2018 European Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in Berlin on 11 August.

Records Standing records prior to the 2018 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record1:24:38A Coruña, Spain6 June 2015European record1:23:39Cheboksary, Russia9 June 2018Championship record1:26:42Munich, Germany7 August 2002World Leading1:23:39Cheboksary, Russia9 June 2018European Leading1:23:39Cheboksary, Russia9 June 2018Broken records during the 2018 European Athletics ChampionshipsChampionship record 1:26:36Berlin, Germany11 August 2018

Schedule Date Time Round11 August 2018 10:55 Final

Results Final Although in April 2018, before this European Championship race in Berlin 2018, which actually took place on August 11, the Disciplinary Commission of the Czech Athletics Association (CAS) had notified the czech athlete Anežka Drahotová of an irregularity in her biological passport (doping), on 19 July 2021 (three years later), the athlete was cleared and the silver medal she won on the field was reassigned, as also confirmed by the Statistic Handbook published by the EAA on the eve of Roma 2024.

But the situation that seemed to be over took a further turn on 15 May 2025, therefore after the publication of the EAA Statistical Handbook of Rome 2024, when WADA's appeal against the acquittal ruling of July 2021 was accepted and at this point the EAA rewrote the competition rankings, once again excluding Drahotova from the rankings. As a result, the Italian Antonella Palmisano moves from bronze to silver while the bronze medal is awarded to the Lithuanian Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė who came in 4th.

Rank Name Nationality Time Note María Pérez 1:26:36 , Antonella Palmisano 1:27:30 Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė 1:27:59 Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė 1:28:07 Laura García-Caro 1:28:15 Inna Kashyna 1:29:16 Ana Cabecinha 1:29:49 Valentina Trapletti 1:29:57 Nadiya Borovska 1:30:38 10 Meryem Bekmez 1:31:00 , 11 Raquel González 1:31:48 12 Antigoni Drisbioti 1:32:16 13 Emilia Lehmeyer 1:32:36 14 Émilie Menuet 1:32:49 15 Saskia Feige 1:32:57 16 Viktoryia Rashchupkina 1:33:12 17 Mariya Filyuk 1:33:34 18 Ana Veronica Rodean 1:33:39 19 Teresa Zurek 1:35:58 20 Katarzyna Zdziebło 1:36:01 21 Bethan Davies 1:36:50 22 Elisa Neuvonen 1:37:12 23 Barbara Kovács 1:39:35 24 Rita Récsei 1:42:55 25 Andreea Arsine 1:43:21 Edna Barros Eleonora Giorgi Heather Lewis Yana Smerdova Anežka Drahotová

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