WHirooki Arai is a male Japanese racewalker. He competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.
WRuslan Hryhorovych Dmytrenko is a Ukrainian racewalker.
WFrancisco Javier Fernández Peláez, better known as Paquillo Fernández, is a retired Spanish race walker. He specialized in the 20 km race walk.
WJesús Ángel García Bragado is a Spanish race walker. He has competed at seven Olympic Games, the most Olympic appearances ever by a male track and field athlete. He is married to gymnast Carmen Acedo.
WHartwig Gauder was a German race walker who won a gold medal in the Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
WMaría Guadalupe González Romero, better known as Lupita González, is a Mexican racewalker. She was the gold medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and is the national record holder in the 20 kilometres race walk.
WBeate Gummelt, née Anders, is a German track and field athlete. She competed in the 1980s until 2000 in the walk. Before 1991 she competed for East Germany.
WOlga Nikolayevna Kaniskina is a Russian coach and former race walker. She won the silver medal in the 20 km walk at the 2006 European Championships, the gold medal at the 2007 World Championships, and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She also won the 20 km walk at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, setting a Championship record of 1:25:42. She was disqualified from several years of competition due to doping.
WBernd Kannenberg was a West German race walker who won the 50 km event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 20 km at the 1972 and 1976 Games, but failed to finish. In 1972 Kannenberg became the first German athlete to walk 50 km within four hours; the same year he was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt. During his career he set five world records, and won six outdoor and four indoor West German titles.
WSergey Alexandrovich Kirdyapkin is a Russian race walker. He was stripped of the 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 50K walk, by decision of the Court of Arbitration published 24 March 2016, due to doping violations. Due to these doping violations, he was given a three-year-and-two-month ban from athletic competition, backdated to 15 October 2012, allowing him time to still qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. However, Russia did not compete in athletics at the 2016 Olympics, due to the suspension of the governing body, the IAAF, due to widespread doping.
WAnisya Byasyrovna Kirdyapkina is a Russian race walker. She is married to Sergey Kirdyapkin, who is also a racewalker. She was discovered by the race walking coach Konstantin Nacharkin at the age of nine. She met her future husband through race walking and they were married when she was 18. As of 2014, they shared a coach, Viktor Chegin.
WElena Anatolyevna Lashmanova is a Russian race walker. She was the 2012 Olympic Champion in the 20 km walk. She received a two-year ban for a doping violation along with a similar penalty for the majority of her training partners shortly thereafter. Her Olympic gold was not affected, though. It is claimed by Russian whistleblower Rodchenkov that her positive sample was in fact one from her 2012 olympics mistakenly substituted for a further positive test result by the state run doping programme. He claims that she had at least 2 positive findings that went unreported and that this one was reported only because it was witnessed by non Russian experts.
WDieter Lindner is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the 20 kilometre walk.
WKenneth Joseph Matthews, MBE was a British race walker, who won the Olympic (1964) and European (1962) titles in the 20 km walk.
WDenis Gennadyevich Nizhegorodov is a retired Russian race walker. Between 2008 and 2014 he held the world record over 50 km distance, with a time of 3:34:14. He competed in this event at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively.
WAbdon Pamich is a former Italian race walker. He competed in the race walking event at the 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1960 and a gold in 1964. Pamich was the Olympics flag bearer for Italy in 1972.
WJefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is a retired Ecuadorian race walker. He specialized in the 20 km event, in which he has won the only two medals his country has ever achieved in the Olympic Games.
WHans-Georg Reimann is a former East German race walker, who started for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the GDR and won two Olympic medals in 20 km racewalking. He finished third at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in and finished second at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal in.
WMikhail Mikhailovich Ryzhov is a Russian race walker. He won the silver medal in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia, but was disqualified for doping in 2015.
WMikhail Anatolyevich Shchennikov is a Russian race walker.
WKarl-Heinz Stadtmüller was an East German race walker. He was born in Berlin.
WJared Tallent OAM is an Australian race walker and Olympic gold medallist in the 50 km walk from London in 2012. He is a four-time Olympic medallist, three-time World Championship medallist and holds the current Olympic record in the 50 km walk.
WMatej Tóth is a Slovak race walker. He is the current Olympic champion in the 50 km walk.
WMaría del Monte Vasco Pes Gallardo is a Spanish race walker. She won the bronze medal in the 20 km at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Vasco was also a gold and bronze medalist at the IAAF Race Walking Championships. She was born in Viladecans near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
WWang Hao is a Chinese race walker.
WWang Zhen is a Chinese race walker who specialises in the 10 kilometres and 20 kilometres race walk. He holds the senior Asian record for the 20 km with his time of 1:17:36 hours and is also the Asian, Chinese and junior world record holder over 10 km. He was the bronze medallist over 20 km at the 2012 London Olympics and the gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics.