2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The women's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 13 August.

The original 27th place walker, Ayman Kozhakhmetova of Kazakhstan, was disqualified for a positive drug test for exogenous testosterone and EPO.

Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Schedule
All times are local times (UTC+4)

Final
The race was started at 07.35.