2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 28 on a loop course starting and finishing at Gukchae-bosang Memorial Park in the center of Daegu. Forty-six men started the competition and 27 countries were represented.

Official Video

Valeriy Borchin entered as the reigning world and 2008 Olympic champion. The athletes on the Chinese and Russian teams led the rankings that year: Wang Zhen and Chu Yafei were the top two, while Borchin, world record holder Vladimir Kanaykin, and Sergey Morozov were in the top six. Wang Hao, Eder Sánchez and Jared Tallent had also performed well that year, as had Kim Hyun-sub representing the host nation.[1]

Italian Giorgio Rubino and Japan's Yusuke Suzuki were the early leaders after 5 km. The two remained half a minute ahead at 10 km, but Rubino fell off the pace and was later disqualified for lifting both feet off the ground. Borchin and Wang Zhen made up ground on Suzuki and after 15 km Borchin progressively pulled away to win the race and defend his title. In the last 5 km Vladimir Kanaykin and Luis Fernando López finished quickly (some half a minute behind the winner) and came away with the silver and bronze medals, respectively. Wang Zhen held on for fourth and it was Stanislav Emelyanov and Kim Hyun-sub who next crossed the line.[2]

Borchin became only the third walker to win consecutive 20 km world titles, joining Maurizio Damilano and Jefferson Pérez. Although his winning time was not especially quick, the race was undertaken in hot and humid conditions.[3] López's gold was Colombia's first ever medal in the history of the World Championships in Athletics.[2]

The International Association of Athletics Federations informed the Korea Association of Athletics Federations (KAAF) that the bronze medalist, Stanislav Yemelyanov of Russia, had also failed a drug test, and Kim will move up to third place.[4]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Luis Fernando López  Colombia (COL)	Wang Zhen  China (CHN)	Kim Hyun-sub  South Korea (KOR)

Records

World Record	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	1:17:16	Saransk, Russia	29 September 2007
Championship Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21	Paris, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Wang Zhen (CHN)	1:18:30	Taicang, China	22 April 2011
African Record	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:19:02	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	10 May 1997
Asian Record	Zhu Hongjun (CHN)	1:17:41	Cixi, China	23 April 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	1:17:46	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	8 May 1999
South American record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21	Paris, France	23 August 2003
European Record	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	1:17:16	Saransk, Russia	29 September 2007
Oceanian record	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	1:17:33	Cixi, China	23 April 2005

Qualification standards

A time	B time
1:22:30	1:24:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 28, 2011	09:00	Final

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luis Fernando López	Colombia (COL)	1:20:38	SB
	Wang Zhen	China (CHN)	1:20:54
	Kim Hyun-sub	South Korea (KOR)	1:21:17
4	Yūsuke Suzuki	Japan (JPN)	1:21:39
5	Alex Schwazer	Italy (ITA)	1:21:50	SB
6	Erick Barrondo	Guatemala (GUA)	1:22:08
7	Chu Yafei	China (CHN)	1:22:10
8	Wang Hao	China (CHN)	1:22:49
9	Matej Tóth	Slovakia (SVK)	1:22:55
10	Eder Sánchez	Mexico (MEX)	1:23:05
11	João Vieira	Portugal (POR)	1:23:26
12	Miguel Ángel López	Spain (ESP)	1:23:41
13	Anton Kucmin	Slovakia (SVK)	1:23:57
14	James Rendón	Colombia (COL)	1:24:08	SB
15	Horacio Nava	Mexico (MEX)	1:24:15
16	Christopher Linke	Germany (GER)	1:24:17
17	Caio Bonfim	Brazil (BRA)	1:24:29
18	Trevor Barron	United States (USA)	1:24:33
19	Rafał Augustyn	Poland (POL)	1:24:47
20	Byun Young-joon	South Korea (KOR)	1:24:48
21	Hassanine Sebei	Tunisia (TUN)	1:25:17
22	Jared Tallent	Australia (AUS)	1:25:25
23	Nazar Kovalenko	Ukraine (UKR)	1:25:50
24	Gurmeet Singh	India (IND)	1:26:34
25	Babubhai Panucha	India (IND)	1:26:53
26	David Kimutai	Kenya (KEN)	1:27:20	SB
27	Yerko Araya	Chile (CHI)	1:27:47
28	Hédi Teraoui	Tunisia (TUN)	1:29:48
29	Diego Flores	Mexico (MEX)	1:30:00
30	Juan Manuel Cano	Argentina (ARG)	1:30:00
31	Emerson Hernandez	El Salvador (ESA)	1:30:48	SB
32	Ronald Quispe	Bolivia (BOL)	1:32:09	PB
	Moacir Zimmermann	Brazil (BRA)	DSQ
	Gustavo Restrepo	Colombia (COL)	DSQ
	Giorgio Rubino	Italy (ITA)	DSQ
	Anatole Ibáñez	Sweden (SWE)	DSQ
	Paquillo Fernández	Spain (ESP)	DSQ
	Adam Rutter	Australia (AUS)	DNF
	Mauricio Arteaga	Ecuador (ECU)	DNF
	Park Chil-sung	South Korea (KOR)	DNF
	Valeriy Borchin	Russia (RUS)	DSQ	doping (1:19:56)
	Vladimir Kanaykin	Russia (RUS)	DSQ	doping (1:20:27)
	Stanislav Emelyanov	Russia (RUS)	DSQ	doping (1:21:11)
	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine (UKR)	DSQ	doping (1:21:31)
	Sergey Morozov	Russia (RUS)	DSQ	doping (1:22:37)
	Recep Çelik	Turkey (TUR)	DSQ	doping (1:25:39)

References

1. Rowbottom, Mike (2011-08-21). Men's 20Km Race Walk - PREVIEW Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
2. Rowbottom, Mike (2011-08-28). Men's 20Km Race Walk - Final - Borchin retains World title Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
3. Russia’s Borchin wins 20km walk. Korea Herald (2011-08-28). Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
4. "8 years, 3 doping cases later, race walker becomes 1st S. Korean with world championships medal". Yonhap News Agency. Seoul. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2019-08-21.

External links

• 20 kilometres walk results at IAAF website
• 20 kilometres race walk men result at IAAF website