European Athletics Championships 2014/50 km men's walk
22nd European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 35 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
venue | Zurich | ||||||||
Competition location | Circuit through Zurich | ||||||||
Competition phase | 15th of August | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place on August 15, 2014 in the streets of Zurich . European champion who was Frenchman Yohann Diniz , who has already twice the EM had won -Titel ( 2006 / 2010 ) and the 2007 vice world champion had become. With his victory he set a new world record with 3:32:33 h. Second place went to Matej Tóth from Slovakia with a new national record . Bronze went to the Russian Ivan Noskow .
Records
Existing records
World record | 3:34:14 h | Denis Nischegorodov | Cheboksary , Russia | May 11, 2008 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 3:40:37 h | Yohann Diniz | EM in Barcelona , Spain | July 30, 2010 |
Record improvement
European champion Yohann Diniz improved his own EM record on August 15th at 8:04 minutes to 3:32:33 hours. At the same time he set a new world record and undercut the old mark by 1:41 min.
doping
There was also a doping case on the long walk:
In the blood of the Russian walker Mikhail Ryschow was on 2 June 2015, the Russian training center in Saransk in a doping test erythropoietin proved (EPO). With him four other athletes were equally affected. The Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS different penalties were pronounced Mikhail Ryschow received a four-year ban from 15 July 2015 to 14 July 2019. In addition, were canceled by him achieved results, including his second place finish at the World Championships in 2013 and his fourth place in these European Championships .
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 35 walkers competed together for the final.
Result
August 15, 2014 , 9:00 a.m.
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 5, 2020
- Men 50km Road Walk European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 5, 2020
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 5, 2020
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 50 km walk men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 5, 2020
- 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 5, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km walk men , accessed December 15, 2019
- ↑ Russian race walker set to be stripped of 2011 Universiade gold for doping on insidethegames.biz August 10, 2017, accessed February 5, 2020