2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 47 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
Competition location |
Stadium Australia (start and finish) |
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Competition phase | September 22, 2000 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22, 2000 on a circuit in Sydney. The start and finish was the Australia Stadium . 47 athletes took part, 44 made it to the finish line.
The Olympic champion was Robert Korzeniowski from Poland . He won ahead of the Mexican Noé Hernández and the Russian Vladimir Andrejew .
The German Andreas Erm reached the goal in fifth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador ) | 1:20:07 h | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Ilja Markow ( Russia ) | 1:23:34 h | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 | 1:21:10 h | Budapest 1998 | |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Bernardo Segura ( Mexico ) | 1:20:17 h | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Noé Hernández ( Mexico ) | 1:20:49 h | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 2000 | Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador ) | 1:30:50 h | Lima 2000 |
Asian champion 2000 | Wu Ping ( People's Republic of China ) | 1:28:04 h | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Hatem Ghoula ( Tunisia ) | 1:25:38 h | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | 20 km walking not in the championship program |
Existing records
World record | 1:17:46 h | Roman Rasskasow ( Russia ) | Moscow , Russia | May 19, 2000 |
Olympic record | 1:19:57 h | Jozef Pribilinec ( Czechoslovakia ) | 20km walk from Seoul , South Korea | September 23, 1988 |
Remarks:
- World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
- All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).
Routing
It started with five laps on the Australia Stadium track . Then the stadium was left. The route headed north on Edwin Flack Avenue through a tunnel . Shortly before Olympic Boulevard , the route turned right and turned into Pondage Link , which connects Edwin Flack Avenue with Hill Road . From here began a T-shaped circuit two kilometers in length, which had to be completed eight times. This course led initially to the right into Hill Road . Shortly after the bridge over Haslams Creek there was a turn and it went back to the confluence of the Old Hill Link . Here we turned again with a small arch into the Pondage Link and the path led back to Hill Road . After completing the circuit, the route went back to the stadium, where the goal was reached, on the same route as on the way there.
Starting position
The favorites came from Russia, Poland, Ecuador and Mexico. Above all, the Russian world and European champion Ilya Markow, who had also won the silver medal four years earlier, started with great prospects. This also applied to his compatriot Roman Rasskasow, who had achieved a new world record in May of the Olympic season. The 1996 Olympic champion and vice world champion Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador, the Mexican World Cup third Daniel García and the 50 km Olympic champion from 1996 and at the same time reigning 50 km European champion Robert Korzeniowski from Poland were highly rated.
Course of competition
September 22, 2000, start at 12:50 p.m.
The walking field stayed together for the first few laps. At eight kilometers a leading group of eighteen participants had formed, which was ten seconds ahead of a field of pursuers. By sixteen kilometer the leading group had shrunk to four athletes after the pace had been increased significantly from fourteen kilometer. Korzeniowski and the Russian Vladimir Andreyev were now in charge. They were followed by the Mexicans Noé Hernández - two seconds back - and Segura - four seconds back. Pérez in fifth was already twelve seconds behind. Now it got faster again. With two kilometers to go, Korzeniowski was two seconds ahead of Hernández, with Andrejew and Segura another three seconds behind. Pérez couldn't keep up with the pace and fell behind. Shortly before the end, Segura was disqualified after his third warning for lack of ground contact. Robert Korzeniowski was able to extend his lead to four seconds and crossed the finish line with the new Olympic record of 1:18:59 h. He improved Jozef Pribilinec's previous record by almost a minute. Noé Hernández won the silver medal, Wladimir Andrejew 24 seconds behind him the bronze medal. Jefferson Pérez was fourth, 1:19 minutes behind the winner. The German Andreas Erm was six seconds behind in fifth place ahead of Roman Rasskasow from Russia.
Robert Korzeniowski, who won over 50 km in 1996 , was the first Polish Olympic champion and medalist in the 20 km walk .
Split times | |||
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brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
2 km | 8:00 min | big group | 8:00 min |
4 km | 15:57 min | big group | 7:57 min |
6 km | 23:57 min | big group | 8:00 min |
8 kilometers | 31:55 min | Top group of 18 | 7:58 min |
10 km | 39:55 min | Top group of 12 | 8:00 min |
12 km | 47:53 min | Top group of 10 | 7:58 min |
14 km | 55:44 min | Top group of 9 | 7:51 min |
16 km | 1:03:28 h | Korzeniowski and Andrejew / Hernández - 2 s back / Segura - 4 s back | 7:44 min |
18 km | 1:11:07 h | Korzeniowski / Hernández - 2 s back / Andrejew and Segura - 5 s back | 7:39 min |
20 km | 1:18:59 h | Robert Korzeniowski | 7:52 min |
Result
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed March 27, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on March 27, 2018 (English)
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results at library.la84.org (English / French, PDF; 17.708 MB), accessed on March 27, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook. Beijing 2015, p. 687, accessed on March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Route course ( memento of the original from December 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, p. 12), from runscore.com, accessed on March 27, 2018 (English).
- ↑ IAAF competition rules (PDF, p. 180), accessed on March 27, 2018.