European Athletics Championships 2018/20 km walking men
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| discipline | Men's 20km walk |
| city |
 Berlin
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| place | Circuit through Berlin |
| Attendees | 28 athletes from 15 countries |
| Competition phase | 11th August 2018 |
| Medalist | |
|---|---|
 gold |
Álvaro Martín ( ESP )
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 silver |
Diego García Carrera ( ESP )
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 bronze |
Vasily Misinov ( ANA )
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The men's 20 km walk at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 11 in the German capital Berlin .
There was a Spanish one-two. The European title went to Álvaro Martín, while Diego García Carrera came second. The Russian Vasily Misinov , starting under a neutral flag, won the bronze medal.
Routing
The 28 participating walkers had to cope with a 1-kilometer loop 20 times, which began at Breitscheidplatz on Budapester Straße and continued east to the turning point at the intersection at Olof-Palme-Platz . The athletes passed Breitscheidplatz on Budapester Strasse again. After a turning point in front of the zoo window , the participants returned to Breitscheidplatz - the start and finish point.
Records
| World record |
 Yūsuke Suzuki
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1:16:36 h | Nomi , Japan | March 15, 2015 |
| European record |
 Yohann Diniz
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1:17:02 h | Arles , France | March 8, 2015 |
| Championship record |
Francisco Javier Fernández
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1:18:37 h | EM in Munich , Germany | August 6, 2002 |
Course of the competition
One of the top favorites here was the Spaniard Miguel Ángel López. He was the 2015 world champion and 2014 European champion and thus also the defending champion, because this competition was not held at the 2016 European Athletics Championships . His Spanish compatriots Diego García Carrera and Álvaro Martín were also rated highly in any case. The German Christopher Linke started with good prospects as World Cup fifth in 2017 and European Championship fifth in 2014.
The walkers contested this competition for a long time at a steady, not too fast pace. In the two-kilometer sections of just over eight minutes, however, there was no strolling. The field and a large management group stayed together for a long time. Nobody tried to set themselves apart from their competitors at an early stage. This group only gradually became smaller. Nineteen walkers were still together in front at half of the course, at twelve kilometer it was seventeen and at fourteen kilometer there were still ten athletes together.
But now it got faster. With the two Spaniards Martín and García, Wassili Misinow, who started under a neutral flag, the Italian Massimo Stano and the British Tom Bosworth, five walkers were able to break away. Ten seconds behind followed the two Germans Nils Brembach and Hagen Pohle together with the Pole Artur Brzozowski, who soon after received his third red card and was thus disqualified. Then Bosworth fell back too, and a little later Stano. Two kilometers from the finish there was a group of three with Martín, García and Misinow in front. Stano followed eight seconds behind, Bosworth was 21 seconds behind, the closest pursuers were Brembach and Pohle, 31 seconds behind. The strongest final section went to Álvaro Martín, who was eight seconds ahead of Diego García Carrera European champion. Vasily Misinov won the bronze medal just two more seconds behind. Fourth was Massimo Stano, who in the end came within a second of Misinow. Nils Brembach was fifth ahead of Miguel Ángel López, who came up again at the end. Tom Bosworth followed in seventh place, Hagen Pohle came eighth.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:19 min | Complete field | 8:19 min |
| 4 km | 16:33 min | 25-person management group | 8:14 min |
| 6 km | 24:46 min | 24-person management group | 8:13 min |
| 8 kilometers | 32:57 min | 19-member leadership group | 8:11 min |
| 10 km | 41:08 min | 19-member leadership group | 8:11 min |
| 12 km | 49:16 min | 17-person management group | 8:08 min |
| 14 km | 57:18 min | Massimo Stano with a 10-person management group | 8:02 min |
| 16 km | 1:05:10 h | Martín, García, Misinow, Stano, Bosworth - Brembach, Pohle, Brozowski 10 s back | 7:52 min |
| 18 km | 1:12:57 h | Martín, García, Misinow - Stano 8 s back - Bosworth 21 s back - Brembach, Pohle 31 s back | 7:47 min |
| 20 km | 1:20:42 h | Álvaro Martín | 7:45 min |
Result
August 11, 2018, 10:55 a.m. CEST
Kévin Campion, France - ninth place
Christopher Linke, Germany - thirteenth place
Alexandros Papamihail, Greece - 15th place
Luís Alberto Amezcua, Spain - seventeenth place
Dawid Tomala, Poland - nineteenth place
Oleksij Kazanin, Ukraine ( left ) - 23rd place
Artur Brozowski, Poland - disqualified
Girogio Rubino, Italy - disqualified
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Web links and sources
- Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 5, 2019
- Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 5, 2019
- Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 5, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships, 20km race walk course on youtube.com, published on July 25, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2019