[1] Bai pulled away from Japan's Yoshimi Ozaki in the last kilometer to finish the 42.195 km race in two hours 25 minutes and 15 seconds.

Liu Hongyu won the last gold medal in the women's 10 km walk in Seville in 1999.

[3] She returned to China after the championships and defended her title at the Beijing Marathon, beating young national opposition in Zhang Xin and Zhu Xiaoling.

[4] She continued her good form at the 11th Chinese National Games a few weeks later, setting a 10,000 m personal best on the way to winning the gold medal.

At the 2010 London Marathon, she was in contention for much of the race but fell away at the 30 km point, ending up in seventh place with a run of 2:25:18.