World Athletics Race Walking Tour
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Sport | Racewalking |
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Founded | 2003 |
Official website | Race Walking |
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3] The 2011 World Championships in Athletics was the first time that performances at a major global athletics championship were included in the series,[4] and this was followed by 2012 Summer Olympics a year later.[5] 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.[6] The 2014 series included the African Championships in Athletics and European Athletics Championships for the first time.[7]
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
[edit]Ed. | Year | Start date | End date | Meets | Ref. |
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1 | 2003 | 8 March | 7 June | 4 | [8] |
2 | 2004 | 20 March | 20 June | 5 | [9] |
3 | 2005 | 19 March | 4 June | 5 | [10] |
4 | 2006 | 25 March | 1 May | 4 | [11] |
5 | 2007 | 10 March | 29 September | 7 | [12] |
6 | 2008 | 8 March | 21 September | 8 | [2] |
7 | 2009 | 8 March | 19 September | 10 | [13] |
8 | 2010 | 13 February | 18 September | 11 | [3] |
9 | 2011 | 19 February | 17 September | 10 | [4] |
10 | 2012 | 25 February | 14 September | 12 | [5] |
11 | 2013 | 23 February | 13 August | 14 | [6] |
12 | 2014 | 2 February | 14 August | 12 | [7] |
13 | 2015 | 22 February | 28 August | 10 | [14] |
14 | 2016 | 21 February | 19 August | 11 | [15] |
15 | 2017 | 19 February | 13 August | 10 | [16] |
16 | 2018 | 11 February | 24 September | 10 | [17] |
17 | 2019 | 1 December 2018 | 22 October | 12 | [18] |
18 | 2021 | 5 June | 5 June | 1 | [19] |
19 | 2022 | 19 December 2021 | 29 October | 24 | [20] |
20 | 2023 | 18 December 2022 | 28 October | 21 | [21] |
21 | 2024 | 17 December 2023 | 26 October | 18 | [22] |
Meetings
[edit]- 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[18]
Results
[edit]Men
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Women
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 2015 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- ^ a b 2008 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2010 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2011 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2013 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2003 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2004 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2005 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2006 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2009 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2016 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2017 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ 2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ a b 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
- ^ "2021 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2022 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2023 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ "2024 Race Walking Tour". World Athletics.
- ^ a b Plätzer and Sanchez receive US$30,000 each – IAAF Race Walking Challenge 2009. IAAF (2009-09-22). Retrieved on 2009-10-01.
- ^ a b "2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge standings revised". World Athletics.
- ^ a b "Karlstrom and Qieyang win 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge". World Athletics.
- ^ "2022 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
- ^ "2023 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
- ^ "2024 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
- ^ "2022 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
- ^ "2023 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
- ^ "2024 World Race Walking Tour Standings". World Athletics.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Results 1961–2006 at gbrathletics.com
- 2008 Rules (PDF)