World Athletics Race Walking Tour

The World Athletics Race Walking Tour (formerly IAAF Race Walking Challenge and World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking) is a racewalking series organised by World Athletics. Athletes accumulate points in specific race walk meetings during the season. Performances in 10 kilometres race walk, 20 kilometres race walk and 50 kilometres race walk count towards athlete's final scores. Since 2011, racewalking performances at the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games count towards the series. Women have competed in the 50 km distance since 2018.2015 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2015-05-02.

The series started as a global tour of elite-level, independently-held racewalking meetings. From 2007 to 2012, the series culminated in the IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final. The inclusion of the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in 2008 marked a move to incorporate international championships into the series. The World Cup returned to the tour in 2010, which was also the first time that the Australian Race Walking Championships was added to the calendar. The 2011 World Championships in Athletics was the first time that performances at a major global athletics championship were included in the series, and this was followed by 2012 Summer Olympics a year later. The series was remodelled in 2013, as the Challenge Final was abolished and instead all the global and continental racewalking competitions were included: the Oceania Race Walking Championships, the Asian Race Walking Championships, the European Race Walking Cup, the African Race Walking Championships, South American Race Walking Championships and the Pan American Race Walking Cup. The 2014 series included the African Championships in Athletics and European Athletics Championships for the first time.

The highest points score achieved in a single series before 2019 is 48, which was achieved by Norway's Kjersti Plätzer in 2009 for women and China's Wang Zhen in 2012 for men. After two seasons when the competition did not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the points system was overhauled.

Chinese female walkers Liu Hong and Qieyang Shijie are the most successful athletes of the series, both having won the series on three occasions and being runners-up on one. Australian Jared Tallent and Brazilian Caio Bonfim are the most successful man, with two men's titles and runner-up on two occasions each. Editions

+World Athletics Race Walking Tour editions Year Start date End date Meets 1 2003 4 2003 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-19. 2 2004 5 2004 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 3 2005 5 2005 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 4 2006 4 2006 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 5 2007 7 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 6 2008 8 2008 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 7 2009 10 2009 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 8 2010 11 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 9 2011 10 2011 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 10 2012 12 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 11 2013 14 2013 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 12 2014 12 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 13 2015 10 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 14 2016 11 2016 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 15 2017 10 2017 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 16 2018 10 2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 17 2019 12 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19. 18 2021 1 19 2022 24 20 2023 21 21 2024 18

Meetings

+World Athletics Race Walking Tour meetings # Meeting City Country 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 1Grand Prix Internacional de Marcha TijuanaTijuanaMexico X X X 2Grande Prémio Internacional de Rio Maior em Marcha AtléticaRio MaiorPortugal X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 3Gran Premio Cantones de La CoruñaA CoruñaSpain X X X † X X X X ‡ X X X X X X X X 4Coppa Città di Sesto San GiovanniSesto San GiovanniItaly X X X X X X X X X X X 5Kunshan IAAF Race Walking ChallengeKunshanChina X 6Cixi IAAF Race Walking ChallengeCixiChina X 7Yangzhou IAAF Race Walking ChallengeYangzhouChina X 8Tlalnepantla de Baz IAAF Race Walking ChallengeTlalnepantla de BazMexico X 9Naucalpan IAAF Race Walking ChallengeNaucalpanMexico X 10Shenzhen IAAF Race Walking ChallengeShenzhenChina X 11Na Rynek Marsz!KrakówPoland X X X X 12IAAF Race Walking Challenge FinalVariousVarious X X X X X X 13Circuito Internacional de Marcha ChihuahuaChihuahua CityMexico X X † X X X X X X X 14Beijing IAAF Race Walking ChallengeBeijingChina X ‡ 15IAAF World Race Walking Team ChampionshipsVariousVarious X X X X X X 16Memorial Mario AlbisettiLuganoSwitzerland X X X X X X 17Marxa Santa EulaliaSanta Eulària des RiuSpain X 18Wuxi IAAF Race Walking ChallengeWuxiChina X 19Dublin Grand Prix of Race WalkingDublinIreland X X X 20Australian Race Walking Championships/Oceania Race Walking ChampionshipsVariousAustralia X X X X X X X X X X 21Meeting de Marcha Atlética da Cidade de OlhãoOlhãoPortugal X 22Dudinská PäťdesiatkaDudinceSlovakia X X X X X X 23Alytus Race Walking festivalAlytusLithuania X X †† 24Taicang IAAF Race Walking ChallengeTaicangChina X X X † X X X † X 25World ChampionshipsVariousVarious X X X X X 26Olympic GamesVariousVarious X X 27Asian Race Walking ChampionshipsNomiJapan X X X X X X X 28Poděbrady Race WalkingPoděbradyCzech Republic X X 29African Race Walking ChampionshipsBelle Vue HarelMauritius X 30European Race Walking CupVariousVarious X X X X 31Pan American Race Walking CupVariousVarious X X X X 32South American Race Walking ChampionshipsVariousVarious X X X 33African Championships in AthleticsVariousVarious X X X 34European Athletics ChampionshipsVariousVarious X X 35Memorial Jerzy HausleberMonterreyMexico X X 36Around Taihu International Race WalkingSuzhouChina X X The IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was known as the IAAF World Race Walking Cup until 2016 † = Meeting hosted IAAF World Cup/Team Championships ‡ = Meeting hosted Challenge Final †† = Meeting hosted the European Race Walking Cup The 2016 and 2017 Chihuahua meeting was held in Ciudad Juárez The 2019 series featured three Oceania championship events: the 50 km, the 20 km and the 10,000 m walks

Results Men

2003 ()Robert Korzeniowski 33Paquillo Fernández 28Aigars Fadejevs 272004 ()Robert Korzeniowski 28Jefferson Pérez 27Ivano Brugnetti 232005 ()Paquillo Fernández 30Nathan Deakes 29Juan Manuel Molina 192006 ()Paquillo Fernández 28Ilya Markov 28Hatem Ghoula 202007 ()Luke Adams 36Erik Tysse 33Paquillo Fernández322008 ()Jared Tallent46Jefferson Pérez40Eder Sánchez382009 ()Plätzer and Sanchez receive US$30,000 each – IAAF Race Walking Challenge 2009. IAAF (2009-09-22). Retrieved on 2009-10-01.Eder Sánchez44Hao Wang42Luke Adams222010 ()Chu Yafei40Matej Tóth30Wang Hao282011 ()Valeriy Borchin44Wang Zhen30Chu Yafei172012 ()Wang Zhen48Jared Tallent40Chen Ding382013 ()Jared Tallent34Joao Vieira28Matej Tóth262014 ()Ruslan Dmytrenko29Jared Tallent23Caio Bonfim182015 ()Matej Tóth29Miguel Ángel López25Chen Ding242016 ()Wang Zhen36Jared Tallent27Andrés Chocho262017 ()Éider Arévalo36Caio BonfimAndrés Chocho25Not awarded2018 ()Diego GarcíaLebogang Shange27Not awardedAndrés Chocho252019 ()Perseus Karlström32Toshikazu Yamanishi30Diego García262022 ()Perseus Karlström3969Caio Bonfim3920Brian Pintado38872023 ()Caio Bonfim4075Perseus Karlström4032Brian Pintado40082024 ()Caio Bonfim4072Brian Pintado4068Álvaro Martín4035

Women

2003 ()Gillian O'Sullivan 29Kjersti Plätzer 24Elisabetta Perrone 222004 ()Elisa Rigaudo 30Claudia Ștef 26María Vasco 242005 ()Ryta Turava 29Susana Feitor 24Claudia Ștef 222006 ()Claudia Ștef 28Ryta Turava 20Jane Saville 182007 ()Ryta Turava40Kjersti Plätzer37Sabine Zimmer 272008 ()Kjersti Plätzer44Athanasia Tsoumeleka38Claudia Ștef262009 ()Kjersti Plätzer48Olive Loughnane26Elisa Rigaudo282010 ()Vera Santos40Melanie Seeger30Inês Henriques252011 ()Olga Kaniskina44Liu Hong34Melanie Seeger102012 ()Liu Hong36Beatriz Pascual32Lü Xiuzhi302013 ()Elena Lashmanova38Inês Henriques34Ana Cabecinha232014 ()Liu Hong34Eleonora Giorgi23Ana Cabecinha222015 ()Liu Hong40Eleonora Giorgi27Érica de Sena252016 ()Maria Guadalupe GonzálezQieyang Shijie34Not awardedEleonora Giorgi322017 ()Érica de Sena34Maria Guadalupe González28Inês Henriques242018 ()Qieyang Shijie34Érica de Sena23Inês Henriques222019 ()Qieyang Shijie34Liu Hong32Érica de Sena222022 ()Kimberly García4040Qieyang Shijie3999Jemima Montag38642023 ()Kimberly García4092Alegna González3881Jemima Montag38642024 ()Yang Jiayu3998Jemima Montag3938Kimberly García3901

See also World Athletics Combined Events Tour IAAF World Cross Challenge

References

External links

Results 1961–2006 at gbrathletics.com 2008 Rules (PDF)