2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the 2019 World Championships
Women's 20 kilometres walk ; at the 2019 World Championships
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	29 September
Competitors	45 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:32:53
Medalists
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The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on 29 September 2019.^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

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	1:24:31	Elena Lashmanova	RUS	18 Feb 2019	Sochi, Russia
African	1:30:40	Grace Wanjiru	KEN	6 Jun 2018	Nairobi, Kenya
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	1:25:29	Glenda Morejón	ECU	8 Jun 2019	A Coruña, Spain
European	1:25:02	Elena Lashmanova	RUS	11 Augf 2012	London, Great Britain
Oceanian	1:27:44	Jane Saville	AUS	2 May 2004	Naumburg, Germany

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:^[3]

Date	Time	Round
29 September	23:30	Final

Results

The race was started at 23:59.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Liu Hong	China (CHN)	1:32:53
	Qieyang Shenjie	China (CHN)	1:33:10
	Yang Liujing	China (CHN)	1:33:17
4	Érica de Sena	Brazil (BRA)	1:33:36
5	Sandra Arenas	Colombia (COL)	1:34:16
6	Kumiko Okada	Japan (JPN)	1:34:36
7	Nanako Fujii	Japan (JPN)	1:34:50
8	María Pérez	Spain (ESP)	1:35:43
9	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal (POR)	1:36:31
10	Jemima Montag	Australia (AUS)	1:36:54
11	Saskia Feige	Germany (GER)	1:37:14
12	Mirna Ortiz	Guatemala (GUA)	1:37:32
13	Antonella Palmisano	Italy (ITA)	1:37:36	SB
14	Darya Paluektava	Belarus (BLR)	1:37:42
15	Raquel González	Spain (ESP)	1:38:02
16	Yehualeye Beletew	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:38:11
17	Valentina Trapletti	Italy (ITA)	1:38:22
18	Karla Jaramillo	Ecuador (ECU)	1:38:26
19	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:38:29
20	Nadiya Borovska	Ukraine (UKR)	1:38:35	SB
21	Katarzyna Zdziebło	Poland (POL)	1:38:44
22	Antigoni Drisbioti	Greece (GRE)	1:38:56
23	Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė	Lithuania (LTU)	1:39:26
24	Meryem Bekmez	Turkey (TUR)	1:39:36
25	Glenda Morejón	Ecuador (ECU)	1:39:38
26	Grace Wanjiru Njue	Kenya (KEN)	1:39:58
27	Alana Barber	New Zealand (NZL)	1:40:59
28	Ángela Castro	Bolivia (BOL)	1:41:15
29	Inna Kashyna	Ukraine (UKR)	1:41:44
30	Ching Siu Nga	Hong Kong (HKG)	1:42:55
31	Yana Smerdova	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	1:43:49
32	Valeria Ortuño	Mexico (MEX)	1:43:51
33	Laura García-Caro	Spain (ESP)	1:44:05
34	Rachel Seaman	Canada (CAN)	1:45:40
35	Maria Michta-Coffey	United States (USA)	1:46:02	SB
36	Noelia Vargas	Costa Rica (CRC)	1:46:30
37	Ilse Guerrero	Mexico (MEX)	1:46:32
38	Mayra Pérez	Guatemala (GUA)	1:46:42
39	Viktória Madarász	Hungary (HUN)	1:47:38
	Leyde Guerra	Peru (PER)	DNF
	Viviane Lyra	Brazil (BRA)
	Chahinez Nasri	Tunisia (TUN)
	Katie Hayward	Australia (AUS)	DSQ	230.7(c)
	Ayşe Tekdal	Turkey (TUR)
	Yang Jiayu	China (CHN)