel Rodríguez  ESP	4:00:50
38	Anatoliy Gorshkov  UKR	4:01:01
39	Dirk Nicque  BEL	4:02:55
40	Jaroslav Makovec  CZE	4:03:15
41	Ervin Leczky  HUN	4:03:46
42	Chris Maddocks  GBR	4:05:42
43	Antero Lindman  FIN	4:06:55
44	Andrzej Chylinski  USA	4:07:15
45	Duane Cousins  AUS	4:07:17
46	Bo Gustafsson  SWE	4:07:36
47	Hrístos Karayeóryios  GRE	4:07:54
48	Mikel Odriozola  ESP	4:08:07
49	Vitaliy Gordey  BLR	4:08:27
50	Francisco Pantoja  MEX	4:08:47
51	Gábor Lengyel  HUN	4:09:13
52	Fredrik Svensson  SWE	4:09:22
53	Jean-Marc Starck  FRA	4:09:52
54	Juha Kinnunen  FIN	4:09:57
55	Peter Korčok  SVK	4:10:02
56	Chris Cheeseman  GBR	4:10:23
57	František Kmenta  CZE	4:10:45
58	Henk Plasman  NED	4:11:37
59	Ulf-Peter Sjöholm  SWE	4:11:53
60	Virgilho Soares  POR	4:12:20
61	Stanisław Stosik  POL	4:13:07
62	Mark Green  USA	4:13:16
63	Hugo López  GUA	4:13:43
64	Michael Harvey  AUS	4:14:09
65	Dominic McGrath  AUS	4:14:49
66	Les Morton  GBR	4:16:12
67	Karl Atton  GBR	4:16:30
68	Marco Evoniuk  USA	4:17:24
69	Harold van Beek  NED	4:17:46
70	Marcel van Gemert  NED	4:18:59
71	Vladimir Soyka  UKR	4:19:31
72	Carl Schueler  USA	4:19:46
73	Aleksey Shelest  UKR	4:20:32
74	Jiří Mašita  CZE	4:22:18
75	Anatoliy Malivskiy  UKR	4:22:49
76	Balázs Tóth  HUN	4:24:35
77	Jacob Sørensen  DEN	4:25:53
78	Andreas Paspaliaris  GRE	4:26:43
79	Shane Pearson  AUS	4:28:53
80	Pedro Huntjens  NED	4:29:18
81	Karoly Kirszt  HUN	4:32:33
82	Miloš Zedník  CZE	4:35:48
83	José Pinto  POR	4:38:00
84	Luc Nicque  BEL	4:39:33
85	Bernard Cossy   SUI	4:44:13
86	Kees Lambrechts  NED	4:49:58
87	Saturnino Salazar  PHI	4:58:48
88	Frank Buytaert  BEL	5:08:19
—	Tim Berrett  CAN	DQ
—	Zhang Huiqiang  CHN	DQ
—	Craig Barrett  NZL	DQ
—	Manuel Oyao  PHI	DQ
—	Jacek Müller  POL	DQ
—	Roby Ponzio   SUI	DQ
—	Anton Trotskiy  BLR	DNF
—	Zhao Yongsheng  CHN	DNF
—	Axel Noack  GER	DNF
—	Mynor Vasquez  GUA	DNF
—	Giovanni Perricelli  ITA	DNF
—	Ignacio Zamudio  MEX	DNF
—	Sonny Díaz  PHI	DNF
—	Luís Ribeiro  POR	DNF
—	German Skurygin  RUS	DNF
—	Pascal Charrière   SUI	DNF
—	Peter Malik  SVK	DNF
—	Peter Ferrari  SWE	DNF
—	Vitaliy Popovich  UKR	DNF
—	Jonathan Matthews  USA	DNF

Team (50 km Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Russia	434 pts
02 !	Slovakia	415 pts
03 !	Spain	407 pts
4	France	405 pts
5	Mexico	399 pts
6	Belarus	388 pts
7	Germany	388 pts
8	Poland	377 pts
9	Italy	377 pts
10	Finland	362 pts
11	Hungary	356 pts
12	Czech Republic	339 pts
13	Sweden	313 pts
14	United Kingdom	308 pts
15	Portugal	306 pts
16	United States	299 pts
17	Australia	298 pts
18	Ukraine	293 pts
19	Netherlands	282 pts
20	Belgium	280 pts
21	China	250 pts
22	Guatemala	215 pts
23	Switzerland	83 pts
24	Philippines	82 pts

Lugano Trophy (Combined Team Men)

The results list as published in the source^[5] 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.^[5] It is speculated that the 20 km team results might not be corrected in respect to the doping disqualification.

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Russia	865 pts
02 !	Mexico	803 pts
03 !	Belarus	802 pts
4	France	785 pts
5	Slovakia	772 pts
6	Spain	771 pts
7	Italy	771 pts
8	Germany	702 pts
9	Poland	688 pts
10	Portugal	666 pts
11	Hungary	654 pts
12	Australia	645 pts
13	Czech Republic	630 pts
14	Ukraine	594 pts
15	Sweden	575 pts
16	United States	568 pts
17	Guatemala	560 pts
18	United Kingdom	549 pts
19	China	509 pts
20	Finland	362 pts
21	Latvia	329 pts
22	Kazakhstan	327 pts
23	Brazil	320 pts
24	Lithuania	311 pts
25	Netherlands	282 pts
26	Belgium	280 pts
27	South Africa	247 pts
28	Switzerland	247 pts
29	Malaysia	230 pts
30	Yugoslavia	222 pts
31	Norway	215 pts
32	Greece	196 pts
33	Denmark	191 pts
34	Austria	165 pts
35	Fiji	144 pts
36	Philippines	82 pts

Women's 10 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Irina Stankina  RUS	41:52
02 !	Olimpiada Ivanova  RUS	41:59
03 !	Gu Yan  CHN	42:15
4	Erica Alfridi  ITA	42:31
5	Rossella Giordano  ITA	42:37
6	Annarita Sidoti  ITA	42:41
7	Larisa Khmelnitskaya  BLR	42:46
8	Tamara Kovalenko  RUS	42:51
9	Beate Gummelt  GER	42:52
10	Wang Liping  CHN	42:53
11	Valentina Tsybulskaya  BLR	42:54
12	Liu Hongyu  CHN	42:57
13	Olga Kardopoltseva  BLR	43:08
14	Nataliya Misyulya  BLR	43:08
15	Olga Panfyorova  RUS	43:08
16	Yelena Sayko  RUS	43:20
17	Norica Câmpean  ROM	43:21
18	Lyudmila Dolgopolova  BLR	43:32
19	Anikó Szebenszky  HUN	43:41
20	Mária Urbanik  HUN	43:41
21	Maya Sazonova  KAZ	43:52
22	María Vasco  ESP	43:54
23	Wang Yuntao  CHN	43:55
24	Kathrin Born-Boyde  GER	44:00
25	Elisabetta Perrone  ITA	44:10
26	Anita Liepiņa  LAT	44:29
27	Valentina Savchuk  UKR	44:30
28	Kong Yan  CHN	44:35
29	Christiana Pellino  ITA	44:36
30	Rie Mitsumori  JPN	44:39
31	Graciela Mendoza  MEX	44:48
32	Yuka Kamioka  JPN	44:52
33	Francisca Martínez  MEX	44:58
34	Claudia Iovan  ROU	45:03
35	Geovana Irusta  BOL	45:03
36	Vira Zozulya  UKR	45:07
37	Svetlana Tolstaya  KAZ	45:09
38	Nathalie Marchand-Fortain  FRA	45:10
39	Ryoko Sakakura  JPN	45:14
40	Jane Saville  AUS	45:19
41	Jill Maybir-Barrett  AUS	45:20
42	Tina Poitras  CAN	45:21
43	Svitlana Kalitka  UKR	45:25
44	Celia Marcén  ESP	45:25
45	Cheng Tong Lean  MAS	45:27
46	Annastasia Raj  MAS	45:29
47	Ildikó Ilyés  HUN	45:56
48	Natalie Saville  AUS	46:19
49	Nora Leksir  FRA	46:29
50	Victoria Herazo  USA	46:31
51	Gabriele Herold  GER	46:33
52	Sofia Avoila  POR	46:36
53	Simone Wolowiec  AUS	46:45
54	Melanie Seeger  GER	46:49
55	Fatiha Ouali  FRA	46:55
56	Andrea Szabó  HUN	46:58
57	Victoria Palacios  MEX	47:06
58	Vicky Lupton  GBR	47:16
60	Wendy Muldoon  AUS	47:22
61	Joanne Dow  USA	47:23
62	Isilda Gonçalves  POR	47:23
63	María Guadalupe Sánchez  MEX	47:24
64	Sonata Milušauskaitė  LTU	47:28
65	Kristina Saltanovič  LTU	47:31
66	Gretchen Eastler  USA	47:45
67	Joni Bender  CAN	47:50
68	Rocío Florido  ESP	48:00
69	Mónika Pesti  HUN	48:06
70	Ivonne Varas  MEX	48:11
71	Valérie Lévèque-Nadaud  FRA	48:13
72	Hanne Liland  NOR	48:22
73	Dana Yarbrough  USA	48:26
74	Zuzana Zemková  SVK	48:34
75	Laura Ferreiro  ESP	48:45
76	Tatiana Denize  FRA	48:46
77	Anne Haaland Simonsen  NOR	48:49
78	Iveta Skadmane  LAT	48:56
79	Hilde Gustafsen  NOR	49:00
80	Sylvia Saunders/Black  GBR	49:00
81	Bożena Górecka  POL	49:06
82	Sara Standley  USA	49:22
83	Mária Gáliková  SVK	49:28
84	Yelena Kuznetsova  KAZ	49:33
85	Blanka Kožíková  CZE	49:36
86	Ligia Gonçalves  POR	49:37
87	Aleksandra Kot  POL	49:37
88	Zuzana Blažeková  SVK	49:46
89	Elina Risto  FIN	49:48
90	Nagwa Ibrahim  EGY	49:51
91	Hristína Kokótou  GRE	49:55
92	Jonna Voronkoff  FIN	50:11
93	Krista Ranta-Pere  FIN	50:13
94	Verity Larby-Snook  GBR	50:14
95	Tamara Heroldová  CZE	50:21
96	Anna Brnová  SVK	50:22
97	Tarja Jaskari  FIN	50:38
98	Gražina Kiliūtė  LTU	50:40
99	Monika Banka  POL	50:56
100	Susan Hornung  CAN	51:17
101	Lisa Crump  GBR	51:20
102	Kaisa Suhonen  FIN	51:54
103	Nancy Lai  MAS	52:13
104	Dana Vavřačová  CZE	52:33
105	Kamila Holpuchová  CZE	52:58
106	Lena Launikonytė  LTU	53:13
107	Eva Seidlova  SVK	53:18
108	Pavla Choderová  CZE	53:33
109	Anica Djokic YUG	56:11
110	Maja Vucijevic YUG	56:26
111	Yeliz Ay  TUR	58:43
112	Jelena Jeremic YUG	59:15
—	Teoh Tay Wah  MAS	DQ
—	Yelena Veremeychuk  UKR	DQ
—	Encarna Granados  ESP	DNF
—	Jolanta Dukure  LAT	DNF
—	Susana Feitór  POR	DNF

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Russia	440 pts
02 !	Italy	435 pts
03 !	China	425 pts
4	Belarus	419 pts
5	Hungary	380 pts
6	Germany	379 pts
7	Japan	373 pts
8	Ukraine	366 pts
9	Mexico	356 pts
10	Australia	345 pts
11	Spain	342 pts
12	Kazakhstan	341 pts
13	France	334 pts
14	United States	308 pts
15	Malaysia	297 pts
16	Portugal	292 pts
17	Canada	286 pts
18	Norway	279 pts
19	Lithuania	274 pts
20	United Kingdom	270 pts
21	Slovakia	265 pts
22	Poland	247 pts
23	Finland	239 pts
24	Czech Republic	233 pts
25	Latvia	222 pts
26	Yugoslavia	206 pts

Participation

The participation of 365 athletes (248 men/117 women) from 47 countries is reported.^[5]

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