African Championships in Athletics being dropped from the programme an African Marathon Championships was briefly contested. The event programme has roughly matched that of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, with the exception of the 50 kilometres race walk. The following list shows changes to the event programme: African Championships in Athletics The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), the continental association for the sport in Africa. Since its inaugural edition in 1979 it was at first organised intermittently with nine editions held in fourteen years until 1993. Following the tenth edition in
2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk is a road course, the official times are only accurate to one second so both athlete's times round to the same time. Olyanovska continued to hold on, finishing just 28 seconds back for bronze. The rest of the field finished more than 1:15 behind her. It was the first gold medal for the home team at these championships. Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: The race was started at 08:30. 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing