# 2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held on a 1 kilometer loop course on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. adjacent to Autzen Stadium in Eugene on 15 July 2022. 41 athletes from 26 nations entered to the event.

## Records

Before the competition records were as follows:
| Record | Athlete & Nat. | Perf. | Location | Date |
| World record | Yang Jiayu (CHN) | 1:23:49 | Huangshan, China | 20 March 2021 |
| Championship record | Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) | 1:25:41 | Helsinki, Finland | 7 August 2005 |
| World Leading | Elvira Chepareva (RUS) | 1:26:42 | Sochi, Russia | 31 January 2022 |
| African Record | Grace Wanjiru Njue (KEN) | 1:30:40 | Nairobi, Kenya | 6 June 2018 |
| Asian Record | Yang Jiayu (CHN) | 1:23:49 | Huangshan, China | 20 March 2021 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Lupita González (MEX) | 1:26:17 | Rome, Italy | 7 May 2016 |
| South American Record | Glenda Morejón (ECU) | 1:25:29 | La Coruña, Spain | 8 June 2019 |
| European Record | Vera Sokolova (RUS) | 1:25:08 | Sochi, Russia | 26 February 2011 |
| Oceanian record | Jemima Montag (AUS) | 1:27:27 | Adelaide, Australia | 13 February 2022 |

## Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:31:00.

## Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
| Date | Time | Round |
| 15 July | 13:10 | Final |

## Results

The race was started at 13:09. The results were as follows:
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Kimberly García | Peru (PER) | 1:26:58 | NR |
| | Katarzyna Zdziebło | Poland (POL) | 1:27:31 | NR |
| | Qieyang Shijie | China (CHN) | 1:27:56 | |
| 4 | Jemima Montag | Australia (AUS) | 1:28:17 | ~ |
| 5 | Liu Hong | China (CHN) | 1:29:00 | SB ~ |
| 6 | Nanako Fujii | Japan (JPN) | 1:29:01 | SB |
| 7 | Alegna González | Mexico (MEX) | 1:29:40 | SB |
| 8 | Valentina Trapletti | Italy (ITA) | 1:29:54 | ~ |
| 9 | Ana Cabecinha | Portugal (POR) | 1:30:29 | SB > |
| 10 | Ma Zhenxia | China (CHN) | 1:30:39 | ~ |
| 11 | Olena Sobchuk | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:31:19 | |
| 12 | Lyudmyla Olyanovska | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:31:42 | SB |
| 13 | Wu Quanming | China (CHN) | 1:31:44 | ~ |
| 14 | Kumiko Okada | Japan (JPN) | 1:31:53 | |
| 15 | Saskia Feige | Germany (GER) | 1:32:12 | ~~ |
| 16 | Noelia Vargas | Costa Rica (CRC) | 1:32:36 | SB > |
| 17 | Viviane Lyra | Brazil (BRA) | 1:33:11 | ~~ |
| 18 | Meryem Bekmez | Turkey (TUR) | 1:33:27 | SB > |
| 19 | Glenda Morejón | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:34:27 | |
| 20 | Rebecca Henderson | Australia (AUS) | 1:34:38 | |
| 21 | Eliška Martínková | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:34:45 | ~ |
| 22 | Kiriaki Filtisakou | Greece (GRE) | 1:34:55 | SB |
| 23 | Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:35:36 | SB |
| 24 | Robyn Stevens | United States (USA) | 1:36:16 | ~ |
| 25 | Carolina Costa | Portugal (POR) | 1:36:31 | |
| 26 | Karla Jaramillo | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:36:36 | |
| 27 | Ángela Castro | Bolivia (BOL) | 1:36:52 | SB |
| 28 | Christina Papadopoulou | Greece (GRE) | 1:37:20 | SB >>> |
| 29 | Enni Nurmi | Finland (FIN) | 1:37:29 | |
| 30 | Emily Wamusyi Ngii | Kenya (KEN) | 1:37:43 | ~ |
| 31 | Evelyn Inga | Peru (PER) | 1:38:23 | SB >> |
| 32 | Inês Henriques | Portugal (POR) | 1:38:32 | |
| 33 | Galina Yakusheva | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:38:47 | |
| 34 | Priyanka Goswami | India (IND) | 1:39:42 | ~~~ |
| 35 | Miranda Melville | United States (USA) | 1:39:58 | >> |
| 36 | Rachelle de Orbeta | Puerto Rico (PUR) | 1:41:55 | ~ |
| | Valeria Ortuño | Mexico (MEX) | DNF | DNF |
| | Hanna Shevchuk | Ukraine (UKR) | DNF | DNF |
| | Nicole Colombi | Italy (ITA) | DSQ TR54.7.5 | >>>> |
| | Maidy Monge | Guatemala (GUA) | DSQ TR54.7.5 | ~~~~ |
| | María Pérez | Spain (ESP) | DSQ TR54.7.5 | ~~~> |
| Key: | ~ Red card for loss of contact | > Red card for bent knee | TR54.7.5: Disqualified by Rule TR54.7.5 (4 red cards) |