2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the 2015 World Championships
Venue Beijing National Stadium
Dates 28 August
Competitors 49 from 27 nations
Winning time 1:27:45
Medalists
   China
   China
   Ukraine
Video on YouTube
Official Video
Events at the
2015 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4 × 100 m relay men women
4 × 400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men women
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men
Demonstration events
Masters 400 m women
Masters 800 m men

The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 August.[1][2]

Summary

The defending champion Elena Lashmanova would not be here, while she serves her drug suspension. In fact the entire Russian team did not compete here amid the drug scandal surrounding their coach Viktor Chegin. It looked like world record holder, world leader Liu Hong, walking on home soil was the prohibitive favorite. Liu's one complication was her teammate Xiuzhi Lu. Like in the men's race, the two Chinese walkers took off hard from the start, only Anežka Drahotová tried to go with them. That lasted about 4 km, from that point on the two walkers were out on their own almost tied by a string, swapping the lead occasionally though Lu was setting the pace the majority of the time. They hit 5K in 22:24; 10K in 44:19 (21:55 split) with a 30-second lead and 15K in 1:06:24 (22:05 split). The chase pack was Lyudmyla Olyanovska, Elisa Rigaudo, Eleonora Giorgi and Erica de Sena. de Sena was the first to fall off pace around 12K, both of the Italians were later asked to leave the course. Between 10 and 15K the lead actually shrunk to 20 seconds, but the closing 5K in 21:22 settled it for everyone but the two Chinese walkers. They battled neck and neck until just about the time they re-entered the stadium, when Lu seemed to concede to Liu and walked the remainder on the track in her footsteps. With the domestic crowd going crazy, Lu crossed the finish line virtually in Liu's shadow, the separation .26 of a second for the closest finish for a race walk in World Championships history. Because it is a road course, the official times are only accurate to one second so both athlete's times round to the same time. Olyanovska continued to hold on, finishing just 28 seconds back for bronze. The rest of the field finished more than 1:15 behind her.[3] It was the first gold medal for the home team at these championships.[4]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:[5]

World record  Liu Hong (CHN) 1:24:38 La Coruña, Spain 6 June 2015
Championship record  Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) 1:25:41 Helsinki, Finland 7 August 2005
World Leading  Liu Hong (CHN) 1:24:38 La Coruña, Spain 6 June 2015
African Record  Grace Wanjiru (KEN) 1:34:19 Nairobi, Kenya 1 August 2010
Asian Record  Liu Hong (CHN) 1:24:38 La Coruña, Spain 6 June 2015
North, Central American and Caribbean record  Mirna Ortiz (GUA) 1:28:31 Rio Maior, Portugal 6 April 2013
South American Record  Érica de Sena (BRA) 1:29:37 Dudince, Slovakia 21 March 2015
European Record  Elena Lashmanova (RUS) 1:25:02 London, Great Britain 11 August 2012
Oceanian record  Jane Saville (AUS) 1:27:44 Naumburg, Germany 2 May 2004

Qualification standards

Time[6]
1:36:00

Schedule

Date Time Round
28 August 2015 08:30 Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

The race was started at 08:30.[7]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Liu Hong  China (CHN) 1:27:45
2nd Lü Xiuzhi  China (CHN) 1:27:45
3rd Lyudmyla Olyanovska  Ukraine (UKR) 1:28:13
4 Ana Cabecinha  Portugal (POR) 1:29:29
5 Antonella Palmisano  Italy (ITA) 1:29:34
6 Érica de Sena  Brazil (BRA) 1:30:06
7 Brigita Virbalytė  Lithuania (LTU) 1:30:20PB
8 Anežka Drahotová  Czech Republic (CZE) 1:30:32
9 Alejandra Ortega  Mexico (MEX) 1:31:04PB
10 María José Poves  Spain (ESP) 1:31:06SB
11 Nadiya Borovska  Ukraine (UKR) 1:31:18
12 Mirna Ortiz  Guatemala (GUA) 1:31:32
13 Rachel Seaman  Canada (CAN) 1:31:39
14 Raquel González  Spain (ESP) 1:32:00
15 Viktória Madarász  Hungary (HUN) 1:32:01
16 Paola Pérez  Ecuador (ECU) 1:32:12
17 Nie Jingjing  China (CHN) 1:32:40
18 Alana Barber  New Zealand (NZL) 1:33:20NR
19 Sandra Arenas  Colombia (COL) 1:33:24
20 Maria Michta-Coffey  United States (USA) 1:33:24
21 Vera Santos  Portugal (POR) 1:34:01
22 Wendy Cornejo  Bolivia (BOL) 1:34:12PB
23 Inês Henriques  Portugal (POR) 1:34:47
24 Claudia Ștef  Romania (ROU) 1:34:51
25 Kumiko Okada  Japan (JPN) 1:34:56
26 Miranda Melville  United States (USA) 1:35:19
27 Jeon Yeong-eun  South Korea (KOR) 1:35:48
28 Maritza Poncio  Guatemala (GUA) 1:35:53
29 Cisiane Lopes  Brazil (BRA) 1:36:06
30 Mária Czaková  Slovakia (SVK) 1:36:08
31 Emilie Menuet  France (FRA) 1:36:17
32 Laura García-Caro  Spain (ESP) 1:36:22
33 Laura Polli   Switzerland (SUI) 1:36:26SB
34 Rachel Tallent  Australia (AUS) 1:36:27
35 Jeong Eun Lee  South Korea (KOR) 1:36:52
36 Lucie Pelantová  Czech Republic (CZE) 1:38:34
37 Khushbir Kaur  India (IND) 1:38:53
38 Agnieszka Dygacz  Poland (POL) 1:39:06
39 Mayra Herrera  Guatemala (GUA) 1:39:23
40 Marie Polli   Switzerland (SUI) 1:39:49
41 Mária Gáliková  Slovakia (SVK) 1:40:06
42 Olena Shumkina  Ukraine (UKR) 1:41:30
43 Beki Smith  Australia (AUS) DQ
43 Claudia Balderrama  Bolivia (BOL) DQ
43 Sapana Sapana  India (IND) DQ
43 Eleonora Giorgi  Italy (ITA) DQ
43 Elisa Rigaudo  Italy (ITA) DQ
43 Neringa Aidietytė  Lithuania (LTU) DQ
43 Kimberly García  Peru (PER) DNF
43 Kelly Ruddick  Australia (AUS) DNS

References

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