Loughnane fails to finish 20km walk

Ireland's Olive Loughnane has failed to complete the women’s 20km walk in Athens.

Women’s 20km race walk final:

1 Athanasia Tsoumeleka (Gre) 1h29:12 ,

2 Olimpiada Ivanova (Rus) 1h29:16,

3 Jane Saville (Aus) 1h29:25,

4 Margarita Turova (Blr) 1h29:39,

5 Melanie Seeger (Ger) 1h29:52,

6 Elisa Rigaudo (Ita) 1h29:57,

7 Maria Vasco (Spa) 1h30:06,

8 Liping Wang (Chn) 1h30:16,

9 Yelena Ginko (Blr) 1h30:22,

10 Athina Papayianni (Gre) 1h30:37,

11 Rossella Giordano (Ita) 1h30:39,

12 Kjersti Platzer (Nor) 1h30:49 ,

13 Yuliya Voyevodina (Rus) 1h31:02,

14 Hongjuan Song (Chn) 1h31:27,

15 Valentina Tsybulskaya (Blr) 1h31:49,

16 Sabine Zimmer (Ger) 1h31:59,

17 Yelena Nikolayeva (Rus) 1h32:16,

18 Elisabetta Perrone (Ita) 1h32:21 ,

19 Kristina Saltanovic (Lit) 1h32:22,

20 Susana Feitor (Por) 1h32:47,

21 Sylwia Korzeniowska (Pol) 1h33:06,

22 Zuzana Malikova (Svk) 1h33:17,

23 Sonata Milusauskaite (Lit) 1h33:36,

24 Barbora Dibelkova (Cze) 1h33:37,

25 Ines Henriques (Por) 1h33:53,

26 Maribel Goncalves (Por) 1h33:59,

27 Norica Cimpean (Rom) 1h34:30,

28 Svetlana Tolstaya (Kaz) 1h34:43,

29 Ana Maria Groza (Rom) 1h34:56,

30 Rocio Florido (Spa) 1h35:32,

31 Hristina Kokotou (Gre) 1h35:43,

32 Jing Jiang (Chn) 1h35:56,

33 Yeliz Ay (Tur) 1h36:02,

34 Victoria Palacios (Mex) 1h36:07,

35 Yufang Yuan (Mal) 1h36:34,

36 Natalie Saville (Aus) 1h36:54,

37 Daniela Cirlan (Rom) 1h37:14,

38 Cheryl Webb (Aus) 1h37:40,

39 Marie Polli (Swi) 1h37:53,

40 Mayumi Kawasaki (Jpn) 1h37:56,

41 Geovana Irusta (Bol) 1h38:36,

42 Vira Zozulya (Ukr) 1h38:45,

43 Teresa Vaill (USA) 1h38:47,

44 Edina Fusti (Hun) 1h39:45,

45 Anita Liepina (Lat) 1h39:54,

46 Sandra Zapata (Col) 1h42:22,

47 Nicolene Cronje (Rsa) 1h42:37,

48 Alessandra Picagevicz (Bra) 1h46:21,

49 Teresita Collado (Gua) 1h46:41,

50 Yelena Kuznetsova (Kaz) 1h49:08,

51 Yolene Raffin (Mri) 1h49:28,

52 Fumilay Fonseca (Stp) 2h04:54 , Olive Loughnane (Irl) DNF, Maria del Rosario Sanchez (Mex) DNF, Nevena Mineva (Bgr) DNF, Maria Teresa Gargallo (Spa) DQ, Mi Jeong Kim (Kor) DQ