Women · Race Walking · All-Time
20 km Race Walk
1:23:39
Best mark
World record
1:26:06
Top 25 cutoff
21 rows
1:25:12
Median
Of the 21 best-by-athlete marks
5
Countries
RUS 13 · CHN 5 · 3 others
Performance distribution
21 athletes from 1:23:39 to 1:26:06 · median 1:25:12
Top 25 cutoff through history
How fast an athlete needed to be to make the list each year
Season lists are not yet published for this event. This chart fills in as they are imported from a permitted source.
World all-time top 25
Best by athlete · updated 1 Sep 2026 · Wikipedia (English) revision of 13 Jun 2026 · methodology
21 rows
| # | Athlete | Country | Mark | Date | Venue | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yelena Lashmanova WR | RUS | 1:23:39 | 9 Jun 2018 | Cheboksary | 26 |
| 2 | Yang Jiayu | CHN | 1:23:49 | 20 Mar 2021 | Huangshan | 25 |
| 3 | Hong Liu | CHN | 1:24:27 | 20 Mar 2021 | Huangshan | 33 |
| 4 | Shijie Qieyang | CHN | 1:24:45 | 20 Mar 2021 | Huangshan | 30 |
| 5 | Elmira Alembekova | RUS | 1:24:47 | 27 Feb 2015 | Sochi | 24 |
| 6 | Olimpiada Ivanova | RUS | 1:24:50 | 4 Mar 2001 | Adler, Sochi | 30 |
| 7 | Olga Kaniskina | RUS | 1:24:56 | 28 Feb 2009 | Adler, Sochi | 24 |
| 9 | Svetlana Vasilyeva | RUS | 1:25:04 | 27 Feb 2015 | Sochi | 22 |
| 10 | Vera Sokolova | RUS | 1:25:08 | 26 Feb 2011 | Sochi | 23 |
| 11 | Anisiya Kornikova-Kirdyapkina | RUS | 1:25:11 | 20 Feb 2010 | Sochi | 20 |
| 12 | Xiuzhi Lyu | CHN | 1:25:12 | 20 Mar 2015 | Beijing | 21 |
| 13 | Tatyana Gudkova | RUS | 1:25:18 | 19 May 2000 | Moscow | 22 |
| 14 | Olga Polyakova | RUS | 1:25:20 | 19 May 2000 | Moscow | 21 |
| 16 | Irina Stankina | RUS | 1:25:29 | 19 May 2000 | Moscow | 23 |
| 16 | Glenda Morejón | ECU | 1:25:29 | 8 Jun 2019 | La Coruna | 19 |
| 18 | María Pérez | ESP | 1:25:30 | 26 Mar 2023 | Córdoba | 26 |
| 19 | Yelena Shumkina | RUS | 1:25:32 | 28 Feb 2009 | Adler, Sochi | 21 |
| 20 | Tatyana Shemyakina | RUS | 1:25:46 | 23 Feb 2008 | Adler, Sochi | 20 |
| 21 | Tatyana Sibileva | RUS | 1:25:52 | 20 Feb 2010 | Sochi | 29 |
| 23 | Liujing Yang | CHN | 1:25:59 | 20 Mar 2021 | Huangshan | 22 |
| 25 | Alegna González | MEX | 1:26:06 | 20 Sep 2025 | Tokyo | 26 |