2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
The women's 20 kilometres 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 | 1:25:02 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 | |
| Championship record | 1:25:41 | Helsinki, Finland | 7 August 2005 | |
| World leading | 1:25:49 | Sochi, Russia | 23 February 2013 | |
| African record | 1:34:19 | Nairobi, Kenya | 1 August 2010 | |
| Asian record | 1:25:16 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 1:28:31 | Rio Maior, Portugal | 1 April 2013 | |
| South American record | 1:31:25 | Lima, Peru | 7 May 2005 | |
| European record | 1:25:02 | London, United Kingdom | 11 August 2012 | |
| Oceanian record | 1:27:44 | Naumburg, Germany | 2 May 2004 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Final
The race was started at 07.35.| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Elena Lashmanova | 1:27:08 | |||
| Liu Hong | 1:28:10 | |||
| Sun Huanhuan | 1:28:32 | |||
| Elisa Rigaudo | 1:28:41 | SB | ||
| Beatriz Pascual | 1:29:00 | SB | ||
| Anežka Drahotová | 1:29:05 | PB | ||
| Ana Cabecinha | 1:29:17 | SB | ||
| Júlia Takács | 1:29:25 | |||
| Eleonora Anna Giorgi | 1:30:01 | SB | ||
| 10 | Inês Henriques | 1:30:28 | ||
| 11 | Lyudmyla Olyanovska | 1:30:48 | ||
| 12 | Antonella Palmisano | 1:30:50 | PB | |
| 13 | Mayra Herrera | 1:30:59 | PB | |
| 14 | Qieyang Shenjie | 1:31:15 | ||
| 15 | Hanna Drabenia | 1:31:16 | ||
| 16 | Vera Santos | 1:31:36 | ||
| 17 | Lorena Luaces | 1:31:43 | SB | |
| 18 | Brigita Virbalyté | 1:31:58 | ||
| 19 | Kristina Saltanovič | 1:32:11 | SB | |
| 20 | Sandra Arenas | 1:32:25 | ||
| 21 | Agnese Pastare | 1:32:30 | SB | |
| 22 | Nastassia Yatsevich | 1:32:31 | SB | |
| 23 | Yanelli Caballero | 1:32:37 | ||
| 24 | Kumi Otoshi | 1:32:44 | ||
| 25 | Paola Pérez | 1:33:03 | ||
| 26 | Masumi Fuchise | 1:33:13 | SB | |
| 27 | Paulina Buziak | 1:33:30 | ||
| 28 | Laura Reynolds | 1:33:39 | ||
| 29 | Antigóni Drisbióti | 1:33:42 | PB | |
| 30 | Sandra Galvis | 1:33:49 | SB | |
| 31 | Maria Michta | 1:33:51 | SB | |
| 32 | Kimberly García | 1:33:57 | ||
| 33 | Laura Polli | 1:34:07 | PB | |
| 34 | Viktória Madarász | 1:34:10 | SB | |
| 35 | Galina Kichigina | 1:34:18 | ||
| 36 | Khushbir Kaur | 1:34:28 | ||
| 37 | Jeon Yeong-Eun | 1:34:29 | SB | |
| 38 | Neringa Aidietytė | 1:34:32 | ||
| 39 | Anita Kažemaka | 1:34:37 | SB | |
| 40 | Erin Gray | 1:34:38 | PB | |
| 41 | Agnieszka Dygacz | 1:34:42 | ||
| 42 | Tanya Holliday | 1:35:18 | ||
| 43 | Wendy Cornejo | 1:36:06 | ||
| 44 | Anne Halkivaha | 1:36:17 | ||
| 45 | Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuc | 1:36:27 | ||
| 46 | Marie Polli | 1:36:31 | SB | |
| 47 | Ángela Castro | 1:36:33 | ||
| 48 | Maria Czaková | 1:36:34 | ||
| 49 | Monica Equihua | 1:36:46 | ||
| 50 | Katarzyna Kwoka | 1:36:54 | ||
| 51 | Jess Rothwell | 1:38:03 | ||
| 52 | Sholpan Kozhakhmetova | 1:38:09 | SB | |
| 53 | Olha Iakovenko | 1:39:58 | ||
| 54 | Lucie Pelantová | 1:40:23 | ||
| Miranda Melville | ||||
| Mirna Ortiz | ||||
| Olena Shumkina | ||||
| Lizbeth Silva | ||||
| Vera Sokolova | ||||
| Mária Gáliková | ||||
| Ayman Kozhakhmetova | DQ | |||
| Anisya Kirdyapkina | DQ |