IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships

The IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships is a race walking event organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It has been held since 1961, and generally on a biennial basis. Women first entered the 1979 edition. It was formerly known as the Lugano Cup after the city that hosted the first event. In 2004, a Junior division was added, consisting of Men and Women which are 19 or younger.

From 1975 to 1997 was awarded Lugano Trophy for combined team (20K + 50K). Since 1993 the medals have been awarded for the single events of the 20K and 50K teams, therefore in the 1993, 1995 and 1997 editions three team medals were assigned, from 1999 the combined was abolished and the team medals remained two until the present day.^[1]

Host cities

The 2016 Cup was due to be held in Cheboksary, Russia. However the IAAF's suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation prohibits Russia from hosting international competitions. This event was relocated.^[2]

Medal summary

Men

20 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1961	Ken Matthews  United Kingdom	1:30:55	Lennart Back  Sweden	1:32:12	George Williams  United Kingdom	1:34:02
1963	Ken Matthews  United Kingdom	1:30:11	Paul Nihill  United Kingdom	1:33:19	Antal Kiss  Hungary	1:33:38
1965	Dieter Lindner  East Germany	1:28:10	Antal Kiss  Hungary	1:29:09	Gerhard Sperling  East Germany	1:31:30
1967	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union	1:28:39	Vladimir Golubnichiy  Soviet Union	1:28:58	Ron Laird  United States	1:29:13
1970	Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany	1:26:55	Vladimir Golubnichiy  Soviet Union	1:27:22	Peter Frenkel  East Germany	1:27:33
1973	Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany	1:29:31	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany	1:29:36	Ron Laird  United States	1:30:45
1975	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany	1:26:12	Bernd Kannenberg  West Germany	1:26:20	Peter Frenkel  East Germany	1:26:54
1977	Daniel Bautista  Mexico	1:24:02	Domingo Colín  Mexico	1:24:31	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany	1:24:51
1979	Daniel Bautista  Mexico	1:18:49	Boris Yakovlev  Soviet Union	1:19:46	Nikolay Vinnichenko  Soviet Union	1:20:05
1981	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:23:52	Roland Wieser  East Germany	1:24:12	Alessandro Pezzatini  Italy	1:24:24
1983	Jozef Pribilinec  Czechoslovakia	1:19:30	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:19:41	Anatoliy Solomin  Soviet Union	1:19:43
1985	José Marín  Spain	1:21:42	Maurizio Damilano  Italy	1:21:43	Victor Mostovic  Soviet Union	1:22:01
1987	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	1:19:24	Viktor Mostovik  Soviet Union	1:19:32	Anatoliy Gorshkov  Soviet Union	1:20:04
1989	Frants Kostyukevich  Soviet Union	1:20:21	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	1:20:34	Yevgeniy Misyulya  Soviet Union	1:20:47
1991	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	1:20:43	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:20:46	Thierry Toutain  France	1:20:56
1993	Daniel García  Mexico	1:24:26	Valentí Massana  Spain	1:24:32	Alberto Cruz  Mexico	1:24:37
1995	Li Zewen  China	1:19:44	Mikhail Shchennikov  Russia	1:19:58	Bernardo Segura  Mexico	1:20:32
1997	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:18:24	Daniel García  Mexico	1:18:27	Ilya Markov  Russia	1:18:30
1999	Bernardo Segura  Mexico	1:20:20	Yu Guohui  China	1:20:21	Vladimir Andreyev  Russia	1:20:29
2002	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:21:26	Vladimir Andreyev  Russia	1:21:50	Alejandro López  Mexico	1:22:01
2004	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:18:42	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	1:19:02	Nathan Deakes  Australia	1:19:11
2006	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:18:31	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:19:08	Han Yucheng  China	1:19:10
2008	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:18:15 CR	Valeriy Borchin  Russia	1:18:21	Eder Sánchez  Mexico	1:18:34
2010	Wang Hao  China	1:22:35	Zhu Yafei  China	1:22:46	Andrey Krivov  Russia	1:22:54
2012	Wang Zhen  China	1:19:13	Andrey Krivov  Russia	1:19:27	Vladimir Kanaykin  Russia	1:19:43
2014	Ruslan Dmytrenko  Ukraine	1:18:37 NR	Cai Zelin  China	1:18:52	Andrey Ruzavin  Russia	1:18:59
2016	Wang Zhen  China	1:19:22	Cai Zelin  China	1:19:34	Álvaro Martín  Spain	1:19:36
2018	Kōki Ikeda  Japan	1:21:13	Wang Kaihua  China	1:21:22	Massimo Stano  Italy	1:21:33
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

50 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1961	Abdon Pamich  Italy	4:25:38	Don Thompson  United Kingdom	4:30:35	Åke Söderlund  Sweden	4:36:48
1963	István Havasi  Hungary	4:14:25	Ray Middleton  United Kingdom	4:17:16	Ingvar Pettersson  Sweden	4:19:11
1965	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	4:03:14	Burkhard Leuschke  East Germany	4:06:02	Abdon Pamich  Italy	4:06:41
1967	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	4:09:09	Peter Selzer  East Germany	4:11:40	Aleksandr Shcherbina  Soviet Union	4:13:07
1970	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	4:04:36	Veniamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union	4:09:52	Burkhard Leuschke  East Germany	4:11:10
1973	Bernd Kannenberg  West Germany	3:56:51	Otto Barch  Soviet Union	3:57:11	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	3:57:26
1975	Yevgeniy Lyungin  Soviet Union	4:03:42	Gerhard Weidner  West Germany	4:09:58	Vladimir Svechnikov  Soviet Union	4:11:31
1977	Raúl González  Mexico	4:04:16	Pedro Aroche  Mexico	4:04:55	Paolo Grecucci  Italy	4:06:27
1979	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	3:43:36	Enrique Vera  Mexico	3:43:59	Viktor Dorovskikh  Soviet Union	3:45:51
1981	Raúl González  Mexico	3:48:30	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	3:52:18	Sandro Bellucci  Italy	3:54:57
1983	Raúl González  Mexico	3:45:37	Sergey Yung  Soviet Union	3:48:26	Viktor Dorovskikh  Soviet Union	3:49:47
1985	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	3:47:31	Andrey Perlov  Soviet Union	3:49:23	Axel Noack  East Germany	3:56:53
1987	Ronald Weigel  East Germany	3:42:26	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	3:42:52	Dietmar Meisch  East Germany	3:43:14
1989	Simon Baker  Australia	3:43:13	Andrey Perlov  Soviet Union	3:44:12	Stanislav Vezhel  Soviet Union	3:44:50
1991	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	3:42:03	Simon Baker  Australia	3:46:36	Ronald Weigel  Germany	3:47:50
1993	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	3:50:28	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:52:44	Germán Sánchez  Mexico	3:54:15
1995	Zhao Yongsheng  China	3:41:20	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:41:54	Valentin Kononen  Finland	3:42:50
1997	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:39:54	Oleg Ishutkin  Russia	3:40:12	Valentin Kononen  Finland	3:41:09
1999	Sergey Korepanov  Kazakhstan	3:39:22	Tomasz Lipiec  Poland	3:40:08	Nikolay Matyukhin  Russia	3:40:13
2002	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:40:59	German Skurygin  Russia	3:42:08	Tomasz Lipiec  Poland	3:45:37
2004	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:42:44	Yu Chaohong  China	3:43:47	Yuriy Andronov  Russia	3:46:49
2006	Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia	3:38:02	Trond Nymark  Norway	3:41:30	Yuriy Andronov  Russia	3:42:38
2008†	Denis Nizhegorodov  Russia	3:34:14 CR	Alex Schwazer  Italy	3:37:04	Trond Nymark  NOR	3:44:59
2010	Matej Tóth  Slovakia	3:53:30	Horacio Nava  Mexico	3:54:16	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:54:55
2012‡	Sergey Kirdyapkin  Russia	3:38:08	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:40:32	Si Tianfeng  China	3:43:05
2014	Mikhail Ryzhov  Russia	3:39:05	Ivan Noskov  Russia	3:39:38	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:42:48
2016	Jared Tallent  Australia	3:42:36	Ihor Hlavan  Ukraine	3:44:02	Marco De Luca  Italy	3:44:47
2018	Hirooki Arai  Japan	3:44:25	Hayato Katsuki  Japan	3:44:31	Satoshi Mauro  Japan	3:44:52
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

^†: In 2008, Vladimir Kanaykin from  Russia was initially 2nd and silver medallist in 3:36:55, but disqualified because of doping violations.^[3]
‡: In 2012, Igor Erokhin from  Russia was initially 2nd and silver medallist in 3:38:10, but disqualified because of doping violations.

Lugano Throphy

Team ranking that combining results of 20 km and 50 km.^[4]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1961	United Kingdom 53	Sweden 53	Italy 28
1963	United Kingdom 93	Hungary 64	Sweden 63
1965	East Germany 117	United Kingdom 87	Hungary 64
1967	East Germany 128	Soviet Union 107	United Kingdom 104
1970	East Germany 134	Soviet Union 125	West Germany 88
1973	East Germany 139	Soviet Union 134	Italy 104
1975	Soviet Union 117	East Germany 105	West Germany 102
1977	Mexico 185	East Germany 180	Italy 160
1979	Mexico 240	Soviet Union 235	East Germany 201
1981	Italy 227	Soviet Union 227	Mexico 221
1983	Soviet Union 231	Italy 189	Mexico 146
1985	East Germany 234	Soviet Union 234	Italy 233
1987	Soviet Union 607	Italy 569	East Germany 518
1989	Soviet Union 585	Italy 534	France 516
1991	Italy 517	Germany 491	Mexico 487
1993	Mexico 540	Spain 491	Italy 487
1995	Mexico 846	Italy 815	China 805
1997	Russia 865	Mexico 802	Belarus 801

Teams 20 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993	Mexico 265	Italy 244	Spain 240
1995	China 436	Italy 422	Mexico 420
1997	Russia 431	Belarus 413	Mexico 403
1999	Russia 19	Mexico 28	China 29
2002	Russia 24	Belarus 28	Italy 34
2004	China 18	Ecuador 35	Italy 35
2006	Spain 33	Australia 37	Russia 37
2008	Russia 11	Spain 22	Australia 47
2010	China 9	Russia 25	Mexico 41
2012	Russia 10	China 19	Ukraine 22
2014	Ukraine 18	China 23	Japan 35
2016	China 16	Canada 27	Ecuador 41
2018	Japan 12	Italy 29	China 42

Teams 50 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993	Mexico 275	Spain 251	France 245
1995	Mexico 426	Russia 419	Spain 413
1997	Russia 434	Slovakia 415	Spain 407
1999	Russia 14	Spain 26	Germany 55
2002	Russia 7	France 59	China 78
2004	Russia 8	China 14	Spain 23
2006	Spain 20	Poland 38	China 39
2008	Italy 28	Mexico 29	Spain 30
2010	China 21	Mexico 22	Russia 38
2012	Russia 22	China 33	Ukraine 37
2014	Russia 7	Ukraine 22	China 37
2016	Italy 14	Ukraine 25	Spain 30
2018	Japan 10	Ukraine 29	Poland 37

Women

5 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1975†	Margareta Simu  Sweden	23:41	Siv Gustavsson  Sweden	24:33	Britt Holmquist  Sweden	24:45
1977†	Siv Gustavsson  Sweden	23:19	Carol Tyson  Great Britain	23:46	Margareta Simu  Sweden	24:12
1979	Marion Fawkes  United Kingdom	22:51	Carol Tyson  United Kingdom	22:59	Thorill Gylder  Norway	23:08
1981	Siv Gustavsson  Sweden	22:57	Aleksandra Derevinskaya  Soviet Union	23:18	Lyudmila Khrushcheva  Soviet Union	23:26
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

^† Invitational, non-cup event.

10 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1983	Xu Yongjiu  China	45:14	Natalya Sharipova  Soviet Union	45:26	Sue Cook  Australia	45:27
1985	Yan Hong  China	46:22	Guan Ping  China	46:23	Olga Krishtop  Soviet Union Aleksandra Grigoryeva  Soviet Union	46:24
1987	Olga Krishtop  Soviet Union	43:22	Irina Strakhova  Soviet Union	43:35	Jin Bingjie  China	43:45
1989	Beate Anders  East Germany	43:08	Kerry Saxby  Australia	43:12	Ileana Salvador  Italy	43:12
1991	Irina Strakhova  Soviet Union	43:55	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	44:09	Yelena Sayko  Soviet Union	44:11
1993	Wang Yan  China	45:10	Sari Essayah  Finland	45:18	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	45:22
1995	Gao Hongmiao  China	42:19	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	42:32	Liu Hongyu  China	42:49
1997	Irina Stankina  Russia	41:52	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	41:59	Gu Yan  China	42:15
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

20 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1999	Liu Hongyu  China	1:27:32	Natalya Fedoskina  Russia	1:27:35	Norica Cîmpean  Romania	1:27:48
2002	Erica Alfridi  Italy	1:28:55	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:28:57	Natalya Fedoskina  Russia	1:28:59
2004	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	1:27:24	Jiang Jing  China	1:27:34	María Vasco  Spain	1:27:36
2006	Ryta Turava  Belarus	1:26:27	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:27:26	Irina Petrova  Russia	1:27:46
2008	Olga Kaniskina  Russia	1:25:42 CR	Tatyana Sibileva  Russia	1:26:29	Vera Santos  Portugal	1:28:17
2010	María Vasco  Spain	1:31:55	Vera Santos  Portugal	1:32:06	Ines Henriques  Portugal	1:33:28
2012	Elena Lashmanova  Russia	1:27:38	Olga Kaniskina  Russia	1:28:33	María José Poves  Spain	1:29:10
2014	Anisya Kirdyapkina  Russia	1:26:31	Liu Hong  China	1:26:58	Elmira Alembekova  Russia	1:27:02
2016	Maria Guadalupe González  Mexico	1:26:17 AR	Qieyang Shenjie  China	1:26:49	Érica de Sena  Brazil	1:27:18
2018	Maria Guadalupe González  Mexico	1:26:38	Qieyang Shenjie  China	1:27:06	Yang Jiayu  China	1:27:22
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

20 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2018	Liang Rui  China	4:04:36 WR	Yin Hang  China	4:09:09	Claire Tallent  Australia	4:09:33 AR

Medal table team events

Events

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	12	2	2	16
2	Mexico (MEX)	7	4	6	17
3	China (CHN)	5	4	6	15
4	East Germany (GDR)	5	2	2	9
5	Italy (ITA)	4	7	7	18
6	Soviet Union (URS)	4	6	0	10
7	Spain (ESP)	2	4	6	12
8	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
9	Japan (JPN)	2	0	1	3
10	Ukraine (UKR)	1	3	2	6
11	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	1	3
12	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
13	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	1	2
	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
19	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
21	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	2	2
Totals (21 nations)		44	44	44	132

Records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Ref
20 km	1:18:15 hrs	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	May 10, 2008	2008 Cheboksary,  Russia	[3]
50 km	3:34:14 hrs	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia	May 11, 2008	2008 Cheboksary,  Russia	[3]
10 km (Junior Event)	39:40 min	Gao Wenkui	China	May 3, 2014	2014 Taicang,  China

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Ref
20 km	1:25:42 hrs	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	May 11, 2008	2008 Cheboksary,  Russia	[3]
10 km (Junior Event)	42:44 min	Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	May 10, 2008	2008 Cheboksary,  Russia	[3]

Defunct events

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Ref
Women's 5 km	22:51 min	Marion Fawkes	United Kingdom	September 29/30, 1979	1979 Eschborn,  West Germany	[3]
Women's 10 km	41:52 min	Irina Stankina	Russia	April 19, 1997	1997 Poděbrady,  Czech Republic	[3]

Doping

The competition conducts doping tests on participating athletes and several have been disqualified from the races as a result. Ukraine's Olga Leonenko became the first doping disqualification, having originally finished seventh in 1995. Daniel Plaza became the first man in 1997 and was again disqualified in 1999. Nine years passed without incident then in 2008 two Russians were excluded Viktor Burayev and Vladimir Kanaykin – the latter was the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the cup.^[5]

In 2010 fourth place Erik Tysse was removed. Four athletes were disqualified for doping at the 2012 edition: silver medallist Igor Yerokhin was the most prominent, followed by fifth place Sergey Morozov, then Turkish walkers Recep Çelik and Handan Koçyiğit Cavdar.^[5] Yuriy Andronov became the fifth Russian to be caught doping at the event in 2014.^[6]

Outside of the event, several medallists have been later disqualified for doping, including women's winners Olga Kaniskina and Elena Lashmanova,^[7] and men's runners-up Valeriy Borchin and Alex Schwazer.^[8]

See also

• European Race Walking Cup
• Pan American Race Walking Cup
• South American Race Walking Championships
• Asian Race Walking Championships
• Oceania Race Walking Championships
• Central American Race Walking Championships

References

External links

• gbrathletics.com
• Official website
• IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures
• IAAF WORLD RACE WALKING CUP - TAICANG 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES