Athletics at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's 20 kilometres walk explained

Event:	Women's 20 kilometres walk
Games:	2023
Venue:	Streets of Santiago
Dates:	October 29
Competitors:	15
Nations:	9
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Kimberly García
Goldnoc:	PER
Silver:	Glenda Morejón
Silvernoc:	ECU
Bronze:	Evelyn Inga
Bronzenoc:	PER
Prev:	2019

The women's 20 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 2023 Pan American Games was held on October 29 on the streets of Santiago, Chile.^[1] The times of the event was annulled after the course was found to be about 3 km short.^[2] Peru's Kimberly García won the gold medal, but due to the error with the course, no athletes received any ranking points towards qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

KEY:

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

DQ

Disqualified

DNF

Did not finished

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
			Void	All times were annulled due to the course being incorrectly measured.^[5]
			Void
			Void
			Void
			Void
			Void
			Void
			Void
			Void
10			Void
11			Void
12			Void
13			Void
14			Void
15			DNF

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sport Calendar Pan American Games. 29 July 2022. www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 29 October 2023.
2. Web site: Women's 20km race walk world record annulled after course found to be about 3km short. 30 October 2023. BBC Sport. 30 October 2023.
3. Web site: Garcia golden after Pan Am Games race walk comes up short. 30 October 2023. Reuters. 30 October 2023.
4. Web site: Women's 20 km race walk results. 29 October 2023.
5. Web site: Peruvian racewalker Kimberly García has world record taken away after course was measured incorrectly. 30 October 2023. CNN. 30 October 2023.