The 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships () was the 27th edition of the global team racewalking competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was held in Rome, Italy from 7 to 8 May 2016. It was the first edition of the tournament under its new name, having previously been known as the IAAF World Race Walking Cup since 1989.IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 Facts & Figures. IAAF (2016). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.

Overview The programme remained unchanged, with senior men's races over 20 km and 50 km, a 20 km senior women's race, and junior category events for both sexes over 10 km.Competition details – IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-05-07. However, following the approval by the IAAF of the women's 50 km walk as an official event, for the first time women were permitted to enter the 50 km. A separate women's 50 km was not scheduled, but women were allowed to enter the men's event and were treated as equal competitors for team scoring.IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 Team Manual. IAAF (2016). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.

The local organising committee was headed by Alfio Giomi, the head of the Italian Athletics Federation, and included Maurizio Damilano, a former Olympic champion in racewalking. The competition was organised at relatively short notice – Cheboksary was originally chosen as the host city but the suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation for systemic doping issues by the IAAF meant the host bidding was reopened.Rowbottom, Mike (2016-05-06). Rome dedicating switched IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships to dead gold medallist. Inside The Games. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.The Shape of Things to Come. SPIKES magazine (2014-11-20). Retrieved on 2016-05-07. Rome was the clear winner in the bidding process in January 2016, with nine votes compared to Guayaquil and Kyiv's four and two for Monterrey. Rome and Bydgoszcz to host reallocated 2016 IAAF World Athletics Series events. IAAF (2016-01-07). Retrieved on 2016-05-07. It was the fourth time that the competition was held in Italy, with previous editions having visited the country in 1963, 1965 and 2002.

The course was set on the streets of Rome around the Baths of Caracalla. It was a flat looped route, with one loop for the junior races and two for the senior races. The start point was beside the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum and finishing point was the Stadio delle Terme di Caracalla.

Chinese athletes won both the junior races: Ma Zhenxia took the women's title and Zhang Jun the men's.Results 10 Kilometres Race Walk Men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.Results 10 Kilometres Race Walk Men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.

The competition was broadcast on television in the host country by Rai Sport 1 and Rai Sport 2.Mondiali di marcia: Roma 2016 in TV . Roma2016 (2015-05-03). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.

In June 2016, the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, reported that gold medalist in the 50 km men's competition Alex Schwazer had again tested positive to a banned substance. He has since announced at a press conference that he had not taken anabolic steroids, despite his sample from January 1, testing positive on May 12. On 11 August 2016, Schwarzer was stripped of his title and banned for 8 years, due to positive doping test.

Schedule Date Time Round7 May 2016 09:30 10 km junior women 10:35 10 km junior men 16:00 Opening ceremony16:30 20 km women18:15 20 km men8 May 2016 09:00 50 km men

Medal summary

Men

Men's 20 km walk 1:19:22 1:19:34 1:19:36Men's 20 km walk team Wang ZhenCai ZelinWang KaihuaLi TianleiChen Ding 16 Benjamin ThorneIñaki GomezEvan DunfeeMathieu Bilodeau 27 Andrés ChochoMauricio ArteagaBrian PintadoJordy Jiménez 41Junior men's 10 km walk 40:23 40:27 40:29Junior men's 10 km walk team Noel Alí ChamaAndrés Olivas 8 pts César RodríguezLenyn Mamani 13 pts Masatora KawanoRyutaro YamamotoMasaya Ishikawa 17 pts

Women Women's 20 km walk 1:26:17 1:26:49 1:27:18Women's 20 km walk team Liu HongQieyang ShenjieLü XiuzhiYang JiayuNie Jingjing 10 Regan LambleBeki SmithTanya HollidayRachel TallentStephanie Stigwood 43 Sandra ArenasSandra GalvisYeseida CarrilloArabelly Orjuela 61Junior women's 10 km walk 45:25 45:25 45:28Junior women's 10 km walk team Ma ZhenxiaMa LiZhang Lifang 3 pts Valeria OrtuñoVivian CastilloIliana García 9 pts Clara SmithTayla Paige BillingtonZoe Hunt 21 pts

Open

Open 50 km walk 3:42:36 3:44:02 3:44:47Open 50 km walk team Alex SchwazerMarco De LucaTeodorico CaporasoMatteo GiupponiFederico Tontodonati 14 Ihor HlavanIvan BanzerukSerhiy BudzaMarian ZakalnytstyiAndriy Hrechovskyi 25 José Ignacio DíazFrancisco ArcillaMikel OdriozolaPablo Oliva 30

Results Men's 20 km Men's 20 km results Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Penalties Wang Zhen 1:19:22 Cai Zelin 1:19:34 SB Álvaro Martín 1:19:36 PB Dane Bird-Smith 1:19:38 PB Benjamin Thorne 1:19:55 PB ~ Andrés Chocho 1:20:07 PB ~~ Iñaki Gómez 1:20:12 Caio Bonfim 1:20:20 PB Ruslan Dmytrenko 1:20:33 SB 10 Christopher Linke 1:20:40 11 Mauricio Arteaga 1:21:08 PB 12 Eiki Takahashi 1:21:12 ~ 13 Wang Kaihua 1:21:12 14 Nazar Kovalenko 1:21:21 SB ~ 15 Carl Dohmann 1:21:26 PB ~~ 16 Evan Dunfee 1:21:26 17 Alexandros Papamichail 1:21:33 SB 18 Iván Garrido 1:21:35 PB 19 Diego García 1:21:36 PB 20 Hagen Pohle 1:21:39 21 Yerko Araya 1:21:39 ~ 22 Ganapathi Krishnan 1:21:41 PB 23 Dzianis Simanovich 1:21:48 SB ~~ 24 Brian Pintado 1:21:49 PB 25 Paolo Yurivilca 1:21:49 NR ~ 26 Quentin Rew 1:21:54 NR 27 Gurmeet Singh 1:22:04 ~ 28 Richard Vargas 1:22:10 NR 29 Takumi Saito 1:22:26 30 João Vieira 1:22:39 SB 31 Manish Singh 1:22:41 32 Ivan Losyev 1:22:43 SB 33 Miguel Ángel López 1:22:46 SB 34 Tom Bosworth 1:22:55 35 Dawid Tomala 1:23:07 ~ 36 Rafał Augustyn 1:23:09 SB >> 37 Håvard Haukenes 1:23:15 PB 38 Anton Kučmín 1:23:17 39 Rhydian Cowley 1:23:21 > 40 Dzmitry Dziubin 1:23:32 41 Satoshi Maruo 1:23:38 42 Sandeep Kumar 1:23:51 43 Kim Hyun-sub 1:23:51 SB 44 Georgiy Sheiko 1:23:51 ~ 45 Aliaksandr Liakhovich 1:23:59 46 Jarkko Kinnunen 1:24:00 ~> 47 Moacir Zimmermann 1:24:02 48 Francesco Fortunato 1:24:19 49 Choe Byeong-kwang 1:24:20 50 Aurélien Quinion 1:24:27 PB 51 Alberto Amezcua 1:24:28 52 Vito Minei 1:24:42 PB 53 Jakub Jelonek 1:24:44 54 Mert Atlı 1:24:45 55 Alex Wright 1:24:46 SB 56 Benjamin Sánchez 1:24:50 SB 57 Lebogang Shange 1:24:53 58 Aleksi Ojala 1:24:59 PB > 59 Jean Blancheteau 1:25:08 SB 60 Michele Antonelli 1:25:11 61 Nils Brembach 1:25:20 ~ 62 Pavel Chihuán 1:25:24 SB 63 Brendan Boyce 1:25:38 SB 64 Jhon Castañeda 1:25:46 SB ~ 65 Marius Šavelskis 1:26:02 66 Ersin Tacir 1:26:14 67 Leonardo Dei Tos 1:26:38 68 Robert Heffernan 1:26:48 > 69 Isamu Fujisawa 1:26:54 70 Wayne Snyman 1:27:15 71 Cian McManamon 1:27:26 PB 72 Kenny Martín Pérez 1:27:39 SB 73 Yassir Cabrera 1:27:46 PB ~ 74 Miguel Carvalho 1:28:03 75 Li Tianlei 1:28:21 76 Park Chil-sung 1:28:32 SB 77 Dušan Majdán 1:28:42 78 Marco Antonio Rodríguez 1:28:44 79 Rafał Fedaczyński 1:28:56 80 Jordy Jiménez 1:29:17 81 Luis Colón 1:29:25 SB ~ 82 Rudney Nogueira 1:29:30 SB 83 Andriy Kovenko 1:29:32 ~ 84 Kostyantyn Puzanov 1:29:50 > 85 Predrag Filipović 1:29:53 86 Emmanuel Corvera 1:29:56 ~~ 87 Şahin Şenoduncu 1:30:46 88 Adrian Ionuţ Dragomir 1:31:03 SB > 89 Mathieu Bilodeau 1:31:13 SB 90 Anthony Peters 1:31:19 PB 91 Yauhen Zaleski 1:31:31 ~~ 92 Fabián Bernabé 1:32:10 SB 93 Miroslav Úradník 1:32:23 94 Brendon Reading 1:32:32 95 Nathan Brill 1:32:48 96 Joo Hyeon-myeong 1:33:35 PB 97 Matthew Forgues 1:35:42 PB 98 Sizwe Ndebele 1:36:12 99 Josè Romero 1:36:59 SB 100 Deiby Cordero 1:37:06 101 Lauri Lelumees 1:44:12 SB >> 102 Matthew Dewitt 1:46:59 > Éider Arévalo Ebrahim Rahimian Peter Van Hove *Beyond time limit Serkan Doğan Michal Morvay > José Alessandro Bagio Chen Ding Kai Kobayashi Luís Alfonso López José Leonardo Montaña Veli-Matti Partanen John Cody Risch > Giorgio Rubino ~ Sérgio Vieira Singh Devender ~~~ Dominic King ~>> Hamid Reza Zooravand ~>> Raouf Ben Behi >>> Lukáš Gdula >>> Matias Korpela >>> Mohammed Abusweilem Michael Hosking

Team (Men 20 km) Men's 20 km team results Rank Team Points 1 16 2 28 3 41 4 45 5 55 6 55 7 80 8 82 9 108 10 124 11 137 12 137 13 154 14 160 15 168 16 186 17 201 18 207 19 208 20 225 21 273

Men's 10 km (Junior) Men's 10 km junior results Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Penalties Zhang Jun 40:23 Manuel Bermúdez 40:27 PB Noel Alí Chama 40:29 PB ~ Callum Wilkinson 40:29 NU20R ~~ Andrés Olivas 40:43 PB ~ César Rodríguez 41:08 SB ~ Lenyn Mamani 41:16 PB Masatora Kawano 41:22 ~ Ryutaro Yamamoto 41:37 10 Cristian Merchán 41:48 PB ~ 11 Salih Korkmaz 41:53 PB 12 Dominik Černý 42:07 PB 13 Leo Köpp 42:14 PB 14 Adam Garganis 42:24 PB 15 César Herrera 42:44 SB 16 Hu Linfeng 42:50 SB 17 Gabriel Bordier 42:50 18 Jhonatan Amores 42:51 PB 19 Guy Thomas 42:55 PB >> 20 Eduard Zabuzhenko 42:58 PB > 21 Daniel Chamosa 43:00 22 Giacomo Brandi 43:06 23 Mikita Kaliada 43:07 24 Sebastián Merchán 43:09 PB 25 Iván López 43:20 PB 26 Cameron Corbishley 43:27 ~ 27 Masaya Ishikawa 43:32 28 Ruslan Udodau 43:39 ~ 29 David Kuster 43:42 PB 30 Oleksandr Zholob 43:56 SB 31 Thibaut Hypolite 44:05 SB ~~ 32 Kyle Swan 44:07 33 Łukasz Niedziałek 44:12 ~ 34 Zenamarkos Asmare 44:47 NU20R > 35 Dzmitry Lukyanchuk 44:49 36 Vít Hlaváč 44:52 37 Matheus Correa 45:02 38 Volodymyr Mytsyk 45:15 PB > 39 Arkadiusz Drozdowicz 45:36 40 Tyler Jones 45:40 > 41 Cameron Haught 45:42 PB 42 Zamanbek Bababek 46:02 43 Soma Kovács 46:18 > 44 Nicolò Coppini 46:40 45 Jovan Delčev 46:54 >> 46 Juan Manuel Calderon 46:54 NU20R 47 Alessandro Rigamonti 46:59 >>> 48 Mustafa Özbek 47:14 49 Alexander Bellavance 47:38 PB 50 Ruslan Sergatsjov 48:00 PB > 51 Jamie Shaw 48:15 52 Nathan Bonzon 48:38 >> 53 Anthony Gruttadauro 48:40 54 Anže Tesovnik 50:23 Pablo Rodríguez Donát Burger >>>> Jin Xiangqian ~~~~

Team (Men 10 km junior) Men's 10 km junior team results Rank Team Points 1 8 2 13 3 17 4 17 5 23 6 23 7 25 8 46 9 46 10 50 11 51 12 59 13 66 14 72 15 90

Women's 20 km Women's 20 km results