Inês Henriques (born 1 May 1980) is a Portuguese

race walker Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

. Internationally, she has won bronze medals at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics. She represented Portugal at the

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and the

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and has competed at the

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on eight occasions from 2001 to 2017. She won at the

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meeting of the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge in March. In 2017, in London, she won the gold medal in the 50km walk event, held for the first time during the

. With her time of 4:05:56, she also set the

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for the event.

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* 1980 births Living people People from Santarém, Portugal Portuguese female race walkers Olympic athletes for Portugal Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Portugal World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships winners World record setters in athletics (track and field) Golden Globes (Portugal) winners Sportspeople from Santarém District 21st-century Portuguese sportswomen {{Portugal-athletics-bio-stub