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2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the 2019 World Championships
Yusuke Suzuki, winner of the men's 50 kilometres walk.
VenueKhalifa International Stadium
Dates28–29 September
Competitors46 from 26 nations
Winning time4:04:20
Medalists
gold medal    Japan
silver medal    Portugal
bronze medal    Canada
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The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held in Doha, Qatar, on 28–29 September 2019.[1]

Summary

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This race marked the eleventh world championships for João Vieira, tying his contemporary teammate Susana Feitor for the second most. Feitor was only 16 at her first appearance, Vieira was 23 at his.

Based on the previous evening's marathon, the desert heat was going to affect the outcome. This race too started at midnight in order to avoid the heat of the day in Doha, that would mean temperatures hovered around 32 °C 90 °F throughout the race. Most walkers were wary of starting too fast, only 20K world record holder Yusuke Suzuki went out fast, opening up a gap just a few minutes into the race. By 5K he had a 10 second lead over a chase pack of only four others, including the world record holder and defending champion Yohann Diniz and Olympic champion Matej Tóth, the rest of the field was 37 seconds or more back. As they were approaching 10K, Diniz decided the man who had taken his 20K world record was too serious a challenger to his title and bridged the ever growing gap. That extra effort didn't last too long before Diniz was sliding back through the field. Diniz eventually dropped out. By 15K, Suzuki had 45 seconds over Tóth and Isaac Palma, the rest of the peloton almost 1:20 back. At 20K, he had over 2 minutes as Tóth and Palma dropped back. Neither would finish. At the half way point, Suzuki had over 3 minutes against new leaders of the chase pack.

Luo Yadong and Niu Wenbin teamed up to try to bridge the gap, Luo getting barely under 3 minutes back by 30K, but by 35K Suzuki had opened up 3:34. As Luo dropped back through the field, the next racer behind Niu was Vieira, still over 4:30 back with 10K to go. Suzuki first showed signs of cracking, stopping at the water station at 44K before getting back on stride. At that point he still had two minutes on Niu, an additional minute on Vieira with the next chaser Evan Dunfee another minute back, now ahead of Luo. Niu had his second red card and was on the edge of disqualification. He couldn't push. One 2K lap later, Suzuki stopped again at the water station and again one lap later. Still with a huge lead, Suzuki struggled through the final lap while Vieira and Dunfee were applying the pressure. Both passed Niu, with Dunfee closing down his gap to Vieira. Suzuki got across the finish line first, only 39 seconds ahead of Vieira, who held off Dunfee by only 3 seconds.[2]

At age 43, Vieira became the oldest medalist. Suzuki's winning time of 4:04:20 was the slowest winning time in the event's history dating back to 1976 by almost 10 minutes. Of 46 starters, 14 dropped out and an additional four were disqualified. 35 minutes after the last competitor crossed the line, it was sunrise in Doha.

Records

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Before the competition records were as follows:[3]

Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date Location
World 3:32:33 Yohann Diniz  FRA 15 Aug 2014 Zürich, Switzerland
Championship 3:33:12 Yohann Diniz  FRA 13 Aug 2017 London, Great Britain
World leading 3:37:43 Yohann Diniz  FRA 19 May 2019 Alytus, Lithuania
African 3:54:12 Marc Mundell  RSA 13 Dec 2015 Melbourne, Australia
Asian 3:36:06 Yu Chaohong  CHN 22 Oct 2005 Nanjing, China
NACAC 3:41:09 Érick Barrondo  GUA 23 Mar 2013 Dudince, Slovakia
South American 3:42:57 Andrés Chocho  ECU 6 Mar 2016 Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
European 3:32:33 Yohann Diniz  FRA 15 Aug 2014 Zürich, Switzerland
Oceanian 3:35:47 Nathan Deakes  AUS 2 Dec 2006 Geelong, Australia

Schedule

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The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:[4]

Date Time Round
28 September 23:30 Final

Results

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The final was started at 23:30.[5]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yusuke Suzuki  Japan (JPN) 4:04:20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) João Vieira  Portugal (POR) 4:04:59
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Evan Dunfee  Canada (CAN) 4:05:02
4 Niu Wenbin  China (CHN) 4:05:36
5 Luo Yadong  China (CHN) 4:06:49
6 Brendan Boyce  Ireland (IRL) 4:07:46
7 Carl Dohmann  Germany (GER) 4:10:22
8 Jesús Ángel García  Spain (ESP) 4:11:28
9 Maryan Zakalnytskyy  Ukraine (UKR) 4:12:28 SB
10 Narcis Mihăilă  Romania (ROM) 4:13:56
11 Quentin Rew  New Zealand (NZL) 4:15:54
12 Ato Ibáñez  Sweden (SWE) 4:17:04
13 Rafał Augustyn  Poland (POL) 4:20:25
14 Mathieu Bilodeau  Canada (CAN) 4:21:13
15 Arturas Mastianica  Lithuania (LTU) 4:21:54
16 Michele Antonelli  Italy (ITA) 4:22:20
17 Alexandros Papamichail  Greece (GRE) 4:22:39
18 Horacio Nava  Mexico (MEX) 4:24:16
19 Marc Tur  Spain (ESP) 4:24:38
20 Jarkko Kinnunen  Finland (FIN) 4:25:36
21 Arnis Rumbenieks  Latvia (LAT) 4:28:18
22 Artur Brzozowski  Poland (POL) 4:30:17
23 Jonathan Hilbert  Germany (GER) 4:30:43
24 Marc Mundell  South Africa (RSA) 4:41:39
25 Valeriy Litanyuk  Ukraine (UKR) 4:42:18
26 Bence Venyercsán  Hungary (HUN) 4:45:04
27 Hayato Katsuki  Japan (JPN) 4:46:10
28 Rafał Sikora  Poland (POL) 4:50:08 SB
Ivan Banzeruk  Ukraine (UKR) DNF
Teodorico Caporaso  Italy (ITA)
Andrés Chocho  Ecuador (ECU)
José Ignacio Díaz  Spain (ESP)
Yohann Diniz  France (FRA)
Dzmitry Dziubin  Belarus (BLR)
Máté Helebrandt  Hungary (HUN)
Tomohiro Noda  Japan (JPN)
Isaac Palma  Mexico (MEX)
Aku Partanen  Finland (FIN)
Nathaniel Seiler  Germany (GER)
Matej Tóth  Slovakia (SVK)
Claudio Villanueva  Ecuador (ECU)
Wang Qin  China (CHN)
Cameron Corbishley  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) DQ
Håvard Haukenes  Norway (NOR)
Dominic King  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Ruslans Smolonskis  Latvia (LAT)

References

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  1. ^ "Start list" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Error 200 | World Athletics".
  3. ^ "50 Kilometres Race Walk Men – Records". IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Men's 50 Kilometres Race Walk − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  5. ^ "50 Kilometres Race Walk Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.