World Athletics Championships 1997/20 km men's walking
| 6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 49 walkers from 29 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Athens
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| Competition location | Circuit through Athens | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 2nd | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 2, 1997 in the streets of the Greek capital, Athens .
World champion was the Mexican Daniel García . Second place went to the Russian vice world champion from 1991 and reigning European champion Mikhail Schchennikow , who had also won silver at the 1996 Olympic Games over the distance of 50 kilometers . Bronze went to the Belarusian Mikhail Khmelnitsky .
Existing records
| World record | 1:18:13 h |
 Pavol Blažek
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Hildesheim , FR Germany | September 16, 1990 |
| World championship record | 1:19:37 h |
 Maurizio Damilano
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1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan | August 24, 1991 |
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, all 49 walkers went to the final together.
doping
The competition was overshadowed by a doping case: the Spanish Olympic champion from 1992, Daniel Plaza ,
who initially came tenth , was convicted of doping abuse and disqualified. His explanation belongs in a hit list of the most ridiculous excuses for a positive doping test: he had oral sex with his pregnant wife, who probably produced the steroid naturally as a pregnant woman and passed it on to him.
Result
August 2, 1997, 7:20 pm
24th place for Jean-Olivier Brosseau
Ilya Markov was disqualified
Julio René Martínez - disqualified
Video
- Men's 20km Walk (incomplete) - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 20, 2020
- Men 20km Walk Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 20, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 20km Walk, Athens 1997, p. 216 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 20, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 20, 2020
- ↑ The Doping Excuses Hall of Fame on wired.com, accessed June 20, 2020