European Athletics Championships 2018/20 km walking of women
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| discipline | 20 km walk for women |
| city |
 Berlin
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| place | Circuit through Berlin |
| Participants | 30 athletes from 18 countries |
| Competition phase | 11th August 2018 |
| Medalists | |
|---|---|
 gold |
Mária Pérez ( ESP )
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 silver |
Anežka Drahotová ( CZE )
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 bronze |
Antonella Palmisano ( ITA )
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The women's 20 km walk at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 11 in the German capital Berlin .
The European champion was the Spanish Mária Pérez. The Czech Anežka Drahotová won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Italian Antonella Palmisano.
Routing
Twenty times a lap with a length of one kilometer had to be mastered, which began at Breitscheidplatz on Budapester Strasse and continued east to the turning point at the intersection at Olof-Palme-Platz . The course then passed Breitscheidplatz on Budapester Strasse again. After a turning point in front of the zoo window , it went back to Breitscheidplatz - the start and finish point.
Records
Existing records
| World record |
 Elena Laschmanova
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1:23:39 h | Cheboksary , Russia | June 9, 2018 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record |
Olimpiada Ivanova
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1:26:42 h | EM in Munich , Germany | August 7, 2002 |
Record improvements
Mária Pérez improved the existing EM record to 1:26:36 h.
Course of competition
Two European women in particular had stood out in the results of the major championships at world level in recent years. The Italian Antonella Palmisano was the World Championship -Third of 2017 , WM -Fünfte of 2015 and Olympic Fourth of 2016 . The Portuguese Ana Cabecinha was the World Cup -Sechste of 2017 World Cup -Vierte of 2015 and Olympic Sixth of 2016. Other medal candidates were the Czech anežka drahotová as EM -Third of 20146 , the Italian Eleonora Giorgi as EM -Fünfte of 2016 and the Lithuanian Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė as WM -Siebte of, 2015.
Right from the start, the walkers set a brisk pace. Little by little, more and more female athletes fell behind. At kilometer four, sixteen participants were together in front, after six kilometers there were still twelve. Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė from Lithuania now took over the lead and pulled away from her opponents by a few seconds. At eight kilometers she had a lead of seven seconds on Drahotová, Palmisano, Giorgi and the two Spaniards Mária Pérez and Laura García-Caro. Just two more seconds back followed another group with Virbalytė-Dimšienė, Cabecinha, the two Ukrainians Inna Kaschyna and Nadija Borowska and the Turkish Meryem Bekmez. Over the next three kilometers, Vaiciukevičiūtė's lead over the first group of pursuers remained more or less constant. The second group behind fell apart. Kaschyna initially went alone, two seconds after her came Virbalytė-Dimšienė and Cabecinha, while Borowska and Bekmez could no longer keep up.
From kilometer eleven, Vaiciukevičiūtė's lead shrank again and it was passed by three of her rivals. At kilometer twelve, Drahotová, Palmisano and Pérez formed a top group of three. Vaiciukevičiūtė was only two seconds behind and García-Caro and Kaschyna were only four seconds behind. The further distances were also still small. Virbalytė-Dimšienė and Giorgi were thirteen seconds behind the leaders, Cabecinha only two seconds behind. Then Drahotová and Palmisano separate from Pérez for a few seconds. Vaiciukevičiūtė and García-Caro followed as a group of two, thirteen seconds behind the two leaders. The next athletes behind now went individually: Virbalytė-Dimšienė - 20 s back, Kaschyna - 23 s back and Cabecinha - 30 s back.
The competition was not yet decided. At a slightly increased pace, Palmisano lost contact with Drahotová. Pérez, on the other hand, was able to catch up with the Czech again and finally passed her. The distances to the following walkers now increased further. Palmisano was almost thirty seconds behind at eighteen kilometers. Vaiciukevičiūtė lost a lot of ground and the duo García-Caro / Virbalytė-Dimšienė fell apart because García-Caro could no longer keep up with the pace. Virbalytė-Dimšienė was now fourth, one minute behind Pérez. Vaiciukevičiūtė followed seven seconds behind her, García-Caro was another six seconds behind.
Mária Pérez was striving towards the goal with undiminished speed and was European champion with a margin of 27 seconds. With her winning time, Pérez improved the championship record of the Russian Olimpiada Iwanowa by six seconds. Anežka Drahotová became vice European champion and Antonella Palmisano didn’t let her bronze medal be taken away. Their distance to Drahotová was also 27 seconds. With a new national record for Lithuania, Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė finished fourth, 29 seconds behind Palmisano. Her compatriot Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė set a new U23 national record eight seconds behind Dimšienė in fifth. Laura García-Caro was sixth ahead of Inna Kaschyna and Ana Cabecinha.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:53 min | 19-person leadership group | 8:53 min |
| 4 km | 17:46 min | 16-person leadership group | 8:53 min |
| 6 km | 26:34 min | 12-person leadership group | 8:48 min |
| 8 kilometers | 35:16 min | Vaiciukevičiūtė / Pérez, Drahotová, Palmisano, García-Caro, Giorgi - 7 p. / Kaschyna, Borowska, Virbalytė-Dimšienė, Cabecinha, Bekmez - 9 s to. | 8:42 min |
| 10 km | 43:59 min | Vaiciukevičiūtė / Pérez, Drahotová, Palmisano, García-Caro, Giorgi - 8 s / Kaschyna 10 s / Virbalytė-Dimšienė, Cabecinha - 12 s | 8:43 min |
| 12 km | 52:42 min | Drahotová, Palmisano, Pérez / Vaiciukevičiūtė – 2 s / García-Caro, Kaschyna - 6 s / Virbalytė-Dimšienė, Giorgi - 13 s / Cabecinha - 15 s | 8:47 min |
| 14 km | 1:01:18 h | Drahotová, Palmisano / Pérez - 3 s / Vaiciukevičiūtė, García-Caro - 13 s / Virbalytė-Dimšienė - 20 s / Kaschyna - 23 s / Cabecinha - 30 s | 8:36 min |
| 16 km | 1:09:49 h | Drahotová, Pérez / Palmisano - 7 s / Vaiciukevičiūtė - 32 s / García-Caro, Virbalytė-Dimšienė - 36 s / Kaschyna - 58 s / Cabecinha - 1:07 min | 8:31 min |
| 18 km | 1:18:13 h | Pérez / Drahotová - 12 s / Palmisano - 29 s / Virbalytė-Dimšienė - 1:00 min / Vaiciukevičiūtė - 1:07 min / García-Caro - 1:13 min | 8:24 min |
| 20 km | 1:26:36 h | Mária Pérez | 8:23 min |
Result
August 11, 2018, 10:55 a.m. CEST
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Ana Cabecinha, Portugal ( right ) - eighth place
Valentina Trapletti, Italy - ninth place
Raquel González, Spain - twelfth place
Saskia Feige, Germany - sixteenth place
Teresa Zurek, Germany - twenty
Eleonora Giorg, - competition not finished
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Web links and sources
- Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 20, 2019
- Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 20, 2019
- Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 20, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships, 20km race walk course on youtube.com, published on July 25, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2019