20 kilometres race walk

Athletics 20 kilometre race walk
The men's 20 km race walk at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics
Men's records
World	Yusuke Suzuki 1:16:36 (2015)
Women's records
World	Liu Hong 1:24:38 (2015)

The 20 kilometre race walk is an Olympic athletics event that is competed by both men and women. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. (20 kilometres is 12.4274 miles)

World records

The men's world record for the 20 km race walk is held by Yusuke Suzuki, who walked 1:16:36 at the Asian Race Walking Championships in his home town of Nomi, Japan. Suzuki's new World Record came exactly one week after Yohann Diniz's mark who walked a then record time of 1:17:02 in Arles at the 2015 French championships. The women's world record of 1:25:02 was set by Elena Lashmanova, who is currently serving a ban for doping, at the 2012 London Olympics. There are several performances superior to Lashmanova's official record that have never been ratified. On February 27, 2015, Elmira Alembekova bettered the time to 1:24:47 at the Russian Race Walking Championships in Sochi, Russia. That mark is currently pending.

All-time top fastest

Men

Correct as of October 2016.^[1]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place
1	1:16:36	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	15 March 2015	Nomi
2	1:16:43 # ^[2]	Sergey Morozov	Russia	8 June 2008	Saransk
3	1:17:02	Yohann Diniz	France	8 March 2015	Arles
4	1:17:16	Vladimir Kanaykin	Russia	28 September 2007	Saransk
5	1:17:21	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	23 August 2003	Paris
6	1:17:22	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	28 April 2002	Turku
7	1:17:23	Vladimir Stankin	Russia	8 February 2004	Adler
8	1:17:25	Bernardo Segura	Mexico	7 May 1994	Bergen
9	1:17:30	Alex Schwazer	Italy	18 March 2012	Lugano
10	1:17:33	Nathan Deakes	Australia	23 April 2005	Cixi City
11	1:17:36	Zhen Wang	China	30 March 2012	Taicang
12	1:17:38	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	28 February 2009	Adler

Women

Correct as of October 2016.^[3]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	1:24:38	Liu Hong	China	6 June 2015	A Coruña	^[4]
2	1:24:47	Elmira Alembekova	Russia	27 February 2015	Sochi	^[5]
3	1:24:50¹	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	4 March 2001	Adler
4	1:24:56	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	28 February 2009	Adler
5	1:24:58	Elena Lashmanova	Russia	25 June 2016	Cheboksary	^[6]
6	1:25:03	Marina Pandakova	Russia	27 February 2015	Sochi	^[7]
7	1:25:04	Svetlana Vasilyeva	Russia	27 February 2015	Sochi	^[8]
8	1:25:08	Vera Sokolova	Russia	26 February 2011	Sochi
9	1:25:09	Anisya Kirdyapkina	Russia	26 February 2011	Sochi
10	1:25:12	Lü Xiuzhi	China	20 March 2015	Beijing
11	1:25:16	Shenjie Qieyang	China	11 August 2012	London
12	1:25:18¹	Tatyana Gudkova	Russia	19 May 2000	Moscow
13	1:25:20¹	Olga Polyakova	Russia	19 May 2000	Moscow
14	1:25:29¹	Irina Stankina	Russia	19 May 2000	Moscow
15	1:25:32	Olena Shumkina	Russia	28 February 2009	Adler
16	1:25:46	Tatyana Shemyakina	Russia	23 February 2008	Adler
17	1:25:52	Larisa Emelyanova	Russia	28 February 2009	Adler
17	1:25:52	Tatiana Sibileva	Russia	20 February 2010	Sochi
19	1:25:59	Tamara Kovalenko	Russia	19 May 2000	Moscow
20	1:26:11	Ryta Turava	Belarus	15 April 2006	Nesvizh
21	1:26:14	Irina Petrova	Russia	19 February 2006	Adler
22	1:26:16	Lyudmila Arkhipova	Russia	23 February 2008	Adler
23	1:26:17	Eleonora Giorgi	Italy	17 May 2015	Murcia	^[9]
23	1:26:17	Maria Guadalupe González	Mexico	7 May 2016	Rome	^[10]
25	1:26:22	Wang Yan	China	19 November 2001	Guangzhou

¹ : These times were achieved without the presence of international judges to officiate the competition and/or post-race doping tests, thus making them invalid for world record status. However, they are accepted as personal best marks for those athletes.

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 1:26:22:

Elena Lashmanova also walked 1:25:02 (2012), 1:25:49 (2013)
Olga Kaniskina also walked 1:25:11 (2008), 1:25:42 (2008), 1:25:54 (2016), 1:26:02 (2006)
Vera Sokolova also walked 1:25:26 (2009), 1:25:35 (2010), 1:25:38 (2015), 1:26:00 (2013), 1:26:17 (2015)
Anisya Kirdyapkina also walked 1:25:26 (2009), 1:25:30 (2008), 1:25:59 (2013)
Elmira Alembekova also walked 1:25:27 (2012), 1:26:15 (2015)
Olimpiada Ivanova also walked 1:25:41 (2005), 1:26:08 (2000)
Liu Hong also walked 1:25:56 (2016), 1:25:46 (2012), 1:26:00 (2012)
Tatyana Sibileva also walked 1:26:16 (2008)

The following athletes have had their performances (inside 1:26:22) annulled due to doping offense:

Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Location	Ref
1:25:09	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	11 August 2012	London
1:25:59	Liu Hong	China	7 May 2016	Rome	^[11]

Olympic medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1956 Melbourne	Leonid Spirin (URS)	Antanas Mikėnas (URS)	Bruno Junk (URS)
1960 Rome	Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)	Noel Freeman (AUS)	Stan Vickers (GBR)
1964 Tokyo	Ken Matthews (GBR)	Dieter Lindner (EUA)	Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)
1968 Mexico City	Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)	José Pedraza (MEX)	Nikolay Smaga (URS)
1972 Munich	Peter Frenkel (GDR)	Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS)	Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR)
1976 Montreal	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR)	Peter Frenkel (GDR)
1980 Moscow	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	Pyotr Pochenchuk (URS)	Roland Wieser (GDR)
1984 Los Angeles	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	Raúl González (MEX)	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)
1988 Seoul	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)
1992 Barcelona	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)
1996 Atlanta	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Ilya Markov (RUS)	Bernardo Segura (MEX)
2000 Sydney	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	Noé Hernández (MEX)	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)
2004 Athens	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	Nathan Deakes (AUS)
2008 Beijing	Valeriy Borchin (RUS)	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Jared Tallent (AUS)
2012 London	Chen Ding (CHN)	Erick Barrondo (GUA)	Wang Zhen (CHN)
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wang Zhen (CHN)	Cai Zelin (CHN)	Dane Bird-Smith (AUS)

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Wang Liping (CHN)	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	María Vasco (ESP)
2004 Athens	Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE)	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	Jane Saville (AUS)
2008 Beijing	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	Kjersti Plätzer (NOR)	Elisa Rigaudo (ITA)
2012 London	Elena Lashmanova (RUS)	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	Qieyang Shenjie (CHN)
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Liu Hong (CHN)	María Guadalupe González (MEX)	Lü Xiuzhi (CHN)

World Championships medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983 Helsinki	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (URS)
1987 Rome	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	Josep Marín (ESP)
1991 Tokyo	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS)
1993 Stuttgart	Valentí Massana (ESP)	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	Daniel Plaza (ESP)
1995 Gothenburg	Michele Didoni (ITA)	Valentí Massana (ESP)	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)
1997 Athens	Daniel García (MEX)	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (BLR)
1999 Seville	Ilya Markov (RUS)	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Daniel García (MEX)
2001 Edmonton	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	Ilya Markov (RUS)	Viktor Burayev (RUS)
2003 Saint-Denis	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)
2005 Helsinki	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	Juan Manuel Molina (ESP)
2007 Osaka	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)
2009 Berlin	Valeriy Borchin (RUS)	Wang Hao (CHN)	Eder Sánchez (MEX)
2011 Daegu	Valeriy Borchin (RUS)	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	Luis Fernando López (COL)
2013 Moscow	Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS)	Chen Ding (CHN)	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)
2015 Beijing	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)	Wang Zhen (CHN)	Benjamin Thorne (CAN)

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1999 Seville	Liu Hongyu (CHN)	Wang Yan (CHN)	Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS)
2001 Edmonton	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)
2003 Saint-Denis	Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS)	Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL)	Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR)
2005 Helsinki	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	Ryta Turava (BLR)	Susana Feitor (POR)
2007 Osaka	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	Tatyana Shemyakina (RUS)	María Vasco (ESP)
2009 Berlin	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	Olive Loughnane (IRL)	Liu Hong (CHN)
2011 Daegu	Olga Kaniskina (RUS)	Liu Hong (CHN)	Anisya Kirdyapkina (RUS)
2013 Moscow	Yelena Lashmanova (RUS)	Anisya Kirdyapkina (RUS)	Liu Hong (CHN)
2015 Beijing	Liu Hong (CHN)	Lü Xiuzhi (CHN)	Lyudmyla Olyanovska (UKR)

External links

IAAF list of 20-kilometres-race-walk records in XML

References

↑ "All-time men's best 20 km road walk". alltime-athletics.com. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ not ratified by IAAF because it didn’t fulfil the criteria of having the required three international judges present
↑ "All-time women's best 20 km road walk". alltime-athletics.com. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "Liu breaks 20km race walk world record in La Coruna". IAAF. 6 June 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
↑ "Russian Race Walking Championships 2015 Results". ARAF. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "Russian Race Walking Championships 2016 Results" (PDF). marciadalmondo.com. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "Russian Race Walking Championships 2015 Results". ARAF. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "Russian Race Walking Championships 2015 Results". ARAF. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ Paul Warburton (17 May 2015). "Lopez prevents Russian sweep of titles at European Cup Race Walking in Murcia". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "20 Kilometers Race Walking Team Championships Results" (PDF). IAAF. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ "20 Kilometers Race Walking Team Championships Results" (PDF). IAAF. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

Athletics events

Track

Sprints	50 m 55 m 60 m 100 m 150 m 200 m (straight) 300 m 400 m 500 m 600 m

Hurdles	50 m 55 m 60 m 80 m 100 m 110 m 200 m 300 m 400 m

Middle-distance	800 m 1000 m 1500 m One mile 2000 m 2000 m steeplechase 3000 m 3000 m steeplechase Two miles

Long-distance	5000 m 10,000 m One hour run

Relays	4 × 100 m 4 × 200 m 4 × 400 m 4 × 800 m 4 × 1500 m Distance medley relay Sprint medley relay Swedish relay

Field

Throws	Discus Hammer Javelin Shot put Weight throw Softball throw

Jumps	High jump (standing) Long jump (standing) Triple jump (standing) Pole vault

Combined

Road

Running	5 km 10 km 15 km 10 mi Half marathon 25 km 30 km Marathon Ekiden Ultramarathon

Walking	3000 m 5000 m 10000 m 10 km 20000 m 20 km 50 km 50 mi 100 km

Current Olympic events shown in italics

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