2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 74 athletes from 40 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Pontal | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 12, 2016 | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12, 2016 in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes district. 74 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Wang Zhen from China , who won ahead of his compatriot Cai Zelin . Bronze went to the Australian Dane Bird-Smith .
For Germany, Nils Brembach , Christopher Linke and Hagen Pohle took part. Linke was fifth, Pohle eighteen and Brembach 38th.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein do not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion |
Chen Ding ( People's Republic of China )
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1:18:46 h | London 2012 |
| World Champion |
Miguel Ángel López ( Spain )
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1:19:14 h | Beijing 2015 |
| European champion | 1:19:52 h | Murcia 2015 | |
| North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Walter Sandoval ( El Salvador )
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1:18:29 h | San Salvador 2015 |
| South America champion | Pavel Chihuán ( Peru )
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1:23:34 h | Lima 2015 going by train |
| Asian champion | Gurmeet Singh ( India )
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1:20:29 h | Nomi 2016 |
| African champions | Samuel Ireri Gathimba ( Kenya )
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1:19:24 h | Durban 2016 |
| Oceania Champion | Dane Bird-Smith ( Australia )
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1:20:04 h | Adelaide 2016 |
Existing records
| World record |
Yūsuke Suzuki ( Japan )
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1:16:36 h | Nomi , Japan | March 15, 2015 |
| Olympic record |
Chen Ding ( People's Republic of China )
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1:18:46 h | 20km walk from London , UK | 4th August 2012 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Routing
The competition was held in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes district in the south of Rio de Janeiro directly on the Atlantic coast. Start and finish were at Praça do Pontal on Avenida Lúcio Costa . The route initially led in a north-easterly direction to Rua Eduardo Pederneiras and then after a turn back to the start / finish. We continued to the intersection of Avenida Gilka Machado / Estrada do Pontal and again to the starting point. This one-kilometer course was completed twenty times.
Course of the competition
August 12, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
The Chinese with the 2012 Olympic champion Chen Ding, the vice world champion Wang Zhen and the fifth at the World Championships Cai Zelin were particularly favored. World champion Miguel Ángel López from Spain was also highly rated. The Russian walkers, who were completely doped at the last games, were not represented due to the exclusion from Russia by the IAAF .
First, the South Korean Kim Hyun-sub led, who was able to separate himself three seconds from the rest of the large field on the first two kilometers. But Kim was soon put back and the British Tom Bosworth took over the lead for a long time. There were always smaller gaps in what was still a large field. Sometimes the Briton led all alone, then again together with other walkers. With the Kenyan Samuel Gathimba he was four seconds ahead at kilometer eight, at ten kilometer Bosworth and the Japanese Daisuke Matsunaga led with two seconds ahead of a still large group.
After twelve kilometers, the leading group gradually became smaller. At fourteen kilometers, Cai was leading by two seconds in front of an eleven-man chasing group, which included Bosworth, Wang and the German Christopher Linke. After another two kilometers there were still eight walkers in the top group. Cai, the Australian Dane Bird-Smith, Wang, the Brazilian Caio Bonfim, the Canadian Iñaki Gómez, Matsunaga, the Colombian Manuel Soto, Linke and Bosworth were twenty seconds ahead of the first small chasing group. Now Wang accelerated the pace tremendously, nobody could follow him. With two kilometers to go, Cai was four seconds behind, followed by Bird-Smith, another six seconds behind. Bonfim and Linke went two seconds behind the Australian. Wang, who had found the right moment to increase the pace, now went safely to the Olympic victory. Cai crossed the finish line twelve seconds later, ahead of Australian Bird-Smith, who was another eleven seconds behind. Local hero Caio Bonfim was only five seconds short of a medal. Linke crossed the finish line right behind the Brazilian and ahead of Bosworth. World champion López was eleventh, the last Olympic champion Chen 39.
| Split times | |||
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| brand | Meanwhile | Leading | 2 km time |
| 2 km | 8:13 min | Kim Hyun-sub - 3 s before large group | 8:13 min |
| 4 km | 16:15 min | Tom Bosworth with a large group | 8:02 min |
| 6 km | 24:12 min | Tom Bosworth - 2 s before large group | 7:57 min |
| 8 kilometers | 32:13 min | Gathimba and Bosworth - 4 s before large group | 8:01 min |
| 10 km | 40:10 min | Bosworth - Matsunaga 5 s back - large chase group 12 s back | 7:57 min |
| 12 km | 48:06 min | Bosworth - Matsunaga 2 s back - Cai 8 s back - Big chase group 11 s back | 8:06 min |
| 14 km | 56:08 min | Cai - 11-man chase group 2 seconds back | 8:02 min |
| 16 km | 1:04:06 h | Cai with 9-headed group - next smaller group 20 s back | 7:58 min |
| 18 km | 1:11:15 h | Wang - Cai 4 s back - Bird-Smith 10 s back - Bonfim u. Left 12 s back | 7:09 min |
| 20 km | 1:19:14 h | Wang Zhen | 7:59 min |
Result
Olympic Champion:
Wang Zhen, China
Bronze medal:
Dane Bird-Smith from Australia
The German Christopher Linke took fifth place
The Olympic eleventh Miguel Ángel López from Spain
The Colombian Éider Arévalo came in fifteenth
The South Korean Kim Hyun-sub came in seventeenth
Jakub Jelonek from Poland reached nineteenth place
The Greek Alexandros Papamichail was twentieth
The Spaniard Álvaro Martín finished 22nd
27th place for the Canadian Benjamin Thorne
The Colombian Luis Fernando López reached number 29
João Vieira from Portugal, ranked 31st
The Ukrainian Ihor Hlawan turned 35.
41st place for the Peruvian Paolo Yurivilca
The Frenchman Kévin Campion came in 49th
Andrés Chocho from Ecuador was disqualified
Disqualification for Poland Łukasz Nowak
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 5, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on October 5, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result of 20 km walking men (English), accessed on October 5, 2018
Video
- Rio Replay: 20km Race Walk on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on October 5, 2018
- ↑ Overview of Graphic News (English) ( Memento of 15 September 2016 Internet Archive ), accessed on October 5, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 181 (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2018
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