China's Yang breaks women's 20km race walk world record
Pub Date:2021-03-22 08:55 Source:Xinhua
Yang Jiayu competes in the women's 20km race walk at the 2021 Chinese
Race Walk National Championships in Huangshan, East China's Anhui
province, on March 20, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
HUANGSHAN -- Former world champion Yang Jiayu of China became the
first woman to dip under the one-hour-and-24-minute barrier in
20-kilometer race walk as she broke the world record here on Saturday at
the 2021 Chinese national championships.
The top two finishers of the race, Yang and Liu Hong, both beat the
world record of one hour, 24 minutes, 38 seconds set by Liu back in
2015.
The 25-year-old Yang, winner of the event at the 2017 World
Championships, took the lead after the first kilometer and paced the
race all the way to finish first in 1:23:49.
Reigning world and Olympic champion Liu finished second in 1:24:27,
followed by world silver medalist Qieyang Shijie, who also improved her
personal best to 1:24:45.
Since the race also serves as the qualification event for the Tokyo
Olympic Games, the top three finishers have earned the slots to
represent China in Tokyo this summer.
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