World Athletics Championships 1997/50 km men's walk
| 6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 42 walkers from 25 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Athens
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| Competition location | Circuit through Athens | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 7th | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 7, 1997 in the streets of the Greek capital, Athens .
The Polish Olympic champion in 1996 and World Cup third in 1995, Robert Korzeniowski , won his first world championship title . Silver went to the Spanish world champion from 1993 Jesús Ángel García . The bronze medalist was the Mexican Miguel Ángel Rodríguez .
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.
The Japanese Fumio Imamura set a new national record with 3:50:27 h.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 42 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 7, 1997, 7:00 a.m.
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Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 20, 2020
- Men 50km Walk Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 20, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Athens 1997, p. 221f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 20, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 20, 2020