World Athletics Race Walking Tour
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Sport | Racewalking |
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Founded | 2003 |
Official website | Race Walking |
The World Athletics Race Walking Tour (formerly IAAF Race Walking Challenge and World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking) is a racewalking series organised by World Athletics. Athletes accumulate points in specific race walk meetings during the season. Performances in 10 kilometres race walk, 20 kilometres race walk and 50 kilometres race walk count towards athlete's final scores. Since 2011, racewalking performances at the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games count towards the series. Women have competed in the 50 km distance since 2018.[1]
The series started as a global tour of elite-level, independently-held racewalking meetings. From 2007 to 2012, the series culminated in the
The highest points score achieved in a single series is 48, which was achieved by Norway's Kjersti Plätzer in 2009 and was matched by China's Wang Zhen in 2012. Chinese female walker Liu Hong is the most successful athlete of the series, being the only person to win the series on three occasions. Australian Jared Tallent is the most successful man, with two men's titles and runner-up on two occasions.
Editions
Edition | Year | Start date | End date | Meets | Ref. |
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1 | 2003 | 8 March | 7 June | 4 | [8] |
2 | 2004 | 20 March | 20 June | 5 | [9] |
3 | 2005 | 19 March | 4 June | 5 | [10] |
4 | 2006 | 25 March | 1 May | 4 | [11] |
5 | 2007 | 10 March | 29 September | 7 | [12] |
6 | 2008 | 8 March | 21 September | 8 | [2] |
7 | 2009 | 8 March | 19 September | 10 | [13] |
8 | 2010 | 13 February | 18 September | 11 | [3] |
9 | 2011 | 19 February | 17 September | 10 | [4] |
10 | 2012 | 25 February | 14 September | 12 | [5] |
11 | 2013 | 23 February | 13 August | 14 | [6] |
12 | 2014 | 2 February | 14 August | 12 | [7] |
13 | 2015 | 22 February | 28 August | 10 | [14] |
14 | 2016 | 21 February | 19 August | 11 | [15] |
15 | 2017 | 19 February | 13 August | 10 | [16] |
16 | 2018 | 11 February | 24 September | 10 | [17] |
17 | 2019 | 1 December 2018 | 22 October | 12 | [18] |
18 | 2021 | 5 June | 5 June | 1 | [19] |
19 | 2022 | 19 December 2021 | 29 October | 24 | [20] |
20 | 2023 | 18 December 2022 | 28 October | 21 | [21] |
21 | 2024 | 17 December 2023 | 26 October | 18 | [22] |
Meetings
- The IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was known as the IAAF World Race Walking Cup until 2016
- † = Meeting hosted IAAF World Cup/Team Championships
- ‡ = Meeting hosted Challenge Final
- †† = Meeting hosted the European Race Walking Cup
- The 2016 and 2017 Chihuahua meeting was held in Ciudad Juárez
- The 2019 series featured three Oceania championship events: the 50 km, the 20 km and the 10,000 m walks[18]
Results
Men
Women
See also
References
- IAAF. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- ^ a b 2008 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2011 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2013 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2003 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2004 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2005 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2006 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2009 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2016 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2017 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ "2021 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2022 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2023 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2024 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ IAAF(2009-09-22). Retrieved on 2009-10-01.
- ^ a b "2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge standings revised". World Athletics.
- ^ a b "Karlstrom and Qieyang win 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge". World Athletics.
External links
- Official website
- Results 1961–2006 at gbrathletics.com
- 2008 Rules (PDF)