World Athletics Championships 1999/20 km men's walking
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 39 walkers from 23 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Seville circuit | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21, 1999 in the streets of the Spanish city of Seville .
World champion was the Russian Olympic runner-up in 1996 and reigning European champion Ilya Markov . Second place went to the 1996 Olympic champion and winner of the 1995 Pan American Games, Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador . Bronze went to the Mexican title-holder and two-time runners- Pan American Games (1995/ 1999 ) Daniel García .
Existing records
| World record | 1:17:46 h |
 Julio René Martínez
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Eisenhuettenstadt , Germany | May 8, 1999 |
| World Cup 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 39 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 21, 1999, 6:45 p.m.
Francisco Javier Fernández took fifteenth place and was later one of the medalists at major events
Hatem Ghoula - sixteen place
Mikel Odriozola - eighteenth place
Valeriy Borissov - 21st place
Julio René Martínez - disqualified
João Vieira - disqualified
Video
- Men's 20km Walk (incomplete) - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 16, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 16, 2020
- Men 20km Walk Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com (English), accessed July 16, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 20km Walk, Seville 1999, p. 216 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 16, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 16, 2020