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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
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1987–1997 10 kilometres | |
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1999–present 20 kilometres | |
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2017–2019 50 kilometres | |
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2022-present 35 kilometres | |
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