Portuguese racewalker (born 1980)
Inês Henriques (born 1 May 1980) is a Portuguese race walker . Internationally, she has won bronze medals at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics . She represented Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics and has competed at the World Championships in Athletics on eight occasions from 2001 to 2017.
She won at the Chihuahua City meeting of the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge in March.[1]
In 2017, in London, she won the gold medal in the 50km walk event, held for the first time during the World Championships in Athletics .[2] With her time of 4:05:56, she also set the world record for the event.[3]
International competitions
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Notes
Representing Portugal
1996
World Junior Championships
Sydney , Australia
22nd
5000 m
25:17.22
1998
World Junior Championships
Annecy , France
24th
5000 m
23:54.51
2000
European Race Walking Cup
Eisenhüttenstadt , Germany
42nd
20 km
1:41:19
2001
European Race Walking Cup
Dudince , Slovakia
25th
20 km
1:36:08
European U23 Championships
Amsterdam , Netherlands
10th
20 km
1:34:49
World Championships
Edmonton , Canada
—
20 km
DQ
2002
European Championships
Munich , Germany
15th
20 km
1:35:07
World Race Walking Cup
Turin , Italy
23rd
20 km
1:35:28
2004
World Race Walking Cup
Naumburg , Germany
34th
20 km
1:32:32
Olympic Games
Athens , Greece
25th
20 km
1:33:53
2005
European Race Walking Cup
Miskolc , Hungary
17th
20 km
1:35:12
1st
Team - 20 km
25 pts
World Championships
Helsinki , Finland
27th
20 km
1:35:44
2006
European Championships
Gothenburg , Sweden
12th
20 km
1:31:58
World Race Walking Cup
A Coruña , Spain
13th
20 km
1:30:28
2007
World Championships
Osaka , Japan
7th
20 km
1:33:06
2008
World Race Walking Cup
Cheboksary , Russia
19th
20 km
1:32:35
2009
European Race Walking Cup
Metz , France
—
20 km
DQ
World Championships
Berlin , Germany
11th
20 km
1:32:51
2010
World Race Walking Cup
Chihuahua City , Mexico
3rd
20 km
1:33:28
Ibero-American Championships
San Fernando , Spain
3rd
10,000 m
44:31.27
European Championships
Barcelona , Spain
9th
20 km
1:32:26
2011
European Race Walking Cup
Olhão , Portugal
13th
20 km
1:34:11
World Championships
Daegu , South Korea
10th
20 km
1:32:06
2012
World Race Walking Cup
Saransk , Russia
10th
20 km
1:31:43
Olympic Games
London , United Kingdom
15th
20 km
1:29:54
2013
European Race Walking Cup
Dudince , Slovakia
8th
20 km
1:32:39
2nd
Team - 20 km
23 pts
World Championships
Moscow , Russia
11th
20 km
1:30:28
2014
World Race Walking Cup
Taicang , China
22nd
20 km
1:29:33
2015
European Race Walking Cup
Murcia , Spain
16th
20 km
1:30:44
3rd
Team - 20 km
38 pts
World Championships
Beijing , China
23rd
20 km
1:34:47
2017
World Championships
London , United Kingdom
1st
50 km
4:05:56
2018
World Race Walking Team Championships
Taicang , China
—
50 km
DNF
European Championships
Berlin , Germany
1st
50 km
4:09:21
Awards
References
External links
1987–1997 10 kilometres 1999–present 20 kilometres 2017–2019 50 kilometres 2022-present 35 kilometres
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