2016 Olympic Games Statistics – Women’s 20Km Walk by K Ken Nakamura The records to look for in Rio de Janeiro: 1) Will Liu Hong become first World Junior Champion to win both World Champ and Olympic at W20Km Walk? Summary Page: All time performance list at the Olympics Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 1:25:02 Elena Lashmanova RUS 1 London 2012 2 2 1:25:16 Qieyang Shenjie CHN 2 London 2012 3 3 1:26:00 Liu Hong CHN 3 London 2012 4 4 1:26:26 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 4 London 2012 5 5 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1 Beijing 2008 6 6 1:27:07 Kjersti Plätzer NOR 2 Beijing 2008 Slowest winning time: 1:29:12 by Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE) in 2004 Margin of Victory Difference Winning time Name Nat Venue Year Max 36 sec 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS Beijing 2008 Min 4 sec 1:29:12 Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE Athinai 2004 Best Marks for Places in the Olympics Pos Time Name Nat Venue Year 1 1:25:02 Elena Lashmanova RUS London 2012 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS Beijing 2008 2 1:25:16 Qieyang Shenjie CHN London 2012 1:27:07 Kjersti Plätzer NOR Beijing 2008 3 1:26:00 Liu Hong CHN London 2012 1:27:12 Elisa Rigaudo ITA Beijing 2008 4 1:26:26 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS London 2012 1:27:17 Liu Hong CHN Beijing 2008 Multiple Medalists: Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR): 2000 Silver, 2008 Silver All time performance list at the Olympics Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 1:25:02 Elena Lashmanova RUS 1 London 2012 2 2 1:25:16 Qieyang Shenjie CHN 2 London 2012 3 3 1:26:00 Liu Hong CHN 3 London 2012 4 4 1:26:26 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 4 London 2012 5 5 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1 Beijing 2008 6 6 1:27:07 Kjersti Plätzer NOR 2 Beijing 2008 7 7 1:27:10 Lu Xiuzhi CHN 5 London 2012 8 8 1:27:12 Elisa Rigaudo ITA 3 Beijing 2008 9 1:27:17 Liu Hong 4 Beijing 2008 10 9 1:27:25 Maria Vasco ESP 5 Beijing 2008 11 1:27:36 Elisa Rigaudo 6 London 2012 12 10 1:27:44 Beatriz Pascual ESP 6 Beijing 2008 13 11 1:27:45 Olive Loughnane IRL 7 Beijing 2008 14 12 1:27:46 Ana Cabecinha POR 8 Beijing 2008 15 1:27:56 Beatriz Pascual 7 London 2012 16 1:28:03 Ana Cabecinha 8 London 2012 17 13 1:28:14 Vera Santos POR 9 Beijing 2008 18 1:28:14 Maria Vasco 9 London 2012 19 14 1:28:26 Ryta Turova BLR 10 Beijing 2008 20 15 1:28:28 Tatyana Sibileva RUS 11 Beijing 2008 21 16 1:28:41 Masumi Fuchise JPN 10 London 2012 22 17 1:29:05 Wang Liping CHN 1 Sydney 2000 23 18 1:29:08 Shi Na CHN 12 Beijing 2008 24 19 1:29:12 Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE 1 Athinai 2004 25 20 1:29:16 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS 2 Athinai 2004 26 21 1:29:25 Jane Saville AUS 3 Athinai 2004 27 1:29:33 Kjersti Tysse Plätzer 2 Sydney 2000 28 22 1:29:36 Maria Jose Poves ESP 11 London 2012 29 1:29:39 Ryta Turava 4 Athinai 2004 30 1:29:39 Olive Loughnane 12 London 2012 31 23 1:29:43 Mayumi Kawasaki JPN 13 Beijing 2008 32 1:29:48 Eleonora Giorgi ITA 13 London 2012 33 24 1:29:52 Melanie Seeger GER 5 Athinai 2004 34 25 1:29:54 Ines Henriques POR 14 London 2012 35 1:29:57 Elisa Rigaudo 6 Athinai 2004 36 26 1:30:03 Nadiya Borovska UKR 15 London 2012 37 1:30:06 Maria Vasco 7 Athinai 2004 38 27 1:30:08 Regan Lamble AUS 16 London 2012 39 1:30:16 Wang Liping 8 Athinai 2004 40 28 1:30:19 Sabine Zimmer GER 14 Beijing 2008 41 1:30:20 Mayumi Kawasaki 17 London 2012 42 29 1:30:22 Yelena Ginko BLR 9 Athinai 2004 43 1:30:23 Maria Vasco 3 Sydney 2000 44 30 1:30:26 Sonata Milusauskaite LTU 15 Beijing 2008 45 31 1:30:31 Vira Zozulya UKR 16 Beijing 2008 46 32 1:30:37 Athina Papayianni GRE 10 Athinai 2004 47 33 1:30:39 Rossella Giordano ITA 11 Athinai 2004 48 1:30:44 Melanie Seeger 18 London 2012 49 1:30:49 Kjersti Plätzer 12 Athinai 2004 50 1:30:52 Maria Jose Poves 17 Beijing 2008 Slowest winning time: 1:29:12 by Athanasia Tsoumeleka (GRE) in 2004 Margin of Victory Difference Winning time Name Nat Venue Year Max 36 sec 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS Beijing 2008 Min 4 sec 1:29:12 Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE Athinai 2004 Difference between first and third Diff Winning time 3rd place time Winner’s Name Nat Venue Year Max 1:18 1:29:05 1:30:23 Wang Liping CHN Sydney 2000 Min 13sec 1:29:12 1:29:25 Athanasia Toumeleka GRE Athinai 2004 Difference between third and fourth (medal versus no medal) Difference 3rd place time Name Nat Venue Year Max 1:02 1:30:23 Maria Vasco ESP Sydney 2000 Min 5 sec 1:27:12 Elisa Rigaudo ITA Beijing 2008 Average from four Olympics Average 2012 2008 2004 2000 Winning Time 1:27:28 1:25:02 1:26:31 1:29:12 1:29:05 Winning Medal 1:28:15 1:26:00 1:27:12 1:29:25 1:30:23 Missing Medal (4 th ) 1:28:42 1:26:26 1:27:17 1:29:39 1:31:25 8th place 1:29:40 1:28:03 1:27:46 1:30:16 1:32:35 Best Marks for Places in the Olympics Pos Time Name Nat Venue Year 1 1:25:02 Elena Lashmanova RUS London 2012 1:26:31 Olga Kaniskina RUS Beijing 2008 2 1:25:16 Qieyang Shenjie CHN London 2012 1:27:07 Kjersti Plätzer NOR Beijing 2008 3 1:26:00 Liu Hong CHN London 2012 1:27:12 Elisa Rigaudo ITA Beijing 2008 4 1:26:26 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS London 2012 1:27:17 Liu Hong CHN Beijing 2008 5 1:27:10 Lu Xiuzhi CHN London 2012 1:27:25 Maria Vasco ESP Beijing 2008 6 1:27:36 Elisa Rigaudo CHN London 2012 1:27:44 Beatriz Pascual ESP Beijing 2008 7 1:27:45 Olive Loughnane IRL Beijing 2008 8 1:27:46 Ana Cabecinha POR Beijing 2008 Best Marks for Places – all competitions Pos Time Name Nat Venue Day Month Year 1 1:24:38 Liu Hong CHN La Coruña 6 June 2015 1:24:47 Elmira Alembekova RUS Sochi 27 Feb 2015 1:24:50 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS Adler 4 Mar 2001 2 1:25:03 Marina Pandakova RUS Sochi 27 Feb 2015 1:25:09 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS Sochi 26 Feb 2011 3 1:25:04 Svetlana Vasilyeva RUS Sochi 27 Feb 2015 1:25:26 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS Adler 28 Feb 2009 4 1:25:32 Yelena Shumkina RUS Adler 28 Feb 2009 1:25:38 Vera Sokolova RUS Sochi 27 Feb 2015 5 1:25:52 Larisa Yemelyanova RUS Adler 28 Feb 2009 1:26:08 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS Moskva 19 May 2000 6 1:27:08 Vera Sokolova RUS Murcia 17 May 2015 1:27:11 Lyudmila Arkhipova RUS Adler 28 Feb 2009 Multiple Gold Medalists: None Multiple Medalists: Kjersti Tysse Plätzer (NOR): 2000 Silver, 2008 Silver Multiple Medals by athletes from a single nation: (for 20kmWalk only) Nation Year Gold Silver Bronze CHN 2012 Qieyang Shenjie Liu Hong Man & Woman from the same team winning the corresponding event Nation Men Women Venue Year RUS Valeriy Borchin Olga Kaniskina Beijing 2008 Medals by Countries: Nation Gold Silver Bronze RUS 2 {1} 1 CHN 1 {1} 1 1 {2} GRE 1 NOR 2 EUN {1} ITA {1} 1 ESP 1 AUS 1 10Km walk medal counts in {} Olympic Gold medalist with World Championships Gold Name Nat World Championships Olympics Olga Kaniskina RUS 2007 2008 Olympic Champion who previously won World Junior gold medal Name Nat Olympic Games World Junior Championships Elena Lashmanova RUS 2012 2010 Olympic champion who previously won World Youth gold medal: Name Nat Olympic Games World Junior Championships Elena Lashmanova RUS 2012 2009 Olympic Champion with European Championships gold medal: None Name Nat Olympic Games European Championships Olga Kaniskina RUS 2008 2010 DQ World Championships medalists with Asian Games and/or Asian Championships medal Name Nat Olympic Games Asian Games Asian Championships Chen Yueling CHN 1992 (10KW) 1990 (10KmW) 1989 (10000mW) World Championships medalists with All African Games/African Championships medal: None Olympic medalist with Pan American Games medal: None World Champion with Commonwealth Games Gold medal Name Nat Olympic Games Year Commonwealth Games Year Jane Saville AUS Bronze 2004 Gold 1998, 2002, 2006 Last six Olympics: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2012 Elena Lashmanova RUS 1:25:02 Qieyang Shenjie CHN 1:25:16 Liu Hong CHN 1:26:00 2008 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1:26:31 Kjersti Plätzer NOR 1:27:07 Elisa Rigaudo ITA 1:27:12 2004 Athanasia Tsoumeleka GRE 1:29:12 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS 1:29:16 Jane Saville AUS 1:29:25 2000 Wang Liping CHN 1:29:05 Kjersti Plätzer NOR 1:29:33 Maria Vasco ESP 1:30:23 1996 Yelena Nikolayeva RUS 41:49 Elisabetta Perrone ITA 42:12 Wang Yan CHN 42:19 1992 Chen Yueling CHN 44:32 Yelena Nikolayeva EUN 44:33 Li Chunxiu CHN 44:41 Last eight World Championships: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2015 Liu Hong CHN 1:27:45 Lu Xiuzhi CHN 1:27:45 Lyudmyla Olyanovska UKR 1:28:13 2013 Elena Lashmanova RUS 1:27:08 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 1:27:11 Liu Hong CHN 1:28:10 2011 Liu Hong CHN 1:30:00 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 1:30:13 Elisa Rigaudo ITA 1:30:44 2009 Olive Loughnane IRL 1:28:58 Liu Hong CHN 1:29:10 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 1:30:09 2007 Olga Kaniskina RUS 1:30:09 Tatyana Shemyakina RUS 1:30:42 Maia Vasco ESP 1:30:47 2005 Olimiada Ivanova RUS 1:25:41 Rita Turova BLR 1:27:05 Susana Feitor POR 1:28:44 2003 Yelena Nikolayeva RUS 1:26:52 Gillian O’Sullivan IRL 1:27:34 Valentina Tsybulskaya BLR 1:28:10 2001 Olimpiada Ivanova RUS 1:27:48 Valentina Tsybulskaya BLR 1:28:49 Elisabetta Perrone ITA 1:28:56 Last nine World Junior Championships: (10000mWalk) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2016 Ma Zhenxi CH 45:18.45 Noemi Stella ITA 45:23.85 Yehualeye Belete ETH 45:33.69 2014 Anezka Drahotova CZEN 42:47.25 Wang Na CH 44:02.64 Ni Yuanyuan CH 44:16.72 2012 Ekaterina Medvedeva RUS 45:41.74 Nadezhda Leontyeva RUN 45:43.64 Sandra Arenas COLN 45.44.46 2010 Elena Lashmanova RUS 44:11.90 Anna Lukyanova RUSS 44:17.98 Kumiko Okada JPN 45:56.15 2008 Tatyana Mineyeva RUS 43:24.72 Elmira Alembekova RUS 43:45.16 Li Yanfei CHN 44:24.10 2006 Liu Hong CHN 45:12.84 Tatyana Shemyakina RUS 45:34.41 Anamaria Greceanu ROU 46:45.67 2004 Irina Petrova RUS 45:50.39 Zhang Nan CHN 45:58.54 Vera Sokolova RUS 46:53.02 2002 Fumi Mitsumura JPN 46:01.51 Liu Siqi CHN 46:07.15 Marina Tsikhanava BLR 46:14.67 2000