We continue the annual publication of the lists provided with the support of the archive of "All-Athletics.com", with the following:

world list - 20 km road walk U23 women

Five Italian athletes are in the top 100 list, in which were considered only one performance per athlete:

Mariavittoria Becchetti with the performance of 1:34:29 obtained in Cassino (ITA) on March 29, 2015 is 30th

Nicole Colombi  with the performance of 1:38:50 ottenuto a Tallin (EST) on July 10, 2015 is 57th

Elena Poli with the performance of 1:34:29 obtained in Cassino (ITA) on March 29, 2015 is 74th

Margherita Crosta with the performance of 1:34:29 obtained in Riposto (ITA) on February 1, 2015 è 92nd

Leads the list the Chinese Lu Xiuzhi with the performance of 1:25:12, obtained in Chinese selection for 20km to World Championships in Beijing, last March 20, 2015, followed by Anezka Drahotova (CZE) with the performance of 1:26:23, obtained in European Cup in Murcia on May 17, 2015 and Lyudmila Olyanovska (UKR), with the performance of 1:27:09 obtained in Murcia.

Incidentally yesterday Vincent Wu on behalf of the IAAF published on the website of the International Federation a beautiful and touching story about the reasons that pushed the strong Chinese athlete in race walking.

At bottom our readers will find the appropriate link: worth reading.

It 's very interesting to note that in the list of the top 100 athletes are represented 31 Countries (in 2014 are represented 28 Countries), and in this case the list is leaded by Cina with 30 athletes, followed by Russia (11) and Japan (8).

It's also interesting to note that to enter in the list of the top 100 athletes this year it was necessary to obtain a time less than 1:44:53, 1’17” faster than that of 2014 (1:46:10) obtained by Indian Sandeep Kaur (Patiala, IND - 17.8.2014)..

Here is the list of Countries:

China: 30 athletes

Russia: 11 athletes

Japan: 8 athletes

Mexico: 4 athletes

Belorussia: 4 athletes

Italy: 4 athletes

Ukraine: 3 athletes

Spain: 3 athletes

Australia: 3 athletes

Romania: 3 athletes

Peru: 2 athletes

Colombia: 2 athletes

Bolivia: 2 athletes

Guatemala: 2 athletes

Portugal: 2 athletes

Poland: 2 aathletes

followed, all with 1 athlete, by: Czech Republic, Korea, India, South Africa, Great Britain, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Kenia, Taipei.

The report of Vincent Wu on the IAAF web-site: click here

Download the list from the section Statistics or directly from this link: click here

 

 

Lu Xiuzhi in the race in Beijing 2015

 

 

 

 

Lu Xiuzhi, together with Liu Hong and an handicapped person at the  "Mass Event" of the first stage of 

"Around Taihu 2015"

 

 

 

Mariavittoria Becchetti is 30th in the 2015 world list U23