Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

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Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue Pontal
Date19 August 2016
Competitors74 from 31 nations
Winning time1:28:35
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Liu Hong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Lupita González Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Bronze medal icon.svg Lü Xiuzhi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
  2012
2020  
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The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was held on 19 August on a route along Pontal.

Summary

The race took off as a pack, with Lupita González on point but nobody exerting any force to take the lead. Always present near the front were the three Chinese athletes; World champion and world record holder Liu Hong, world silver medalist Lü Xiuzhi and Qieyang Shenjie. Towering over the lead group was Anežka Drahotová. After the first laps, Lu and her teammates increased the pace from 9:17 initial laps to sub-9; walkers began to drop off the back of the pack, one by one. By the halfway mark, the pack was down to 15. Within the next kilometer, the pack was down to seven, González, two Italians; Antonella Palmisano and Eleonora Giorgi, Brazilian favorite Érica de Sena, and the two Chinese using the pace; Lu and Liu. Going to the 13K mark, Giorgi received the red paddle to step off the course. In the next 500 metres, Qieyang and Ana Cabecinha, who had fallen off the back were able to rejoin the pack. Qieyang continued past the pack to take the position at the front. After a brief visit, Cabecinha could not stay with the group. The pace continued to drop, down to 8:42 for the eighth lap, de Sena the next off the back. Before the end of the penultimate lap, Palmisano fell off the back, leaving the three Chinese vs González. But González held the lead, pushing the pace. Qieyang broke and quickly fell back to get passed by Palmisano. The lap finished in 8:40, the fastest yet. Through the last lap, the pace increased Each already had one red card on the board, Liu getting shown three yellow paddles during the lap, still chasing González a step behind with Lu first a step then dropping off the back with just over 500 metres to the finish. Down the final straight, Liu edged closer to González, then after getting a shoulder ahead, quickly expanded the lead. With six officials watching over the last 100 metres, Liu did not pick up any calls and crossed the finish line first, two seconds up on González, seven on Lu. Behind them, Qieyang surged back to Palmisano, but could not get past.

Records

The existing World and Olympic records stood as follows.

World recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Liu Hong  (CHN)1:24:38 A Coruña, Spain 6 June 2015
Olympic recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Qieyang Shijie  (CHN)1:25:16 London, United Kingdom 11 August 2012

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC–3)

DateTimeRound
19 August 201614:30Final

Results

Warnings (Athletes with 3 warnings are automatically disqualified)
RankStartNameNationalityTimeNotes [1]
Gold medal icon.svg9 Liu Hong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:28:35~
Silver medal icon.svg5 Lupita González Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:28:37~
Bronze medal icon.svg57 Lü Xiuzhi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:28:42~
441 Antonella Palmisano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:29:03
51 Qieyang Shenjie Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:29:04
610 Ana Cabecinha Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:29:23
74 Érica de Sena Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:29:29~~
87 Beatriz Pascual Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:30:24
950 Regan Lamble Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:30:28~~
1063 Anežka Drahotová Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:30:43
113 Elisa Rigaudo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:31:04>
126 Inês Henriques Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:31:28
1315 Émilie Menuet Flag of France.svg  France 1:32:04~
1469 Kimberly García Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 1:32:09
1531 Antigoni Drisbioti Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1:32:32
1649 Kumiko Okada Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:32:42
1762 Nastassia Yatsevich Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 1:32:53~
1852 Ángela Castro Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 1:32:54
1911 Nadiya Borovska Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:33:01~~
202 Raquel González Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:33:03
2172 Inna Kashyna Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:33:15
2239 Maria Michta-Coffey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:33:36
2374 María Guadalupe Sánchez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:33:44~~
2413 Paola Pérez Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 1:33:53
2522 Viktória Madarász Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:33:59
2637 Tanya Holliday Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:34:22~~
2727 Magaly Bonilla Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 1:34:54~
2818 Paulina Buziak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:35:01
2967 Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:35:11
3023 Mirna Ortiz Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 1:35:11
3135 Wendy Cornejo Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 1:35:17~~
3236 Sandra Arenas Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 1:35:40~
3326 Julia Takács Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:35:45
3458 Miranda Melville Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:35:48
3545 Alana Barber Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:35:55
3660 Maritza Guaman Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 1:35:56
3756 Daniela Cardoso Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:36:13
3853 Yeseida Carrillo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 1:36:28
3940 Jeon Yeong-eun Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:36:31~~
4020 Rachel Tallent Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:37:08~
4121 Alejandra Ortega Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:37:33
4214 Grace Wanjiru Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:37:49
4364 Stefany Coronado Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia 1:37:56
4433 Agnieszka Szwarnóg Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:38:01
4565 Andreea Arsine Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:38:16~
4644 Valentyna Myronchuk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:38:20~
4761 Panayiota Tsinopoulou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1:38:24
4846 Mária Czaková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:38:29~
4947 Cisiane Lopes Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:38:35
5051 Ana Veronica Rodean Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:38:42
5130 Jessica Hancco Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 1:39:08
5254 Maritza Poncio Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 1:40:09
5316 Agnese Pastare Flag of Latvia (3-2).svg  Latvia 1:40:15>~
5425 Khushbir Kaur Flag of India.svg  India 1:40:33>
5542 Mária Gáliková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:40:35
5624 Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:41:28
5748 Claudia Ștef Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:41:47>
5868 Barbara Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:42:11~
5955 Rita Récsei Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:42:41~
6012 Chahinez Nasri Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 1:42:57
6173 Askale Tiksa Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 1:44:15>>
6217 Diana Aydosova Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 1:44:49~
6328 Anel Oosthuizen Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1:45:06>
29 Agnieszka Dygacz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland DNF ~
66 Sapana Sapana Flag of India.svg  India DNF
43 Yesenia Miranda Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador DNF
59 Sandra Galvis Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia DNF
70 Neringa Aidietytė Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania DNF
34 Yehualeye Beletew Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia DQ ~~>
8 Eleonora Giorgi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DQ ~~~
38 Mayra Carolina Herrera Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala DQ ~~~
19 Lee Da-seul Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea DQ ~~>
32 Lee Jeong-eun Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea DQ ~~>
71 Polina Repina Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan DQ >>>

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