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World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships

The World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships is a racewalking event organised by World Athletics. It has been held since 1961, and generally on a biennial basis. The first women's edition of the event happened in 1979. It was formerly known as the Lugano Cup after the city that hosted the first event, then became the IAAF World Race Walking Cup until 2016 and then IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships until 2018. In 2004, a junior division was added for athletes between 16 and 20. Since 2008 it has been a constituent meeting of the World Athletics Challenge – Race Walking.

Host cities
The 2016 Cup was due to be held in Cheboksary, Russia. However the IAAF's suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation prohibits Russia from hosting international competitions. This event was relocated. The 2020 Championships, planned in Minsk, Belarus, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World Athletics announce Oman to host 2022 Race during 2020 Summer Olympics. ==Events==
Championships records
Key: Men Women ==Medal summary==
Medal summary
Legend: Where there is the symbol , the original top three result has been adjusted due to doping disqualifications. Men 20 km 35 km 50 km In 2008, Vladimir Kanaykin from was initially 2nd and silver medallist in 3:36:55, but disqualified because of doping violations. Teams 20 km Teams 35 km Teams 50 km Women 5 km † Invitational, non-cup event. 10 km 20 km 35 km 50 km Teams 20 km • Invitation event Teams 35 km Teams 50 km ==Mixed==
Medal table
Individual overall Men and women senior and junior only individual events update to 2024 edition. Individual senior Individual junior ==Doping==
Doping
The competition conducts doping tests on participating athletes and several have been disqualified from the races as a result. Ukraine's Olga Leonenko became the first doping disqualification, having originally finished seventh in 1995. Daniel Plaza became the first man in 1997 and was again disqualified in 1999. Nine years passed without incident then in 2008 two Russians were excluded Viktor Burayev and Vladimir Kanaykin – the latter was the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the cup. In 2010 fourth place Erik Tysse was removed. Four athletes were disqualified for doping at the 2012 edition: silver medallist Igor Yerokhin was the most prominent, followed by fifth place Sergey Morozov, then Turkish walkers Recep Çelik and Handan Koçyiğit Cavdar. Outside of the event, several medallists have been later disqualified for doping, including women's winners Olga Kaniskina and Elena Lashmanova, and men's runners-up Valeriy Borchin and Alex Schwazer. ==See also==
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