World record progression 20km walk women

The following table shows the world record progression in the women's 20 kilometres walk, as recognised by the IAAF

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World record progression

TIME	DATE	PLACE
2:24:00	1931-09-06	Prague, Czechoslovakia
2:14:07	1931-09-14	Prague, Czechoslovakia
1:59:02	1934-06-09	Zürich, Switzerland
1:57:35	1962-07-28	Cape Town, South Africa
1:57:26	1963-10-27	Copenhagen, Denmark
1:54:30	1967-10-22	Copenhagen, Denmark
1:53:46	1968-10-27	Copenhagen, Denmark
1:51:05	1969-10-12	Copenhagen, Denmark
1:47:10	1973-09-22	Copenhagen, Denmark
1:43:38	1977-07-16	Adelaide, Australia
1:43:20	1978-04-23	Mixhuca, Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
1:41:42	1980-02-03	Melbourne, Australia
1:39:31	1981-12-20	Melbourne, Australia
1:36:36	1982-12-19	Melbourne, Australia
1:36:23	1984-07-07	Canberra, Australia
1:36:19	1984-07-17	Melbourne, Australia
1:29:40	1988-05-13	Vårname, Sweden Värnamo Municipality Värnamo Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type...
1:27:30	1995-05-01	Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's... , PR China
1:27:30	1999-02-07	Adler Adlersky City District Adlersky City District is the southernmost of four city districts of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, lying along the Black Sea coast near the southern Russian border with Abkhazia, Georgia... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
1:26:22	2001-11-19	Guangzhou Guangzhou Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port... , PR China
1:25:41	2005-08-07	Helsinki, Finland
1:25:08	2011-02-26	Sochi, Russia

World record progression

See also