2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 56 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location |
Stadium Australia (start and finish) |
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| Competition phase | September 29, 2000 | ||||||||
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The men's 50 km walk at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 29, 2000 on a circuit in Sydney. The start and finish was the Australia Stadium . 56 athletes took part, 39 reached the finish.
The Olympic champion was Robert Korzeniowski from Poland . He won ahead of the Latvian Aigars Fadejevs and the Mexican Joel Sánchez .
Robert Ihly and the brothers Denis and Mike Trautmann started for Germany. While Ihly had to give up the race, Mike Trautmann reached the finish in 19th place, Denis Trautmann in 21st place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1996 |
Robert Korzeniowski ( Poland )
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3:43:30 h | Atlanta 1996 |
| World Champion 1999 |
Ivano Brugnetti ( Italy )
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3:47:54 h | Seville 1999 |
| European champion 1998 |
Robert Korzeniowski ( Poland )
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3:43:51 h | Budapest 1998 |
| Pan American Champion 1999 |
Joes Sánchez ( Mexico )
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4:06:31 h | Winnipeg 1999 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions | 50 km walking not in the championship program | ||
| South American Champion 1999 | |||
| Asian champion 2000 | |||
| African Champion 2000 | |||
| Oceania Champion 2000 | |||
Existing records
| World record | 3:37:26 h |
Valery Spitsyn ( Russia )
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Moscow , Russia | May 21, 2000 |
| Olympic record | 3:38:29 h |
Vyacheslav Ivanenko ( Soviet Union )
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50km walk from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 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 a T-shaped circuit of two kilometers in length began, which had to be completed 23 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
Robert Korzeniowski from Poland was one of the favorites. He had won the 50 km walk at the Atlanta Games four years earlier , had become European champion two years ago and had won gold in the 20 km competition a week earlier . Also the Italian world champion from 1999 Ivano Brugnetti, vice world champion Nikolai Matjuchin from Russia, the Spaniard Valentí Massana as Olympic bronze medalist from 1996 and World Cup fourth from 1999, as well as the Russian holder of the world best, set up in May of the Olympic year, Valery Spizyn started with good chances for a medal .
Course of competition
September 29, 2000, starting at 8:00 a.m.
A larger group of the walking field stayed largely together for the first fifteen kilometers of the competition. Then it began to crumble more and more and an eight-person leading group formed, which had worked out a lead of about fifty seconds over the closest pursuers. This group also fell apart more and more in the further course. From thirty kilometers on, the Pole Robert Korzeniowski increased the pace significantly. Five kilometers further there were four walkers with prospects of an Olympic victory and medal placements together. Korzeniowski, the two Mexicans Germán and Joel Sánchez and the Australian Nathan Deakes were leading by about fifteen seconds ahead of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, another Mexican, and the Finn Valentin Kononen. These two again had a lead of about five seconds over the Latvian Aigars Fadejevs. German Sánchez gave up the competition later, while Korzeniowski was able to pull away at the top. He kept increasing the distance to his pursuers. Aigars Fadejevs overtook opponent after opponent from behind and in the end won the silver medal 1:18 minutes behind Olympic champion Robert Korzeniowski. Joel Sánchez, who, along with Korzeniowski, was the only walker from the top four group, won the bronze medal 54 seconds behind Fadejevs. Less than a minute and a half later, Valentí Massana crossed the finish line in fourth. Nikolai Matjuchin was fifth ahead of Nathan Deakes.
With almost 28 minutes on the penultimate, the Briton Christopher Maddocks came in as the last goal. At the age of 43 he was the oldest athlete in Sydney and was already at the Olympic Games for the fifth time.
Robert Korzeniowski stood out particularly in his sport, walking . He was the first to walk that
- was able to repeat his Olympic victory in 50 km walking.
- who won both the 20 and 50 km competitions at the same Olympics
- became Olympic champion in his sport for the third time.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 23:24 min | big group | 23:24 min |
| 10 km | 45:52 min | big group | 22:28 min |
| 15 km | 1:08:05 h | big group | 22:13 min |
| 20 km | 1:30:00 h | Top group of 10 | 21:55 min |
| 25 km | 1:51:48 h | Top group of 7 | 21:48 min |
| 30 km | 2:13:30 h | Top group of 7 | 21:42 min |
| 35 km | 2:35:03 h | Korzeniowski / G. Sánchez / J. Sánchez / Deakes | 21:33 min |
| 40 km | 2:56:28 h | Korzeniowski / J. Sánchez | 21:25 min |
| 45 km | 3:18:39 h | Korzeniowski | 22:11 min |
| 50 km | 3:42:22 h | Robert Korzeniowski | 23:43 min |
Result
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Olympic champion Robert Korzeniowski from Poland
The Australian Olympic sixth Nathan Deakes
The Spaniard Jesús Ángel García took twelfth place
Mikel Odriozola from Spain turned 24.
The Pole Tomasz Lipiec gave up the competition
Web links
- SportsReference 50km Walk , accessed March 29, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 29, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 29, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on March 29, 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 29, 2018 (English)
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 180 , accessed on March 29, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181 , accessed on March 29, 2018
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