World Athletics Championships 1987/20 km men's walking
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 42 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
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 Rome
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| Competition location | Circuit through Rome | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 30th | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1987 World Athletics Championships was held on August 30, 1987 in the streets of Rome .
World champion was the Italian Olympic champion from 1980 , Olympic third from 1984 and Vice European Champion from 1986 Maurizio Damilano . Silver went to the Vice World Champion from 1983 , European Champion from 1986 and Vice European Champion from 1982 Jozef Pribilinec from Czechoslovakia . Third place went to the Spanish European champion from 1982 José Marín , who was also vice world champion in 1983 and in 1982 vice European champion in the 50 km distance.
Records / best performances
Existing records
| World record | 1:19:12 h |
 Axel Noack
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Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany ) | June 21, 1986 |
| World championship record | 1:20:49 h |
 Ernesto Canto
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1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland | August 7, 1983 |
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
World champion Maurizio Damilano from Italy improved the existing world championship record on August 30th by four seconds to 1:20:45.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 42 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 30, 1987
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Web links
- * IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on March 24, 2020
- Men 20km Walk Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 on todor66.com, accessed March 24, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 20km Walk, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 215), English, accessed on March 24, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 24, 2020