5000 metres race walk

IAAF just ratified world records for men's indoor marks. On February 14, 1995, Mikhail Shchennikov of Russia set the 5,000 m race walk world indoor record in Moscow in a time of 18:07.08. The faster all-time men's best outdoor mark is held by Hatem Ghoula of Tunisia, at 18:05.49. The all-time women's best 5,000 m race-walk mark was set outdoor and is held by Eleonora Giorgi of Italy, at 20:01.80.

• + = en route to 10,000m performance
• h = hand timing

• Correct as of March 2023.^[2]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	18:05.49	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	1 May 1997	Tunis
2	18:12.52	Declan Tingay	Australia	3 March 2023	Melbourne	[3]
3	18:17.22	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	3 July 1992	Reims
4	18:18.01	Yohann Diniz	France	27 June 2008	Villeneuve d'Ascq
5	18:20.14	Koki Ikeda	Japan	25 October 2020	Inzai	[4]
6	18:26.70	Yuta Koga	Japan	25 October 2020	Inzai	[5]
7	18:27.34	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	8 June 2007	Villeneuve d'Ascq
8	18:28.26	Masatora Kawano	Japan	25 October 2020	Inzai	[6]
9	18:28.80	Roman Mrázek	Slovakia	14 June 1989	Bratislava
10	18:30.43	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	11 June 1992	Caserta
11	18:31.76	Frants Kostyukevich	Belarus	7 February 1993	Villeneuve d'Ascq
12	18:32.46	Erik Tysse	Norway	10 August 2007	Askim
13	18:32.56	Perseus Karlström	Sweden	8 March 2019	Melbourne	[7]
14	18:33.16	João Vieira	Portugal	10 May 2000	Rio Maior
15	18:34.88	Toshikazu Yamanishi	Japan	19 September 2020	Kumagaya	[8]
16	18:35.36	Eder Sánchez	Mexico	2 July 2014	Katowice
17	18:37.22	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	12 July 2015	Kitami
18	18:37.60	Eiki Takahashi	Japan	12 July 2015	Kitami
19	18:37.84	Daisuke Matsunaga	Japan	4 July 2018	Abashiri
20	18:38.45	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	25 June 2009	Milano
21	18:38.97	Dane Bird-Smith	Australia	5 March 2016	Melbourne
22	18:39.08	Evan Dunfee	Canada	18 June 2021	Burnaby	[9]
23	18:39.10	Gabriel Bordier	France	22 May 2022	Segre
24	18:39.28	Ever Palma	Mexico	2 July 2014	Katowice
25	18:39.65	Álvaro Martín	Spain	25 July 2015	Gijón

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 18:39.65:

• Declan Tingay also walked 18:24.50 (2022).

• Correct as of April 2022.^[10][11]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	20:01.80	Eleonora Giorgi	Italy	18 May 2014	Misterbianco	[12]
2	20:02.60	Gillian O'Sullivan	Ireland	14 July 2002	Dublin
3	20:03.04	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	11 February 1996	Sydney
4	20:07.52	Beate Gummelt	Germany	26 June 1990	Rostock
6	20:11.45	Sabine Krantz	Germany	2 July 2005	Wattenscheid
7	20:12.41	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	2 August 2003	Rieti
9	20:15.71	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Germany	4 June 2014	Kyiv
10	20:17.35	Jemima Montag	Australia	26 February 2022	Melbourne	[13]
11	20:18.87	Melanie Seeger	Germany	10 July 2004	Braunschweig
12	20:21.69	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	1 July 1995	Cesenatico
13	20:27.59	Ileana Salvador	Italy	3 June 1989	Trento
14	20:28.05	Tatyana Kalmykova	Russia	12 July 2007	Ostrava
15	20:28.17	María Pérez	Spain	30 April 2022	Andújar	[14]
16	20:28.62	Sari Essayah	Finland	9 July 1994	Tuusula
17	20:29.63	Claudia Stef	Romania	19 June 1999	Istanbul
18	20:31.4	Irina Stankina	Russia	10 February 1996	Adler
19	20:36.2	Irina Petrova	Russia	19 June 2005	Saransk
20	20:37.7	Jin Bingjie	China	3 March 1990	Hefei
21	20:37.83	Kjersti Plätzer	Norway	7 July 2001	Drammen
22	20:38.0	Chen Yueling	China	3 March 1990	Hefei
23	20:38.2	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	19 June 2005	Saransk
24	20:40.24	Susana Feitor	Portugal	9 May 2001	Rio Maior
25	20:40.3	Tatyana Korotkova	Russia	19 June 2005	Saransk

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 20:38.16:

• Gillian O'Sullivan also walked 20:13.13 (2003).
• Kerry Saxby-Junna also walked 20:13.29 (1996), 20:17.19 (1990), 20:22.75 (1996).
• Sabine Krantz also walked 20:27.47 (2004).
• María Pérez also walked 20:38.16 (2018).

• + = en route to 10,000m performance
• h = hand timing

• Correct as of February 2023.^[15]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	18:07.08	Mikhail Shchennikov	Russia	14 February 1995	Moscow
2	18:08.86	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	17 February 2007	Ancona
3	18:11.41	Ronald Weigel	Germany	13 February 1988	Wien
4	18:15.25	Grigoriy Kornev	Russia	7 February 1992	Moskva
5	18:15.54	Andrey Ruzavin	Russia	30 January 2014	Samara
6	18:16.76	Yohann Diniz	France	7 December 201	Reims
7	18:19.97	Giovanni De Benedictis	Italy	28 February 1992	Genova
8	18:20.97	Tom Bosworth	Great Britain	23 February 2020	Glasgow	[16]
9	18:21.76	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine	30 January 2014	Samara
10	18:22.25	Andreas Erm	Germany	25 February 2001	Dortmund
11	18:23.18	Rishat Shafikov	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara
12	18:23.88	Frants Kostyukevich	Belarus	9 February 1991	Volgograd
13	18:24.13	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	17 February 2007	Belfast
14	18:27.15	Alessandro Gandellini	Italy	12 February 2000	Genova
15	18:27.80	Jozef Pribilinec	Slovakia	7 March 1987	Indianapolis
16	18:27.95	Stefan Johansson	Sweden	28 February 1992	Genova
17	18:28.90	Roman Mrázek	Slovakia	5 March 1989	Budapest
18	18:30.91	Aleksandr Yargunkin	Russia	7 January 2007	Yekaterinburg
19	18:32.09	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	21 February 1993	Spala
20	18:33.95	Ivan Kuznetsov	Russia	7 January 2007	Yekaterinburg
21	18:34.77	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary	5 March 1989	Budapest
22	18:36.71	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara
		Ilya Markov	Russia	22 February 1999	Spala
24	18:37.63	Francesco Fortunato	Italy	18 February 2023	Ancona	[17]
25	18:38.71	Ernesto Canto	Mexico	7 March 1987	Indianapolis

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 18:38.71:

• Mikhail Shchennikov also walked 18:15.91 (1989), 18:23.55 (1991).
• Grigoriy Kornev also walked 18:23.10 (1992).
• Ivano Brugnetti also walked 18:23.47 (2009).
• Giovanni De Benedictis also walked 18:23.60 (1991).
• Tom Bosworth also walked 18:28.70 (2018).

• Correct as of January 2023.^[18][19]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	20:15.6 h	Yelena Lashmanova	Russia	30 December 2016	Saransk
2	20:23.2	Yakaterina Ryzhova	Russia	30 December 2016	Saransk
3	20:37.77	Margarita Turova	Belarus	13 December 2005	Minsk
4	20:42.33	Yelena Gruzinova	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara
5	20:44.45	Anna Lukyanova	Russia	23 February 2010	Volgograd
6	20:48.00	Sabine Krantz	Germany	19 December 2006	Halle
7	20:48.9	Sofiya Brodatskaya	Russia	30 December 2016	Saransk
8	20:50.6	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	21 January 1997	Moskva
9	20:53.56	Kseniya Trifonova	Russia	23 February 2010	Volgograd
10	21:00.0	Tamara Kovalenko	Russia	23 January 2010	Moskva
11	21:00.97	Ayşe Tekdal	Turkey	17 January 2021	Istanbul	[20]
12	21:02.69	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Ukraine	28 January 2023	Kyiv	[21]
13	21:02.78	Olga Mikhaylova	Russia	23 February 2010	Volgograd
14	21:03.76	Olena Sobchuk	Ukraine	28 January 2023	Kyiv	[22]
15	21:05.56	Meryem Bekmez	Turkey	17 January 2021	Istanbul	[23]
16	21:05.83	Daryia Paluektava	Belarus	22 February 2020	Mogilyov
17	21:06.0	Natalya Shiviryova	Russia	23 December 2006	Cheboksary
18	21:06.92	Viktoryia Rashchupkina	Belarus	22 February 2020	Mogilyov
19	21:08.2	Rimma Makarova	Russia	21 January 1997	Moskva
20	21:09.7	Natalya Trofimova	Russia	24 January 1995	Moskva
21	21:11.04	Valentina Tsybulskaya	Belarus	26 February 1999	Minsk
22	21:11.9	Tatyana Korotkova	Russia	6 January 2008	Chelyabinsk
23	21:13.5	Marina Smyslova	Russia	29 January 2003	Novosibirsk
24	21:17.7	Yekaterina Koneva	Russia	8 February 2009	Shchelkovo
25	21:19.67	Olga Panfyorova	Russia	1 March 1997	Samara

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 21:19.67: