LONDON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Portugal's Ines Henriques won the inaugural women's world 50km race walk title in style, setting a new world record of four hours five minutes and 56 seconds on the final day of the London World Championships.
Henriques broke her old mark of 4:08:26 set earlier this year to became the first female winner of the 50km race walk at the world championships.
Earlier in the men's race, three-time European champion Yohann Diniz finally lifted the world championships glory at the age of 39.
On the final day of the London worlds, Diniz finished the most streneous event in 3:33:11, a Championship record time, to become the oldest male athlete in World Championships history to claim a gold medal.
Although the Frenchman's winning time was short of his own world record of 3:32:33, it is the second fastest time in history.
Japanese Hirooki Arai took silver in 3:41:17 and his fellow countryman Kai Kobayashi was third in 3:41:19.
