2016 Statistics – Men’s 50Km Walk by K Ken Nakamura The records to look for in : 1) Can Tallent join Korzeniowski and become the second walker with two Olympic golds at 50KmW? 2) Can Matej Toth win first Olympic medal at 50KmW for SVK?

Summary Page: All time performance list at the Olympics Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 3:36:53 AUS 1 2012 2 2 3:37:09 ITA 1 2008 3 3 3:37:16 CHN 2 London 2012 4 4 3:37:54 IRL 3 London 2012 5 5 3:38:29 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS 1 1988 5 6 3:38:46 POL 1 Athinai 2004

Slowest winning time since 1980: 3:50:13 by (EUN) in 1992

Margin of Victory Difference Winning time Name Nat Venue Year Max 10:03 4:20:14 Christoph Höhne GDR City 1968 7:10 4:50:10 GBR 1932 Min 16 sec 3:40:30 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1996 17 sec 4:25:30 Don Thompson GBR Roma 1960

Best Marks for Places in the Olympics Pos Time Name Nat Venue Year 1 3:36:53 Jared Tallent AUS London 2012 3:37:09 Alex Schwazer ITA Beijing 2008 2 3:37:16 Si Tiafeng CHN London 2012 3:38:56 GDR Seoul 1988 3 3:37:54 Robert Heffernan IRL London 2012 3:39:45 GDR Seoul 1988 4 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN London 2012 3:41:00 URS Seoul 1988

Multiple Gold Medalists: Robert Korzeniowski (POL): 2004, 2000, 1996

All time performance list at the Olympics Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 3:36:53 Jared Tallent AUS 1 London 2012 2 2 3:37:09 Alex Schwazer ITA 1 Beijing 2008 3 3 3:37:16 Si Tianfeng CHN 2 London 2012 4 4 3:37:54 Robert Heffernan IRL 3 London 2012 5 5 3:38:29 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS 1 Seoul 1988 5 6 3:38:46 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1 Athinai 2004 7 7 3:38:56 Ronald Weigel GDR 2 Seoul 1988 8 8 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN 4 London 2012 9 3:39:27 Jared Tallent 2 Beijing 2008 10 9 3:39:45 Hartwig Gauder GDR 3 Seoul 1988 11 10 3:40:14 RUS 3 Beijing 2008 12 11 3:41:00 Aleksandr Potashov URS 4 Seoul 1988 13 12 3:41:24 Matej Toth SVK 5 London 2012 14 3:42:22 Robert Korzeniowski 1 2000 15 13 3:42:47 Lukasz Nowak POL 6 London 2012 16 14 3:42:50 Denis Nizhegorodov 2 Athinai 2004 17 3:43:03 Jose Marin ESP 5 Seoul 1988 18 15 3:43:14 Koichiro Morioka JPN 7 London 2012 19 3:43:30 Robert Korzeniowski 1 Atlanta 1996 20 16 3:43:34 RUS 3 Athinai 2004 21 17 3:43:40 Aigars Fadejevs LAT 2 Sydney 2000 22 18 3:43:45 CHN 4 Athinai 2004 23 19 3:43:46 RUS 2 Atlanta 1996 24 20 3:44:07 AUS 6 Seoul 1988 25 21 3:44:08 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 4 Beijing 2008 26 22 3:44:19 Valenti Massana ESP 3 Atlanta 1996 27 23 3:44:26 Andre Hohne GER 8 London 2012 28 24 3:44:36 Joel Sanchez MEX 3 Sydney 2000 29 3:44:42 Jesus Angel Garcia 5 Athinai 2004 30 25 3:44:49 Bo Gustafsson SWE 7 Seoul 1988 31 26 3:44:52 Arturo Di Mezza ITA 4 Atlanta 1996 32 27 3:45:08 Erik Tysse NOR 5 Beijing 2008 33 28 3:45:21 MEX 6 Beijing 2008 34 29 3:45:27 Viktor Ginko BLR 5 Atlanta 1996 35 30 3:45:35 Bertrand Moulinet FRA 9 London 2012 36 31 3:45:43 ITA 8 Seoul 1988 37 32 3:45:47 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 7 Beijing 2008 38 33 3:45:55 Park Chilsung KOR 10 London 2012 39 34 3:46:01 Messana Valenti EXP 4 Sydney 2000

Slowest winning time since 1980: 3:50:13 by Andrey Perlov (EUN) in 1992

Margin of Victory Difference Winning time Name Nat Venue Year Max 10:03 4:20:14 Christoph Höhne GDR 1968 7:10 4:50:10 Tommy Green GBR Los Angeles 1932 Min 16 sec 3:40:30 Robert Korzeniowski POL Atlanta 1996 17 sec 4:25:30 Don Thompson GBR Roma 1960

Difference between first and third Diff Winning time 3rd place time Winner’s Name Nat Venue Year Max 11:42 4:20:14 4:31:56 Christoph Höhne GDR Mexico City 1968 Min 49sec 3:43:30 3:44:19 Robert Korzeniowski POL Atlanta 1996

Difference between third and fourth (medal versus no medal) Difference 3rd place time Name Nat Venue Year Max 7:00 4:59:06 ITA Los Angeles 1932 4:47 4:48:31 Tebb Lloyd Johnson GBR London 1948 4:45 3:53:45 Sandro Bellucci ITA Los Angeles 1984 Min 11sec 3:43:34 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS Athinai 2004

Average from last eight Olympics Average 2012 2008 2004 2000 1996 1992 1988 1984 Winning Time 3:41:44 3:35:59 3:37:09 3:38:46 3:42:22 3:43:30 3:50:13 3:38:29 3:47:26 Winning Medal 3:44:39 3:37:16 3:40:14 3:43:34 3:44:36 3:44:19 3:53:45 3:39:45 3:53:45 Missing Medal (4 th ) 3:46:21 3:37:54 3:44:08 3:43:45 3:46:01 3:44:52 3:54:39 3:41:00 3:58:30 8th 3:50:29 3:41:24 3:46:51 3:49:48 3:48:17 3:48:42 3:58:26 3:45:43 4:04:42

20Km – 50m double gold medalists Name Nation Venue Year Robert Korzeniowski POL Sydney 2000

Best Marks for Places in the Olympics Pos Time Name Nat Venue Year 1 3:36:53 Jared Tallent AUS London 2012 3:37:09 Alex Schwazer ITA Beijing 2008 2 3:37:16 Si Tiafeng CHN London 2012 3:38:56 Ronald Weigel GDR Seoul 1988 3 3:37:54 Robert Heffernan IRL London 2012 3:39:45 Hartwig Gauder GDR Seoul 1988 4 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN London 2012 3:41:00 Aleksandr Potashov URS Seoul 1988 5 3:41:24 Matej Toth SVK London 2012 3:43:03 Jose Marin ESP Seoul 1988 6 3:42:47 Lukasz Nowak POL London 2012 3:44:07 Simon Baker AUS Seoul 1988 7 3:43:14 Koichiro Morioka JPN London 2012 3:44:49 Bo Gustafsson SWE Seoul 1988 8 3:44:26 Andre Hohne GER London 2012 3:45:43 Raffaello Ducceschi ITA Seoul 1988

Best Marks for Places – all competitions Pos Time Name Nat Venue Day Month Year 1 3:32:33 FRA Zürich 15 Aug 2014 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 11 May 2008 2 3:36:13 Zhao Chengliang CHN Nanjing 22 Oct 2005 3:36:21 Matej Toth SVK Zürich 15 Aug 2014 3:36:42 RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3 3:37:41 Ivan Noskov RUS Zürich 15 Aug 2014 3:37:46 Andreas Erm GER Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 4 3:38:01 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN London 11 Aug 2012 5 3:38:23 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3:40:54 German Skurygin RUS Mezidon-Canon 2 May 1999 6 3:41:20 Gregorz Sudol POL Moskva 14 Aug 2013 3:41:56 Yevgeniy Shamalyuk RUS Mezidon-Canon 2 May 1999 7 3:41:36 Ivan Noskov RUS Moskva 14 Aug 2013 3:43:14 Koichiro Morioka JPN London 11 Aug 2012 3:43:15 Viktor Ginko BLR Medizon-Canon 2 May 1999 8 3:43:38 Lukasz Nowak POL Moskva 14 Aug 2013 3:44:26 Andre Hohne GER London 11 Aug 2012 3:45:13 Li Jianbo CHN Nanning 27 Feb 2005

Multiple Gold Medalists: Robert Korzeniowski (POL): 2004, 2000, 1996

Multiple Medalists: Jared Tallent (AUS): 2008 Silver, 2012 Gold Robert Korzeniowski (POL): 2004 Gold, 2000 Gold, 1996 Gold Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS): 2004 Silver, 2008 Bronze Ronald Weigel (GDR): 1988 Silver, 1992 Bronze Hartwig Gauder (GDR): 1980 Gold, 1988 Bronze (USA): 1968 Bronze, 1972 Bronze (ITA): 1960 Silver, 1964 Gold (SWE): 1948 Gold, 1956 Bronze, 1960 Silver

Multiple Medals by athletes from a single nation Nation Year Gold Silver Bronze RUS 2004 Denis Nizhegorodovs Aleksey Voyevodin GDR 1988 Ronald Weigel Hartwig Gauder

Medals by Countries: Nation Gold Silver Bronze GBR 3 1 1 ITA 3 3 POL 3 GDR 2 1 1 SWE 1 2 2 URS 1 2 1 MEX 1 1 1 NZL 1 FRG 1 EUN 1 RUS 2 2 LAT 2 1 SUI 2 HUN 1 1 ESP 1 1 TCH 1 AUS 1 2 USA 2 GER 1 CHN 1 IRL 1

Olympic Gold medalist with World Championships Gold Name Nat World Championships Olympics Robert Korzeniowski POL 1997, 2001, 2003 1996, 2000, 2004 Hartwig Gauder GDR 1987 1980

Olympic medalists who previously won World Junior medal Name Nat Olympic Games Year World Junior Championships Year Mikahil Shchennikov RUS Silver 1996 Gold 1986 Valenti Massana ESP Bronze 1996 Silver 1988

World Championships medalists who previously won World Youth medal: None

Olympic Champion with European Championships gold medal Name Nat Olympic Games European Championships Robert Korzeniowski POL 1996, 2000, 2004 1998, 2002 Andrey Perlov EUN 1992 1990 Hartwig Gauder GDR 1980 1986 Christoph Höhne GDR 1968 1969, 1974 Abdon Pamich ITA 1964 1962, 1966 Giuseppe Dordoni ITA 1952 1950 John Ljunggren SWE 1948 1946 GBR 1936 1938

Olympic medalists with Asian Games/Asian Championships medal: Name Nat Olympic Games Year Asian Games Si Tianfeng CHN Silver 2012 2010

Olympic medalists with All African Games/African Championships medal: None African never won an Olympic medal

Olympic Champion with gold medal Name Nat Olympic Games Pan American Games Raul Gonzalez MEX 1984 1979, 1983

Olympic medalist with medal: None

Last seven Olympics: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2012 Jared Tallent AUS 3:36:53 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:37:16 Robert Heffernan IRL 3:37:54 2008 Alex Schwazer ITA 3:37:09 Jared Tallent AUS 3:39:27 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:40:14 2004 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:38:46 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:42:50 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:43:34 2000 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:42:22 Aigars Fadejevs LAT 3:43:40 Joel Sanchez MEX 3:44:36 1996 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:43:30 Mikhail Shchennikov RUS 3:43:46 Valenti Massana ESP 3:44:19 1992 Andrey Perlov EUN 3:50:13 MEX 3:52:09 Ronald Weigel GER 3:53:45 1988 Vyacheslav URS 3:38:29 Ronald Weigel GDR 3:38:56 Hartwig Gauder GDR 3:39:45 Ivanenko Last eight World Championships: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2015 Matej Toth SVK 3:40:32 Jared Tallent AUS 3:42:17 JPN 3:42:55 2013 Robert Heffernan IRL 3:37:56 Mikhail Ryzhov RUS 3:38:58 Jared Tallent AUS 3:40:03 2011 RUS 3:41:24 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:42:45 Jared Tallent AUS 3:43:36 2009 RUS 3:38:35 Trod Nymark NOR 3:41:16 Jesus Angel ESP 3:41:37 2007 AUS 3:43:53 Yohan Diniz FRA 3:44:52 AlexGarcia Schwazer ITA 3:44:38 2005 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:38:08 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:41:25 Alex Schwazer ITA 3:41:54 2003 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:36:03 German Skurygin RUS 3:36:42 Andreas Erm GER 3:37:46 2001 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:42:08 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 3:43:07 Edgar Hernandez MEX 3:46:12

Last nine World Junior Championships: (10000m walk) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2016 Callum Wilkinson GBR 40:41.62 Jonathan J Amorse ECU 40:43.33 Salih Korkmaz TUR 40:45.53 2014 Daisuke Matunaga JPN 39:27.19 Diego Garcia ESP 39:51.59 Paolo Yurivilca PER 40:02.07 2012 Eider Arevalo COL 40:09.74 Aleksandr Ivanov RUS 40:12.90 Su Guanyu CHN 40:16.87 2010 Valery Filipchuk RUS 40:43.17 Zelin Cai CHN 40:43.59 Petr Bogatyrev RUS 40:50.37 2008 Stanislav Yemelyanov RUS 39:35.01 CHN 39:47.20 Lluis Torla ESP 40:29.57 2006 Bo Xiangdong CHN 42:50.26 Huang Zhengyu CHN 43:13.29 Yusuke Suzuki JPN 43:45.62 2004 Andrey Ruzavin RUS 40:58.15 Vladimire Kanaykin RUS 40:58.48 Kim Hyn-Sup KOR 40:59.24 2002 RUS 41:41.40 Xu Xingde CHN 41:44.00 Lu Ronghua CHN 41:46.07 2000 David Berdeja MEX 40:56.47 Yevgeniy Demkov RUS 40:56.53 RUS 40:56.57

Last nine World Youth Championships: (10000m walk) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2015 RUS 42:24.41 Zhang Jun CHN 42:33.68 Federico Gonzalez MEX 42:54.55 2013 JPN 41:53.80 Maksim Krasnov RUS 42:03.10 Diego Garcia ESP 42:03.32 2011 Pavel Parshin RUS 40:51.31 Kenny Martin Perez COL 40:59.25 Erwin Gonzalez MEX 41:09.60 2009 GER 41:35.99 Dementiy Cheparev RUS 41:53.76 Ihor Lyashchenko UKR 42:01.90 2007 Stanislav Yemelyanov RUS 41:49.91 Pedro Gomez MEX 43:11.87 Vito Di Bari ITA 43:36.13 2005 Sergey Morozov RUS 42:26.92 Vladimir Akhmetov RUS 42:32.81 Yusuke Suzuki JPN 42:43.22 2003 Aleksandr Prokhorov RUS 42:16.16 Makoto Sawada JPN 42:17.62 Vyacheslav Golovin RUS 42:37.15 2001 Vladimir Kanaykin RUS 42:55.75 Mikalai Seredovich BLR 43:44.32 Francisco Flores MEX 43:53.13 1999 Yevgeniy Demkov RUS 42:26.07 Aleksandr Strokov RUS 42:36.52 Takayuki Tanii JPN 42:40.86

Last four European Championships: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2014 Yohan Diniz FRA 3:32:33 Matej Toth SVK 3:36:21 Ivan Noskov RUS 3:37:41 2010 Yohan Diniz FRA 3:40:37 Grzegorz Sudol POL 3:42:24 Sergey Bakulin RUS 3:43:26 2006 Yohan Diniz FRA 3:41:39 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 3:42:48 RUS 3:43:26 2002 Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:36:39 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:40:16 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 3:44:33

Asian Games: (not contested in 2002 & 2006) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2014 Takayuki Tanii JPN 3:40:19 Park Chil-sung KOR 3:49:15 Wang Zhendong CHN 3:50:52 2010 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:47:04 Li Lei CHN 3:47:34 Koichiro Morioka JPN 3:47:41

Last four Pan American Games: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2015 Andres Chocho ECU 3:50:13 Erick Barrondo GUA 3:55:57 Horacio Nava MEX 3:57:28 2011 Horacio Naa MEX 3:48:58 Jose Ojeda MEX 3:49:16 Jaime Quiyuch GUA 3:50:33 2007 ECU 3:52:07 Horacio Nava MEX 3:52:35 Omar Zepeda MEX 3:56:04 2003 German Sanchez MEX 4:05:01 Mario dos Santos BRA 4:07:36 Luis Garcia GUA 4:12:14

Last two Commonwealth Games: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2006 Nathan Deakes AUS 3:42:53 Tony Sargisson NZL 3:58:05 AUS 3:58:22 2002 Nathan Deakes AUS 3:52:40 Craig Barrett NZL 3:56:42 Tim Berrett CAN 4:04:25 Not contested in 2010

No Performances faster than 3:50:00 in Rio de Janeiro:

Fastest Performances in August Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:32:33 Yohann Diniz FRA 1 Zurich 15 Aug 2014 2 2 3:36:03 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1 Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3 3 3:36:21 Matej Toth SVK 2 Zurich 15 Aug 2014 4 3:36:39 Robert Korzeniowski 1 München 8 Aug 2002 5 4 3:36:42 German Skurygin RUS 2 Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003

Combined 2015 & 2016 World List Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:34:38 Matej Toth SVK 1 Dudince 21 Mar 2015 2 2 3:37:48 Yohann Diniz FRA 1 St Sebastien 13 Mar 2016 3 3 3:39:00 Alex Schwazer ITA 1 Roma 8 May 2016 4 3:40:32 Matej Toth 1 Beijing 29 Aug 2015 5 4 3:41:02 Wang Zhendong CHN 1 Huangshan 6 Mar 2016 6 5 3:42:17 Jared Tallent AUS 2 Beijing 29 Aug 2015 7 3:42:36 Jared Tallent 2 Roma 8 May 2016 8 6 3:42:43 Han Yucheng CHN 2 Huangshan 6 Mar 2016 9 7 3:42:54 Yu Wei CHN 3 Huangshan 6 Mar 2016 10 8 3:42:55 Takayuki Tanii JPN 3 Beijing 29 Aug 2015 11 9 3:42:57 Andres Chocho ECU 1 Ciudad Juarez 6 Mar 2016 12 10 3:43:22 Rafal Augustyn POL 1 Dudince 19 Mar 2015 13 11 3:43:31 Zhang Hang CHN 4 Huangshan 6 Mar 2015 14 12 3:43:44 JPN 4 Beijing 29 Aug 2015

Gold Medal Contenders:

Matej Toth (SVK) DOB: 10 Feb 1983 Personal Best: (2005, 2012); Season Best: Championships Highlights: 2015 World Champion, 2014 European Champ Silver medalist Average of top performances in 2015 and 2016 Time Race Place Date 1 3:34:38 Dudince 1 21 Mar 2015 2 3:36:21 Zurich – EC 2 15 Aug 2014 3:40:32 Beijing – WC 1 29 Aug 2015 Averag e 3:37:10

Yohann Diniz (FRA) DOB: 1 Jan 1978 Personal Best: (2011); Season Best: Championships Highlights: 2007 World Champ Silver medalist; 2006, 2010 & 2014 Euro Champ Average of top performances in 2014, 2015 and 2016 Time Race Place Date 1 3:32:33 Zurich 1 15 Aug 2014 2 3:37:48 Saint -Sebastien 1 13 Mar 2016 Average 3:35:11

Jared Tallent (AUS) DOB: 17 Oct 1984 Personal Best: 3:38:56 (2009); Season Best: 3:42:36 Championships Highlights: 2008 Beijing Olympic Silver medalist; 2012 Olympic Champion 2011 & 2015 World Champ Silver medalist Average of top performances in 2015 and 2016 Time Race Place Date 1 3:42: 17 Beijing – WC 2 29 Aug 2015 2 3:42:36 Roma 2 8 May 2016 3 3:42: 48 Taicang 3 3 May 2014 Top 5 Average 3:42:34

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