2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	13 August (final)
Competitors	62 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:27:08
Medalists
Elena Lashmanova  Russia (RUS)   Anisya Kirdyapkina  Russia (RUS)   Liu Hong  China (CHN)

Events at the 2013 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
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 20 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 13 August.^[1]

The original 27th place walker, Ayman Kozhakhmetova of Kazakhstan, was disqualified for a positive drug test for exogenous testosterone and EPO.^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[3]

World record	Elena Lashmanova (RUS)	1:25:02	London, United Kingdom	11 August 2012
Championship record	Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS)	1:25:41	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
World leading	Elena Lashmanova (RUS)	1:25:49	Sochi, Russia	23 February 2013
African record	Grace Wanjiru Njue (KEN)	1:34:19	Nairobi, Kenya	1 August 2010
Asian record	Shenjie Qieyang (CHN)	1:25:16	London, United Kingdom	11 August 2012
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Mirna Ortíz (GUA)	1:28:31	Rio Maior, Portugal	1 April 2013
South American record	Miriam Ramón (ECU)	1:31:25	Lima, Peru	7 May 2005
European record	Elena Lashmanova (RUS)	1:25:02	London, United Kingdom	11 August 2012
Oceanian record	Jane Saville (AUS)	1:27:44	Naumburg, Germany	2 May 2004

Qualification standards

A standard[4]	B standard
1:36:00	1:38:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
13 August 2013	09:35	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The race was started at 07.35.^[5]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Elena Lashmanova	Russia (RUS)	1:27:08
	Anisya Kirdyapkina	Russia (RUS)	1:27:11
	Liu Hong	China (CHN)	1:28:10
4	Sun Huanhuan	China (CHN)	1:28:32
5	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy (ITA)	1:28:41	SB
6	Beatriz Pascual	Spain (ESP)	1:29:00	SB
7	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:29:05	PB
8	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal (POR)	1:29:17	SB
9	Júlia Takács	Spain (ESP)	1:29:25
10	Eleonora Anna Giorgi	Italy (ITA)	1:30:01	SB
11	Inês Henriques	Portugal (POR)	1:30:28
12	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Ukraine (UKR)	1:30:48
13	Antonella Palmisano	Italy (ITA)	1:30:50	PB
14	Mayra Herrera	Guatemala (GUA)	1:30:59	PB
15	Qieyang Shenjie	China (CHN)	1:31:15
16	Hanna Drabenia	Belarus (BLR)	1:31:16
17	Vera Santos	Portugal (POR)	1:31:36
18	Lorena Luaces	Spain (ESP)	1:31:43	SB
19	Olena Shumkina	Ukraine (UKR)	1:31:54	SB
20	Brigita Virbalyté	Lithuania (LTU)	1:31:58
21	Kristina Saltanovič	Lithuania (LTU)	1:32:11	SB
22	Sandra Arenas	Colombia (COL)	1:32:25	NR
23	Agnese Pastare	Latvia (LAT)	1:32:30	SB
24	Nastassia Yatsevich	Belarus (BLR)	1:32:31	SB
25	Yanelli Caballero	Mexico (MEX)	1:32:37
26	Kumi Otoshi	Japan (JPN)	1:32:44
27	Paola Pérez	Ecuador (ECU)	1:33:03
28	Masumi Fuchise	Japan (JPN)	1:33:13	SB
29	Paulina Buziak	Poland (POL)	1:33:30
30	Laura Reynolds	Ireland (IRL)	1:33:39
31	Antigóni Drisbióti	Greece (GRE)	1:33:42	PB
32	Sandra Galvis	Colombia (COL)	1:33:49	SB
33	Maria Michta	United States (USA)	1:33:51	SB
34	Kimberly García	Peru (PER)	1:33:57	NR
35	Laura Polli	Switzerland (SUI)	1:34:07	PB
36	Viktória Madarász	Hungary (HUN)	1:34:10	SB
37	Galina Kichigina	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1:34:18
38	Khushbir Kaur	India (IND)	1:34:28	NR
39	Jeon Yeong-Eun	South Korea (KOR)	1:34:29	SB
40	Neringa Aidietytė	Lithuania (LTU)	1:34:32
41	Anita Kažemaka	Latvia (LAT)	1:34:37	SB
42	Erin Gray	United States (USA)	1:34:38	PB
43	Agnieszka Dygacz	Poland (POL)	1:34:42
44	Tanya Holliday	Australia (AUS)	1:35:18
45	Wendy Cornejo	Bolivia (BOL)	1:36:06
46	Anne Halkivaha	Finland (FIN)	1:36:17
47	Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuc	Vietnam (VIE)	1:36:27
48	Marie Polli	Switzerland (SUI)	1:36:31	SB
49	Ángela Castro	Bolivia (BOL)	1:36:33
50	Maria Czaková	Slovakia (SVK)	1:36:34
51	Monica Equihua	Mexico (MEX)	1:36:46
52	Katarzyna Kwoka	Poland (POL)	1:36:54
53	Jess Rothwell	Australia (AUS)	1:38:03
54	Sholpan Kozhakhmetova	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1:38:09	SB
55	Olha Iakovenko	Ukraine (UKR)	1:39:58
56	Lucie Pelantová	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:40:23
58	Miranda Melville	United States (USA)	DQ
58	Mirna Ortiz	Guatemala (GUA)	DQ
58	Lizbeth Silva	Mexico (MEX)	DQ
58	Vera Sokolova	Russia (RUS)	DQ
58	Mária Gáliková	Slovakia (SVK)	DNF
N/A	Ayman Kozhakhmetova	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1:33:00	DQ[2]

References

1. Start list
2. More than 1900 blood samples collected – Moscow 2013. IAAF (20 September 2013). Retrieved on 4 February 2014.
3. "Records & Lists – Race Walk". IAAF. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
4. IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 – Standards, All Russia Athletic Federation, 2012, retrieved 8 August 2013
5. Final Results

External links

• 20 kilometres walk results at IAAF website