World Rankings Update - Walks

Marathons will come in a week or two. The walks come today.

MEN
20k
1. Valeriy Borchin, RUS, 214
2. Hao Wang, CHN, 154
3. Eder Sánchez, MEX, 153
4. Jared Talent, AUS, 119
5. Jianbo Li, CHN, 112
6. Erik Tysse, NOR, 108
7. Giorgio Rubino, ITA, 90
8. Aleksandr Yargunkin, RUS, 84
9. Pyotr Trofimov, RUS, 81
10. Andrey Krivov, RUS, 57
Defending Olympic champ Borchin has two wins this year, at the Russian Winter Championships and at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge event in Wuxi, China, on Saturday.

50k
1. Zhao Chengliang CHN 144
2. Yohan Diniz FRA 124
3. Francisco Javier Fernández ESP 112
4. Trond Nymark NOR 108
5. Matej Toth SVK 100
6. Lei Li CHN 74
7. Jesús Sánchez MEX 72
8. Xu Faguang CHN 60
9. Omar Zepeda MEX 52
10. Sergey Bakulin RUS 46
Zhao won yesterday's IAAF Challenge event in China.

WOMEN
20k
1. Olga Kaniskina, RUS 223
2. Kjersti Plätzer, NOR 126
3. Vera Sokolova, RUS 114
4. Anisya Kirdyapkina, RUS 111
5. Yelena Shumkina, RUS 108
6. Inês Henriques, POR 98
7. Larisa Emelyanova, RUS 81
8. Jiang Jing, CHN 78
9. Lyudmila Arkhipova, RUS 72
10. Masumi Fuchise, JPN 66
Like her male counterpart, Kanaskina is also the defending Olympic champ and also won at the Russian Winter Championships and in Wuxi. Unlike Borchin, she came close to the World Record. She is currently the overall points leader, by just one over Meseret Defar.