| Event: | Women's 20 kilometres walk |
| Games: | 2020 Summer |
| Venue: | Sapporo |
| Date: | 6 August 2021 |
| Competitors: | 58 |
| Nations: | 30 |
| Win Value: | 1:29.12 |
| Gold: | Antonella Palmisano |
| Goldnoc: | ITA |
| Silver: | Sandra Arenas |
| Silvernoc: | COL |
| Bronze: | Liu Hong |
| Bronzenoc: | CHN |
| Prev: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2024 |
The women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2021 in Sapporo.[1] Approximately 60 athletes has qualified; the exact number depended on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the number qualifying through time (one universality place was used in 2016).[2] The actual number of participants was 58 walkers, and the winner was Antonella Palmisano of Italy.
This was the 6th appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since 2000.
See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the women's 20 kilometres walk if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard was 1:31:00. This standard was "set for the sole purpose of qualifying athletes with exceptional performances unable to qualify through the IAAF World Rankings pathway." The world rankings, based on the average of the best five results for the athlete over the qualifying period and weighted by the importance of the meet, was then used to qualify athletes until the cap of 60 is reached.[2] [3]
The qualifying period was originally from 1 January 2019 to 31 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period was suspended from 6 April 2020 to 30 November 2020, with the end date extended to 29 June 2021. The most recent Area Championships was available to be counted in the ranking, even if not during the qualifying period.[2] [4] In July 2020, World Athletics announced that the suspension period would be lifted for the road events (marathons and race walks) on 1 September 2020.[5]
NOCs were able to use also their universality place—each NOC can enter one female athlete regardless of time if they had no female athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the 20 kilometres walk.[2]
The event consists of a single race.[7]
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.
| Area | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:30:43 | ||||
| 1:23:49 | ||||
| 1:25:02 | ||||
| 1:26:17 | ||||
| 1:27:44 | ||||
| 1:25:29 |
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
The women's 20 kilometres walk took place on a single day.[1]
| Key: | ~ | Loss of contact | > | Bent knee | TR 54.7.5 | Disqualified by Rule TR 54.7.5 |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Time behind | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonella Palmisano | 1:29:12 | +0.00 | ||||
| Sandra Arenas | 1:29:37 | +0:25 | ~~ | |||
| Liu Hong | 1:29:57 | +0:45 | ~~ | |||
| 4 | María Pérez | 1:30:05 | +0:53 | |||
| 5 | Alegna González | 1:30:33 | +1:21 | |||
| 6 | 1:30:39 | +1:27 | ~ | |||
| 7 | Qieyang Shijie | 1:31:04 | +1:52 | |||
| 8 | Antigoni Drisbioti | 1:31:24 | +2:12 | |||
| 9 | Paola Pérez | 1:31:26 | +2:14 | ~~ | ||
| 10 | Katarzyna Zdziebło | 1:31:29 | +2:17 | |||
| 11 | Érica de Sena | 1:31:39 | +2:27 | ~~ ~ | ||
| 12 | Yang Jiayu | 1:31:54 | +2:42 | ~~ ~ | ||
| 13 | Nanako Fujii | 1:31:55 | +2:43 | |||
| 14 | Raquel González | 1:31:57 | +2:45 | ~ | ||
| 15 | Kumiko Okada | 1:31:57 | +2:45 | |||
| 16 | Elvira Khasanova | 1:31:58 | +2:46 | ~~ | ||
| 17 | Priyanka Goswami | 1:32:36 | +3:24 | ~ | ||
| 18 | Valentina Trapletti | 1:33:12 | +4:00 | |||
| 19 | Mariia Sakharuk | 1:34:04 | +4:52 | |||
| 20 | Ana Cabecinha | 1:34:08 | +4:56 | |||
| 21 | Noelia Vargas | 1:35:07 | +5:55 | |||
| 22 | Meryem Bekmez | 1:35:08 | +5:56 | |||
| 23 | Anastasiya Rarovskaya | 1:35:09 | +5:57 | ~ | ||
| 24 | Mary Luz Andía | 1:35:25 | +6:13 | |||
| 25 | Sandra Galvis | 1:35:36 | +6:24 | ~~ | ||
| 26 | Brigita Virbalytė | 1:35:56 | +6:44 | |||
| 27 | Hanna Shevchuk | 1:36:27 | +7:15 | ~~ | ||
| 28 | Karla Jaramillo | 1:36:32 | +7:20 | ~ | ||
| 29 | Kiriaki Filtisakou | 1:36:51 | +7:39 | |||
| 30 | Tereza Ďurdiaková | 1:36:58 | +7:46 | |||
| 31 | Anna Terlyukevich | 1:37:22 | +8:10 | ~ | ||
| 32 | Bhawna Jat | 1:37:38 | +8:26 | ~ | ||
| 33 | Robyn Stevens | 1:37:42 | +8:30 | >~ | ||
| 34 | Laura García-Caro | 1:37:48 | +8:36 | ~~ ~ | ||
| 35 | Ching Siu Nga | 1:37:53 | +8:41 | > | ||
| 36 | Leyde Guerra | 1:38:10 | +8:58 | ~~ | ||
| 37 | Katie Hayward | 1:38:11 | +8:59 | ~~ | ||
| 38 | Rebecca Henderson | 1:38:21 | +9:09 | ~ | ||
| 39 | Ayşe Tekdal | 1:38:40 | +9:28 | |||
| 40 | Kaori Kawazoe | 1:39:31 | +10:19 | |||
| 41 | Evin Demir | 1:39:55 | +10:43 | |||
| 42 | Ayman Ratova | 1:40:02 | +10:50 | |||
| 43 | Lyudmyla Olyanovska | 1:40:20 | +11:08 | |||
| 44 | Mirna Ortiz | 1:40:23 | +11:11 | |||
| 45 | Mária Czaková | 1:41:29 | +12:17 | >~ | ||
| 46 | Barbara Kovács | 1:41:49 | +12:37 | |||
| 47 | Valeria Ortuño | 1:41:50 | +12:38 | ~~ | ||
| 48 | Ángela Castro | 1:42:25 | +13:13 | |||
| 49 | Viktoryia Rashchupkina | 1:43:33 | +14:21 | |||
| 50 | Mayra Herrera | 1:44:30 | +15:18 | ~~ ~ | ||
| 51 | Ilse Guerrero | 1:45:47 | +16:35 | |||
| 52 | Eleonora Giorgi | 1:46:36 | +17:24 | ~> | ||
| 53 | Panayiota Tsinopoulou | 1:47:19 | +18:07 | > | ||
| Kimberly García | ~ | |||||
| Viktória Madarász | ||||||
| Saskia Feige | ||||||
| Glenda Morejón | ||||||
| Yehualeye Beletew |