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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 is 48, which was achieved by Norway's
Kjersti Platzer
in 2009 and was matched by China's
Wang Zhen
in 2012. Chinese female walker
Liu Hong
is the most successful athlete of the series, being the only person to win the series on three occasions. Australian
Jared Tallent
is the most successful man, with two men's titles and runner-up on two occasions.
Editions
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Edition
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Year
|
Start date
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End date
|
Meets
|
Ref.
|
1
|
2003
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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]
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Meetings
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- 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 Juarez
- The 2019 series featured three Oceania championship events: the 50 km, the 20 km and the 10,000 m walks
[18]
Results
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Women
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See also
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References
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External links
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