World female list below 1:30:00 in 20km road walk is the following
| RANK | MARK | COMPETITOR | DOB | NAT | VENUE | DATE |
| | | | | | | |
| 1 | 1:24:38 | Hong LIU | 12 MAY 1987 | CHN | La Coruña | 06 JUN 2015 |
| 2 | 1:24:47 | Elmira ALEMBEKOVA | 30 JUN 1990 | RUS | Sochi | 27 FEB 2015 |
| 3 | 1:25:03 | Marina PANDAKOVA | 1 MAR 1989 | RUS | Sochi | 27 FEB 2015 |
| 4 | 1:25:04 | Svetlana VASILYEVA | 24 JUL 1992 | RUS | Sochi | 27 FEB 2015 |
| 5 | 1:25:12 | Xiuzhi LU | 26 OCT 1993 | CHN | Beijing | 20 MAR 2015 |
| 6 | 1:25:38 | Vera SOKOLOVA | 8 JUN 1987 | RUS | Sochi | 27 FEB 2015 |
| 7 | 1:26:17 | Eleonora GIORGI | 14 SEP 1989 | ITA | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 8 | 1:26:44 | Anisya KIRDYAPKINA | 23 OCT 1989 | RUS | Cheboksary | 13 JUN 2015 |
| 9 | 1:26:53 | Anežka DRAHOTOVÁ | 22 JUL 1995 | CZE | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 10 | 1:27:09 | Lyudmyla OLYANOVSKA | 20 FEB 1993 | UKR | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 11 | 1:27:17 | Mariya PONOMAREVA | 18 JUN 1995 | RUS | Tallinn (Kadriorg) | 10 JUL 2015 |
| 12 | 1:27:44 | Shenjie QIEYANG | 11 NOV 1990 | CHN | La Coruña | 06 JUN 2015 |
| 13 | 1:27:51 | Jingjing NIE | 1 MAR 1988 | CHN | Beijing | 20 MAR 2015 |
| 14 | 1:28:01 | Elisa RIGAUDO | 17 JUN 1980 | ITA | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 15 | 1:28:28 | Ana CABECINHA | 29 APR 1984 | POR | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 16 | 1:28:40 | Antonella PALMISANO | 6 AUG 1991 | ITA | Dudince | 21 MAR 2015 |
| 17 | 1:29:14 | Lijuan XIE | 14 MAY 1993 | CHN | Beijing | 20 MAR 2015 |
| 18 | 1:29:21 | Maria Guadalupe GONZALEZ | 9 JAN 1989 | MEX | Arica | 09 MAY 2015 |
| 19 | 1:29:25 | Yongbo HOU | 15 SEP 1994 | CHN | Nomi, JPN | 15 MAR 2015 |
| 20 | 1:29:32 | Huiqin DING | 5 FEB 1990 | CHN | Beijing | 20 MAR 2015 |
| 20 | 1:29:32 | Laura GARCÍA-CARO | 16 APR 1995 | ESP | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 20 | 1:29:32 | Ekaterina MEDVEDEVA | 29 MAR 1994 | RUS | Cheboksary | 13 JUN 2015 |
| 23 | 1:29:34 | Raquel GONZÁLEZ | 16 NOV 1989 | ESP | Murcia | 17 MAY 2015 |
| 24 | 1:29:37 | Erica DE SENA | 3 MAY 1985 | BRA | Dudince | 21 MAR 2015 |
| 25 | 1:29:46 | Kumiko OKADA | 17 OCT 1991 | JPN | Nomi, JPN | 15 MAR 2015 |
| 26 | 1:29:47 | Yanxue MAO | 15 FEB 1994 | CHN | Beijing | 20 MAR 2015 |
| 27 | 1:29:52 | Inês HENRIQUES | 1 MAY 1980 | POR | Rio Maior | 18 APR 2015 |
| 28 | 1:29:54 | Rachel SEAMAN | 14 JAN 1986 | CAN | Nomi, JPN | 15 MAR 2015 |
The now official absence of female Russian team, has allowed us to highlight in yellow, should therefore be excluded from the list of participants in Beijing, some of the most popular athletes in recent Top Level Events.
How will this year's race without the athletes of the Russian battleship?
China will see a solo or we will se a competition in which the European athletes, will try to have their say?
After La Coruna, the Chinese Liu Hong has reached another dimension. Were she would repeat that race, we believe that under the weeping willows of Hujing East Road in front of Beijing Stadium there will be room for no other solution but to victory.
But we know how sometimes "entering the Conclave as Pope, sometimes you leave the conclave as Cardinal" and this applies often in sports.
On this same course Liu Hong suffered last March 20, 2015 one of her two home defeats from her current most dangerous opponent of China, Lu Xiuzhi, during the worldwide selection.
The logic and the heart would say Liu Hong, for what she represented this beautiful athlete from the Games of Beijing 2008 onwards, for the Chinese movement of race walking.
For her sacrifice to move bag and baggage in that of Saluzzo, and seeing the gold fade sometimes for a trifle and with the doubt that this was just a bad dream.
But race walking is not only the "heart", is also "the logic of numbers."
And the logic of numbers although it is in her favor, also speaks some slightly different language.
Already said of her main opponent, it remains to be seen who will be the third Chinese to start. The selection of March says Nie Jingjing, who beat Olympic bronze in London, Qieyang Shenjie (also trained in Italian ground) - 1:27:51 for Nie Jingjing and 1:28:37 for Qieyang Shenjie. Today, however, their values are more or less at the same level around the time of 1:27.50, with a slight preference for the Olympic bronze medalist.
Between the time of 1:26:00 and to Qieyang Shenjie (1:27:44) there are, however, the three European emerging stars, who have struggled to Murcia in the European Cup with the Russian army, with excellent results.
The times of Eleonora Anna Giorgi (1:26:17) and Anežka Drahotova (1:26:53) say that the two athletes will fight for the medals and we do not believe, knowing the determination, only those color less noble.
Lyudmila Olyanovska (1:27:09) after the race in Tallin (1:28:41) seems to have lost the enamel, but last season speaks completely in her favor.
Then there is to see the return to the World Championships after the second maternity of Elisa Rigaudo and the desire to affirmation of Portuguese Ana Cabechina and the other Italian Antonella Palmisano. The Spanish team will be known Wednesday, August 12.
Also in this race we would like to have fun hazarding a prediction, but our history of “Marcia Italiana” does not allow us to be free from that feeling of "heart" and think only about the logic of cold numbers.
Nothing remains but to wait for the August 28, 2015 at 8:30am (2:30 in Europe) and sit in front of the TV.
Deep down, Liu Hong is also a bit Italian: or not ?
The great opponents of Liu Hong