The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 11 August.Start list
The first leader was Takumi Saito who set the pace for the first 5K, opening up a gap on the pack, with his Japanese teammate Yusuke Suzuki the first to chase him down. Suzuki moved out to a 13-second lead by the 10K mark. The six chasers included all three 2012 Olympic medalists. The first to catch him was bronze medalist Wang Zhen who pulled out to the lead only to get disqualified. Even though he had received the notification, Wang continued until he was taken off the course. Behind him, Olympic gold medalist Chen Ding, Erick Barrondo silver medalist and local favorite Aleksandr Ivanov took up the front, 22 seconds ahead of the next group. But Barrondo picked up two red cards.
After 15K, Ivanov took off, with Barrondo giving chase. First Ivanov picked up a red card and slowed down. Then Barrondo picked up his third red card and was told to leave the race to his disbelief. When Chen passed him, he raised his arm to wave good bye. But Chen couldn't catch Ivanov, who took a ten-second victory in front of cheering Russian fans.
One walker gave a positive test at the competition: second last finisher Ebrahim Rahimian of Iran had used erythropoietin.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record1:17:16Saransk, Russia29 September 2007Championship record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003World Leading1:18:28Sochi, Russia23 February 2013African Record1:19:02Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany10 May 1997Asian Record1:17:36Taicang, China30 March 2012North, Central American and Caribbean record1:17:46Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany8 May 1999South American Record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003European Record1:17:16Saransk, Russia29 September 2007Oceanian record1:17:33Cixi, China23 April 2005
Qualification standards A standard B standard 1:24:00 1:26:00
Schedule Date Time Round11 August 2013 17:00 Final
Results KEY:NRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Final The race was started at 17:00.Final Results
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Aleksandr Ivanov 1:20:58 Doping Chen Ding 1:21:09 SB Miguel Ángel López 1:21:21 SB João Vieira 1:22:05 Denis Strelkov 1:22:06 Takumi Saito 1:22:09 Ruslan Dmytrenko 1:22:14 Inaki Gomez 1:22:21 SB Christopher Linke 1:22:36 SB Kim Hyun-sub 1:22:50 SB 10 Dane Bird-Smith 1:23:06 11 Yusuke Suzuki 1:23:20 12 Jaime Quiyuch 1:23:24 13 Matteo Giupponi 1:23:27 SB 14 Matteo Giupponi 1:23:27 SB 15 Andrii Kovenko 1:23:46 16 Alexandros Papamihail 1:23:48 SB 17 José Leonardo Montaña 1:23:50 18 Rolando Saquipay 1:24:01 SB 19 Rafał Augustyn 1:24:03 20 Benjamin Thorne 1:24:26 21 Anton Kučmín 1:24:38 22 Yerko Araya 1:24:42 SB 23 Ato Ibáñez 1:24:49 24 Álvaro Martín 1:25:12 25 Marius Žiūkas 1:25:17 26 Cai Zelin 1:25:31 27 Hatem Ghoula 1:25:41 28 Giorgio Rubino 1:25:42 29 Bertrand Moulinet 1:26:12 SB 30 Ivan Losyev 1:26:32 31 Alex Wright 1:26:40 32 Diego Flores 1:26:46 33 Gurmeet Singh 1:26:47 34 Chandan Singh 1:26:51 35 Mauricio Arteaga 1:27:35 36 Georgiy Sheiko 1:27:41 37 Isaac Palma 1:28:14 38 Perseus Karlstrom 1:28:20 SB 39 Choe Byeong Kwang 1:28:26 40 Sérgio Vieira 1:28:34 41 Máté Helebrandt 1:28:49 42 Arnis Rumbenieks 1:29:13 43 Federico Tontodonati 1:29:26 44 Francisco Arcilla 1:29:38 45 Vitaliy Anichkin 1:30:02 46 Juan Manuel Cano 1:30:45 SB 47 Anibal Paau 1:30:54 48 Dzianis Simanovich 1:31:52 49 Andrey Ruzavin 1:32:45 50 Rhydian Cowley 1:33:35 51 Alejandro Francisco Florez 1:35:01 Ebrahim Rahimian 1:35:46 DopingMore than 1900 blood samples collected – Moscow 2013. IAAF (20 September 2013). Retrieved on 4 February 2014. 52 Tim Seaman 1:36:35 Irfan Kolothum Thodi Érick Barrondo Wang Zhen Byun Young-Jun Caio Bonfim Lebogang Shange Dawid Tomala Éider Arévalo Luis Fernando López Kevin Campion Hassanine Sebei
References
External links
20 kilometres walk results at IAAF website