2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 74 athletes from 31 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Pontal | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 19th August 2016 | ||||||||
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The women's 20 km competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 19, 2016 in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes district. 74 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Chinese Liu Hong , who won ahead of the Mexican María Guadalupe González . Bronze went to the Chinese Lü Xiuzhi .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein do not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion |
Jelena Laschmanowa ( Russia )
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1:25:02 h | London 2012 |
| world champion |
Liu Hong ( People's Republic of China )
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1:27:45 h | Beijing 2015 |
| European champion |
Elmira Alembekowa ( Russia )
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1:27:56 h | Zurich 2014 |
| North / Central America / Caribbean Champion | Competition not in the championship program | San José 2015 | |
| South America Champion | Sandra Arenas ( Colombia )
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1:31:23 h - 20,000 m walk by train | Lima 2015 |
| Asian champion | Rui Liang ( People's Republic of China )
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1:28:43 h | Nomi 2016 |
| African champion |
Grace Wanjiru Njue ( Kenya )
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1:30:43 h | Durban 2016 |
| Oceania champion | Rachel Tallent ( Australia )
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1:31:33 h | Adelaide 2016 |
Existing records
| World record |
Jelena Laschmanowa ( Russia )
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1:25:02 h | London , UK | August 11, 2012 |
| Olympic record | 20km walk from London , UK |
Remarks:
Routing
The competition was held in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes district in the south of Rio de Janeiro directly on the Atlantic coast. Start and finish were at Praça do Pontal on Avenida Lúcio Costa . The route initially led in a north-easterly direction to Rua Eduardo Pederneiras and then after a turn back to the start / finish. We continued to the intersection of Avenida Gilka Machado / Estrada do Pontal and again to the starting point. This one-kilometer course was completed twenty times.
competition
August 19, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
The favorites were the Chinese, led by World Champion Liu Hong and Vice World Champion Lü Xiuzhi. The Portuguese World Cup fourth Ana Cabecinha, the Italian World Cup fifth Antonella Palmisano and the Brazilian World Cup sixth Érica de Sena started with good prospects for top positions . The Russian walkers, who would have been one of the favorites here, were absent due to the doping-related exclusion of their country from the Olympic Games by the IAAF .
The Chinese Liu, Lü and Qieyang Shenjie always stayed at the front for the first few kilometers. Given the difficult conditions, they set a fairly brisk pace, which they increased a little from the sixth kilometer. Gradually, more and more athletes fell out of the top group. At the half-time mark, there were only fifteen participants in the first group. One kilometer further, the group had shrunk to six: Lü, Liu, the Mexican María Guadalupe González, the Italians Palmisano and Eleonora Giorgi and de Sena. Cabecinha Qieyang and the Australian Regan Lamble followed with a few seconds gap. At thirteen kilometers, Giorgi was disqualified after three warnings for walking irregularly. A short time later, Qieyang and Cabecinha were able to catch up with the leading group.
Qieyang now took over the lead, the Portuguese could not keep up with the pace and fell back again. Then initially de Sena and shortly before the end of the penultimate lap also Palmisano lost the connection. In the last round, three Chinese women and one Mexican woman fought for the medals. González moved forward and increased the pace. Qieyang couldn't keep up and fell behind. The pace was increased again on the last lap, each of the three leading walkers had already received a warning. González brought out a minimal gap to her opponents. Liu caught up again and was level with her five hundred meters from the target. Then the Chinese passed the Mexican. In the last hundred meters, Liu Hong received six warnings before crossing the finish line. But she saved her lead and became an Olympic champion. María Guadalupe González followed just two seconds later, five seconds ahead of Lü Xiuzhi. Antonella Palmisano came fourth ahead of Qieyang Shenjie and Ana Cabecinha. Érica de Sena was seventh ahead of the Spaniard Beatriz Pascual.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 9:15 min | María Guadalupe González with a large group | 9:15 min |
| 4 km | 18:28 min | María Guadalupe González with a large group | 9:13 min |
| 6 km | 27:26 min | Lü Xiuzhi with a large group | 8:58 min |
| 8 kilometers | 36:25 min | María Guadalupe González with a group of 15 | 8:59 min |
| 10 km | 45:24 min | Liu Hong with a group of 15 | 8:59 min |
| 12 km | 54:11 min | Lü, González, Liu, de Sena, Giorgi, Palmisano - Qieyang, Cabecinha 4 s back - Lamble 5 s back | 8:47 min |
| 14 km | 1:03:01 h | Qieyang, Lü, González, Liu, de Sena, Palmisano, Cabecinha - Lamble 15 s back | 8:50 min |
| 16 km | 1:11:43 h | Qieyang, Lü, González, Liu, Palmisano - Cabecinha 3 s back - de Sena 5 s back - Lamble 36 s back | 8:42 min |
| 18 km | 1:20:24 h | Liu, González, Lü - Qieyang, Palmisano 3 s back - de Sena, Cabecinha 13 s back | 8:41 min |
| 20 km | 1:28:35 h | Liu | 8:11 min |
final
Olympic Champion:
Liu Hong, China
Silver medalist:
María Guadalupe González from Mexico
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The Portuguese Ana Cabecinha came in sixth
The Spaniard Beatriz Pascual came in eighth place
The Czech Anežka Drahotová reached tenth place
The Olympic eleventh Elisa Rigaudo from Italy
The Portuguese Inês Henriques took twelfth place
Twenty place for the Spaniard Raquel González
Júlia Takács from Spain came in 33rd
The Indian Khushbir Kaur turned 54.
The Romanian Claudia Ștef reached number 57
Neringa Aidietytė from Lithuania gave up the competition
Disqualification for the Italian Eleonora Giorgi
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Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 15, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF 20 km walking women (English), accessed on October 15, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result of 20 km walking women (English), accessed on October 15, 2018
Video
- China's Liu wins gold in the Women's 20km Race Walk on youtube.com, published August 24, 2016, accessed October 15, 2018
- Rio 2016. Fall and personal tragedy at the Olympic competition. Women's Race Walk 20K on youtube.com, published September 4, 2016, accessed October 15, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 796 (English), accessed on October 15, 2018
- ↑ Overview of Graphic News (English) ( Memento of 15 September 2016 Internet Archive ), accessed on October 14, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181 (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2018
10 km walking: Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996
20 km walking: Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 | Beijing 2008 | London 2012 | Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Tokyo 2020
Men: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 110 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | 50 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Decathlon
Women: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 100 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Heptathlon