IAAF WORLD RACE WALKING CUP FACTS & FIGURES IAAF Race Walking World Cup 1961-2012 . .1 Team Results 1961-2012 . .4 Most Appearances in Finals . .8 Doping Disqualifications . .8 Placing Tables . .9 Youngest & Oldest . .10 Country Index . .11 World All-Time Road Walk Lists . .48 Major Walk Records . .49 TAICANG 2014 ★ RACE WALKING WORLD CUP, PAST TOP3s 1 IAAF RACE WALKING WORLD CUP 1961-2012 Past Titles – 1961-1975: Lugano Trophy; 1977-1987 & 1991: IAAF Race Walking World Cup; 1989 & 1997 onwards: IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 1993 & 1995: IAAF/Reebok World Race Walking Cup 3 Date Venue Countries Total Athletes Men’s 20K Men’s 50K Junior Men’s 10K Women’s 5/10/20K Junior Women’s 10K 1 2 (1) October 15/16, 1961 Lugano, SUI 4/10 24 12 12 - - - 1 2 (2) October 12/13, 1963 Varese, ITA 6/12 36 18 18 - - - 1 2 (3) October 9/10, 1965 Pescara, ITA 7/11 42 21 21 - - - 1 2 (4) October 15, 1967 Bad Saarow, GDR 8/14 48 24 24 - - - 1 2 (5) October 10/11, 1970 Eschborn, FRG 8/14 60 30 30 - - - 1 2 (6) October 12/13, 1973 Lugano, SUI 9/18 68 35 35 - - - 1 4 (7) October 11/12, 1975 Le Grand Quevilly, FRA 9/14 109 36 35 - 38 - 1 4 (8) September 24/25, 1977 Milton Keynes, GBR 15/19 119 48 48 - 23 - 1 2 (9) September 29/30, 1979 Eschborn, FRG 18/21 147 54 55 - 40 - 1 2 (10) October 3/4, 1981 Valencia, ESP 18/23 160 58 59 - 49 - 1 2 (11) September 24/25, 1983 Bergen, NOR 18/21 169 54 53 - 64 - 1 2 (12) September 28/29, 1985 St. John’s (Isle of Man), GBR 18/26 158 63 53 - 48 - 2 2 (13) May 2/3, 1987 New York, USA 36 326 137 136 - 90 - 2 2 (14) May 27/28, 1989 L’Hospitalet, ESP 33 341 130 132 - 106 - 2 2 (15) June 1/2, 1991 San Jose, USA 33 309 128 121 - 91 - 2 2 (16) April 24/25, 1993 Monterrey, MEX 36 304 107 100 - 98 - 2 2 (17) April 29/30, 1995 Beijing, CHN 36 330 124 102 - 104 - 2 2 (18) April 19/20, 1997 Podebrady, CZE 47 365 140 108 - 117 - 2 2 (19) May 1/2, 1999 Mézidon-Canon, FRA 57 372 139 110 - 123 - 2 2 (20) October 12/13, 2002 Turin, ITA 51 298 111 92 - 95 - 2 2 (21) May 1/2, 2004 Naumburg, GER 54 424 116 94 63 98 53 2 2 (22) May 13/14, 2006 La Coruña, ESP 58 393 115 82 60 88 48 2 2 (23) May 10/11, 2008 Cheboksary, RUS 53 430 112 101 63 98 56 2 2 (24) May 15/16 2010 Chihuahua, MEX 42 264 75 58 36 64 31 2 (25) May 12/13 2012 Saransk, RUS 61 456 124 110 67 105 50 NOTES 1. From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds and a final. The first figure given here is number of countries competing in the final. The second is the total number of countries competing that year including at the qualifying contests 2. From 1985, qualifying rounds were eliminated 3. For women, the distance walked was 5Km in 1975, 1979 and 1981. In 1983 this was increased to 10km, then 20Km in 1999 4. Invitation event FIRST SECOND THIRD Men’s 20 Kilometres 1961 Ken Matthews GBR 1:30:55 Lennart Back SWE 1:32:12 George Williams GBR 1:34:02 1963 Ken Matthews GBR 1:30:11 Paul Nihill GBR 1:33:19 Antál Kiss HUN 1:33:38 1965 Dieter Lindner GDR 1:28:10 Antál Kiss HUN 1:29:09 Gerhard Sperling GDR 1:31:30 1967 Mykola Smaga URS 1:28:39 Volodymyr Golubnichniy URS 1:28:58 Ron Laird USA 1:29:13 1970 Hans-Georg Reimann GDR 1:26:55 Volodymyr Golubnichniy URS 1:27:22 Peter Frenkel GDR 1:27:33 1973 Hans-Georg Reimann GDR 1:29:31 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller GDR 1:29:36 Ron Laird USA 1:30:45 1975 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller GDR 1:26:12 Bernhard Kannenberg FRG 1:26:20 Peter Frenkel GDR 1:26:54 1977 Daniel Bautista MEX 1:24:02 Domingo Colín MEX 1:24:31 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller GDR 1:24:51 1979* Daniel Bautista MEX 1:18:49 Boris Yakovlev URS 1:19:46 Mykola Vynnichenko URS 1:20:05 1981 Ernesto Canto MEX 1:23:52 Roland Wieser GDR 1:24:12 Alessandro Pezzatini ITA 1:24:24 1983 Jozef Pribilinec TCH 1:19:30 Ernesto Canto MEX 1:19:41 Anatoliy Solomin URS 1:19:43 1985 José Marín ESP 1:21:42 Maurizio Damilano ITA 1:21:43 Viktor Mostovik URS 1:22:01 1987 Carlos Mercenário MEX 1:19:24 Viktor Mostovik URS 1:19:32 Anatoliy Gorshkov URS 1:20:04 1989 Frants Kostyukevich URS 1:20:21 Mikhail Shchennikov URS 1:20:34 Yevgeniy Misyulya URS 1:20:47 1991 Mikhail Shchennikov URS 1:20:43 Ernesto Canto MEX 1:20:46 Thierry Toutain FRA 1:20:56 1993 Daniel García MEX 1:24:26 Valentí Massana ESP 1:24:32 Alberto Cruz MEX 1:24:37 1995 Li Zewen CHN 1:19:44 Mikhail Shchennikov RUS 1:19:58 Bernardo Segura MEX 1:20:32 1997 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1:18:24 Daniel García MEX 1:18:27 Ilya Markov RUS 1:18:30 1999 Bernardo Segura MEX 1:20:20 Yu Guohui CHN 1:20:21 Vladimir Andreyev RUS 1:20:29 2002 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1:21:26 Vladimir Andreyev RUS 1:21:50 Alejandro López MEX 1:22:01 2004 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1:18:42 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1:19:02 Nathan Deakes AUS 1:19:11 2006 Francisco Javier Fernández ESP 1:18:31 Jefferson Pérez ECU 1:19:08 Han Yucheng CHN 1:19:10 2008 Francisco Javier Fernández ESP 1:18:15 Valeriy Borchin RUS 1:18:21 Eder Sánchez MEX 1:18:34 2010 Wang Hao CHN 1:22:35 Chu Yafei CHN 1:22:46 Andrey Krivov RUS 1:22:54 2012 Wang Zhen CHN 1:19:13 Andrey Krivov RUS 1:19:27 Vladimir Kanaykin RUS 1:19:43 * questonable distance 2 TAICANG 2014 ★ PAST TOP3s FIRST SECOND THIRD Teams (Event specific team standings from 1993 only, for earlier men’s team standings see Lugano Trophy below) 1993 Mexico 265 Italy 244 Spain 240 1995 PR of China 436 Italy 422 Mexico 420 1997 Russia 431 Belarus 413 Mexico 403 1999 Russia 19 Mexico 28 PR of China 29 2002 Russia 24 Belarus 28 Italy 34 2004 PR of China 18 Ecuador 35 Italy 35 2006 Spain 33 Australia 37 Russia 37 2008 Russia 11 Spain 22 Australia 47 2010 PR of China 9 Russia 25 Mexico 41 2012 Russia 10 PR of China 19 Ukraine 22 Men’s 50 Kilometres 1961 Abdon Pamich ITA 4:25:38 Don Thompson GBR 4:30:35 Åke Söderlund SWE 4:36:48 1963 István Havasi HUN 4:14:25 Ray Middleton GBR 4:17:16 Ingvar Pettersson SWE 4:19:11 1965 Christoph Höhne GDR 4:03:14 Burkhard Leuschke GDR 4:06:02 Abdon Pamich ITA 4:06:41 1967 Christoph Höhne GDR 4:09:09 Peter Selzer GDR 4:11:40 Aleksandr Shcherbina URS 4:13:07 1970 Christoph Höhne GDR 4:04:36 Veniamin Soldatenko URS 4:09:52 Burkhard Leuschke GDR 4:11:10 1973 Bernd Kannenberg FRG 3:56:51 Otto Barch URS 3:57:11 Christoph Höhne GDR 3:57:26 1975 Yevgeniy Lyungin URS 4:03:42 Gerhard Weidner FRG 4:09:58 Vladimir Svetnikov URS 4:11:31 1977 Raúl González MEX 4:04:16 Pedro Aroche MEX 4:04:55 Paolo Grecucci ITA 4:06:27 1979 Martín Bermúdez MEX 3:43:36 Enrique Vera MEX 3:43:59 Viktor Dorovskikh URS 3:45:51 1981 Raúl González MEX 3:48:30 Hartwig Gauder GDR 3:52:18 Sandro Bellucci ITA 3:54:57 1983 Raúl González MEX 3:45:37 Sergey Yung URS 3:48:26 Viktor Dorovskikh URS 3:49:47 1985 Hartwig Gauder GDR 3:47:31 Andrey Perlov URS 3:49:23 Axel Noack GDR 3:56:53 1987 Ronald Weigel GDR 3:42:26 Hartwig Gauder GDR 3:42:52 Dietmar Meisch GDR 3:43:14 1989 Simon Baker AUS 3:43:13 Andrey Perlov URS 3:44:12 Stanislav Vezhel URS 3:44:50 1991 Carlos Mercenário MEX 3:42:03 Simon Baker AUS 3:46:36 Ronald Weigel GDR 3:47:50 1993 Carlos Mercenário MEX 3:50:28 Jesús Angel García ESP 3:52:44 German Sanchez MEX 3:54:15 1995 Zhao Yongshen CHN 3:41:20 Jesús Angel García ESP 3:41:54 Valentin Kononen FIN 3:42:50 1997 Jesús Angel García ESP 3:39:54 Oleg Ishutkin RUS 3:40:12 Valentin Kononen FIN 3:41:09 1999 Sergey Korepanov KAZ 3:39:22 Tomasz Lipeic POL 3:40:08 Nikolay Matyukhin RUS 3:40:13 2002 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:40:59 German Skurygin RUS 3:42:08 Tomasz Lipiec POL 3:45:37 2004 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:42:44 Yu Chaohong CHN 3:43:47 Yuriy Andronov RUS 3:46:49 2006 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:38:02 Trond Nymark NOR 3:41:30 Yuriy Andronov RUS 3:42:38 2008 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:34:14 Alex Schwazer ITA 3:37:04 Trond Nymark NOR 3:44:59 2010 Matej Tóth SVK 3:53:30 Horacio Nava MEX 3:54:16 Jared Tallent AUS 3:54:55 2012 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:38:08 Jared Tallent AUS 3:40:32 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:43:05 Teams (Event specific team standings from 1993 only, for earlier men’s team standings see Lugano Trophy below) 1993 Mexico 275 Spain 251 France 245 1995 Mexico 426 Russia 419 Spain 413 1997 Russia 434 Slovak Republic 415 Spain 407 1999 Russia 14 Spain 26 Germany 55 2002 Russia 7 France 59 PR of China 78 2004 Russia 8 PR of China 14 Spain 23 2006 Spain 20 Poland 38 PR of China 39 2008 Italy 28 Mexico 29 Spain 30 2010 PR of China 21 Mexico 22 Russia 38 2012 Russia 22 PR of China 33 Ukraine 37 Junior Men’s 10 Kilometres 2004 Sun Chao CHN 40:38 Eder Sánchez MEX 41:01 Benjamin Sánchez ESP 41:19 2006 Sergey Morozov RUS 40:26 Miguel Angel López ESP 41:41 Aleksey Grigoryev RUS 41:52 2008 Aleksey Bartsaykin RUS 39:57 Cheng Ding CHN 40:12 Denis Strelkov RUS 40:17 2010 Eider Arévalo COL 42:13 Cai Zelin CHN 42:22 Valery Filipchuk RUS 42:58 2012 Eider Arévalo COL 41:17 Alexander Ivanov RUS 41:42 Jesús Tadeo Vega MEX 41:56 Teams 2004 Mexico 9 Russia 11 PR of China 13 2006 Russia 4 Belarus 14 Spain 28 2008 Russia 4 PR of China 7 Spain 10 2010 Russia 7 PR of China 7 Colombia 9 2012 Russia 6 Colombia 10 PR of China 14 Men’s Lugano Trophy (Combining results of 20Km & 50Km) 1961 Great Britain & NI 53 Sweden 53 Italy 28 1963 Great Britain & NI 93 Hungary 64 Sweden 63 1965 GDR 117 Great Britain & NI 87 Hungary 64 1967 GDR 128 USSR 107 Great Britain & NI 104 TAICANG 2014 ★ PAST TOP3s 3 FIRST SECOND THIRD 1970 GDR 134 USSR 125 FRG 88 1973 GDR 139 USSR 134 Italy 104 1975 USSR 117 GDR 105 FRG 102 1977 Mexico 185 GDR 180 Italy 160 1979 Mexico 240 USSR 235 GDR 201 1981 Italy 227 USSR 227 Mexico 221 1983 USSR 231 Italy 189 Mexico 146 1985 GDR 234 USSR 234 Italy 233 1987 USSR 607 Italy 569 GDR 518 1989 USSR 585 Italy 534 France 516 1991 Italy 517 Germany 491 Mexico 487 1993 Mexico 540 Spain 491 Italy 487 1995 Mexico 846 Italy 815 PR of China 805 1997