# 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 13 August.
The original 27th place walker, Ayman Kozhakhmetova of Kazakhstan, was disqualified for a positive drug test for exogenous testosterone and EPO.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Elena Lashmanova (RUS) | 1:25:02 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 |
| Championship record | Olimpiada Ivanova (RUS) | 1:25:41 | Helsinki, Finland | 7 August 2005 |
| World leading | Elena Lashmanova (RUS) | 1:25:49 | Sochi, Russia | 23 February 2013 |
| African record | Grace Wanjiru Njue (KEN) | 1:34:19 | Nairobi, Kenya | 1 August 2010 |
| Asian record | Shenjie Qieyang (CHN) | 1:25:16 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Mirna Ortíz (GUA) | 1:28:31 | Rio Maior, Portugal | 1 April 2013 |
| South American record | Miriam Ramón (ECU) | 1:31:25 | Lima, Peru | 7 May 2005 |
| European record | Elena Lashmanova (RUS) | 1:25:02 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 |
| Oceanian record | Jane Saville (AUS) | 1:27:44 | Naumburg, Germany | 2 May 2004 |

## Qualification standards

| A standard | B standard |
| 1:36:00 | 1:38:00 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 13 August 2013 | 09:35 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+4)

## Results

| KEY: | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Final

The race was started at 07.35.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Liu Hong | China (CHN) | 1:28:10 | |
| | Sun Huanhuan | China (CHN) | 1:28:32 | |
| | Elisa Rigaudo | Italy (ITA) | 1:28:41 | SB |
| 4 | Beatriz Pascual | Spain (ESP) | 1:29:00 | SB |
| 5 | Anežka Drahotová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:29:05 | PB |
| 6 | Ana Cabecinha | Portugal (POR) | 1:29:17 | SB |
| 7 | Júlia Takács | Spain (ESP) | 1:29:25 | |
| 8 | Eleonora Anna Giorgi | Italy (ITA) | 1:30:01 | SB |
| 9 | Inês Henriques | Portugal (POR) | 1:30:28 | |
| 10 | Lyudmyla Olyanovska | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:30:48 | |
| 11 | Antonella Palmisano | Italy (ITA) | 1:30:50 | PB |
| 12 | Mayra Herrera | Guatemala (GUA) | 1:30:59 | PB |
| 13 | Qieyang Shenjie | China (CHN) | 1:31:15 | |
| 14 | Hanna Drabenia | Belarus (BLR) | 1:31:16 | |
| 15 | Vera Santos | Portugal (POR) | 1:31:36 | |
| 16 | Lorena Luaces | Spain (ESP) | 1:31:43 | SB |
| 17 | Brigita Virbalyté | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:31:58 | |
| 18 | Kristina Saltanovič | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:32:11 | SB |
| 19 | Sandra Arenas | Colombia (COL) | 1:32:25 | NR |
| 20 | Agnese Pastare | Latvia (LAT) | 1:32:30 | SB |
| 21 | Nastassia Yatsevich | Belarus (BLR) | 1:32:31 | SB |
| 22 | Yanelli Caballero | Mexico (MEX) | 1:32:37 | |
| 23 | Kumi Otoshi | Japan (JPN) | 1:32:44 | |
| 24 | Paola Pérez | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:33:03 | |
| 25 | Masumi Fuchise | Japan (JPN) | 1:33:13 | SB |
| 26 | Paulina Buziak | Poland (POL) | 1:33:30 | |
| 27 | Laura Reynolds | Ireland (IRL) | 1:33:39 | |
| 28 | Antigoni Drisbioti | Greece (GRE) | 1:33:42 | PB |
| 29 | Sandra Galvis | Colombia (COL) | 1:33:49 | SB |
| 30 | Maria Michta | United States (USA) | 1:33:51 | SB |
| 31 | Kimberly García | Peru (PER) | 1:33:57 | NR |
| 32 | Laura Polli | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:34:07 | PB |
| 33 | Viktória Madarász | Hungary (HUN) | 1:34:10 | SB |
| 34 | Galina Kichigina | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:34:18 | |
| 35 | Khushbir Kaur | India (IND) | 1:34:28 | NR |
| 36 | Jeon Yeong-Eun | South Korea (KOR) | 1:34:29 | SB |
| 37 | Neringa Aidietytė | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:34:32 | |
| 38 | Anita Kažemaka | Latvia (LAT) | 1:34:37 | SB |
| 39 | Erin Gray | United States (USA) | 1:34:38 | PB |
| 40 | Agnieszka Dygacz | Poland (POL) | 1:34:42 | |
| 41 | Tanya Holliday | Australia (AUS) | 1:35:18 | |
| 42 | Wendy Cornejo | Bolivia (BOL) | 1:36:06 | |
| 43 | Anne Halkivaha | Finland (FIN) | 1:36:17 | |
| 44 | Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuc | Vietnam (VIE) | 1:36:27 | |
| 45 | Marie Polli | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:36:31 | SB |
| 46 | Ángela Castro | Bolivia (BOL) | 1:36:33 | |
| 47 | Maria Czaková | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:36:34 | |
| 48 | Monica Equihua | Mexico (MEX) | 1:36:46 | |
| 49 | Katarzyna Kwoka | Poland (POL) | 1:36:54 | |
| 50 | Jess Rothwell | Australia (AUS) | 1:38:03 | |
| 51 | Sholpan Kozhakhmetova | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:38:09 | SB |
| 52 | Olha Iakovenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:39:58 | |
| 53 | Lucie Pelantová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:40:23 | |
| | Miranda Melville | United States (USA) | DQ | |
| | Mirna Ortiz | Guatemala (GUA) | DQ | |
| | Olena Shumkina | Ukraine (UKR) | DQ | |
| | Lizbeth Silva | Mexico (MEX) | DQ | |
| | Vera Sokolova | Russia (RUS) | DQ | |
| | Mária Gáliková | Slovakia (SVK) | DNF | |
| | Elena Lashmanova | Russia (RUS) | 1:27:08 | DQ (Doping) |
| | Anisya Kirdyapkina | Russia (RUS) | 1:27:11 | DQ (Doping) |
| | Ayman Kozhakhmetova | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:33:00 | DQ (Doping) |