2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

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Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the 2017 World Championships
Venue
Olympic Stadium
Dates13 August (final)
Competitors60 from 34 nations
Winning time1:26:18
Medalists
gold medal Yang Jiayu   China
silver medal María Guadalupe González   Mexico
bronze medal Antonella Palmisano   Italy
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The women's 20 kilometres race walk was held on a 2 kilometre course comprising lengths of The Mall between Buckingham Palace and Admiralty Arch on 13 August.[1][2]

Summary

Defending champion, Olympic champion and defending champion

Liu Hong was absent. Still the race started faster than the Olympics. A pack of 20 formed on the front. That pack was whittled down to 10 by the halfway point. After Kimberly García (Peru) fell off the pace, the group was reduced to just five by the 12-kilometre mark: two Chinese, Yang Jiayu and Lü Xiuzhi; María Guadalupe González (Mexico); Antonella Palmisano (Italy); and Érica de Sena (Brazil).[3]
de Sena fell off the pace when the other four accelerated the pace at 16K. Another lap later, Palmisano couldn't handle the pace which looked like the break for the three medalists. Yang didn't have the same awards, but she was leading the group with the Olympic silver and bronze medalists.

The three were racing to the finish. Less than 100 metres before the finish, the chief judge stepped out to show Lü the red card signifying she had accumulated three red cards from judges around the course and was disqualified. Lü didn't believe the message and tried to finish, but it was true. Yang raced González to the line, winning by barely a second. Palmisano came in 17 seconds later to get an unexpected bronze.[4] The top five did negative splits (walking the end of the race faster than the beginning). de Sena improved her own South American continental record. Four others set national records.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[5]

Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date Location
World 1:24:38
Liu Hong
  CHN 6 Jun 2015 A Coruña, Spain
Championship
 1:25:41 Olimpiada Ivanova  RUS 7 Aug 2005 Helsinki, Finland
World leading 1:25:18 Elena Lashmanova  RUS 18 Feb 2017 Sochi, Russia
African 1:30:43
Grace Wanjiru Njue
  KEN 26 Jun 2016 Durban, South Africa
Asian 1:24:38
Liu Hong
  CHN 6 Jun 2015 A Coruña, Spain
NACAC 1:26:17 Lupita González  MEX 7 May 2016 Rome, Italy
South American 1:27:18 Érica de Sena  BRA 7 May 2016 Rome, Italy
European 1:24:58 Elena Lashmanova  RUS 25 Jun 2016 Cheboksary, Russia
Oceanian 1:27:44 Jane Saville  AUS 2 May 2004 Naumburg, Germany

The following records were set at the competition:[6]

Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date
South American 1:26:59 Érica de Sena  BRA 13 Aug 2017
Brazilian
Colombian 1:28:10 Sandra Arenas  COL 13 Aug 2017
Peruvian 1:29:13 Kimberly García  PER 13 Aug 2017
Hungarian 1:30:05 Viktória Madarász  HUN 13 Aug 2017
Hong Kong 1:35:04 Ching Siu Nga  HKG 13 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:36:00.[7]

Results

The final took place on 13 August at 12:21. The results were as follows:[8]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Jiayu  China (CHN) 1:26:18 PB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) María Guadalupe González  Mexico (MEX) 1:26:19 SB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Antonella Palmisano  Italy (ITA) 1:26:36 PB
4 Érica de Sena  Brazil (BRA) 1:26:59 AR
5 Sandra Arenas  Colombia (COL) 1:28:10 NR
6 Ana Cabecinha  Portugal (POR) 1:28:57 SB
7 Kimberly García  Peru (PER) 1:29:13 NR
8
Wang Na
  China (CHN) 1:29:26
9 Laura García-Caro  Spain (ESP) 1:29:29 PB
10
María Pérez
  Spain (ESP) 1:29:37 PB
11 Mirna Ortiz  Guatemala (GUA) 1:30:01 SB
12 Viktória Madarász  Hungary (HUN) 1:30:05 NR
13 Paola Pérez  Ecuador (ECU) 1:30:09
14
Eleonora Giorgi
  Italy (ITA) 1:30:34 SB
15 Valentina Trapletti  Italy (ITA) 1:30:35 PB
16 Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė  Lithuania (LTU) 1:30:45 SB
17 Sandra Galvis  Colombia (COL) 1:31:13
18 Kumiko Okada  Japan (JPN) 1:31:19
19 Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė  Lithuania (LTU) 1:31:23 PB
20 Inna Loseva  Ukraine (UKR) 1:31:24
21 Ainhoa Pinedo  Spain (ESP) 1:31:28
22 Regan Lamble  Australia (AUS) 1:31:30
23 Ángela Castro  Bolivia (BOL) 1:31:34 SB
24 Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece (GRE) 1:32:03 SB
25 Maria Michta-Coffey  United States (USA) 1:32:14 SB
26 Nastassia Yatsevich  Belarus (BLR) 1:32:22 SB
27 Barbara Oláh  Hungary (HUN) 1:32:44 PB
28 Maritza Guamán  Ecuador (ECU) 1:33:06
29 Bethan Davies  
Great Britain & N.I.
 (GBR)		 1:33:10
30 Jeon Yeong-eun  South Korea (KOR) 1:33:29 SB
31 Andreea Arsine  Romania (ROM) 1:33:46 PB
32 Valentyna Nayavka  Ukraine (UKR) 1:33:59 PB
33 Miranda Melville  United States (USA) 1:34:47
34 Ana Rodean  Romania (ROM) 1:34:50 SB
35 Ching Siu Nga  Hong Kong (HKG) 1:35:04 NR
36 Mária Czaková  Slovakia (SVK) 1:35:11
37 Grace Wanjiru  Kenya (KEN) 1:35:22
38 Beki Smith  Australia (AUS) 1:35:31
39 Chahinez Nasri  Tunisia (TUN) 1:35:45
40 Gemma Bridge  
Great Britain & N.I.
 (GBR)		 1:36:04
41 Johana Ordóñez  Ecuador (ECU) 1:36:27
42 Khushbir Kaur  India (IND) 1:36:41
43 Claire Woods  Australia (AUS) 1:37:05 SB
44 Yehualeye Beletew  Ethiopia (ETH) 1:37:55
45 Monika Vaiciukevičiūtė  Lithuania (LTU) 1:38:08
46 Milangela Rosales  Venezuela (VEN) 1:38:08
47 Diana Aydosova  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1:38:16 SB
48 Lee Da-seul  South Korea (KOR) 1:38:54
49 Laura Polli  Switzerland (SUI) 1:39:05 SB
50 Polina Repina  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1:39:56
51 Rita Récsei  Hungary (HUN) 1:40:56
52 Regina Rykova  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1:41:59
Anežka Drahotová  Czech Republic (CZE) DNF
Despina Zapounidou  Greece (GRE)
Klavdiya Afanasyeva  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) DQ 230.6(a)
Nadiya Borovska  Ukraine (UKR)
Yeseida Carrillo  Colombia (COL)
Lü Xiuzhi  China (CHN)
Agnese Pastare  Latvia (LAT)
María Guadalupe Sánchez
  Mexico (MEX)
Askale Tiksa  Ethiopia (ETH) DNS

References

  1. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  2. ^ Start list
  3. ^ "20 Kilometres Race Walk Splits | IAAF World Championships London 2017 | iaaf.org". Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Report: Women's 20km race walk – IAAF World Championships London 2017 | REPORT | World Athletics".
  5. ^ "20 Kilometre Race Walk Women – Records".
    IAAF
    . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  6. IAAF
    . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  7. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  8. IAAF
    . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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