5000 metres race walk

The 5000 metres race walk is a racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race and was part of the athletics programme for men at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics until 1993. It is also an event in the World Masters Athletics Championships, and is a World record event.

Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. 5000 meters is 3.11 miles.^[1]

World records

IAAF just ratified world records for men's indoor marks. On February 14, 1995, Mikhail Shchennikov of Russia set the 5,000 m race walk world indoor record in Moscow in a time of 18:07.08. The faster all-time men's best outdoor mark is held by Hatem Ghoula of Tunisia, at 18:05.79. The all-time women's best 5,000 m race-walk mark was set outdoor and is held by Eleonora Giorgi of Italy, at 20:01.80.

All-time top 25 fastest

• + = en route to 10,000m performance
• i = indoor performance
• ht = hand timing

Men

• Correct as of February 2018.^[2]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	18:05.79	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	1 May 1997	Tunis
2	18:07.08 i	Mikhail Shchennikov	Russia	14 February 1995	Moscow
3	18:08.86 i	Ivano Brugnetti
4	18:11.41 i	Ronald Weigel	Germany
5	18:15.25 i	Grigoriy Kornev
6	18:15.54 i	Andrey Ruzavin
7	18:16.54	Frants Kostyukevich
8	18:16.76 i	Yohann Diniz	France
9	18:19.97 i	Giovanni De Benedictis
10	18:21.76 i	Ruslan Dmytrenko
11	18:22.25 i	Andreas Erm	Germany
12	18:23.18 i	Rishat Shafikov	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara
13	18:24.13	Francisco Javier Fernández
14	18:27.15	Alessandro Gandellini
15	18:27.80	Jozef Pribilinec
16	18:27.95	Stefan Johansson	Sweden	18 February 1992	Geneve
17	18:28.70 i	Tom Bosworth	Great Britain	18 February 2018	Birmingham	[3]
18	18:28.90
19	18:30.91
20	18:32.09
21	18:33.95
22	18:34.77
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24
25	18:36.71	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara
		Ilya Markov	Russia	22 February 1999	Spała

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 18:23.60:

• Mikhail Shchennikov also walked 18:15.91 (1989), 18:23.55 (1991).
• Grigoriy Kornev also walked 18:23.10 (1992).
• Ivano Brugnetti also walked 18:23.47 (2009).
• Giovanni De Benedictis also walked 18:23.60 (1991).

Women

• Correct as of February 2017.^[4]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	20:01.80	Eleonora Giorgi	Italy	18 May 2014	Misterbianco	[5]
2	20:02.60	Gillian O'Sullivan	Ireland	14 July 2002	Dublin
3	20:03.04	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	11 February 1996	Sydney
4	20:07.52	Beate Gummelt	Germany	26 June 1990	Rostock
5	20:10.3 (ht) i	Vera Sokolova	Russia	30 December 2010	Saransk
6	20:11.45	Sabine Krantz	Germany	2 July 2005	Wattenscheid
7	20:12.41	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	2 August 2003	Rieti
8	20:15.6 (ht) i	Yelena Lashmanova	Russia	30 December 2016	Saransk
9	20:15.71	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Germany	4 June 2014	Kyiv
10	20:18.87	Melanie Seeger	Germany	10 July 2004	Braunschweig
11	20:21.69	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	1 July 1995	Cesenatico
12	20:27.59
13	20:28.05
14	20:28.62
15	20:29.63
16	20:31.4
17	20:34.76
18	20:36.2
19	20:37.7
20	20:37.83
21	20:38.0
22	20:38.2
23	20:40.24
24	20:40.3
25	20:42.9

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 20:22.75:

• Gillian O'Sullivan also walked 20:13.13 (2003).
• Kerry Saxby-Junna also walked 20:13.29 (1996), 20:17.19 (1990), 20:22.75 (1996).
• Sabine Krantz also walked 20:27.47 (2004).

International medallists

African Championships

Championships	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Annaba	Sabiha Mansouri (ALG)	Dalila Frihi (ALG)	Kheïra Sadat (ALG)
1989 Lagos	Agnetha Chelimo (KEN)	Mercy Nyambura (KEN)	Only two finishers
1990 Cairo	Agnetha Chelimo (KEN)	Méryem Kouch (MAR)	Amani Mohamed Adel (EGY)
1992 Belle-Vue	Dounia Kara (ALG)	Maryse Pyndiah (MRI)	Susan Bingham (RSA)
1993 Durban	Dounia Kara (ALG)	Amsale Yakobe (ETH)	Felicita Falconer (RSA)
1996 Yaoundé	Dounia Kara (ALG)	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali (EGY)	Monica Akoth (KEN)
1998 Dakar	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali (EGY)	Dounia Kara (ALG)	Anne-Hortense Ebéna (CMR)

References