Paris 2024 athletics: All results, as Yang Jiayu takes women's 20km race walking gold

The People's Republic of China's world record holder, Yang Jiayu, brought her season's best to the Olympic stage, completing the 20km race walking course in 1:25:54 to take the second athletics gold of Paris 2024.

This was a big improvement on her 12th-place finish at Tokyo 2020, as she finished 25 seconds before the rest of the field.

"Tokyo was very tricky for me, so I worked very hard to come back and get the best results in Paris," the Olympic champion said.

This was China's fourth medal in this event, and it also fulfilled a promise that Yang made five years prior, right before her father passed away in 2015.

"I never mentioned this before, but I promised him I would win gold. Now I have finally done it, I am very proud of myself."

2023 world champion Maria Perez of Spain clinched the silver, while Australia's Jemima Montag came one step later to take the bronze.

Athletics: Women's 20km race walk gold

Gold: Yang Jiayu, People's Republic of China

Silver: Maria Perez, Spain

Bronze: Jemima Montag, Australia

See all the results on Olympics.com