The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 August.Start list
Summary From the gun, the three Chinese athletes made it clear they were going to make an effort to take this home race. The effort almost worked, as the group ultimately led by Olympic bronze medalist Wang Zhen held the lead until the bell. At almost that moment, returning bronze medalist Miguel Ángel López had finally worked his way back to the lead. The strain of leading showed on Wang's face as Lopez cruised past. Lopez built upon that lead for the final lap and route back into the stadium. Canadian Benjamin Thorne set the Canadian record on his way to the bronze medal in a national record time.
A deeper story might be in who was not here. After years of the Viktor Chegin drug related cheating scandal, no Russian athlete entered the race, ending their dominance of world podiums. Recent world record setting Yusuke Suzuki also dropped out near the half way mark with a hip injury. Andrés Chocho was making an effort to challenge the leaders late into the race, but instead was invited to leave the course with a red paddle.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record1:16:36Nomi, Japan15 March 2015Championship record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003World Leading1:16:36Nomi, Japan15 March 2015African record1:19:02Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany10 May 1997Asian record1:16:36Nomi, Japan15 March 2015North, Central American and Caribbean record1:17:46Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany8 May 1999South American record1:17:21Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003European record 1:17:02 Arles, France8 March 2015Oceanian record1:17:33Cixi, China23 April 2005
Qualification standards Time 1:25:00
Schedule Date Time Round23 August 2015 08:30 Final
Results The race was started at 08:30.Final results
KEY:NRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Miguel Ángel López 1:19:14 Wang Zhen 1:19:29 Benjamin Thorne 1:19:57 Ihor Hlavan 1:20:29 Cai Zelin 1:20:42 Caio Bonfim 1:20:44 Éider Arévalo 1:21:13 Dane Bird-Smith 1:21:37 Chen Ding 1:21:39 10 Kim Hyun-sub 1:21:40 11 Lebogang Shange 1:21:43 12 Evan Dunfee 1:21:48 13 Isamu Fujisawa 1:21:51 14 Inaki Gomez 1:21:55 15 Eder Sánchez 1:21:56 16 Álvaro Martín 1:22:04 17 Quentin Rew 1:22:18 18 Hagen Pohle 1:22:29 19 Massimo Stano 1:22:53 20 Giorgio Rubino 1:23:23 21 Ruslan Dmytrenko 1:23:37 22 José Leonardo Montaña 1:23:53 23 Dzianis Simanovich 1:23:54 24 Tom Bosworth 1:23:58 25 Alexandros Papamichail 1:24:11 26 Jared Tallent 1:24:19 27 Federico Tontodonati 1:24:33 28 Horacio Nava 1:24:40 29 Diego Garcia 1:24:52 30 Georgiy Sheiko 1:24:58 31 Julio César Salazar 1:24:58 32 Chris Erickson 1:25:15 33 Kévin Campion 1:25:16 34 Nils Brembach 1:25:21 35 Gurmeet Singh 1:25:22 36 João Vieira 1:25:49 37 Mauricio Arteaga 1:25:50 38 Christopher Linke 1:26:10 39 Ivan Losyev 1:26:32 40 Anatole Ibáñez 1:26:34 41 Chandan Singh 1:26:40 42 Juan Manuel Cano 1:27:10 43 Marco Antonio Rodríguez 1:27:15 44 Anton Kučmín 1:27:46 45 Choe Byeong-kwang 1:28:01 46 Richard Vargas 1:28:18 47 Eiki Takahashi 1:28:30 48 José María Raymundo 1:29:01 49 Yerko Araya 1:29:12 50 Kenny Martín Pérez 1:29:31 Pavel Chihuán Perseus Karlström Baljinder Singh Yusuke Suzuki Erik Tysse Sérgio Vieira Byun Young-jun Andrés Chocho Aliaksandr Liakhovich Marius Šavelskis Alex Wright
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