World Athletics Championships 1993/50 km men's walk
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 45 walkers from 30 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Stuttgart
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| Competition location | Circuit through Stuttgart | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 24, 1993 in the streets of the German city of Stuttgart .
The Spanish Jesús Ángel García became world champion . Silver went to Valentin Kononen from Finland . The Russian Valery Spitsyn won the bronze medal.
Records / best performances
Existing records
| World record | 3:37:41 h |
 Andrei Perlow
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Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia ) | 5th August 1989 |
| World Cup record | 3:40:53 h |
 Maurizio Damilano
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World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy | August 30, 1987 |
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.
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
execution
There was no preliminary round here, all 45 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 21, 1993, 8:00 a.m.
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Web links
- 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 12, 2020
- Men 50km Walk Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 12, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Stuttgart 1993, p. 221f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 12, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 12, 2020