| 10km Walk |
First official world record:
47:58.2 Ann Jansson SWE 1981
First under 45 min: 44:32.50 Yelena Kuznetsova URS 1986
First under 43 min: 42:39.2 Ileana Salvador ITA 1989
First under 42 min: 41:56.23 Nadezhda Ryashkina URS 1990Current world record: 41:56.23 Nadezhda Ryashkina 1990
Current world best (road): 41:04 Yelena Nikolayeva RUS 1996 |
| 20km Road Walk |
| First under 1:30: 1:29:40 Kerry
Saxby-Junna AUS 1988 Current world best: 1:25:18
Tatyana Gudkova RUS 2000 |
| Superlatives 10km
|
Most Olympic titles: 1 by Chen
Yueling CHN 1992 & Yelena Nikolayeva 1996
Most World titles: 1 by 5 women; gold/bronze by Sari Essayah FIN 1993/1991Youngest Olympic/World champion: Irina Stankina RUS (18)
Oldest: Yelena Nikolayeva 1996 (30) - Women |
| Superlatives 20km
Road Walk |
| Inaugural world champion: Liu
Hongyu CHN 1999 |
| Two all-time greats |
Kerry Saxby-Junna (AUS): A prolific world record breaker between 1988 and 1996
and winner of the world indoor 3000m title in 1989, she successfully moved up to 20km with
a bronze medal in the 1999 World Championships at the age of 38. |
| Yelena Nikolayeva (URS):
Second in the 1992 Olympics and winner four years later, Nikolayeva set a world best of
41:04 for 10k on the road in 1996. |
