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She won gold medals in the 20 kilometres walk and 35\u00a0km walk at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, becoming the first ever Peruvian world medallist and the first Latin American to earn two titles at the same World Athletics Championships.[3][4] Garc\u00eda is the world record holder for the longer event.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4She represented Peru in the women’s 20 kilometres walk at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[2] She also holds three Peruvian national records (10,000\u00a0m walk, 10\u00a0km walk and 20\u00a0km walk).Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]2022: Double world champion in Oregon[edit]2023\u2013present: 35\u00a0km walk world record[edit]Achievements[edit]Personal bests[edit]International competitions[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Kimberly Garc\u00eda comes from the Inca nation and was born in Huancayo in central Peru. Her family has always been linked to race walking, so she started training when she was 5 years old, following in the footsteps of her cousin.[5]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4As a 12-year-old Garc\u00eda won the 5 kilometres race walk at the Peruvian Race Walking Under-18 Championships and Peruvian U18 Championships. Three years later, in 2009, she took victory in the 10\u00a0km walk U20 event of the Peruvian Race Walking Championships. She was seventh at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore (5000 m walk).[2]At 19, she claimed the gold medal in the 20\u00a0km walk at the 2013 Pan American Race Walking Cup. Garc\u00eda won also the event at the 2014 South American Race Walking Championships. In May that year, she set her first South American record (20\u00a0km) in Taicang, China.[6] Garc\u00eda placed 14th in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[2] After the Games, she considered retiring from professional athletics due to the lack of support from private companies.[5]In 2017, she achieved the highest position of Peruvian athlete in a World Athletics Championships, finishing seventh in the 20\u00a0km walk at the Championships in London.[7]In 2019, Garc\u00eda won the silver medal in the event at the Pan American Games staged in Lima.[2] In December that year, she was named Athlete of the Year by the Peruvian Athletics Sport Federation.[5]She qualified for the event but failed to finish the 20\u00a0km walk at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[2]2022: Double world champion in Oregon[edit]In March, the 28-year-old finished third in the 20\u00a0km walk at the World Race Walking Team Championships held in Muscat, Oman. In April, she broke the South American record in the 35\u00a0km walk with a time of 2:43:19 for second at the Dudinsk\u00e1 P\u00e4\u0165desiatka meeting in Dudince, Slovakia.[8]At the World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon in July, Garc\u00eda first won 20\u00a0km walk in a national record, becoming the first ever medallist from Peru in championships history and ending longer than 10 years Chinese dominance in the event.[9][10] Seven days later, she added second title for the 35\u00a0km walk, improving her own South American record and becoming the first woman to earn two racewalking titles at one global championships. Garc\u00eda also became the first Latin American to win two gold medals at the same World Athletics Championships.[11] In November, she was shortlisted for the World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year award.[4]2023\u2013present: 35\u00a0km walk world record[edit]Kimberly got her 2023 campaign off to a strong start on 25 March, setting a 35\u00a0km walk world record with a time of 2:37:44 at the Dudinska 50. She sliced two seconds off the previous fastest mark for the distance.[12] It was the first world record in the event after it became a standard championship discipline in 2022 and 2:38:00 was set as the standard.[13]Achievements[edit]Personal bests[edit]International competitions[edit]Representing  \u00a0PeruYearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResultNotes2009World Youth ChampionshipsBrixen, Italy\u20135000 m walkDQ2010South American U18 Race Walking ChampionshipsCochabamba, Bolivia1st5 km walk24:24World Race Walking Cup, U20 eventsChihuahua City, Mexico22nd10 km walk54:02Youth Olympic GamesBishan, Singapore7th5000 m walk23:17.04PBSouth American Youth ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile2nd5000 m walk23:25.762011Pan American Race Walking Cup, U20 eventsBarcelona, Spain2nd10 km walk49:13South American U20 Championships in AthleticsMedell\u00edn, Colombia\u201310,000 m walkDQ2012South American Race Walking Championships, U20 eventsSalinas, Ecuador4th10 km walk47:57World Race Walking Cup, U20 eventsSaransk, Russia11th10 km walk47:56SBWorld Junior ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain10th10,000 m walk47:42.49SB2013Pan American Race Walking CupGuatemala City, Guatemala1st20 km walk1:35:01South American Race Walking ChampionshipsCartagena, Colombia\u201320,000 m walkDQWorld ChampionshipsBeijing, China31st20 km walk1:33:57NRBolivarian GamesTrujillo, Peru3rd20 km walk1:34:292014South American Race Walking ChampionshipsCochabamba, Bolivia1st20 km walk1:35:34World Race Walking CupTaicang, China24th20 km walk1:29:44ARIbero-American ChampionshipsS\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil3rd10,000 m walk43:57.442015Pan American Race Walking CupArica, Chile2nd20 km walk1:31:13South American Race Walking ChampionshipsLima, Peru\u201320,000 m walkDQPan American GamesToronto, Canada5th20 km walk1:32:45World ChampionshipsBeijing, China\u201320 km walkDNF2016South American Race Walking ChampionshipsGuayaquil, Ecuador8th20 km walk1:38:21World Race Walking Team ChampionshipsRome, Italy12th20 km walk1:29:38NROlympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil14th20 km walk1:32:092017Pan American Race Walking CupLima, Peru2nd20 km walk1:29:15World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom7th20 km walk1:29:13NR2018South American Race Walking ChampionshipsSuc\u00faa, Ecuador3rd20 km walk1:32:48World Race Walking Team ChampionshipsTaicang, China8th20 km walk1:28:56South American GamesCochabamba, Bolivia1st20 km walk1:33:11GRIbero-American ChampionshipsTrujillo, Peru2nd10,000 m walk42:56.97NR2019Pan American GamesLima, Peru2nd20 km walk1:29:00SB2021Olympic GamesSapporo, Japan\u201320 km walkDNF2022South American Race Walking ChampionshipsLima, Peru2nd20 km walk1:32:00World Race Walking Team ChampionshipsMuscat, Oman3rd20 km walk1:32:27Ibero-American ChampionshipsLa Nucia, Spain2nd10,000 m walk43:41.50World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States1st20 km walk1:26:58NR1st35 km walk2:39:16CR ARSee also[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/kimberly-garcia-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Kimberly Garc\u00eda – Wikipedia"}}]}]