2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk


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.
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 2007
Championship record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003
World Leading1:18:28Sochi, Russia23 February 2013
African Record1:19:02Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany10 May 1997
Asian Record1:17:36Taicang, China30 March 2012
North, Central American and Caribbean record1:17:46Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany8 May 1999
South American Record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003
European Record1:17:16Saransk, Russia29 September 2007
Oceanian record1:17:33Cixi, China23 April 2005

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Final

The race was started at 17:00.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Aleksandr Ivanov1:20:58Doping
Chen Ding1:21:09SB
Miguel Ángel López1:21:21SB
João Vieira1:22:05
Denis Strelkov1:22:06
Takumi Saito1:22:09
Ruslan Dmytrenko1:22:14
Inaki Gomez1:22:21SB
Christopher Linke1:22:36SB
Kim Hyun-sub1:22:50SB
10Dane Bird-Smith1:23:06
11Yusuke Suzuki1:23:20
12Jaime Quiyuch1:23:24
13Matteo Giupponi1:23:27SB
14Matteo Giupponi1:23:27SB
15Andrii Kovenko1:23:46
16Alexandros Papamihail1:23:48SB
17Jose Leonardo Montana1:23:50SB
18Rolando Saquipay1:24:01SB
19Rafał Augustyn1:24:03
20Benjamin Thorne1:24:26
21Anton Kučmín1:24:38
22Yerko Araya1:24:42SB
23Ato Ibáñez1:24:49
24Álvaro Martín1:25:12
25Marius Žiūkas1:25:17
26Cai Zelin1:25:31
27Hatem Ghoula1:25:41
28Giorgio Rubino1:25:42
29Bertrand Moulinet1:26:12SB
30Ivan Losyev1:26:32
31Alex Wright1:26:40
32Diego Flores1:26:46
33Gurmeet Singh1:26:47
34Chandan Singh1:26:51
35Mauricio Arteaga1:27:35
36Georgiy Sheiko1:27:41
37Isaac Palma1:28:14
38Perseus Karlstrom1:28:20SB
39Choe Byeong Kwang1:28:26
40Sérgio Vieira1:28:34
41Máté Helebrandt1:28:49
42Arnis Rumbenieks1:29:13
43Federico Tontodonati1:29:26
44Francisco Arcilla1:29:38
45Vitaliy Anichkin1:30:02
46Juan Manuel Cano1:30:45SB
47Anibal Paau1:30:54
48Dzianis Simanovich1:31:52
49Andrey Ruzavin1:32:45
50Rhydian Cowley1:33:35
51Alejandro Francisco Florez1:35:01
Ebrahim Rahimian1:35:46 Doping
52Tim Seaman1:36:35
Irfan Kolothum Thodi
Erick Barrondo
Wang Zhen
Byun Young-Jun
Caio Bonfim
Lebogang Shange
Dawid Tomala
Eider Arévalo
Luis Fernando López
Kevin Campion
Hassanine Sebei