LONDON ’17 SAW the debut of the women’s 50 at a very late date, and there were so few competitors that we didn’t feel it quite right to give full World Ranking status to such a poorly-thought-out introduction. But with a year’s notice, the event crept another step closer to real parity. As we did when the women’s pole vault, triple jump and hammer came on the scene, we’ve restricted the Rankings to a Top 5 instead of 10…
THE WORLD TEAM CHAMPS race was key to the ordering, with the first three from that competition taking the top 3 spots, headed by Rui Liang with her World Record time… Reigning world champ Inês Henriques DNFed at that race, but bounced back with a European gold to take the No. 4 spot before a return to the Taicang order… U.S. walkers were not a factor.
| JUMP TO U.S. RANKINGS | VIEW WORLD TOP 50 LIST | VIEW U.S. TOP 50 LIST |
| 1. RUI LIANG (China) (6/18/94) | |||||
| 4:04:36 | … | 1)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ||
| 4:12:26 | … | 1)Weinan | 9/08 | ||
| 2. HANG YIN (China) (2/07/97, 5-3¼/110) (1.61/50) | |||||
| 4:09:09 | … | 2)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Liang |
| 3. CLAIRE TALLENT (Australia) (6/07/81, 5-4¼/110) (1.63/50) | |||||
| 4:09:33 | … | 3)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Liang; 2. Yin |
| 4. INÊS HENRIQUES (Portugal) (5/01/80, 5-2¼/101) (1.58/46) | |||||
| dnf | … | )World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Liang; 2. Yin; 3. Tallent; 4. Perez; 5. Ma; 6. Ordonez; 7. Li; 8. Takacs; 9. Yatsevich; 10. Darazhuk; |
| 4:09:21 | … | 1)European Ch | 8/07 | ||
| 5. PAOLA PÉREZ (Ecuador) (12/21/89, 4-10¼/121) (1.48/55) | |||||
| 4:12:56 | … | 4)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Liang; 2. Yin; 3. Tallent |
