35 km walk (road), women

What to remember

Records in the 35 km walk only became official on January 1, 2023, and a few months later María Pérez set the women's benchmark: 2 h 37 min 15.00 s on May 21, 2023 in Poděbrady, Czech Republic, at the European Race Walking Team Championships. Her average speed was 13.355 km/h.

The Spaniard, born in Orce, was European 20 km walk champion in Berlin in 2018. She won world titles over both 20 km and 35 km in Budapest in 2023 and again in Tokyo in 2025, and took Olympic gold in the mixed relay in Paris in 2024.

The distance replaced the 50 km walk at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene; the women's 50 km had only been held there in 2017 and 2019. The 35 km had appeared shortly before, in March 2022 in Muscat, at the World Race Walking Team Championships, where Ecuador's Glenda Morejón won the women's race.