10,000 metres race walk

The 10,000 metres race walk is a racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. 10,000 meters is 6.21 miles.^[1]

Athletics 10,000 metres walk
World records
Men	Eiki Takahashi (JPN) 37:25.21 (2020)
Women	Nadezhda Ryashkina (URS) 41:56.23 (1990)

History

This distance is not commonly raced at senior competitions but part of junior and youth championships. Top level senior athletics racewalking events typically feature 10 km road distance.

World best

On November 14, 2020, Eiki Takahashi of Japan set a new 10,000 m race walk world best in Inzai in a time of 37:25.21. The all-time women's 10,000 m race-walk record is held by Nadezhda Ryashkina of Soviet Union, at 41:56.23.

All-time top 25 (outdoor)

Men

• Correct as of August 2025.^[2]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	37:23.99	Gabriel Bordier	France	2 August 2025	Talence	[3]
2	37:25.21	Eiki Takahashi	Japan	14 November 2020	Inzai	[4]
3	37:25.90	Koki Ikeda	Japan	14 November 2020	Inzai	[4]
4	37:35.00	Yuta Koga	Japan	14 November 2020	Inzai	[4]
5	37:53.09	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	27 July 2008	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
6	37:57.02	Perseus Karlström	Sweden	26 June 2022	Dublin
7	37:58.08	Daisuke Matsunaga	Japan	7 July 2018	Kitami	[5]
8	37:58.6 h	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	23 July 2005	Sesto San Giovanni
9	38:02.60	Jozef Pribilinec	Slovakia	30 August 1985	Banská Bystrica
10	38:03.78	Declan Tingay	Australia	2 February 2023	Canberra	[6][7]
11	38:06.28	Miguel Ángel López	Spain	24 July 2016	Gijón	[8]
12	38:06.6 h	David Smith	Australia	25 September 1986	Sydney
13	38:08.13	Yohann Diniz	France	12 July 2014	Reims
14	38:10.23	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	16 July 2015	Abashiri
15	38:12.13	Ronald Weigel	East Germany	11 May 1986	Potsdam
16	38:14.24	Vasiliy Mizinov	Russia	2 August 2022	Chelyabinsk	[9]
17	38:16.08	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	16 June 2024	Kazan	[10]
18	38:18.0 h	Valdas Kazlauskas	Soviet Union  Lithuania	18 September 1983	Moscow
19	38:20.0 h	Moacir Zimmermann	Brazil	7 June 2008	Blumenau
20	38:23.73[a]	Wang Zhen	China	8 February 2015	Genova	[11]
21	38:23.95	Ryo Hamanishi	Japan	14 November 2020	Inzai	[4]
22	38:24.0 h	Bernardo Segura	Mexico	7 May 1994	Bergen
23	38:24.31	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	30 May 1998	Tunis
24	38:25.42	Evan Dunfee	Canada	28 January 2024	Canberra	[12]
25	38:26.4 h	Daniel García	Mexico	17 May 1997	Sdr Omme

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 38:23.50:

• Perseus Karlström also walked 38:03.95 (2019).
• Paquillo Fernández also walked 38:07.65 (2007).
• Daisuke Matsunaga also walked 38:16.76 (2016).
• Eiki Takahashi also walked 38:01.49 (2015), 38:18.51 (2014), 38:21.88 (2016).
• David Smith also walked 38:20.9 (1985).
• Ivano Brugnetti also walked 38:23.5 (2004).

Women

• Correct as of August 2022.^[13]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	41:37.9 h[b]	Gao Hongmiao	China	7 April 1994	Beijing
2	41:42.5 h[b]	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Ukraine	1 November 2014	Mukachevo
3	41:45:84[b]	Elvira Khasanova	Russia	3 August 2019	Cheboksary
4	41:56.23	Nadezhda Ryashkina	Soviet Union	24 July 1990	Seattle
5	41:57.22	Kerry Saxby-Junna	Australia	24 July 1990	Seattle
6	41:57.29	Antonella Palmisano	Italy	23 April 2017	Orvieto	[14]
7	42:02.99	Sandra Arenas	Colombia	25 August 2018	Trujillo	[15]
8	42:11.5 h	Beate Gummelt	Germany	5 May 1992	Fana
9	42:13.7 h	Madelein Svensson	Sweden	5 May 1992	Fana
10	42:14.12	Raquel González	Spain	23 July 2016	Gijón	[16]
11	42:19.2 h	Gu Yan	China	7 April 1994	Beijing
12	42:23.37	Julia Takács	Spain	27 July 2014	Alcobendas
13	42:23.7 h	Ileana Salvador	Italy	8 May 1993	Fana
14	42:30.31	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	26 July 1994	Sankt Petersburg
15	42:34.30	Jemima Montag	Australia	6 August 2022	Birmingham	[17]
16	42:35.69	Beatriz Pascual	Spain	23 July 2016	Gijón	[16]
17	42:37.0 h	Sari Essayah	Finland	8 May 1993	Fana
18	42:38.24	Liu Hongyu	China	24 October 1995	Nanjing
19	42:40.37	Feng Haixia	China	24 October 1995	Nanjing
20	42:43.23	Yelena Sayko	Russia	26 July 1994	Sankt Peterburg
21	42:45.0 h	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	30 May 1999	Catania
22	42:46.7 h	Cui Yingzi	China	15 March 1992	Jinan
		Chen Yueling	China	15 March 1992	Jinan
24	42:47.25	Anezka Drahotová	Czech Republic	23 July 2014	Eugene
25	42:47.4 h	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland	8 May 1993	Fana

Notes

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 42:30.13:

• Kerry Saxby-Junna also walked hand-timed 42:22.6 (1993), 42:23.9 (1992), 42:25.2 (1990), automatic-timed 42:26.29 (1993), and hand-timed 42:27.5 (1995).
• Beate Gummelt also walked hand-timed 42:29.4 (1990), 38:21.88 (2016).
• Gao Hongmiao also walked 42:30.13 (1995).

All-time top 25 (indoor)

Men

• Correct as of 2 September 2018.^[18]

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	38:23.73 [19]	Wang Zhen	China	8 February 2015	Genoa
2	38:31.4 (ht)	Werner Heyer	East Germany	12 January 1980	Berlin
3	38:35.5 (ht)	Ronald Weigel	Germany	12 January 1980	Berlin
4	38:46.0 (ht)	Reima Salonen	Finland	9 March 1988	Turku
5	38:54.4 (ht)	Frants Kostyukevich	Belarus	3 February 1996	Minsk
6	39:06.06	Igor Glavan	Ukraine	24 December 2014	Sumy
7	39:10.6 (ht)	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy	Belarus	4 February 1995	Minsk
8	39:13.15	Hartwig Gauder	Germany	26 February 1988	Senftenberg
9	39:14.0 (ht)	Pyotr Pochenchuk	Belarus	6 February 1983	Moskva
10	39:15.91	Cai Zelin	China	8 February 2015	Genova
11	39:20.52	Nazar Kovalenko	Ukraine	20 February 2010	Sumy
12	39:20.8	Viktor Semyonov	Russia	17 February 1980	Moskva
13	39:21.0 (ht)	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	21 January 1997	Moskva
14	39:21.6 (ht)	Nikolay Matveyev	Belarus	2 March 1981	Minsk
15	39:22.0 (ht)	Aleksey Voyevodin	Russia	28 December 2001	Penza
16	39:26.79	Ivan Trotskiy	Belarus	22 February 2008	Mogilyov
17	39:26.90	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine	16 February 2012	Sumy
18	39:27.5 (ht)	Artur Meleshkevich	Belarus	3 February 1996	Minsk
19	39:30.5 (ht)	Mikhail Orlov	Russia	24 January 1995	Moskva
20	39:32.0 (ht)	Igor Plotnikov	Russia	4 March 1988	Minsk
		Aleksey Kronin	Russia	21 January 1997	Moskva
22	39:34.0 (ht)	Roland Wieser	East Germany	11 January 1984	Potsdam
23	39:34.6 (ht)	Aivars Rumbenieks	Lithuania	17 February 1980	Moskva
24	39:38.6 (ht)	Valdas Kazlauskas	Lithuania	17 February 1980	Moskva
25	39:39.0 (ht)	Ralf Kowalsky	East Germany	11 January 1984	Potsdam

Women

Rank	Result	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Place	Ref
1	43:54.63	Yelena Ginko	Belarus	22 February 2008	Mogilev
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7	44:38.8 (ht)	Olimpiada Ivanova	Russia	21 January 2001	Moscow
8	44:39.55	Viktoriya Rashchupkina	Belarus	16 February 2018	Mogilev	[20]
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25	49:36.3	Ivana Renić	Croatia	18 April 2021	Zagreb	[21]

• Yelena Ginko also walked 44:07.43 (2006)

Medalists

European Athletics Championships

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1946 Oslo details	John Mikaelsson (SWE)	Fritz Schwab (SUI)	Émile Maggi (FRA)
1950 Brussels details	Fritz Schwab (SUI)	Émile Maggi (FRA)	John Mikaelsson (SWE)
1954 Berne details	Josef Doležal (TCH)	Anatoliy Yegorov (URS)	Sergey Lobastov (URS)

Notes

1. different sources listed time both as indoor and outdoor mark, probably outdoor
2. not ratified by IAAF