- Robert Korzeniowski
Robert Korzeniowski is a former Polish racewalker. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and has won three world championships. Korzeniowski is a three-peat winner of the 50 km walk at the Summer Olympics. He won 1996 in Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. In addition, he became the first athlete to claim both the long distance and the short distance crown, when he won the 20 km title at the 2000 games. He won world championship titles in 1997, 2001, …
- Curt Clausen
Curt Clausen (born 9 October 1967) is an American race walker.
- Nathan Deakes
Nathan Deakes (born August 17, 1977) is an Australian race walker. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. He won gold in the 20km walk and 50km walk events at both the 2002 Manchester Games and the 2006 Melbourne Games, becoming the first man to win both the 20km and 50km walks at two consecutive Commonwealth Games.
- Jane Saville
Jane Saville (born November 5, 1974 in Sydney) is an Australian race walker who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Saville, from an athletically-inclined family, competed in swimming and surf lifesaving events as well as walking as a junior athlete. She has competed at three Olympics, with a midfield result in 1996. However, she became a household name at the Sydney games during an emotional disqualification.
- Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born on July 1, 1974 in Cuenca) is an Ecuadorian track and field athlete. He has specialised in 20 km race walk. His medal at the 1996 Olympics was the first Olympic medal ever for Ecuador. In the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France, Pérez also set the world best performance (as there are no world records in race walking) with 1:17:21. Pérez also had 4th place finishes in the 20 km walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- María Vasco
María Vasco is a Spanish race walker, who won the bronze medal over 20 km at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Ugo Frigerio
Ugo Frigerio (September 16, 1901 in Milan - July 7, 1968 in Garda) was an Italian athlete, who won the gold medal in both the 3 km Walk and 10 km Walk at the 1920 Summer Olympics. In the 3 km Walk he had a time of 13:14.2, and in the 10 km Walk he finished with a time of 48:06.2.
- Larry Young
Larry Young (born 10 February, 1943) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometer walk. He competed for the United States in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 50 kilometer walk where he won the bronze medal. He repeated this feat four years later in Munich at the 1972 Summer Olympics despite finishing the race a full 30 minutes quicker.
- Chris Maddocks
Christopher ("Chris") Lloyd Maddocks (born March 28, 1957) is a retired race walker from Great Britain, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. He retired from international competition after finishing last in the 50km race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
- Maurizio Damilano
Maurizio Damilano (born April 6, 1957 in Scarnafigi) is a Italian former race walker. <BR>
- Ivano Brugnetti
Ivano Brugnetti (born September 1, 1976 in Milan) is a Italian race walker.
- Andrey Perlov
Andrey Perlov (born December 12, 1961) is a retired race walker who represented the USSR and later Russia. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He also won the 1990 European Championships as well as silver medals at the 1991 World Championships and the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in 1985 and 1989. His personal best time is 3:37:41 h, placing him 8th in the all-time performers list.
- Alex Schwazer
Alex Schwazer (born 26 December 1984) is an Italian race walker. He won the bronze medal in the 50 km race at the 2005 World Championships in a national record time of 3:41:54 hours.
- Denis Nizhegorodov
Denis Nizhegorodov (born July 26, 1980) is a Russian race walker. His personal best time over 50 kilometres is 3:35:29, the current world leading time.
- Bernardo Segura
Bernardo Segura (born February 11, 1970 in San Mateo Atenco) is a Mexican race walker.
- Carlos Mercenario
Carlos Mercenario Carbajal (born May 23, 1967) is a retired Mexican race walker.
- Olimpiada Ivanova
Olimpiada Ivanova is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in race walking. She has 4 medals from the major events. Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 Edmonton World Championships, where she beat the rest of the world with the time 1.27:48. A year later, in 2002, she won another gold medal at the 2002 European Championship in Munich. The next major sporting event she took part in was the 2004 Athens Olympics where she finished second.
- Ernesto Canto
Ernesto Canto (born 18 November, 1959 in Mexico City) was a Mexican race walker who competed mainly in the 20 kilometre walk. He competed for Mexico in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the 20 kilometre walk where he won the gold medal. <br> <br>
- Yelena Nikolayeva
Yelena Nikolayeva is a Russian race walker. Her first international achievement was a fifth place at the 1987 World Championships, something which happened again at the 1991 World Indoor Championships. One year later she won an Olympic silver medal behind Chen Yueling. Success followed over the next years, and in 1996 she became the second and last Olympic champion in the 10 kilometres distance, which was replaced by 20 km. Proving to handle the longer distance as well, …
- Hatem Ghoula
Hatem Ghoula (born 7 June 1973) is a Tunisian race walker. He holds the African records in both 20,000 metres, 20 km and 50 km walk.
- Ronald Weigel
Ronald Weigel (born August 8, 1959 in Hildburghausen, Thuringia) is a German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner. In the 1980's through the middle of the 1990's he represented East Germany (and then Germany after 1990) as one of world's best in race walking. His first big win came in 1983 when he won the World title in the 50 km walk. At the Summer Olympic games he won a silver medal in the 20 km walk as well as two bronze medals in the 50 km walk.
- Gillian O'Sullivan
Gillian O'Sullivan (born 21 August 1976) is an Irish race walker. She has held the world record in the 5000m walk since 2002 and won a silver medal at the world championship in 2003 over 20km. She retired on April 19th, 2007 due to injury.
- Bernd Kannenberg
Bernd Kannenberg (born 20 August,1942) was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometre walk. He competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 50 kilometre walk where he won the gold medal. <br> <BR>
- George Goulding
George Henry Goulding (November 19, 1884 in Hull, England - January 31, 1966) was a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 10 kilometre walk. He competed in three events at the 1908 Olympic Games in London: the 3,500 metre race, in which he came fourth; the 10 mile walk, which he failed to finish; and the Marathon, in which he came 22nd out of 55 starters and 27 finishers. The two walking distances were discontinued after London.
- German Skurygin
German Skurygin is a Russian race walker. He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1999-2001.
- Vladimir Kanaykin
Vladimir Kanaykin (born 21 March 1985 in Mordvinian ASSR) is a Russian race walker. He won the 2002 World Junior Championships, took the silver medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships and finished ninth in the 50 km race at the 2006 European Championships He competed at the 2005 World Championships, but was disqualified.
- Francisco Javier Fernández
Francisco Javier ("Paquillo") Fernández Peláez (born March 6, 1977 in Guadix, Granada) is a Spanish race walker.
- Valeriy Spitsyn
Valeriy Spitsyn (born December 5, 1965) is a Russian race walker.
- Roman Rasskazov
Roman Rasskazov (born April 28, 1979 in Kowylkino, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker.
- Julio René Martínez
Julio René Martínez is a Guatemalan race walker.
- Hartwig Gauder
Hartwig Gauder (born November 10 1954 in Vaihingen an der Enz) is a former German race walker.
- Irina Stankina
Irina Stankina (born March 25, 1977 in Saransk) is a Russian race walker. The 1994 World Junior champion and record holder, in 1995 she won the 10 km race at the World Championships as the youngest ever (18 years and 135 days). She later walked the 20 km distance in 1:25:29 hours, the fourth best time ever.
- Natalie Saville
Natalie Saville (born July 9, 1978) is an Australian race walker. She finished second in the 20 km race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Her sister, Jane Saville, finished first in the event. Saville is coached by her brother-in-law, Matthew White. Saville finished 4th in the 20 km race at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 36th in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
- Zhao Chengliang
Zhao Chengliang (born 1 June 1984) is a Chinese race walker.
- Wang Yan
Wang Yan (born May 3, 1971 in Liaoning) is a Chinese race walker, who won the bronze medal over 10 km at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She also won the 1993 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, as well as a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and a bronze at the 2001 East Asian Games.
- Aleksey Voyevodin
Aleksey Voyevodin (born August 9, 1970) is a Russian race walker mainly competing over the 50 km distance. He has one World Championships silver medal, and won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Josep Marín
Josep Marín Sospedra is a catalan race walker.
- Don Thompson
Donald James Thompson MBE. In the 50 km race, staged at temperatures of up to 87°F, the front two competitors were disqualified, and Thompson beat the John Ljunggren of Sweden by 17 seconds to win the gold medal. He was only the second British man to win an Olympic athletics title after the Second World War. The only other British competitor to win a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics was Anita Lonsbrough, in the 200 m breaststroke.
- Vladimir Golubnichy
Vladimir Stepanovich Golubnichy was a Soviet race walker who dominated the 20-kilometre walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning the total of four Olympic medals. He trained at VSS Spartak in Sumy. Golubnichy began athletics in 1953 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1959. Apart from his outstanding performance at the Olympics, he was the 1974 European Champion and the USSR Champion in 1960, 1964-65, 1968, 1972 and 1974.
- Olive Loughnane
Olive Loughnane (born 14 January 1976) is an Irish race walker. She has competed in 2 Olympics (Sydney and Athens)and was the first Irish female athlete to achieve the A standard for the Beijing Olympics. Life Born in 1976 she is the eldest of seven children. She was born in Cork, moved to Galway with her family when she was a child only later to return to Cork where she is currently living with her husband and daughter.