| Event: | Women's 20 kilometres walk |
| Competition: | 2023 World Championships |
| Venue: | National Athletics Centre |
| Dates: | 20 August |
| Competitors: | 48 |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Win Value: | 1:26:51 |
| Goldnoc: | ESP |
| Silver: | Jemima Montag |
| Silvernoc: | AUS |
| Bronze: | Antonella Palmisano |
| Bronzenoc: | ITA |
| Prev: | 2022 |
| Next: | 2025 |
The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held on National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 20 August 2023. 48 athletes from 23 nations entered to the event.[1]
The cream rose to the top quickly as a group of about a dozen separated, led by world record holder Jiayu Yang. Defending champion Kimberly García took the point after the first lap and held the lead of the tight group through the halfway point as the lead pack whittled down to seven. After falling early in the race, Antonella Palmisano edged ahead to carry the lead to 15k. While most of the 1 kilometer laps had been in the 4:20's, on the 16th lap María Pérez dropped a monster 4:06 lap. Only Jemima Montag was able to produce any answer with a 4:10, which separated her from the rest of the pack but still 4 seconds down to Perez, who continued with a 4:09, 4:05 and 4:06 to leave no doubt about winning, ultimately 25 seconds ahead of Montag. Palmisano was able to get a slight edge on Alegna González and Glenda Morejón then had to hold off a 4:08 final lap by García León to take bronze.
Before the competition records were as follows:[2]
| Record | Athlete & | Location | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | 1:23:49 | Huangshan, China | 20 March 2021 | ||
| Championship record | 1:25:41 | Helsinki, Finland | 7 August 2005 | ||
| World Leading | 1:25:30 | Córdoba, Spain | 26 March 2023 | ||
| African Record | 1:30:40 | Nairobi, Kenya | 6 June 2018 | ||
| Asian Record | 1:23:49 | Huangshan, China | 20 March 2021 | ||
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 1:26:17 | Rome, Italy | 7 May 2016 | ||
| South American Record | 1:25:29 | La Coruña, Spain | 8 June 2019 | ||
| European Record | 1:25:08 | Sochi, Russia | 26 February 2011 | ||
| Oceanian record | 1:27:27 | Adelaide, Australia | 13 February 2022 |
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:29:20.[3]
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:
The race was started at 07:15. The results were as follows:[4] [5]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Warnings | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| María Pérez | 1:26:51 | ||||||||
| 1:27:16 | ~ | ||||||||
| 1:27:26 | |||||||||
| 4 | 1:27:32 | ||||||||
| 5 | 1:27:36 | ~ | |||||||
| 6 | 1:27:40 | ~~ | |||||||
| 7 | 1:28:30 | ~ | |||||||
| 8 | 1:28:36 | ~ | |||||||
| 9 | 1:28:49 | >~ | |||||||
| 10 | 1:28:50 | ~ | |||||||
| 11 | 1:29:36 | ~ | |||||||
| 12 | 1:29:40 | ||||||||
| 13 | 1:29:53 | > | |||||||
| 14 | 1:30:10 | ||||||||
| 15 | 1:30:19 | ||||||||
| 16 | 1:30:43 | ~ | |||||||
| 17 | Liu Hong | 1:30:43 | |||||||
| 18 | 1:31:20 | ||||||||
| 19 | 1:31:44 | > | |||||||
| 20 | 1:31:45 | ~~~ |||-| 21 || align=left| || align=left| || 1:32:18 || ~ |||-| 22 || align=left|Valentina Trapletti || align=left| || 1:32:57 || |||-| 23 || align=left|Vitória Oliveira || align=left| || 1:33:04 || > || |-| 24 || align=left|Rachelle de Orbeta || align=left| || 1:33:19 || ~ |||-| 25 || align=left|Johana Ordonez || align=left| || 1:33:58 || || |-| 26 || align=left|Gabriela de Sousa || align=left| || 1:33:59 || |||-| 27 || align=left| || align=left| || 1:34:02 || ~~ |||-| 28 || align=left| || align=left| || 1:34:20 || ~~ |||-| 29 || align=left|Saskia Feige || align=left| || 1:34:49 || |||-| 30 || align=left|Ayane Yanai || align=left| || 1:34:59 || |||-| 31 || align=left|Mary Luz Andia || align=left| || 1:35:38 || ~~ || |-| 32 || align=left|Rebecca Henderson || align=left| || 1:35:51 || ~ |||-| 33 || align=left|Barbara Olah || align=left| || 1:35:55 || |||-| 34 || align=left|Viktória Madarasz || align=left| || 1:36:13 || |||-| 35 || align=left|Yukiko Umeno || align=left| || 1:36:52 || |||-| 36 || align=left|Sofia Ramos Rodriguez || align=left| || 1:37:49 ||~ |||-| 37 || align=left|Kiriaki Filtisakou || align=left| || 1:37:51 || |||-| 38 || align=left|Paula Milena Torres || align=left| || 1:38:03|| |||-| 39 || align=left|Ángela Castro || align=left| || 1:40:01 || |||-| 40 || align=left|Valeria Ortuño || align=left| || 1:40:53 || |||-| || align=left|Sandra Arenas || align=left| || || ~~~ | |||||||
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~>~~|| |-| || align=left|Christina Papadopoulou || align=left| || || || |}
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