Peruvian breaks 35-km race walk world record

Peru’s Kimberly Garcia Leon broke the 35-kilometre race walk world record on Saturday with a time of two hours, 37 minutes and 44 seconds in Dudince, Slovakia.

The world champion in both the 20-kilometre and 35-kilometre walk broke the previous record of 2:38:24 set by Russian Klavdiya Afanasyeva in 2019, in a warning to her rivals ahead of the Paris Olympics next year.

China’s Liu Hong came in second in an Asian record of 2:40:06 while Magaly Bonilla from Ecuador took third place. Reuters