European Athletics Championships 2018/50 km men's walk
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| discipline | Men's 50 km walk |
| city |
 Berlin
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| place | Circuit through Berlin |
| Attendees | 36 athletes from 19 countries |
| Competition phase | 7th August 2018 |
| Medalist | |
|---|---|
 gold |
Marjan Sakalnyzkyj ( UKR )
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 silver |
Matej Tóth ( SVK )
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 bronze |
Dzmitryi Djubin ( BLR )
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The men's 50 km walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships was held on August 7, 2018 in Berlin , Germany . 36 athletes took part.
The Ukrainian Marjan Sakalnyzkyj won ahead of the Slovak Matej Tóth . The Belarusian Dzmitryj Dzjubin came in third place .
Routing
The 36 participating walkers had to cope with 25 times a two-kilometer lap that began at Breitscheidplatz on Budapester Strasse and continued east to Kurfürstenstrasse to the turning point on Keithstrasse. The walkers then turned back onto Budapester Strasse and walked north along the zoological garden . After a turning point, the participants returned to Breitscheidplatz - the start and finish point.
Records
| World record |
 Yohann Diniz
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3:32:33 h | EM in Zurich , Switzerland | 15th August 2014 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record |
Course of competition
The French world record holder Yohann Diniz , including reigning world and European champion , was not at the start here in Berlin . At the 2016 European Championships , there was no walking competition on the program because of the Olympic Games in the same year. The favorites were the Slovak Matej Tóth, world champion from 2015 and vice European champion from 2014, the Polish World Cup seventh from 2017 Rafał Augustyn, the Italian Marco De Luca and the Spaniard Jesús Ángel García - De Luca and García had the at the 2014 European Championships Positions seven and eight occupied.
The competition was not too fast in the initial phase with ten-kilometer sections of just under 46 minutes, but this classification was only valid for the absolute top walkers. Therefore, it did not take long before a smaller leadership group had formed, in which Tóth and De Luca in particular set the pace. The German Karl Junghannß and the Finn Jarkko Kinnunen were eight seconds behind at ten kilometers. Another eleven seconds back followed the Ukrainian Marjan Sakalnyzkyj. At the same pace, Tóth and De Luca set themselves apart from their competitors on the next section of the route. But the distance to their pursuers was limited to a few seconds. At twenty kilometers Tóth was then alone in front. Just four seconds behind were the Norwegian Håvard Haukenes, Augustyn, De Luca, the Finn Veli-Matti Partanen, the Hungarian Máté Helebrandt, the Irish Brendan Boyce and Junghannß. As the game progressed, Tóth gradually increased his pace and the chasing group behind him gradually fell apart. But Sakalnyzkyj moved up and significantly shortened the gap to the front runner. From further back the Belarusian Dzmitryj Dzjubin came further forward. At thirty kilometers, Tóth was 11 seconds ahead of Sakalnyzkyj and 27 seconds ahead of Djubin. Haukenes followed seven more seconds back. Augustyn and Partanen were also 36 seconds behind the leader in the competition.
In the further course Tóth had a weak phase. Sakalnyzkyj now took the lead, behind them a group of two formed with Dzjubin and Haukenes, who were 32 seconds behind at forty kilometers. Tóth was fourteen seconds behind these two. The German Carl Dohmann, who was 1:43 minutes behind Sakalnyzkyj, was now fifth. Augustyn followed 45 seconds behind. Soon afterwards Djubin shook off his companion Haukenes and was thus the only runner-up behind the sovereign Sakalnyzkyj. On the last five kilometers, Tóth caught himself again and narrowed his gap to Haukenes and Dzjubin. The Slovak first passed Haukenes and made contact with Djubin two kilometers from the finish. In the end, Marjan Sakalnyzkyj was safe European champion. Matej Tóth won the silver medal 55 seconds behind and 22 seconds ahead of Dzmitryj Dzjubin. Håvard Haukenes defended his fourth place without any problems and was almost two minutes ahead of fifth Carl Dohmann. The two Poles Rafał Augustyn and Rafał Sikora finished sixth and seven in front of the German Nathaniel Seiler.
| Split times | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 10 km time |
| 10 km | 45:57 min | De Luca in a top group of 8 / Kinnunen, Junghannß 8 s back / Sakalnyzkyj 19 s back | 45:57 min |
| 20 km | 1:31:52 h | Tóth / Haukenes, Augustyn, De Luca, Partanen, Helebrandt, Boyce, Junghannß 4 s z. / Kinnunen 22 s z. / Ojala 36s for. / Sakalnyzkyj, Sikora 47 s z. | 45:55 min |
| 30 km | 2:17:17 h | Tóth / Sakalnyzkyj 11 s for. / Dzjubin 27 s for. / Haukenes 34 s for. / Augustyn, Partans 36s for. | 45:25 min |
| 40 km | 3:01:38 h | Sakalnyzkyj / Dzjubin, Haukenes 32 s for. / Tóth 46 s for. / Dohmann 1:43 min to. / Augustyn 2:28 min to. | 44:21 min |
| 50 km | 3:46:32 h | Marjan Sakalnyzkyj | 44:54 min |
Result
August 7, 2018, 8:35 a.m. CEST
Rafał Augustyn, Poland - sixth place
Rafał Sikora, Poland - seventh place
José Ignacio Díaz, Spain - ninth
Marco De Luca, Italy - tenth place
Adrian Błocki, Poland - twelfth place
Bence Venyercsán, Hungary - thirteenth place
Lukáš Gdula, Czech Republic - 21st place
Marc Tur, Spain - 22nd place
Anders Hansson, Sweden - 23rd place
Pedro Isidro, Portugal - 24th
Bruno Erent, Croatia ( right, together with Carl Dohmann ) - 25th place
Jarkko Kinnunen, Finland - 26th place
Michele Antonelli, Italy ( left ) - Race not finished
Jesús Ángel García, Spain - race not finished
Arnis Rumbenieks, Latvia - race not finished
Aleksi Ojala, Finland - race not finished
João Vieira, Portugal - Race not finished
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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 6, 2019
- Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
- Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships, 50km race walk course on youtube.com, published on July 25, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019