2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk


The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held throughout the city of Berlin on August 15, beginning and ending at the Brandenburg Gate.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Competition notes

With the 2007 champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jefferson Pérez having retired, the reigning Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin was regarded as strong favourite. He had recorded the world-leading time prior to the tournament and had been undefeated that season. The Olympic third and fourth-place finishers, Jared Tallent and Wang Hao, were regarded as the strongest challengers to Borchin. Italians Giorgio Rubino and Ivano Brugnetti were singled out as medal contenders, while former world record holder and three-time World silver medallist Paquillo Fernández was seen as being past his peak.
Borchin prevailed and was first to cross the line at the Brandenburg gate, with a winning time of 1:18:41. Chinese athlete Hao improved upon his previous best to take the silver medal while Mexican Eder Sánchez produced a season's best performance for the bronze medal. The veteran competitor Paquillo Fernández withdrew from the race before the halfway mark.
Despite becoming the reigning World and Olympic champion, Borchin stated that he needed to achieve much more to match the achievements of his sporting heroes Jefferson Pérez and Robert Korzeniowski.

Results

The medals of some of the athletics world championship races in 2009 were otherwise awarded 24 March 2016 as a result of doping disqualifications. Among these reallocations also the medals of 20 km walk, which saw the Italian Giorgio Rubino, initially 4th, get the bronze medal. This fact, 7 years after the event, allowed Italy to clear the zero in the Medal table, with also the bronze given to Antonietta Di Martino only in 2019.
won the competition but was later disqualified for doping
took the bronze, his first World Championships medal
only managed fifth place
RankAthleteNationalityTimeNotes
Valeriy Borchin1:18:41DQ
Wang Hao1:19:06PB
Eder Sánchez1:19:22SB
Giorgio Rubino1:19:50
Luis Fernando López1:20:03NR
Jared Tallent1:20:27
Erik Tysse1:20:38
Jesús Sánchez1:20:52PB
Matej Tóth1:21:13
João Vieira1:21:43SB
10Koichiro Morioka1:21:48
11Li Jianbo1:21:54
12Zhu Yafei1:21:56
13André Höhne1:21:59
14Robert Heffernan1:22:09SB
15José Ignacio Díaz1:22:12SB
16Andrey Krivov1:22:19
17Luke Adams1:22:37
18Hassanine Sebei1:22:52
19Babubhai Panucha1:23:06NR
20Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi1:23:07SB
21Dzianis Simanovich1:23:36
22Rolando Saquipay1:23:51SB
23Juan Manuel Molina1:24:00
24Park Chil-Sung1:24:01
25Artur Brzozowski1:24:17
26Sérgio Vieira1:24:32
27Pedro Daniel Gómez1:24:39
28Yerko Araya1:24:49
29Isamu Fujisawa1:25:12
30Petr Trofimov1:26:02
31David Kimutai1:26:35
32Ruslan Dmytrenko1:27:01
33Kim Hyun-Sub1:27:08
34Predrag Filipović1:27:44
35Pavel Chihuan1:27:54
36Rustam Kuvatov1:28:47SB
37Jakub Jelonek1:28:59
38Andrés Chocho1:29:14
39Juan Manuel Cano1:29:20SB
40Allan Segura1:29:52
41Yusuke Suzuki1:30:21
42Byun Youngjun1:30:35
43Mauricio Arteaga1:32:25
44Vilius Mikelionis1:32:53
Adam RutterDQ
Moacir ZimmermannDQ
José Alessandro BagioDNF
Paquillo FernándezDNF
Ivano BrugnettiDNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best