Athletics — 20 kilometres Race Walk, Women

Times held	6
Total participants	241
Total countries	55

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
2000	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	57	31
2004	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	57	35
2008	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	48	30
2012	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	61	33
2016	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	74	34
2020	20 kilometres Race Walk, Women	Olympic	58	30

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2000	Wang Liping	CHN	Kjersti Tysse-Plätzer	NOR	María Vascó	ESP
2004	Athanasia Tsoumeleka	GRE	Olimpiada Ivanova	RUS	Jane Saville	AUS
2008	Olga Kaniskina	RUS	Kjersti Tysse-Plätzer	NOR	Elisa Rigaudo	ITA
2012	Qieyang Shijie	CHN	Liu Hong	CHN	Lu Xiuzhi	CHN
2016	Liu Hong	CHN	María Guadalupe González	MEX	Lu Xiuzhi	CHN
2020	Antonella Palmisano	ITA	Sandra Arenas	COL	Liu Hong	CHN

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
People's Republic of China	CHN	3	1	3	7
Russian Federation	RUS	1	1	0	2
Italy	ITA	1	0	1	2
Greece	GRE	1	0	0	1
Norway	NOR	0	2	0	2
Colombia	COL	0	1	0	1
Mexico	MEX	0	1	0	1
Australia	AUS	0	0	1	1
Spain	ESP	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Liu Hong	CHN	1	1	1	3
Wang Liping	CHN	1	0	0	1
Athanasia Tsoumeleka	GRE	1	0	0	1
Olga Kaniskina	RUS	1	0	0	1
Qieyang Shijie	CHN	1	0	0	1
Antonella Palmisano	ITA	1	0	0	1