Asian Race Walking Championships

The Asian Race Walking Championships is an annual race walking competition for athletes representing countries from Asia, organized by the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). It was established in 2006 and has featured races for senior men (20 km and 50 km) and women (20 km). After the inaugural event 2006 in Wajima, Japan, the competition was split into two events: the 20 km (both men and women) were incorporated into the All-Japan Race Walking competitions held in mid March in Nomi, Japan.[1] The 50 km event was held about a month later in mid April in Wajima, Japan. This is established until the year 2008.[2][3][4] There are still annual national 50 km championships held in Wajima, but the further fate of the 50 km event within the Asian Race Walking Championships remains unknown.

Asian 20km Race Walking Championships
Most recent season or competition:
2023
SportRace walking
Founded2006
ContinentAsia (AAA)
Most recent
champion(s)
India India (Men's)
China China (Women's)

Editions

EditionYearCityCountryDate
12006Wajima, Ishikawa  JapanApril 16
22007Nomi, (Neagari), Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 25
Wajima, Ishikawa (50 km)  JapanApril 15
32008Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 16
Wajima, Ishikawa (50 km)  JapanApril 13
42009Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 15
52010Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 14
62011Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 13
72012Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 11
82013Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 10
92014Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 16
102015Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 15
112016Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 20
122017Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 19
132018Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 18
142019Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 17
152023Nomi, Ishikawa (20 km)  JapanMarch 20

Results

Results were compiled from the Athletics Weekly,[5] the Asian Athletics Association,[6][7][8] the IAAF,[2][3][9][10] the Fédération Suisse de Marche[11][12][13][14] and the Tilastopaja webpages.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

Men's results

20 kilometres

YearGoldSilverBronze
2006  Xu Xingde (CHN)1:22:17  Kōichirō Morioka (JPN)1:24:44  Rustam Kuvatov (KAZ)1:25:08
2007  Takayuki Tanii (JPN)1:21:09  Kōichirō Morioka (JPN)1:21:30  Akihiro Sugimoto (JPN)1:23:17
2008  Kōichirō Morioka (JPN)1:21:55  Ronglong Zhang (CHN)1:23:32  Rustam Kuvatov (KAZ)1:24:01
2009  Li Jianbo (CHN)1:20:38  Yu Wei (CHN)1:20:41  Park Chil-sung (KOR)1:20:45
2010  Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)1:20:06  Isamu Fujisawa (JPN)1:20:12  Byun Young-jun (KOR)1:22:07
2011  Kim Hyun-sub (KOR)1:19:31  Wang Gang (CHN)1:22:18  Yusuke Yachi (JPN)1:22:27
2012  Zhu Chundong (CHN)1:21:22  Gurmeet Singh (IND)1:21:31  Byun Young-jun (KOR)1:21:42
2013  Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)1:18:34  Li Tianlei (CHN)1:21:28  Gurmeet Singh (IND)1:21:38
2014  Kim Hyun-sub (KOR)1:19:24 NR  Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)1:21:01  Gurmeet Singh (IND)1:21:30
2015  Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)1:16:36 WR  Isamu Fujisawa (JPN)1:19:08  Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN)1:19:08
2016  Gurmeet Singh (IND)1:20:29  Isamu Fujisawa (JPN)1:20:49  Georgiy Sheiko (KAZ)1:21:52
2017  Kim Hyun-sub (KOR)1:19:50  Georgiy Sheiko (KAZ)1:20:47  Irfan Kolothum Thodi (IND)1:20:59
2018  Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN)1:20:55  Fumitaka Oikawa (JPN)1:21:32  Kim Hyun-sub (KOR)1:21:52
2019  Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN)1:17:15  Masatora Kawano (JPN)1:17:24  Koki Ikeda (JPN)1:17:25
2023  Akshdeep Singh (IND)1:20:57  Choe Byeongkwang (KOR)1:21:20  Wen Yongjie (CHN)1:22:44

50 kilometres

YearGoldSilverBronze
2006  Zhao Jianguo (CHN)3:41:10  Li Jianbo (CHN)3:43:02  Yuki Yamazaki (JPN)3:43:38
2007  Zhao Chengliang (CHN)3:44:26  Yuki Yamazaki (JPN)3:47:40  Li Jianbo (CHN)3:53:24
2008  Yuki Yamazaki (JPN)3:41:55  Takayuki Tanii (JPN)3:49:33  Yusuke Yachi (JPN)3:52:37

Women's results

20 kilometres

YearGoldSilverBronze
2006  Svetlana Tolstaya (KAZ)1:30:22  Sha Yang (CHN)1:31:09  Lihua Sun (CHN)1:31:30
2007  Mayumi Kawasaki (JPN)1:28:57 NR  Sachiko Konishi (JPN)1:33:05  Kim Mi-jung (KOR)1:34:54
2008  Mayumi Kawasaki (JPN)1:31:  Sha Yang (CHN)1:32:23  Masumi Fuchise (JPN)1:32:37
2009  Masumi Fuchise (JPN)1:30:49  Kumi Otoshi (JPN)1:31:42  Yanfei Li (CHN)1:32:16
2010  Masumi Fuchise (JPN)1:29:35  Kumi Otoshi (JPN)1:30:36  Chiaki Asada (JPN)1:32:27
2011  Kumi Otoshi (JPN)1:30:44  Masumi Fuchise (JPN)1:31:52  Chiaki Asada (JPN)1:34:01
2012  Huiqin Ding (CHN)1:30:14  Rei Inoue (JPN)1:34:06  Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phúc (VIE)1:35:13
2013  Kumi Otoshi (JPN)1:33:49  Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phúc (VIE)1:35:26  Jeon Yeong-eun (KOR)1:35:49
2014  Zhou Tongmei (CHN)1:31:58  Rei Inoue (JPN)1:32:56  Khushbir Kaur (IND)1:33:37 NR
2015  Yongbo Hou (CHN)1:29:25  Kumiko Okada (JPN)1:29:46  Jeon Yeong-eun (KOR)1:30:35
2016  Rui Liang (CHN)1:28:43  Kumiko Okada (JPN)1:30:03  Lee Jeong-eun (KOR)1:33:57
2017  Wang Na (CHN)1:30:51  Kumiko Okada (JPN)1:33:21  Yeongeun Jeon (KOR)1:34:35
2018  Duan Dandan (CHN)1:35:12  Ravina (IND)1:35:35  Yuki Yoshizumi (JPN)1:35:52
2019  Ma Zhenxia (CHN)1:28:28  Zhuoma Qiji (CHN)1:29:06  Zhuoma Caixiang (CHN)1:29:28
2023  Lan Gao (CHN)1:29:25  Ayane Yanai (JPN)1:30:58  Priyanka Goswami (IND)1:32:27

All time medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan1319941
2  China127423
3  South Korea31913
4  India2259
5  Kazakhstan1135
6  Vietnam0112
Totals (6 entries)31313193

See also

References