European Athletics Championships 2002/50 km men's walking
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 30 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Munich
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| Competition location | Circuit through Munich | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 8th August | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 8, 2002 in the streets of Munich .
European champion was the defending champion, Olympic champion in 1996 / 2000 and world champion of 1997 / 2001 Robert Korzeniowski from Poland. With his winning time, he set a new world record. The Russian Alexei Voivodin took second place . Bronze went to the 2001 vice world champion, Jesús Ángel García .
Records / best performances
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 3:37:26 h |
 Valery Spitsyn
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Moscow , Russia | May 21, 2000 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 3:40:55 h |
 Hartwig Gauder
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EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany | August 31, 1986 |
Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
Record improvement
European champion Robert Korzeniowski improved the existing EM record on August 8th at 4:16 min to 3:36:39 h. His performance was also a new world record.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all thirty walkers competed together for the final.
Result
August 8, 2002
| space | Surname | nation | Time (h) |
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| 1 | Robert Korzeniowski |
Poland
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3:36:39 WB |
| 2 | Alexei Voivodin |
Russia
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3:40:16 |
| 3 | Jesús Ángel García |
 Spain
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3:44:33 |
| 4th | German Skurygin |
Russia
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3:48:58 |
| 5 | Trond Nymark |
 Norway
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3:50:16 |
| 6th | Denis Langlois |
 France
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3:50:47 |
| 7th | Aleksandar Raković |
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3:51:47 |
| 8th | Francesco Galdenzi |
 Italy
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3:52:17 |
| 9 | Modris Liepiņš |
 Latvia
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3:52:36 |
| 10 | Grzegorz Sudoł |
Poland
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3:54:35 |
| 11 | Peter Korčok |
 Slovakia
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3:55:34 |
| 12 | Santiago Perez |
Spain
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3:55:50 |
| 13 | Fredrik Svensson |
 Sweden
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3:56:32 |
| 14th | Spirídon chestnut |
 Greece
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4:00:31 |
| 15th | David Boulanger |
France
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4:03:20 |
| 16 | Pedro Martins |
 Portugal
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4:03:39 |
| 17th | Bengt Bengtsson |
Sweden
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4:07:03 |
| 18th | René Piller |
France
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4:07:20 |
| 19th | Uģis Brūvelis |
Latvia
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4:14:39 |
| 20th | Marek Janek |
Slovakia
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4:19:08 |
| DNF | Marco Giungi |
Italy
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| Jorge Costa |
Portugal
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| DSQ | Jiří Malysa |
 Czech Republic
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| Yuri Andronov |
Russia
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| Tomasz Lipiec |
Poland
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| Jamie Costin |
 Ireland
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| Jacob Sørensen |
 Denmark
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| Mikel Odriozola |
Spain
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| Giovanni De Benedictis |
Italy
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| Martin Pupiš |
Slovakia
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| DNS | Miloš Holuša |
Czech Republic
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Grzegorz Sudoł reached tenth place
Tomasz Lipiec did not finish
Mikel Odriozola did not finish this competition
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
- Men 50km Walk European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on October 28, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 28, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 50km Walk European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 484 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 50 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 28, 2019
- 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 28, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km walk men , accessed October 28, 2019