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Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Olympic Athletics
VenueOdori Park, Sapporo
Date6 August 2021
Competitors59 from 29 nations
Winning time3:50.08
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dawid Tomala  Poland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jonathan Hilbert  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Evan Dunfee  Canada
← 2016

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2021 in Sapporo.[1] 59 athletes competed; the exact number was dependent on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the number qualifying through time (no universality places were used in 2016).[2]

Background

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This was the 20th appearance of the event: except for 1976,[3] it has appeared at every Olympics since 1932. The reigning champion is Matej Tóth of Slovakia.

Due to the Olympics' movement towards gender equality (the 50 kilometres walk was the only men's event on the 2020 athletics programme with no women's equivalent)[4] and declining fan attendance and TV ratings for the event, the men's 50 kilometres walk was replaced by a mixed-team marathon walk relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[5]

Qualification

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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's 50 kilometres walk if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard is 3:50:00. This standard was "set for the sole purpose of qualifying athletes with exceptional performances unable to qualify through the IAAF World Rankings pathway." The world rankings, based on the average of the best five results for the athlete over the qualifying period and weighted by the importance of the meet, will then be used to qualify athletes until the cap of 60 is reached.[2][6]

The qualifying period was originally from 1 January 2019 to 31 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period was suspended from 6 April 2020 to 30 November 2020, with the end date extended to 31 May 2021. The most recent Area Championships may be counted in the ranking, even if not during the qualifying period.[2][7] In July 2020, World Athletics announced that the suspension period would be lifted for the road events (marathons and race walks) on 1 September 2020.[8]

NOCs can also use their universality place—each NOC can enter one male athlete regardless of time if they had no male athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the 50 kilometres walk.[2]

Men's 50km walk

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Qualification standard No. of athletes NOC Nominated athletes
Entry standard – 3:50:00 3  China Bian Tongda
Luo Yadong
Wang Qin
3  Germany Carl Dohmann
Jonathan Hilbert
Nathaniel Seiler
3  Italy Andrea Agrusti
Teodorico Caporaso
Marco De Luca
3  Japan Hayato Katsuki
Masatora Kawano
Satoshi Maruo
3  Poland Rafał Augustyn
Artur Brzozowski
Dawid Tomala
2  Colombia Diego Pinzón
Jorge Ruiz
2  Ecuador Andrés Chocho
Claudio Villanueva
2  Finland Aleksi Ojala
Aku Partanen
2  Guatemala Bernardo Barrondo
Luis Ángel Sánchez
2  Mexico Isaac Palma
Horacio Nava
2  Spain Luis Manuel Corchete
Marc Tur
2  Ukraine Ivan Banzeruk
Maryan Zakalnytskyy
1  Belarus Dzmitry Dziubin
1  Canada Evan Dunfee
1  France Yohann Diniz
1  Ireland Brendan Boyce
1  Lithuania Arturas Mastianica
1  New Zealand Quentin Rew
1  Norway Håvard Haukenes
1  Portugal João Vieira
1  Slovakia Matej Tóth
World ranking 2  Czech Republic Vít Hlaváč
Lukáš Gdula
2  Hungary Bence Venyercsán
Máté Helebrandt
2  Latvia Arnis Rumbenieks
Ruslans Smolonskis
1  Australia Rhydian Cowley
1  Brazil Caio Bonfim
1  Canada Mathieu Bilodeau
1  Colombia José Montaña
1  Ecuador Jhonatan Amores
1  Finland Jarkko Kinnunen
1  Greece Alexandros Papamichail
1  Guatemala Érick Bernabé Barrondo
1  India Gurpreet Singh
1  Ireland Alex Wright
1  Mexico José Leyver
1  Romania Marius Cocioran
1  Slovakia Michal Morvay
1  South Africa Marc Mundell
1  Spain Jesús Ángel García[9]
1  Ukraine Ihor Hlavan
60 30 Totals

Competition format and course

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The event consisted of a single race.[10]

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.

World record  Yohann Diniz (FRA) 3:32:33 Zürich, Switzerland 15 August 2014
Olympic record  Jared Tallent (AUS) 3:36:53 London, United Kingdom 11 August 2012
Area Time Athlete Nation
Africa (records) 3:54:12 Marc Mundell  South Africa
Asia (records) 3:36:06 Yu Chaohong  China
Europe (records) 3:32:33 WR Yohann Diniz  France
North, Central America
and Caribbean
(records)
3:41:09 Erick Barrondo  Guatemala
Oceania (records) 3:35:47 Nathan Deakes  Australia
South America (records) 3:42:57 Andrés Chocho  Ecuador

Schedule

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All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The men's 50 kilometres walk took place on a single day.[1]

Date Time Round
Friday, 6 August 2021 5:30 Final

Results

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Key: PB Personal best SB Seasonal best ~ Loss of contact > Bent knee TR 54.7.5 Disqualified by Rule TR 54.7.5
Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dawid Tomala  Poland 3:50:08
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jonathan Hilbert  Germany 3:50:44 ~~
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Evan Dunfee  Canada 3:50:59 SB
4 Marc Tur  Spain 3:51:08 >>
5 João Vieira  Portugal 3:51:28 SB
6 Masatora Kawano  Japan 3:51:56 SB
7 Bian Tongda  China 3:52:01
8 Rhydian Cowley  Australia 3:52:01 PB
9 Aku Partanen  Finland 3:52:39 ~ SB
10 Brendan Boyce  Ireland 3:53:40
11 José Montaña  Colombia 3:53:50 SB
12 Artur Brzozowski  Poland 3:54:08 ~ SB
13 Jorge Ruiz  Colombia 3:55:30 ~
14 Matej Tóth  Slovakia 3:56:23 SB
15 José Leyver Ojeda  Mexico 3:56:53 ~ SB
16 Quentin Rew  New Zealand 3:57:33 ~
17 Máté Helebrandt  Hungary 3:57:53 ~ SB
18 Diego Pinzón  Colombia 3:57:54
19 Andrés Chocho  Ecuador 3:59:03 ~>~ SB
20 Bence Venyercsán  Hungary 3:59:05
21 Wang Qin  China 3:59:35
22 Dzmitry Dziubin  Belarus 4:00:25 SB
23 Andrea Agrusti  Italy 4:01:10
24 Marius Cocioran  Romania 4:01:43
25 Maryan Zakalnytskyy  Ukraine 4:02:53
26 Jarkko Kinnunen  Finland 4:04:28 >
27 Jhonatan Amores  Ecuador 4:05:47
28 Luo Yadong  China 4:06:17
29 Alex Wright  Ireland 4:06:20 ~ SB
30 Hayato Katsuki  Japan 4:06:32
31 Arturas Mastianica  Lithuania 4:06:43
32 Satoshi Maruo  Japan 4:06:44
33 Carl Dohmann  Germany 4:07:18
34 Bernardo Barrondo  Guatemala 4:08:34 ~~>
35 Jesús Ángel García  Spain 4:10:03 >
36 Alexandros Papamichail  Greece 4:12:49
37 Arnis Rumbenieks  Latvia 4:13:33 >>
38 Aleksi Ojala  Finland 4:14:02 >
39 Valeriy Litanyuk  Ukraine 4:14:05 >
40 Marc Mundell  South Africa 4:14:37
41 Michal Morvay  Slovakia 4:15:22
42 Nathaniel Seiler  Germany 4:15:37
43 Vít Hlaváč  Czech Republic 4:15:40
44 Horacio Nava  Mexico 4:19:00 >>
45 Mathieu Bilodeau  Canada 4:20:36 SB
46 Lukáš Gdula  Czech Republic 4:33:06 >>>
47 Claudio Villanueva  Ecuador 4:53:09 >>
Teodorico Caporaso  Italy DNF ~
Rafał Augustyn  Poland DNF
Håvard Haukenes  Norway DNF
Luis Manuel Corchete  Spain DNF
Gurpreet Singh  India DNF
Ivan Banzeruk  Ukraine DNF >>
Luis Ángel Sánchez  Guatemala DNF ~~~
Isaac Palma  Mexico DNF ~
Yohann Diniz  France DNF
Marco De Luca  Italy DNF
Ruslans Smolonskis  Latvia DQ ~>>> TR 54.7.5
Érick Barrondo  Guatemala DQ ~~~~ TR 54.7.5

References

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  2. ^ a b c d "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Athletics" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Gender equality and youth at the heart of the Paris 2024 Olympic Sports Programme". IOC. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. ^ "New Olympic race walking event revealed | PRESS-RELEASES | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  6. ^ "IAAF to follow other sports with world ranking system for athletes". BBC Sport. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Olympic qualification period suspended until 1 December 2020". World Athletics. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Olympic qualifying system to recommence for road athletes from September 2020". 28 July 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  9. ^ "CRITERIOS DE PRESELECCIÓN PARA LOS JUEGOS OLÍMPICOS 2021 : Del 30 de julio al 8 de agosto de 2021 en Tokio (Japón)" (PDF). Rfea.es. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Athletics Explanatory Guide" (PDF). Cdn.dosb.de. Tokyo 2020. August 2019.