2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2023 World Championships
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	20 August
Competitors	48 from 23 nations
Winning time	1:26:51
Medalists
María Pérez    Spain   Jemima Montag    Australia   Antonella Palmisano    Italy
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The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held on National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 20 August 2023. 48 athletes from 23 nations entered to the event. ^[1]

Summary

The cream rose to the top quickly as a group of about a dozen separated, led by world record holder Jiayu Yang. Defending champion Kimberly García took the point after the first lap and held the lead of the tight group through the halfway point as the lead pack whittled down to seven. After falling early in the race, Antonella Palmisano edged ahead to carry the lead to 15k. While most of the 1 kilometer laps had been in the 4:20's, on the 16th lap María Pérez dropped a monster 4:06 lap. Only Jemima Montag was able to produce any answer with a 4:10, which separated her from the rest of the pack but still 4 seconds down to Perez, who continued with a 4:09, 4:05 and 4:06 to leave no doubt about winning, ultimately 25 seconds ahead of Montag. Palmisano was able to get a slight edge on Alegna González and Glenda Morejón then had to hold off a 4:08 final lap by García León to take bronze.

Records

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

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Yang Jiayu  (CHN)	1:23:49	Huangshan, China	20 March 2021
Championship record	Olimpiada Ivanova  (RUS)	1:25:41	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005
World Leading	María Pérez  (ESP)	1:25:30	Córdoba, Spain	26 March 2023
African Record	Grace Wanjiru Njue  (KEN)	1:30:40	Nairobi, Kenya	6 June 2018
Asian Record	Yang Jiayu  (CHN)	1:23:49	Huangshan, China	20 March 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Lupita González  (MEX)	1:26:17	Rome, Italy	7 May 2016
South American Record	Glenda Morejón  (ECU)	1:25:29	La Coruña, Spain	8 June 2019
European Record	Vera Sokolova  (RUS)	1:25:08	Sochi, Russia	26 February 2011
Oceanian record	Jemima Montag  (AUS)	1:27:27	Adelaide, Australia	13 February 2022

The following records were set at the competition:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Oceanian record	1:27:16	Jemima Montag	AUS	20 Aug 2023

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:29:20. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
20 August	07:15	Final

Results

The race was started at 07:15. The results were as follows: ^{[4] [5]}

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Warnings	Notes
	María Pérez	Spain  (ESP)	1:26:51
	Jemima Montag	Australia  (AUS)	1:27:16	~	AR
	Antonella Palmisano	Italy  (ITA)	1:27:26		SB
4	Kimberly García	Peru  (PER)	1:27:32
5	Alegna González	Mexico  (MEX)	1:27:36	~
6	Glenda Morejón	Ecuador  (ECU)	1:27:40	~~	SB
7	Ma Zhenxia	China  (CHN)	1:28:30	~
8	Viviane Lyra	Brazil  (BRA)	1:28:36	~	PB
9	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal  (POR)	1:28:49	>~	SB
10	Olena Sobchuk	Ukraine  (UKR)	1:28:50	~	PB
11	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Ukraine  (UKR)	1:29:36	~	SB
12	Yang Jiayu	China  (CHN)	1:29:40
13	Érica de Sena	Brazil  (BRA)	1:29:53	>
14	Nanako Fujii	Japan  (JPN)	1:30:10
15	Antigoni Drisbioti	Greece  (GRE)	1:30:19
16	Clémence Beretta  [ fr ]	France  (FRA)	1:30:43	~
17	Liu Hong	China  (CHN)	1:30:43
18	Pauline Stey  [ fr ]	France  (FRA)	1:31:20
19	Hanna Shevchuk	Ukraine  (UKR)	1:31:44	>	SB
20	Eleonora Giorgi	Italy  (ITA)	1:31:45	~~~
21	Camille Moutard  [ fr ]	France  (FRA)	1:32:18	~
22	Valentina Trapletti	Italy  (ITA)	1:32:57
23	Vitória Oliveira	Portugal  (POR)	1:33:04	>	PB
24	Rachelle de Orbeta	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	1:33:19	~
25	Johana Ordóñez	Ecuador  (ECU)	1:33:58
26	Gabriela de Sousa	Brazil  (BRA)	1:33:59
27	Eliška Martínková  [ es ]	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1:34:02	~~
28	Antia Chamosa  [ gl ]	Spain  (ESP)	1:34:20	~~
29	Saskia Feige	Germany  (GER)	1:34:49
30	Ayane Yanai	Japan  (JPN)	1:34:59
31	Mary Luz Andía	Peru  (PER)	1:35:38	~~	SB
32	Rebecca Henderson	Australia  (AUS)	1:35:51	~
33	Barbara Oláh	Hungary  (HUN)	1:35:55
34	Viktória Madarász	Hungary  (HUN)	1:36:13
35	Yukiko Umeno	Japan  (JPN)	1:36:52
36	Sofía Ramos Rodríguez	Mexico  (MEX)	1:37:49	~
37	Kiriaki Filtisakou	Greece  (GRE)	1:37:51
38	Paula Milena Torres	Ecuador  (ECU)	1:38:03
39	Ángela Castro	Bolivia  (BOL)	1:40:01
40	Valeria Ortuño	Mexico  (MEX)	1:40:53
	Sandra Arenas	Colombia  (COL)	DNF	~~~
	Meryem Bekmez	Turkey  (TUR)	DNF
	Emily Wamusyi Ngii	Kenya  (KEN)	DNF	>>
	Maritza Poncio	Guatemala  (GUA)	DNF
	Evelyn Inga	Peru  (PER)	DSQ	~~~~	TR54.7.5
	Olivia Sandery	Australia  (AUS)	DSQ	>>>>	TR54.7.5
	Katarzyna Zdziebło	Poland  (POL)	DSQ	~>~~	TR54.7.5
	Christina Papadopoulou	Greece  (GRE)	DNS

Key:

~ Red card for loss of contact

> Red card for bent knee

TR54.7.5: Disqualified by Rule TR54.7.5 (4 red cards)

References

1. "Start List 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
2. "20 Kilometres Walk Women − Records". World Athletics . Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
3. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
4. "Results 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
5. "Race Analysis 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.