Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenuePont d'Iéna and Champ de Mars road course, Paris[1]
Date
  • 1 August 2024
Competitors45 from 22 nations
Winning time1:25:54
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Jiayu  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) María Pérez  Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jemima Montag  Australia
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The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 1 August 2024. This was the seventh time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics.

Background

The women's 20 kilometres race walk has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 2000.

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record Athlete (Nation) Time Location Date
World record  Yang Jiayu (CHN) 1:23.49[2] Huangshan, China 20 March 2021
Olympic record  Qieyang Shijie (CHN) 1:25.16 London, Great Britain 11 August 2012
World leading  Elvira Chepareva (RUS) 1:24.31[3] Sochi, Russia 27 February 2024
Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics[4]
Area Record Athlete (Nation) Time
Africa (records)  Grace Wanjiru (KEN) 1:30.40
Asia (records)  Yang Jiayu (CHN) 1:23.49 WR
Europe (records)  Vera Sokolova (RUS) 1:25.08
North, Central America

and Caribbean (records)

 Lupita González (MEX) 1:26.17
Oceania (records)  Jemima Montag (AUS) 1:27.09
South America (records)  Glenda Morejón (ECU) 1:25.29

Qualification

Main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification § Women's 20 km walk

For the women's 20 kilometres race walk event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 1:29.20 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.[5]

Results

The event took place on 1 August, starting at 09:20 09:50 (UTC+2) in the morning.[1][6]

Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Jiayu  China 1:25:54 ~ SB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) María Pérez  Spain 1:26:19 +0:25 ~SB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jemima Montag  Australia 1:26:25 +0:31 ~ AR
4 Sandra Arenas  Colombia 1:27:03 +1:09 ~~ NR
5 Alegna González  Mexico 1:27:14 +1:20
6 Glenda Morejón  Ecuador 1:27:37 +1:43
7 Laura García-Caro  Spain 1:28:12 +2:18 ~~
8 Evelyn Inga  Peru 1:28:16 +2:22
9 Paula Milena Torres  Ecuador 1:28:48 +2:54 PB
10 Cristina Montesinos  Spain 1:29:11 +3:17
11 Ma Zhenxia  China 1:29:15 +3:21 ~~~
12 Mary Luz Andía  Peru 1:29:24 +3:30
13 Érica de Sena  Brazil 1:29:32 +3:38
14 Lyudmyla Olyanovska  Ukraine 1:29:55 +4:01
15 Clemence Beretta  France 1:29:55 +4:01
16 Kimberly García  Peru 1:30:10 +4:16
17 Mariia Sakharuk  Ukraine 1:30:12 +4:18
18 Viviane Lyra  Brazil 1:30:31 +4:37 ~~~
19 Magaly Bonilla  Ecuador 1:30:33 +4:39 ~~
20 Olena Sobchuk  Ukraine 1:31:12 +5:18 SB
21 Liu Hong  China 1:31:24 +5:30
22 Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece 1:31:33 +5:39 SB
23 Eleonora Giorgi  Italy 1:31:49 +5:55
24 Alejandra Ortega  Mexico 1:31:58 +6:04 ~
25 Camille Moutard  France 1:31:58 +6:04
26 Pauline Stey  France 1:31:59 +6:05
27 Eliška Martínková  Czech Republic 1:32:30 +6:36
28 Saskia Feige  Germany 1:33:23 +7:29 SB
29 Rachelle de Orbeta  Puerto Rico 1:33:33 +7:39
30 Katarzyna Zdziebło  Poland 1:33:52 +7:58
31 Rebecca Henderson  Australia 1:34:22 +8:28 ~~
32 Nanako Fujii  Japan 1:34:26 +8:32 ~~~
33 Rita Récsei  Hungary 1:34:39 +8:45 ~
34 Mária Czaková  Slovakia 1:34:46 +8:52 ~
35 Valentina Trapletti  Italy 1:35:39 +9:45
36 Gabriela de Sousa  Brazil 1:35:50 +9:56 ~
37 Hana Burzalová  Slovakia 1:36:12 +10:18
38 Vitoria Oliveira  Portugal 1:36:22 +10:28
39 Ilse Guerrero  Mexico 1:37:10 +11:16
40 Meryem Bekmez  Turkey 1:38:06 +12:12
41 Priyanka Goswami  India 1:39:55 +14:01 >>
42 Viktória Madarász  Hungary 1:41:21 +15:27
43 Ana Cabecinha  Portugal 1:46:30 +20:36 >SB
— Olivia Sandery  Australia Did not finish >
Antonella Palmisano  Italy
— Kumiko Okada  Japan Did not start [7]
Ayane Yanai  Japan
Kiriaki Filtisakou  Greece

References

  1. ^ a b "Paris 2024 - Olympic Schedule - Athletics", Olympics.com. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  2. ^ "All time Top lists – Senior – 20 Kilometres Race Walk women", World Athletics, 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Season Top Lists – Senior 2024 – 20 Kilometres Race Walk women", World Athletics, 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Records – 20 Kilomtres Race Walk women". World Athletics. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  5. ^ Sean McAlister, "How to qualify for athletics at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained", Olympics.com, 20 December 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Entry List by Event and Season Best - Women's 20km Race Walk" (PDF). 2024-08-05. p. 51.