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Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

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Women's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Olympic Athletics
VenueSapporo
Date6 August 2021
Competitors58 from 30 nations
Winning time1:29.12
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Antonella Palmisano  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sandra Arenas  Colombia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Liu Hong  China
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The women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2021 in Sapporo.[1] Approximately 60 athletes has qualified; the exact number depended on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the number qualifying through time (one universality place was used in 2016).[2] The actual number of participants was 58 walkers, and the winner was Antonella Palmisano of Italy.

Background

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This was the 6th appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since 2000.

Qualification

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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the women's 20 kilometres walk if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard was 1:31:00. This standard was "set for the sole purpose of qualifying athletes with exceptional performances unable to qualify through the IAAF World Rankings pathway." The world rankings, based on the average of the best five results for the athlete over the qualifying period and weighted by the importance of the meet, was then used to qualify athletes until the cap of 60 is reached.[2][3]

The qualifying period was originally from 1 January 2019 to 31 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period was suspended from 6 April 2020 to 30 November 2020, with the end date extended to 29 June 2021. The most recent Area Championships was available to be counted in the ranking, even if not during the qualifying period.[2][4] In July 2020, World Athletics announced that the suspension period would be lifted for the road events (marathons and race walks) on 1 September 2020.[5]

NOCs were able to use also their universality place—each NOC can enter one female athlete regardless of time if they had no female athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the 20 kilometres walk.[2]

Women's 20 km walk

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Qualification standard No. of athletes NOC Nominated athletes
Entry standard – 1:31:00 3  China Liu Hong
Qieyang Shijie
Yang Jiayu
3  Ecuador Karla Jaramillo
Glenda Morejón
Paola Pérez
3  Italy Eleonora Giorgi
Antonella Palmisano
Valentina Trapletti
3  Mexico Alegna González
Ilse Guerrero
Valeria Ortuño
3  Spain Laura García-Caro
Raquel González
María Pérez
3  Ukraine Lyudmila Olyanovska
Mariia Sakharuk
Hanna Shevchuk
2  Australia Katie Hayward
Jemima Montag
2  Belarus Viktoryia Rashchupkina
Anna Terlyukevich
2  Colombia Sandra Arenas
Sandra Galvis
2  Guatemala Mayra Herrera
Mirna Ortiz
2  India Priyanka Goswami
Bhawna Jat
2  Japan Nanako Fujii
Kumiko Okada
1  Lithuania Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė[6]
Brigita Virbalytė
2  Peru Mary Luz Andía
Kimberly García
2  Turkey Meryem Bekmez
Ayşe Tekdal
1  Brazil Érica de Sena
1  Costa Rica Noelia Vargas
1  Czech Republic Tereza Ďurdiaková
1  Germany Saskia Feige
1  Greece Antigoni Drisbioti
1  Kazakhstan Ayman Ratova
0  Kenya Emily Wamusyi Ngii
1  Poland Katarzyna Zdziebło
1  Portugal Ana Cabecinha
1  ROC[Note RUS] Elvira Khasanova
World ranking 2  Greece Kiriaki Filtisakou
Panagiota Tsinopoulou
2  Hungary Barbara Kovács
Viktória Madarász
1  Australia Rebecca Henderson
1  Belarus Anastasiya Rarouskaya
1  Bolivia Ángela Castro
1  Colombia Yeseida Carrillo
1  Czech Republic Anežka Drahotová
1  Ethiopia Yehualeye Beletew
1  Hong Kong Ching Siu Nga
1  Japan Kaori Kawazoe
1  Peru Leydi Guerra
1  Slovakia Mária Czaková
1  Turkey Evin Demir
1  United States Robyn Stevens
Total 60

Competition format and course

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The event consists of a single race.[7]

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.

World record  Yang Jiayu (CHN) 1:23:49 Huangshan, China 20 March 2021
Olympic record  Qieyang Shijie (CHN) 1:25:16 London, United Kingdom 11 August 2012
Area Time Athlete Nation
Africa (records) 1:30:43 Grace Wanjiru Njue  Kenya
Asia (records) 1:23:49 WR Yang Jiayu  China
Europe (records) 1:25:02 Elena Lashmanova  Russia
North, Central America
and Caribbean
(records)
1:26:17 María Guadalupe González  Mexico
Oceania (records) 1:27:44 Jane Saville  Australia
South America (records) 1:25:29 Glenda Morejón  Ecuador

Schedule

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All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The women's 20 kilometres walk took place on a single day.[1]

Date Time Round
Friday, 6 August 2021 16:30 Final

Results

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Key: ~ Loss of contact > Bent knee TR 54.7.5 Disqualified by Rule TR 54.7.5
Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Antonella Palmisano  Italy 1:29:12 +0.00
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sandra Arenas  Colombia 1:29:37 +0:25 ~~
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Liu Hong  China 1:29:57 +0:45 ~~
4 María Pérez  Spain 1:30:05 +0:53
5 Alegna González  Mexico 1:30:33 +1:21
6 Jemima Montag  Australia 1:30:39 +1:27 ~
7 Qieyang Shijie  China 1:31:04 +1:52
8 Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece 1:31:24 +2:12 SB
9 Paola Pérez  Ecuador 1:31:26 +2:14 ~~
10 Katarzyna Zdziebło  Poland 1:31:29 +2:17
11 Érica de Sena  Brazil 1:31:39 +2:27 ~~ ~
12 Yang Jiayu  China 1:31:54 +2:42 ~~ ~
13 Nanako Fujii  Japan 1:31:55 +2:43
14 Raquel González  Spain 1:31:57 +2:45 ~
15 Kumiko Okada  Japan 1:31:57 +2:45
16 Elvira Khasanova  ROC 1:31:58 +2:46 ~~
17 Priyanka Goswami  India 1:32:36 +3:24 ~
18 Valentina Trapletti  Italy 1:33:12 +4:00
19 Mariia Sakharuk  Ukraine 1:34:04 +4:52
20 Ana Cabecinha  Portugal 1:34:08 +4:56 SB
21 Noelia Vargas  Costa Rica 1:35:07 +5:55
22 Meryem Bekmez  Turkey 1:35:08 +5:56
23 Anastasiya Rarovskaya  Belarus 1:35:09 +5:57 ~
24 Mary Luz Andía  Peru 1:35:25 +6:13
25 Sandra Galvis  Colombia 1:35:36 +6:24 ~~ SB
26 Brigita Virbalytė  Lithuania 1:35:56 +6:44
27 Hanna Shevchuk  Ukraine 1:36:27 +7:15 ~~
28 Karla Jaramillo  Ecuador 1:36:32 +7:20 ~
29 Kiriaki Filtisakou  Greece 1:36:51 +7:39
30 Tereza Ďurdiaková  Czech Republic 1:36:58 +7:46
31 Anna Terlyukevich  Belarus 1:37:22 +8:10 ~
32 Bhawna Jat  India 1:37:38 +8:26 ~
33 Robyn Stevens  United States 1:37:42 +8:30 >~
34 Laura García-Caro  Spain 1:37:48 +8:36 ~~ ~
35 Ching Siu Nga  Hong Kong 1:37:53 +8:41 >
36 Leyde Guerra  Peru 1:38:10 +8:58 ~~
37 Katie Hayward  Australia 1:38:11 +8:59 ~~
38 Rebecca Henderson  Australia 1:38:21 +9:09 ~
39 Ayşe Tekdal  Turkey 1:38:40 +9:28
40 Kaori Kawazoe  Japan 1:39:31 +10:19
41 Evin Demir  Turkey 1:39:55 +10:43
42 Ayman Ratova  Kazakhstan 1:40:02 +10:50
43 Lyudmyla Olyanovska  Ukraine 1:40:20 +11:08
44 Mirna Ortiz  Guatemala 1:40:23 +11:11
45 Mária Czaková  Slovakia 1:41:29 +12:17 >~
46 Barbara Kovács  Hungary 1:41:49 +12:37
47 Valeria Ortuño  Mexico 1:41:50 +12:38 ~~
48 Ángela Castro  Bolivia 1:42:25 +13:13
49 Viktoryia Rashchupkina  Belarus 1:43:33 +14:21
50 Mayra Herrera  Guatemala 1:44:30 +15:18 ~~ ~
51 Ilse Guerrero  Mexico 1:45:47 +16:35
52 Eleonora Giorgi  Italy 1:46:36 +17:24 ~>
53 Panayiota Tsinopoulou  Greece 1:47:19 +18:07 >
Kimberly García  Peru DNF ~
Viktória Madarász  Hungary DNF
Saskia Feige  Germany DNF
Glenda Morejón  Ecuador DNF
Yehualeye Beletew  Ethiopia DNF

References

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  1. ^ a b "Athletics Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Athletics" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ "IAAF to follow other sports with world ranking system for athletes". BBC Sport. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Olympic qualification period suspended until 1 December 2020". World Athletics. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Olympic qualifying system to recommence for road athletes from September 2020". 28 July 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  6. ^ GERIAUSIA LIETUVOS LENGVAATLETĖ ŽIVILĖ VAICIUKEVIČIŪTĖ BAIGĖ KARJERĄ
  7. ^ "Athletics Explanatory Guide" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. August 2019.