World Athletics Championships 2015/50 km men's walk

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World Athletics Championships 2015
athletics
discipline Men's 50 km walk
city China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing
place Circuit through the city of Beijing
Start and finish: National Stadium
Attendees 54 athletes from 31 countries
Competition phase 29th August 2015
Medalist
gold gold Matej Tóth ( SVK ) SlovakiaSlovakia 
Silver medals silver Jared Tallent ( AUS ) AustraliaAustralia 
Bronze medals bronze Takayuki Tanii ( JPN ) JapanJapan 
Temple of Heaven in Beijing

The men's 50 km walk at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place in Beijing , People's Republic of China , on August 29, 2015 .

The Slovak Matej Tóth became world champion, the Australian Jared Tallent won silver . He won the bronze medal. Japanese Takayuki Tanii

Records

World record FranceFrance Yohann Diniz 3:32:33 h Zurich , Switzerland 15th August 2014
Championship record PolandPoland Robert Korzeniowski 3:36:03 h World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis , France August 27, 2003

initial situation

The group of favorites for this competition was primarily drawn from the last major international championships. Jared Tallent, the Australian Olympic champion and third place in the World Cup , was there as well as the reigning World Champion and Olympic third party Robert Heffernan from Ireland and Vice European Champion Matej Tóth from Slovakia, who had finished fifth at the last Olympic Games and last World Championships. The Ukrainian World Cup fourth Ihor Hlawan was also part of the circle of goers with a medal chance. In the twenty kilometer competition , he had finished fourth here six days earlier.

Course of competition

August 29, 2015, 7:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. CEST )

The 50 km walk took a rather unusual course. Right from the start, Tóth set the pace and his opponents initially let him pull away. After five kilometers he was eight seconds ahead of a group of sixteen pursuers. After ten kilometers it was almost half a minute before ten pursuers. Toth did not let up and continued to increase the distance. After fifteen kilometers, Tallent was 39 seconds behind the sole pursuit of the leading Slovak. The following group was another ten seconds behind. In the further course Tallent was put back by eight runners behind him. Tóth, on the other hand, was still ahead and at thirty kilometers was already over a minute ahead of a group of seven behind him, those from Heffernan, Tallent, the Japanese Takayuki Tanii, Andrés Chocho from Ecuador, the Japanese Hirooki Arai, Erick Barrondo from Guatemala and the Chinese Zhang Lin insisted.

For the next few kilometers, Tóth was all alone in front, while the chasing group fell apart more and more. Tallent broke away from his competitors for the second time. Heffernan, Li, Tanii and Arai followed just a few seconds after him. For the first time, Tóth's lead has shrunk a little. However, this was only temporary. Five kilometers from the finish, the Slovak was now almost a minute and a half ahead of Tallent, who had further broken away from his pursuers. Only Tanii and Arai were a little more than twenty seconds behind him. Heffernan followed eight seconds behind them. Li, on the other hand, had to be ripped off completely and lost more than a minute on his former companion.

During the last few kilometers nothing changed in the first two places. Matej Tóth confidently brought his developed lead to the world championship title to the finish. Jared Tallent walked 1:45 minutes behind him to the silver medal.

Such a long and successful solo effort as here by Matej Tóth is extremely rare. As a rule, early outliers are made in the further course of the competition, so such attempts are risky and usually do not end with success.

Split times
brand Meanwhile Leading 5 km time
5 km 22:57 min Matej Tóth - 8 seconds ahead of a 16-man chasing group 22:57 min
10 km 45:22 min Matej Tóth - 27 seconds ahead of a 10-man chasing group 22:25 min
15 km 1:07:28 h Tóth - 39 seconds ahead of Tallent and 49 seconds in a 10-man chasing group 22:06 min
20 km 1:29:24 h Tóth - 50 seconds in front of an 8-man chasing group 21:56 min
25 km 1:51:17 h Tóth - 55 s of a 7-man chase group 21:53 min
30 km 2:13:14 h Tóth - 1:09 min in front of a group of seven people in pursuit 21:57 min
35 km 2:35:20 h Tóth / Tallent 54 s back / Heffernan, Li, Tanii, Arai 56 s back / Yamazaki 1:19 min back / Augustin 1:25 min back 22:06 min
40 km 2:57:01 h Tóth / Tallent 1:13 min back / Tanii, Heffernan 1:16 min back / Arai 1:19 min back / Li 1:27 min back 21:41 min
45 km 3:18:43 h Tóth / Tallent 1:28 min back. / Tanii, Arai 1:51 min back / Heffernan 1:59 min back / Li 3:04 min back 21:42 min
50 km 3:40:32 h Matej Tóth 21:49 min

Result

World champion Matej Tóth, Slovakia
Vice World Champion Jared Tallent, Australia
Bronze medalist Takayuki Tanii from Japan
The Japanese Hirooki Arai came in fourth
space athlete country Time (h) Warnings
Gold medal icon.svg Matej Tóth SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 3:40:32
Silver medal icon.svg Jared Tallent AustraliaAustralia Australia 3:42:17 SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Takayuki Tanii JapanJapan Japan 3:42:55 Bod
04th Hirooki Arai JapanJapan Japan 3:43:44
05 Robert Heffernan IrelandIreland Ireland 3:44:17 SB
06th Zhang Lin China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 3:44:39 PB
07th Yu Wei China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 3:45:21 PB
08th Andrés Chocho EcuadorEcuador Ecuador 3:46:00 AR Bod / Bod
09 Jesús Ángel García SpainSpain Spain 3:46:43 SB knee
10 Quentin Rew New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 3:48:48 PB Knee / knee
11 Adrian Błocki PolandPoland Poland 3:49:11 PB
12 Evan Dunfee CanadaCanada Canada 3:49:56 PB knee
13 Chris Erickson AustraliaAustralia Australia 3:51:26 SB
14th Wu Qianlong China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 3:51:35 Knee / knee
15th Ivan Banseruk UkraineUkraine Ukraine 3:52:15
16 Marco De Luca ItalyItaly Italy 3:53:02
17th Matteo Giupponi ItalyItaly Italy 3:53:23 Bod
18th Aku partans FinlandFinland Finland 3:54:28 Knee / knee
19th Serhiy Budsa UkraineUkraine Ukraine 3:55:10 knee
20th Luis Fernando López ColombiaColombia Colombia 3:55:43 PB
21st Pedro Isidro PortugalPortugal Portugal 3:55:44 PB
22nd Tadas Šuškevičius LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 3:56:27 SB Bod / knee
23 Park Chilsung Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 3:56:42 SB
24 Håvard Haukenes NorwayNorway Norway 3:56:50 SB Bod / knee
25th Teodorico Caporaso ItalyItaly Italy 3:56:58 Bod
26th Sandeep Kumar IndiaIndia India 3:57:03 SB Knee / knee
27 Manish Singh IndiaIndia India 3:57:11 PB Knee / floor
28 Rafał Augustyn PolandPoland Poland 3:57:30 knee
29 Jaime Quiyuch GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala 3:57:41 SB knee
30th Dušan Majdán SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 3:58:57 SB Knee / knee
31 Mathieu Bilodeau CanadaCanada Canada 4:01:35 SB
32 Jarkko Kinnunen FinlandFinland Finland 4:02:07 SB
33 Marc Mundell South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 4:02:41
34 Yuki Yamazaki JapanJapan Japan 4:03:54 Knee / floor
35 Francisco Arcilla SpainSpain Spain 4:07:23 SB
36 Luis Angel Sanchez GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala 4:09:26
37 John Nunn United StatesUnited States United States 4:09:44 SB
38 Arnis Rumbenieks LatviaLatvia Latvia 4:28:55 knee
DNF Marius Cocioran RomaniaRomania Romania
Carl Dohmann GermanyGermany Germany
Mario dos Santos BrazilBrazil Brazil
Unlike Hansson SwedenSweden Sweden
Anatole Ibáñez SwedenSweden Sweden knee
Aleksi Ojala FinlandFinland Finland knee
Alexandros Papamichail GreeceGreece Greece
Benjamin Sánchez SpainSpain Spain
Alex Wright IrelandIreland Ireland
DSQ Erick Barrondo GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala Bod / Bod / Bod
Brendan Boyce IrelandIreland Ireland Knees / bod / knees
Lukáš Gdula Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic Knee / knee / knee
Ihor Hlawan UkraineUkraine Ukraine Bod / Bod / Bod
Łukasz Nowak PolandPoland Poland Knee / knee / knee
Martin Tišťan SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia Knee / knee / knee
DNS Aleksandr Yargunkin RussiaRussia Russia

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