2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk


The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 14 August.
From the start on home soil, Russians Mikhail Ryzhov and Ivan Noskov took the lead, with Jared Tallent in tow. By 15K the three had broken away to a 12-second lead. Tallent began to fall back to lead a large chasing pack as the two men continued to set the pace. By the half way mark Grzegorz Sudol and Robert Heffernan, who had spotted the leaders 30 seconds earlier, joined world leader Yohann Diniz to form a 5-man pack at the front. By 35K roles had reversed, Heffernan was now leading the Russians, Diniz was exiting the back and Sudol was trying to hold on. Over the next 5K, Heffernan pushed the lead with Ryzhov, as Noskov and Sudol formed their own group now steadily losing ground.
Meanwhile, Tallent continued to hang around, leading the chase pack then leaving them behind to do a one-man chase of the leaders.
Heffernan finally broke Ryzhov and pushed his way to almost a minute victory. Tallent continued his pace to finish third. After giving up minutes to the leaders, Ihor Hlavan put in an impressive 21:38 final 5K to chase Tallent.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record3:34:14Cheboksary, Russia11 May 2008
Championship record3:36:03Saint-Denis, France23 August 2003
World Leading3:41:07Dudince, Slovakia19 May 2013
African Record3:55:32London, Great Britain11 August 2012
Asian Record3:36:06Nanjing, People's Republic of China22 October 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record3:41:09Dudince, Slovakia23 March 2013
South American Record3:49:26Valley Cottage, United States28 October 2012
European Record3:34:14Cheboksary, Russia11 May 2008
Oceanian record3:35:47Geelong, Australia2 December 2006

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Final

The final was held at 08:30.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Robert Heffernan3:37:56WL
DSQMikhail Ryzhov3:38:58PB
Jared Tallent3:40:03SB
Ihor Hlavan3:40:39PB
Matej Tóth3:41:07SB
Grzegorz Sudoł3:41:20PB
Ivan Noskov3:41:36PB
Łukasz Nowak3:43:38SB
Takayuki Tanii3:44:26
10Yohann Diniz3:45:18
11Hirooki Arai3:45:56PB
12Jesús Ángel García3:46:44SB
13Serhiy Budza3:47:36PB
14Ivan Trotski3:47:52SB
15Marco De Luca3:48:05SB
16Chris Erickson3:49:41PB
17Quentin Rew3:50:27PB
18Claudio Villanueva3:50:29PB
19Omar Zepeda3:50:43SB
20Jarkko Kinnunen3:50:56SB
21Adrian Błocki3:51:00
22Ato Ibáñez3:53:38PB
23Kōichirō Morioka3:53:54
24Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi3:54:00SB
25Brendan Boyce3:54:24PB
26Li Jianbo3:56:13
27Jonnathan Caceres3:56:58
28Pedro Isidro3:57:30
29Dušan Majdán3:57:50PB
30Xu Faguang3:57:54SB
31Marc Mundell3:57:55SB
32Horacio Nava3:58:09
33Basanta Bahadur Rana3:58:20SB
34José Ignacio Díaz3:58:26
35Omar Segura3:58:34
36Evan Dunfee3:59:28PB
37Oh Se-Han4:01:00
38Tadas Šuškevičius4:01:29
39Andreas Gustafsson4:01:40SB
40Marius Cocioran4:04:23SB
41Veli-Matti Partanen4:04:59
42Teodorico Caporaso4:05:25
43Mário dos Santos4:06:12SB
44Xavier Moreno4:07:29SB
45Sándor Rácz4:12:18
46John Nunn4:34:55SB
Ian RaysonR 230.6
Edward ArayaR 230.6
Andrés ChochoR 230.6
Emerson Esnal HernándezR 230.6
Sandeep KumarR 230.6
Yim Jung-hyunR 230.6
Håvard HaukenesR 230.6
Ivan BanzerukR 230.6
Si Tianfeng
Fredy Hernández
Maciej Rosiewicz
Erik Tysse-
Predrag Filipović
Yerenman Salazar
Alexandros Papamichail