World Athletics Championships 1995/50 km men's walking
| 5th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 41 walkers from 26 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Gothenburg
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| Competition location | Round trip through Gothenburg | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 10 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 10, 1995 in the streets of the Swedish city of Gothenburg .
World champion was the Finnish vice world champion from 1993 Valentin Kononen . Silver went to Giovanni Perricelli, who was third in the Italian European Championship in 1994 . The Pole Robert Korzeniowski won his first bronze medal at a major international event. His track record in the years that followed made him one of the best walkers in sports history.
Existing bests / 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 41 walkers competed for the final together.
Result
August 10, 1995, 3:40 p.m.
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Web links
- 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 28, 2020
- Men 50km Walk Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 28, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Gothenborg 1995, p. 221 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 28, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 28, 2020