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Rossella Giordano
Rossella Giordano (born 1972, Asti) is an Italian race walker, fifth in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic 10 km walk, eleventh at Athens 2004, three-time Universiade silver medallist, and former Italian 20,000 m track record holder.
Sally Pierson
Sally Pierson (born 1963), Australian Victorian race walker and runner; set 10 km walk world best 45:38 (1982) and 20 km best 1:36:19 (1984); won inaugural Australian 20 km and 10 km walk titles; retired at 22.
Sue Brodock
Sue Brodock, American race walker of the 1970s and 1980s; set a 5 km world record of 24:16.2 in Sweden in 1974, won eight US indoor mile walk titles and five outdoor 10 km titles.
Susana Feitor
Susana Paula de Jesus Feitor (born 1975, Alcobertas, Portugal) is a Portuguese race walker, 2005 World Championships 20 km bronze medallist, five-time Olympian, and record 11-time World Championships competitor.
Tatyana Gudkova
Tatyana Gudkova (Татьяна Валентиновна Гудкова), born 1978 in Magnitogorsk, Russian race walker; 8th in the 20 km walk at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2003 World Championships fourth, personal best 1:25:18. Not the épée fencer of the same name.
Thorill Gylder
Thorill Gylder (born 1958), Norwegian race walker, Norway's leading woman in the sport 1975–1981; 13 national titles, world records at 5000 m track (23:17.5, Bislett 1978) and 20 km road (1:43:20), 1979 world championship bronze.
Valerie Leveque Nadaud
Valerie Leveque Nadaud (Valérie Lévêque-Nadaud, born 1968) is a French race walker; 36th in the 10 km walk at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with a 10 km best of 44:43.
Vera Sokolova
Vera Sokolova (Вера Соколова), born 1987, is a Russian race walker who set the women's 20 kilometers world record of 1:25:08 in Sochi in 2011.
Wang Liping
Wang Liping (王丽萍), born 1976 in Fengcheng, Liaoning, is a Chinese race walker, 2000 Sydney Olympic 20 km walk champion in 1:29:05, 2004 Athens eighth-place finisher, and later Beijing Sport University coach.
Xu Yongjiu
Xu Yongjiu (徐永久), Chinese race walker born 1964 in Dalian; won the first women's 10 km walk at the 1983 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Bergen, becoming China's first track and field world champion, and set 5 km and 10,000 m walk world records.
Yan Hong
Yan Hong refers to two Chinese athletes: Yan Hong (阎红, born 1966), race walker, 1987 world 10 km walk bronze medallist and 5000 m walk world record holder; and Yan Hong (严红, born 1967), 1984 Olympic swimmer.
Yang Jiayu
Yang Jiayu (杨家玉, born 1996) is a Chinese race walker, world record holder in the women's 20 km walk (1:23:49, 2021), 2017 world champion, and 2024 Paris Olympic gold medallist.
Yelena Krivokhizka
Yelena Krivokhizka, Ukrainian race walker; set a women's 50 km race walk world best of 4:36:45 at Scanzorosciate on 28 October 2001, in an event where world records were not officially recognised.
Yelena Nikolayeva
Yelena Nikolayeva (Елена Николаевна Николаева), Russian race walker born 1966 in Akshiki; 1996 Olympic 10 km walk champion and 1992 silver medalist, 2003 world 20 km champion, 10 km world record 41:04.
Yelena Shumkina
Yelena Shumkina (Olena Shumkina, Олена Шумкіна), Ukrainian race walker born 1988 in Mordovia, Russia; 2009 European U23 20 km champion, PB 1:25:32; 2012 Olympian later stripped of 2011–2017 results for biological passport irregularities.