2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 48 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Olympic Stadium Athens (start and finish) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 20, 2004 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km walk at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20, 2004 on a circuit south of the Athens Olympic Stadium. 48 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Italian Ivano Brugnetti . He won ahead of the Spaniard Francisco Javier Fernández and the Australian Nathan Deakes .
The German walker André Höhne finished eighth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic Champion 2000 |
Robert Korzeniowski ( Poland )
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1:18:59 h | Sydney 2000 |
| World Champion 2003 |
Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador )
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1:17:21 h | Paris 2003 |
| European Champion 2002 |
Francisco Javier Fernández ( Spain )
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1:18:37 h | Munich 2002 |
| Pan American Champion 2003 |
Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador )
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1:23:06 h | Santo Domingo 2003 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | Julio René Martínez ( Guatemala )
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1:22:07 h | St. George's 2003 |
| South American Champion 2003 | Rolando Saquipay ( Ecuador )
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1:22:29 h | Los Ángeles 2004 |
| Asian champion 2003 | Han Yucheng ( People's Republic of China )
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1:21:12 h | Manila 2003 |
| African champion 2004 | Julius Sawe ( Kenya )
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1:27:43 h | Brazzaville 2004 |
| Oceania Champion 2002 | 20 km walking not in the championship program | Christchurch 2002 | |
Existing records
| World record | 1:17:21 h |
Jefferson Pérez ( Ecuador )
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Paris , France | August 23, 2003 |
| Olympic record | 1:18:59 h |
Robert Korzeniowski ( Poland )
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20km walk from Sydney , Australia | September 22, 2000 |
Comment on the term "world record" :
The International Athletics Federation ( IAAF) first set official world records for walking on the streets at the 2003 World Championships . Before that, the term “world best” was used here because of the different track conditions. The minimum requirement for recognition of an achievement as a world record is the route over a course with identical start and destination points, so that it is ensured that the route does not have any inclines overall.
Routing
The competition was started in the Olympic Stadium in Athens. Immediately afterwards, the route ran outside the stadium and headed south on a circuit two kilometers long. This circuit initially ran south across the Lavrou to Kapodistriou . There was a turning point here when the route led back. It went in a loop eastwards to the Neapoleos . After nine laps the way led back to the stadium.
Course of competition
August 20, 2004, 9:00 a.m. Athens time ( UTC + 2 )
The favorite was the 2003 world champion and 1996 Olympic champion , the Ecuadorian Jefferson Pérez, who also set the world record at the last world championships . The main opponent was the Spanish European Champion and Vice World Champion Francisco Javier Fernández. Other candidates with prospects for top places were the Australian World Cup -Vierte Luke Adams, his compatriot Nathan Deakes as WM -Vierter 2001 and the Russian Cup -Third 2001 Viktor Burajew
At the beginning of the race, the three Chinese Zhu Hongjun, Han Yucheng and Liu Yunfeng took over the lead. However, Han fell behind on the first lap of the circuit. Fernández caught up with the two Chinese for the third lap and accelerated the pace. A top group formed with Fernández at the top, Pérez, Zhu, Liu, the Italian Ivano Brugnetti, the Australian Nathan Deakes, the Spaniard Juan Manuel Molina and the Tunisian Hatem Ghoula.
Fernández, Deakes and Brugnetti were able to pull away from the field four laps before the end. A few seconds behind followed Pérez, who came a little closer, but could no longer catch up. Brugnetti increased the pace and developed a slight lead over Fernández and Deakes. Two kilometers before the finish line, Deakes was able to close the small gap to Brugnetti again. But the Italian increased the pace significantly just before the stadium. Ivano Brugnetti won by five seconds over Francisco Javier Fernández. Nathan Deakes crossed the finish line seventeen seconds behind the Spaniard, 36 seconds ahead of Jefferson Pérez. Fifth place went to the Spaniard Juan Manuel Molina, ahead of Zhu Hongjun and the Russian Vladimir Andrejew. The German André Höhne finished eighth.
Nathan Deakes won the first Australian medal in Olympic walking .
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:11 min | big group | 8:00 min |
| 4 km | 16:23 min | big group | 8:12 min |
| 6 km | 24:26 min | big group | 8:03 min |
| 8 kilometers | 32:22 min | Top group of 12 | 7:56 min |
| 10 km | 40:18 min | Fernández, Brugnetti, Deakes | 7:56 min |
| 12 km | 48:12 min | Brugnetti, Fernández, Deakes / 7 s before Pérez | 7:54 min |
| 14 km | 56:05 min | Brugnetti, Fernández, Deakes / 2 s before Pérez | 7:53 min |
| 16 km | 1:03:58 h | Brugnetti, Fernández, Deakes / 5 s before Pérez | 7:53 min |
| 18 km | 1:11:37 h | Fernández, Brugnetti / 3 seconds before Deakes | 7:49 min |
| 20 km | 1:19:40 h | Ivano Brugnetti | 7:53 min |
Result
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Silver medalist Francisco Javier Fernández from Spain
Bronze medalist Nathan Deakes, Australia
The Olympian Jefferson Pérez from Ecuador
The Spaniard Juan Manuel Molina finished fifth
The German André Höhne was Olympic eight
The Portuguese João Vieira came in tenth place
The Tunisian Hatem Ghoula finished eleventh
The Japanese Takayuki Tanii was fifteenth
Timothy Seaman from the United States came in twentieth place
The US American Kevin Eastler came in 21st
Luis Fernando López from Colombia turned 24.
John Nunn from the USA came in 26th
The Slovak Matej Tóth came in 32nd
The Irishman Robert Heffernan gave up the competition
Web links
- SportsReference 20km Walk , accessed April 26, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 26, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 26, 2018
Video
- Ivano Brugnetti Oro 20km Marcia Atene 2004 , published on August 25, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed on April 26, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on April 26, 2018
- ↑ IAAF world records, 20 km men walk , accessed on April 26, 2018
- ↑ Description of the route on Runscore.com (fr.) , Accessed on April 26, 2018
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