This is one of the outdoor events that an organiser can choose to include as part of the Indoor Championship programme.

The 10000m walk was held sporadically at the Olympics until 1924. After that it became a road race but the distance was changed to 20km and 50km after 1952. The 10km road walk returned briefly for the 1992 and 1996 Olympics as events for women, before giving way to the 20km distance.

It is not a mandatory event to be held but has been contested at every World Masters Indoor Championships so far and is distinguished from the Stadia (Summer) Champs by by being a winter race.

Individual 10km road walk results are here.

The first three finishers per country within each age group count towards the teams. The team ranking is determined by the aggregate of the three times. Where a country does not have three entrants within an age group, they can opt to drop up to two competitors from older age groups down to form complete teams. This cannot be done if a complete team already exists. The decision to do this must be logged by team managers prior to the race (presumably to prevent strategic DNFs by competitors).