Inês Henriques

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.

Inês Henriques

Henriques in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1980-05-01) May 1, 1980 Santarém, Portugal
Height	1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	46 kg (101 lb)
Sport
Country	Portugal
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	20km Race Walk 50km Race Walk
Medal record World Championships 2017 London 50 km walk European Championships 2018 Berlin 50 km walk

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

Year	Award	Category	Result
2018	Golden Globes (Portugal)	Best Female Athlete	Won

References

1. Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2012-03-04). Sanchez and Henriques repeat, Zepeda completes Mexican party in Chihuahua. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-04-06.
2. "WOMEN'S 50KM RACE WALKING EVENT ADDED TO IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS LONDON 2017 PROGRAMME". iaaf.org. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
3. "Portugal's Ines Henriques sets world record in women's 50-kilometer walk". espn.com. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.

External links

• Inês Henriques at World Athletics

Records
New title	Women's 50 km walk world record holder 15 January 2017 – 5 May 2018	Succeeded by Liang Rui