The 50km race is lived in particular on the attempt by Ines Henriques to break the world record over the distance.
The race was immediately put in the right direction.
The transition to 35 km was 2:50:08 and Ines Henriques has an advantage on the split time of Monica Svensson 2:38 time (2:52:47)
If it continued with a gait of 5min/km would arrive to finish with a time around 4:05:00 lowering the world record of more than 5:00.
At 45km Ines Henriques passes in a time of 3:39:27 while Svensson passed in 3:44:36.
The advantage on the world record is passed now from 2:39 to 3:09.Is the fastest part of the race for the athlete of Rio Maior.
The effort is now feeling. There is to suffer and Ines Henriques suffers.
The last 5km are almost an ordeal (28:48) but she ends with the official time of 4:08:26.
Despite the difficulties the record of Monica Svensson is broken by 2:33.
Congratulations to athlete of Rio Maior and her coach.
Here is the split time comparison every 10km of both 50km
| Athlete | 10km | 20km | Split | 30km | Split | 40km | Split | 50km | Split |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| Henriques | 49:19 | 1:37:57 | (48:38) | 2:26:10 | (48:13) | 3:14:19 | (48:09) | 4:08:26 | (54:07) |
| Svensson | 50:25 | 1:39:00 | (48:35) | 2:27:52 | (48:52) | 3:18:28 | (50:32) | 4:10:59 | (52:31) |
All-time world list actually is the following
| Result | Competitor | DoB | Nation | Venue | Date |
| | | | | | |
| 4:08:26 | HENRIQUES Ines | 01.05.1980 | POR | Porto de Mos (PO) | 15.01.2017 |
| 4:10:59 | SVENSSON Monica | 26.12.1978 | SWE | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 21.10.2007 |
| 4:12:16 | GINKO Elena | 30.07.1976 | BLR | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 17.10.2004 |
| 4:16:27 | DUKURE Jolanta | 20.09.1979 | LAT | Parelepa (LAT) | 09.09.2006 |
| 4:25:22 | VIRBALYTE-DIMSIENE Brigyta | 01.02.1985 | LTU | Villa di Serio (ITA) | 17.10.2010 |
| 4:28:13 | XINOU Evangelia | 22.11.1981 | GRE | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 17.10.2004 |
| 4:28:53 | AIDIETYTE Neringa | 05.06.1983 | LTU | Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR) | 01.10.2006 |
| 4:29:15 | BRUNIKO Natalia | 23.02.1973 | ITA | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 27.10.2002 |
| 4:32:36 | YEGOROVA-SHELEST Lyudmila | 04.10.1974 | UKR | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 18.10.2009 |
| 4:33:22 | TAYLOR-TALCOTT Erin | 21.5.1978 | USA | Santee (USA) | 22.01.2012 |
| 4:34:01 | ZHOU Kang | 24.12.1989 | CHN | Huangshan (CHN) | 06.03.2016 |
| 4:35:51 | POTENZA Annalisa | 10.02.1981 | ITA | Scanzorosciate (ITA) | 18.10.2009 |
| 4:38:56 | WANG Dan | 11.01.1995 | CHN | Huangshan (CHN) | 06.03.2016 |
| 4:39:39 | ARMENTA Susan | 19.09.1973 | USA | Chula Vista (USA) | 17.02.2002 |
Other races
35km men
The 35 km men has seen yet another victory of Joao Vieira with a time of 2:38:40.
Second place to Pedro Isidro in 2:42:41.
Bronze to Miguel Carvalho in 2:45:16.
50km men
The 50 km men valis as Portugal Championshps has seen yet another victory of Amaro Teixeira with a time of 4:56:53.
Second place to Henrique Santos in 5:00:12.
A smile of Italy also in the 50km men: the winner of the race was Gregorio Angelini (ITA) who finished the race in 4:08:22, improving by 18" the personal best (4:08:40 previous obtained in Catania on January 31, 2016.
Henriques sets inaugural women's 50km race walk world record
Portugal’s Inês Henriques established the first official women’s world record* for the 50km race walk, covering the distance in 4:08:26 at the Portuguese 35km and 50km Race Walking Championships in Porto de Mos on Sunday (15).
At the IAAF Council Meeting in Monaco last month, the IAAF announced that as of 1 January 2017 any performances equal to or faster than 4:30:00 would be accepted as having fulfilled the conditions for a world record. Prior to today, the fastest 50km time by a woman was Monica Svensson’s 4:10:59 set in 2007.
Henriques, who finished 12th in the 20km at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was on world record pace for most of the way and at one point looked set to finish within 4:06. But her quick early pace and lack of experience at the distance meant that it took her more than 30 minutes to cover the final 5km section. Nevertheless, she still finished more than two minutes inside the previous fastest time on record.
Her splits after each 5km segment were: 25:52 (5km), 49:19 (10km), 1:13:40 (15km), 1:37:57 (20km), 2:02:07 (25km), 2:26:10 (30km), 2:50:09 (35km), 3:14:19 (40km), 3:39:27 (45 km).
“We achieved the goals we were looking for, which were to be the first Portuguese woman to race the distance and to set a world record,” said Jorge Miguel, Henriques’ coach and the race director of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting in Rio Maior.
Italy’s Gregorio Angelini won the men’s 50km event in 4:08:22. Henriques was the fastest woman at the 35km distance, covering it in 2:50:09, while João Vieira, who finished fourth in the 20km at the 2013 IAAF World Championships, was the top man in 2:38:40.
António Manuel Fernandes for the IAAF
Ines Henriques at 49km (photo by Isaura Morais - POR)
Ines Henriques together with the coach Jorge Miguel (photo by FPA - POR)
Ines Henriques (photo by Isaura Morais - POR)