NSW Walker Alex Crawford maintained ranking lists for the 10 km racewalk for Australian men and women for a period of years but had to step aside from this task at the end of 2005 due to other committments. Jenny Lingley of NSW took up the baton, trolled our websites and produced a first cut of 2006 rankings but unfortunately this has not been continued since then.

The Athletics Australia ranking lists concentrate on major races and miss many of the performances of our rank and file walkers. Our own lists, if we can produce them, are potentially more complete and reflect more accurately the depth of walking in Australia.

For these lists, I accepted the first 10 km split from a 20 km event provided that it could be authenticated in some way. Performance nominations were required to provide

• Event: date, venue, type of event
• Race Place and time
• Independent verification (eg website with results, etc)

Below you will find what we had accumulated before we went offline. Now I simply maintain a cutdown rankings list for each distance (see http://www.rwa.org.au/arankings.html)

I am always ready to reactivate more extensive ranking lists if anyone has the time and the enthusiasm to act as a coordinator.

2005 10km Ranking List

2004 10km Ranking List

2003 10km Ranking List

10km Women All Time Ranking List (as at 31/12/2005)

10km Men All Time Ranking List (as at 31/12/2005)

Tim Erickson