World Athletics Championships 1999/50 km men's walk
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 51 walkers from 28 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Seville circuit | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 25 | ||||||||
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The men's 50km walk at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1999 in the streets of the Spanish city of Seville .
World champion was the Italian Ivano Brugnetti . He won ahead of the Russian Nikolai Matjuchin . Bronze went to the American Curt Clausen .
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.
doping
The original winner German Skurygin from Russia was subsequently disqualified for using gonadotropins and banned for two years.
There were two main victims:
- The Italian world champion Ivano Brugnetti received his gold medal only after German Skurygins disqualification.
- The American Curt Clausen also received his bronze medal only after Skurygins disqualification and could not take part in the award ceremony.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 51 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 25, 1999, 7:45 a.m.
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Jesús Ángel García - not at the finish
Tomasz Lipíec (here as a politician in 2007) was disqualified
Video
- 1999 IAAF World Athletics Championships - Men's 50km Walk Final on youtube.com, accessed July 17, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 17, 2020
- Men 50km Walk Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed on July 17, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Seville 1999, p. 222 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 17, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 17, 2020
- ↑ Winner under suspicion , Der Tagesspiegel September 1, 2003, accessed on July 16, 2020