2017 World Athletics Championships / 50 km men's walk
| 2017 World Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
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| discipline | Men's 50 km walk |
| city |
 London
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| place | Circuit through London Start and finish: The Mail / Marlborough Road |
| Attendees | 48 athletes from 27 countries |
| Competition phase | 13th August 2017 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Yohann Diniz ( FRA )
 |
 silver |
Hirooki Arai ( JPN )
 |
 bronze |
Kai Kobayashi ( JPN )
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The men's 50km walk at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , United Kingdom on August 13, 2017 .
The Frenchman Yohann Diniz won . The Japanese Hirooki Arai was runner-up in front of his compatriot Kai Kobayashi.
Records
| World record |
Yohann Diniz
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3:32:33 h | Zurich , Switzerland | 15th August 2014 |
| Championship record |
 Robert Korzeniowski
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3:36:03 h | World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis , France | August 27, 2003 |
route
The start and finish point of the route was on the "The Mail" road connecting Trafalgar Studios and Buckingham Palace on the corner of "Marlborough Road" near Marlborough House . Constantly on this route I passed St. James' Park to the south-west . Initially, the route headed northeast past the Trafalgar Studios. The path circled the statue "Equestrian Statue of Charles I" behind it on a roundabout and led back to the southwest on the almost dead straight street "The Mail". It went past the start and finish point to Buckingham Palace, where the Victoria Memorial was completely circled. So the route led back on the street "The Mail" to the start and finish point. The length of this route was two kilometers, so it had to be completed 25 times when walking 50 km .
initial situation
Some of the successful walkers from recent years such as the defending champion and Olympic champion from 2016 Matej Tóth or the Olympic champion from 2012 and vice world champion from 2015 Jared Tallent were not here in London . The favorites for this competition were primarily the Japanese world championship third from 2015 Hirooki Arai, the Irish world champion from 2013 Robert Heffernan, the French world record holder and European champion from 2014 Yohann Diniz and the Canadian Olympic champion from 2016 Evan Dunfee. In addition, perhaps came WM -Vierte 2013 Ihor Hlawan from Ukraine.
Course of competition
August 13, 2017, 7:47 a.m. local time (8:45 a.m. CEST )
A walker put the stamp on this competition from the start. Already in the first kilometers, Yohann Diniz set a high pace, which he soon sharpened again, so that after ten kilometers he had worked out a lead of more than forty seconds. He was followed by the Mexican Horacio Nava, a fifteen-man chasing group another fourteen seconds behind. Nava was soon overtaken by the pursuers and lined up there, while Diniz maintained his high pace at the front and thus increased his lead more and more. At fifteen kilometer, the nine-man chasing group was 1:32 minutes behind, at twenty kilometers this distance was already 2:10 minutes. At kilometer 25, Diniz led with 2:59 minutes. The chasing group consisted of the two Ecuadorians Claudio Villanueva and Andrés Chocho, the Finn Aleksi Ojala, the Chinese Yu Wei, Dunfee and the two Japanese Arai and Kai Kobayashi now seven athletes. The situation at thirty kilometers had not changed, the seven pursuers were still together, Diniz's lead had increased to 3:18 minutes, at 35 kilometer this gap was more than a minute and the French were still following together seven walkers.
That changed on the next section of the route. While Diniz accelerated his already very high pace again, the group behind him fell apart. The two Japanese Arai and Kobayashi separated in pairs. At forty kilometers they were 5:43 minutes behind Diniz and 27 seconds before Dunfee. Another six seconds back followed Villanueva, who was 24 s ahead of the next Japanese Satoshi Maruo and 26 s ahead of the Ukrainian Ihor Hlawan. Ojala was eight seconds behind. Even on the last ten kilometers, Yohann Diniz did not show the slightest signs of fatigue and maintained his pace. He won completely unchallenged and set a new championship record with 3:33:12 h. He missed his own world record by just 39 seconds. The two Japanese behind him stayed together until the end. Hirooki Arai won the silver medal 8:05 minutes behind and two seconds ahead of Kai Kobayashi. Ihor Hlawan was fourth 23 s behind Kobayashi in front of the third Japanese Satoshi Maruo, who finished 21 s after Hlawan. Sixth place went to the Hungarian Máté Helebrandt ahead of the Poland Rafał Augustyn. Robert Heffernan came in eighth ahead of the Italian Marco De Luca and the German Carl Dohmann.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 22:46 min | Yohann Diniz with a large leading group | 22:46 min |
| 10 km | 44:28 min | Yohann Diniz / Horacio Nava 41 s back / 15-strong chase group 55 s back | 21:42 min |
| 15 km | 1:06:02 h | Yohann Diniz / 9-person chasing group 1:32 min back | 21:34 min |
| 20 km | 1:27:18 h | Yohann Diniz / 9-person chasing group 2:10 min back | 21:16 min |
| 25 km | 1:48:24 h | Yohann Diniz / 7-person chasing group 2:59 min back | 21:06 min |
| 30 km | 2:09:51 h | Yohann Diniz / 7-man chasing group 3:18 min back | 21:27 min |
| 35 km | 2:30:58 h | Yohann Diniz / 7-person chasing group 4:21 min back | 21:07 min |
| 40 km | 2:51:31 h | Diniz / Arai, Kobayashi 5:43 min to. / Dunfee 6:10 min to. / Villanueva 6:16 min to. / Maruo 6:40 min to. / Hlawan 6:42 min to. / Ojala 6:50 min to. | 20:33 min |
| 45 km | 3:12:39 h | Diniz / Arai, Kobayashi 6:38 min to. / Hlawan 7:14 min to. / Maruo 7:39 min to. / De Luca 8:26 min to. / Helebrand 8:43 min to. / Dunfee 9:10 min to. | 21:08 min |
| 50 km | 3:33:12 h | Yohann Diniz | 20:33 min |
Result
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Rafał Augustyn, Poland - seventh place
Robert Heffernan, Ireland - eighth
Marco De Luca, Italy - ninth place
Carl Dohmann, Germany - tenth place
João Vieira, Portugal - eleventh place
Aleksi Ojala, Finland - fourteenth place
Horacio Nava, Mexico - sixteenth place
José Ignacio Díaz, Spain - seventeenth place
Ivan Banseruk, Ukraine - nineteenth place
Rafał Fedaczyński, Poland - 22nd place
Jarkko Kinnunen, Finland - 23rd place
Adrian Błocki, Poland - 24th place
Anders Hansson, Sweden - 28th place
Pedro Isidro, Portugal - 32nd place
Luis Fernando López, Colombia - abandoned
Andrés Chocho, Ecuador - disqualified
Alex Flórez, Switzerland - disqualified
Omar Zepeda, Mexico - disqualified
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Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 50 km men walk on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 30, 2018
- Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 30, 2018
- Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 30, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Races Walks course , You-Tube video on the route, published on August 1, 2017, accessed on November 30, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181f (PDF), accessed on November 30, 2018