2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

Women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Championships
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	29 September
Competitors	45 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:32:53
Medalists
Liu Hong   China   Qieyang Shijie   China   Yang Liujing   China

The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on 29 September 2019.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	1:24:38	Liu Hong	CHN	6 Jun 2015	A Coruña, Spain
Championship	1:25:41	Olimpiada Ivanova	RUS	7 Aug 2005	Helsinki,Finland
World leading	1:24:31	Elena Lashmanova	RUS	18 Feb 2019	Sochi, Russia
African	1:30:40	Grace Wanjiru	KEN	6 Jun 2018	Nairobi, Kenya
Asian	1:24:38	Liu Hong	CHN	6 Jun 2015	A Coruña, Spain
NACAC	1:26:17	Lupita González	MEX	7 May 2016	Rome, Italy
South American	1:25:29	Glenda Morejón	ECU	8 Jun 2019	A Coruña, Spain
European	1:25:02	Elena Lashmanova	RUS	11 Augf 2012	London, Great Britain
Oceanian	1:27:44	Jane Saville	AUS	2 May 2004	Naumburg, Germany

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
29 September	23:30	Final

Results

The race was started at 23:59.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Liu Hong	China (CHN)	1:32:53
	Qieyang Shijie	China (CHN)	1:33:10
	Yang Liujing	China (CHN)	1:33:17
4	Érica de Sena	Brazil (BRA)	1:33:36
5	Sandra Arenas	Colombia (COL)	1:34:16
6	Kumiko Okada	Japan (JPN)	1:34:36
7	Nanako Fujii	Japan (JPN)	1:34:50
8	María Pérez	Spain (ESP)	1:35:43
9	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal (POR)	1:36:31
10	Jemima Montag	Australia (AUS)	1:36:54
11	Saskia Feige	Germany (GER)	1:37:14
12	Mirna Ortiz	Guatemala (GUA)	1:37:32
13	Antonella Palmisano	Italy (ITA)	1:37:36	SB
14	Darya Paluektava	Belarus (BLR)	1:37:42
15	Raquel González	Spain (ESP)	1:38:02
16	Yehualeye Beletew	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:38:11
17	Valentina Trapletti	Italy (ITA)	1:38:22
18	Karla Jaramillo	Ecuador (ECU)	1:38:26
19	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic (CZE)	1:38:29
20	Nadiya Borovska	Ukraine (UKR)	1:38:35	SB
21	Katarzyna Zdziebło	Poland (POL)	1:38:44
22	Antigoni Drisbioti	Greece (GRE)	1:38:56
23	Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė	Lithuania (LTU)	1:39:26
24	Meryem Bekmez	Turkey (TUR)	1:39:36
25	Glenda Morejón	Ecuador (ECU)	1:39:38
26	Grace Wanjiru Njue	Kenya (KEN)	1:39:58
27	Alana Barber	New Zealand (NZL)	1:40:59
28	Ángela Castro	Bolivia (BOL)	1:41:15
29	Inna Kashyna	Ukraine (UKR)	1:41:44
30	Ching Siu Nga	Hong Kong (HKG)	1:42:55
31	Yana Smerdova	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	1:43:49
32	Valeria Ortuño	Mexico (MEX)	1:43:51
33	Laura García-Caro	Spain (ESP)	1:44:05
34	Rachel Seaman	Canada (CAN)	1:45:40
35	Maria Michta-Coffey	United States (USA)	1:46:02	SB
36	Noelia Vargas	Costa Rica (CRC)	1:46:30
37	Ilse Guerrero	Mexico (MEX)	1:46:32
38	Mayra Pérez	Guatemala (GUA)	1:46:42
39	Viktória Madarász	Hungary (HUN)	1:47:38
	Leyde Guerra	Peru (PER)	DNF
	Viviane Lyra	Brazil (BRA)
	Chahinez Nasri	Tunisia (TUN)
	Katie Hayward	Australia (AUS)	DSQ	230.7(c)
	Ayşe Tekdal	Turkey (TUR)
	Yang Jiayu	China (CHN)