The Women's 20 kilometer Race Walk was first introduced to the Summer Olympic program in 2000. Since then, China has been the most successful nation in this event, winning two golds, one silver and three bronze medals. No athlete has won more than one gold medal in this event, although China's Liu Hong has won three medals overall. The only athlete to have been stripped of a medal won in this event is Russia's Olga Kaniskina, who lost her 2012 silver medal due to doping violations in 2015; her gold medal from 2008 remains unaffected.
Medal count by country in the Women's 20 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2020
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 6, 2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 20 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118248/olympics-womens-20km-race-walk-medal-table-since-2000/
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olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Women's 20 Kilometer Race Walk at The Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118248/olympics-womens-20km-race-walk-medal-table-since-2000/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Women's 20 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118248/olympics-womens-20km-race-walk-medal-table-since-2000/ (last visited December 21, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Women's 20 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 6, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118248/olympics-womens-20km-race-walk-medal-table-since-2000/
