2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held on a 1 kilometer loop course on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. adjacent to Autzen Stadium in Eugene on 15 July 2022.^[1][2] 41 athletes from 26 nations entered to the event.^[3]

Women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2022 World Championships
Venue	Hayward Field
Dates	15 July
Competitors	41 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:26:59
Medalists
Kimberly García    Peru   Katarzyna Zdziebło    Poland   Qieyang Shijie    China
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Video on YouTube
Official Video

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[4]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Yang Jiayu (CHN)	1:23:49	Huangshan, China	20 March 2021
Championship record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:25:41	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
World Leading	Elvira Chepareva (RUS)	1:26:42	Sochi, Russia	31 January 2022
African Record	Grace Wanjiru Njue (KEN)	1:30:40	Nairobi, Kenya	6 June 2018
Asian Record	Yang Jiayu (CHN)	1:23:49	Huangshan, China	20 March 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Lupita González (MEX)	1:26:17	Rome, Italy	7 May 2016
South American Record	Glenda Morejón (ECU)	1:25:29	La Coruña, Spain	8 June 2019
European Record	Vera Sokolova (RUS)	1:25:08	Sochi, Russia	26 February 2011
Oceanian record	Jemima Montag (AUS)	1:27:27	Adelaide, Australia	13 February 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:31:00.^[5]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
15 July	13:10	Final

Results

The race was started at 13:09. The results were as follows:^[6][7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kimberly García	Peru (PER)	1:26:58	NR
	Katarzyna Zdziebło	Poland (POL)	1:27:31	NR
	Qieyang Shijie	China (CHN)	1:27:56
4	Jemima Montag	Australia (AUS)	1:28:17	~
5	Liu Hong	China (CHN)	1:29:00	SB ~
6	Nanako Fujii	Japan (JPN)	1:29:01	SB
7	Alegna González	Mexico (MEX)	1:29:40	SB
8	Valentina Trapletti	Italy (ITA)	1:29:54	~
9	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal (POR)	1:30:29	SB >
10	Ma Zhenxia	China (CHN)	1:30:39	~
11	Olena Sobchuk	Ukraine (UKR)	1:31:19
12	Lyudmila Olyanovska	Ukraine (UKR)	1:31:42	SB
13	Wu Quanming	China (CHN)	1:31:44	~
14	Kumiko Okada	Japan (JPN)	1:31:53
15	Saskia Feige	Germany (GER)	1:32:12	~~
16	Noelia Vargas	Costa Rica (CRC)	1:32:36	SB >
17	Viviane Lyra	Brazil (BRA)	1:33:11	~~
18	Meryem Bekmez	Turkey (TUR)	1:33:27	SB >
19	Glenda Morejón	Ecuador (ECU)	1:34:27
20	Rebecca Henderson	Australia (AUS)	1:34:38
21	Eliška Martínková	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:34:45	~
22	Kiriaki Filtisakou	Greece (GRE)	1:34:55	SB
23	Brigita Virbalytė	Lithuania (LTU)	1:35:36	SB
24	Robyn Stevens	United States (USA)	1:36:16	~
25	Carolina Costa	Portugal (POR)	1:36:31
26	Karla Jaramillo	Ecuador (ECU)	1:36:36
27	Ángela Castro	Bolivia (BOL)	1:36:52	SB
28	Christina Papadopoulou	Greece (GRE)	1:37:20	SB >>>
29	Enni Nurmi	Finland (FIN)	1:37:29
30	Emily Wamusyi Ngii	Kenya (KEN)	1:37:43	~
31	Evelyn Inga	Peru (PER)	1:38:23	SB >>
32	Inês Henriques	Portugal (POR)	1:38:32
33	Galina Yakusheva	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1:38:47
34	Priyanka Goswami	India (IND)	1:39:42	~~~
35	Miranda Melville	United States (USA)	1:39:58	>>
36	Rachelle de Orbeta	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1:41:55	~
	Valeria Ortuño	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
	Hanna Shevchuk	Ukraine (UKR)
	Nicole Colombi	Italy (ITA)	DSQ TR54.7.5	>>>>
	Maidy Monge	Guatemala (GUA)	DSQ TR54.7.5	~~~~
	María Pérez	Spain (ESP)	DSQ TR54.7.5	~~~>

Key:

~ Red card for loss of contact

> Red card for bent knee

TR54.7.5: Disqualified by Rule TR54.7.5 (4 red cards)

References

1. Timetable
2. "2022 World Athletics Championships Oregon Race Walk Loop". Athleticshour.com. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
3. "START LIST 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). International Association of Athletics Federations. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
4. "20 Kilometres Walk Women − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
5. "Competitions Entry Standards 2022 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022" (PDF). iaaf.org. 9 July 2022.
6. "RESULTS 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). International Association of Athletics Federations. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
7. "RACE ANALYSIS 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). International Association of Athletics Federations. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.