2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres walk

Events at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
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
10,000 m walk		men		women
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

The women's 10000 metres walk at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 11 July.^[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ekaterina Medvedeva  Russia	Nadezhda Leontyeva  Russia	Sandra Arenas  Columbia

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Elena Lashmanova (RUS)	42:59.48	Tallinn, Estonia	21 July 2011
Championship Record	Tatiana Mineeva (RUS)	43:24.72	Bydgoszcz, Poland	9 July 2008
World Junior Leading	Ekaterina Medvedeva (RUS)	44:30.49	Moscow, Russia	10 June 2012

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Ekaterina Medvedeva	Russia	45:41.74
	Nadezhda Leontyeva	Russia	45:43.64	PB
	Sandra Arenas	Colombia	45:44.46
4	Liudmyla Olianovska	Ukraine	45:53.50	PB
5	Yanxue Mao	China	46:10.60	PB
6	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic	46:29.95	PB
7	Alejandra Ortega	Mexico	47:03.42	PB
8	Nozomi Yagi	Japan	47:04.92	PB
9	Ángela Castro	Bolivia	47:09.62	PB
10	Kimberly García	Peru	47:42.49	SB
11	Alina Halchenko	Ukraine	47:49.92
12	Katarina Strmenová	Slovakia	47:54.60	PB
13	Wendy Cornejo	Bolivia	48:00.03	SB
14	Eliška Drahotová	Czech Republic	48:15.34	PB
15	Anna Clemente	Italy	48:22.25	PB
16	Dandan Duan	China	48:39.21	PB
17	Jeong Eun Lee	South Korea	48:40.61	PB
18	Kate Veale	Ireland	48:50.20	PB
19	Elena Poli	Italy	49:11.12
20	Emilie Tissot	France	49:13.95	PB
21	Amanda Cano	Spain	49:18.27
22	Rachel Tallent	Australia	49:55.81
23	Sae Matsumoto	Japan	49:56.66
24	Laura García-Caro	Spain	50:13.77	PB
25	Yanelli Caballero	Mexico	50:29.85
26	Gamze Özgör	Turkey	50:53.64	PB
27	Filipa Ferreira	Portugal	50:59.00
28	Coralie Mellado	France	51:14.84	SB
29	Elif Koc	Turkey	51:44.86	PB
30	Shahinaz Al-Nasri	Tunisia	51:53.22
31	Emma Prendiville	Ireland	52:41.51	PB
32	Bariza Ghezelani	Algeria	53:30.36
33	Mara Ribeiro	Portugal	53:31.29
34	Erika Parviainen	Finland	53:56.98	PB
–	Jessica Pickles	Australia	–	DSQ
–	Khushbir Kaur	India	–	DSQ
–	Viktoryia Rashchupkina	Belarus	–	DNF
–	Alexandra Iuliana Aichimoaei	Romania	–	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 38 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.

•  Algeria (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Bolivia (2)
•  China (2)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  India (1)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (2)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Peru (1)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Ukraine (2)

References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=W/discCode=10KW/combCode=hash/timetable.html
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• WJC12 10000 metres walk schedule