2020 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	20 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	?? Athletes from ?? Countries
Competition location	Ōdōri Park
Competition phase	August 6, 2020
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The competition in the 20-km walk Men at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be on August 6 at 16:00 local time (9:00 GMT discharged). The route was originally supposed to lead through the Imperial Palace Garden . After several athletes had health problems at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha due to the climatic conditions, the IOC announced in October 2019 that it would move the marathons and competitions in the cooler Sapporo to Hokkaidō at the games . The new venue is now Ōdōri Park .

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Wang Zhen ( China )	1:19:14 h	Rio de Janeiro 2016
World Champion	Toshikazu Yamanishi ( Japan )	1:26:34 h	Doha 2019
European champion	Álvaro Martín ( Spain )	1:20:42 h	Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Evan Dunfee ( Canada )	1:25:39 h	Toronto 2018
South America champion	Jhon Castañeda ( Colombia )	1:22:33 h	Lima 2019
Asian champion	Competition not in the championship program		Doha 2019
African champions			Algiers 2020
Oceania Champion	Competition not in the championship program		Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record	Yūsuke Suzuki ( Japan )	1:16:36 h	Nomi , Japan	March 15, 2015
Olympic record	Chen Ding ( China )	1:18:46 h	20km walk from London , UK	4th August 2012

Result

Web links

• Athletics on the Tokyo 2020 official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryusei Takahashi: Tokyo Gov. Koike gives up fighting IOC's decision to move Olympic marathon to Sapporo. The Japan Times , November 1, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
2. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 688 , accessed on October 5, 2018