2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 63 athletes from 35 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | London | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 11, 2012 | ||||||||
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The 50-km walk Men at the 2012 Olympics in London was held on 11 August 2012 on a round trip in the city of London. 63 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Australian Jared Tallent . The Chinese Si Tianfeng won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Irishman Robert Heffernan .
André Höhne and Christopher Linke took part for Germany. Höhne crossed the finish line in eighth place, Linke was 21st.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion |
Alex Schwazer ( Italy )
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3:37:09 h | Beijing 2008 |
| World Champion |
Denis Nischegorodow ( Russia )
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3:42:45 h | Daegu 2011 |
| European champion | 3:45:58 h | Olhão 2011 | |
| Zentralam.- u. Caribbean - mostly. | Competition not in the championship program | Mayagüez 2011 | |
| South America champion | Mário dos Santos ( Brazil )
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4:12:52 h | Salinas 2012 |
| Asian champion |
Competition not in the championship program Last. Asia mostly. 50 km walk: Yuki Yamazaki ( JPN ) 3:41:55 h in Wajima 2008 |
Kobe 2011 | |
| African champions | Competition not in the championship program | Porto-Novo 2012 | |
| Oceania Champion | Cairns 2012 | ||
Existing records
| World record |
Denis Nischegorodow ( Russia )
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3:34:14 h | Cheboksary , Russia | May 11, 2008 |
| Olympic record |
Alex Schwazer ( Italy )
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3:37:09 h | 50 km walk from Beijing , People's Republic of China | August 22, 2008 |
Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
Routing
25 laps of 2 km each had to be covered on the route. The circuit led over the boulevard The Mall along St. James's Park to the Victoria Memorial . The road turned to the street Constitution Hill and led at Buckingham Palace to Green Park along. After a turning point, the course led back to the start and finish point.
Doping and disqualifications
All three Russians who competed were subsequently disqualified because of abnormalities in their biological passports .
- Sergei Kirdjapkin , who initially came first, and Sergei Bakulin , who finished sixth , were disqualified on March 24, 2016.
- The originally fifth placed Igor Yerochin was disqualified in August 2013 for the same offense.
On June 17, 2016, Jared Tallent received the retrospectively awarded gold medal in Melbourne .
Course of competition
August 2012 , 9 a.m.
In the following description, the three Russian walkers who were disqualified for doping reasons and who played an important role in leadership and persecution groups are not taken into account from the outset.
The Slovak Matej Tóth took the lead in the early stages, but was soon overtaken and overtaken by a group of ten, mostly led by the French Yohann Diniz and the Chinese Si Tianfeng. At twenty kilometers there were still seven walkers in the group, 49 seconds behind them the Irishman Robert Heffernan tried to catch up.
Halfway through the race the silver medalist of the leading 20-km walking Erick Barrondo five seconds before the Australians Nathan Deakes and Frenchman Yohann Diniz. Deake's compatriot Jared Tallent, seventh on the 20 km distance, was three more seconds back. Behind them were Si Tianfeng from China and another Australian with Luke Adams. The two were about twenty seconds behind the leader. But the distances changed again, it got even closer. Si, Diniz. Deakes, Barrondo and Tallent were only twenty seconds apart, followed by Heffernan and Li Jianbo, another Chinese, with just over a minute. At 35 km Si picked up the pace and was able to break away from his competitors. Tallent kept the gap within limits and later tried to catch up again, Deakes fell further back, Barrondo gave up the competition. Even at forty kilometers, no decision had yet been made. Si was fifteen seconds ahead of Tallent, Li 45 seconds back, Diniz and Heffernan just two more seconds behind.
Diniz walked along the street just a short distance from the barriers while the other athletes moved down the middle of the street. In fact, the Frenchman fell after a collision with a grid, but was able to get up and continue the competition. Tallent continued to catch up with Si and passed the Chinese with five kilometers to go. The Australian pulled away on the last kilometers and reached the goal with a new Olympic record . 38 seconds behind him, Si secured the silver medal. Heffernan crossed the finish line in third, 1:01 minutes behind the winner. In his time he set a new Irish national record. Li finished fourth and also undercut the 3:40 h mark. Tóth, who was leading at the beginning and who had divided the competition very well, came in fifth. The Pole Łukasz Nowak finished sixth in front of the Japanese Koichiro Morioka and the German walker André Höhne.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 22:12 min | Yohann Diniz in a top group of 10 | 22:12 min |
| 10 km | 44:15 min | Si Tianfeng in a top group of seven | 22:13 min |
| 15 km | 1:06:01 h | Erick Barrondo in a top group of 8 | 21:46 min |
| 20 km | 1:27:44 h | Erick Barrondo in a top group of seven | 21:43 min |
| 25 km | 1:49:21 h | Nathan Deakes in a top group of 5/2 pursuers 5 seconds back | 21:37 min |
| 30 km | 2:10:49 h | Barrondo / Diniz and Deakes 5 s back / Tallent 8 s back / Si 18 s back / Adams 20 s back | 21:28 min |
| 35 km | 2:32:16 h | Si / Diniz and Deakes 8 s back / Barrondo 10 s back / Tallent 21 s back / Li and Heffernan 1:15 min back | 21:27 min |
| 40 km | 2:53:54 h | Si / Tallent 15 s back / Li 45 s back / Diniz and Heffernan 47 s back | 21:38 min |
| 45 km | 3:15:33 h | Tallent / Si 1 s back / Heffernan and Li 32 s back / Diniz 1:35 min back | 21:39 min |
| 50 km | 3:36:53 h | Jared Tallent | 21:20 min |
Result
Picture gallery
The Australian Olympic Champion Jared Tallent
The Chinese Si Tianfeng - here in the red jersey at the 2013 World Championships - won the silver medal
Bronze medalist Robert Heffernan broke Irish national record
The Chinese Olympic champion Li Jianbo
The Slovak Matej Matej - here at an indoor competition - was fifth in the Olympics
Łukasz Nowak from Poland came in sixth place
The Japanese Olympic seventh Kōichirō Morioka
The German André Höhne reached eighth place
The Frenchman Bertrand Moulinet came in ninth
Jarkko Kinnunen from Finland finished twelfth in the Olympic Games
Web links
- SportsReference 50km Walk Men , accessed September 13, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 13, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation , accessed on September 13, 2018
Video recording
- Finale on youtube.com, accessed September 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ Route map at ICM Gerson ( Memento from October 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), page 2, accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ a b message in the FAZ of March 24, 2016 , accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Report on hotsport.ua ( memento from October 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), (Ukrainian) accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ Report in The Guardian of June 17, 2016 (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181 , accessed on September 13, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 184 , accessed on September 13, 2018
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