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World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 1947–1969 no rankings done 1970 1...... Christoph Höhne (East ) 2...Venyamin Soldatenko () 3.... Burkhard Leuschke (East Germany) 4...... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 5...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 6...... (Soviet Union) 7...... Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 8...... Herbert Meier (West Germany) 9...... Peter Schuster (West Germany) 10.....Horst-Rüdiger Magnor (West Germany) 1971 1...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 2...... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 3...... Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 4...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 5...... Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 6. Bernhard Nermerich (West Germany) 7...... Igor Della Rossa (Soviet Union) 8...... Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 9...... (Great Britain) 10...... (US) 1972 1..... (West Germany) 2...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 3...... Larry Young (US) 4...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) won 5...... Peter Selzer (East Germany) the ’17 Worlds 6...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 7...... Christoph Höhne (East Germany) with history’s 8...... () second-fastest 9....Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (East Germany) time 10...... Gabriel Hernandez ()

Note: multiple Russian walkers are in the process of having major results annulled, meaning that changes are coming in the Rankings for many years in the last decade or so © GIANCARLO COLOMBO/photo run

© Track & Field News 2019 — 1 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 1973 1977 1.....Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 1...... Raúl González (Mexico) 2...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 2...... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 3...... Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 3...... (Italy) 4...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 4...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 5...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 5...... Enrique Vera (Mexico) 6...... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 6...... (Mexico) 7...... Sergey Bondarenko (Soviet Union) 7...... Ralf Knutter (East Germany) 8...... Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 8...... Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 9...... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 9...... László Sátor () 10....Vladimir Svetsnikov (Soviet Union) 10...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 1974 1978 1...... Christoph Höhne (East Germany) 1...... Raúl González (Mexico) 2...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 2...... () 3...... Peter Selzer (East Germany) 3...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 4...... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 4...... Jan Ornoch () 5...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 5...... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 6...... Winfried Skotnicki (East Germany) 6...... Otto Bartsch (Soviet Union) 7...... Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 7...... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 8...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 8...... () 9...... Sergey Bondarenko (Soviet Union) 9...... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 10...... Matthias Kroel (East Germany) 10...... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 1975 1979 1.....Bernd Kannenberg (West Germany) 1...... Raúl González (Mexico) 2...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 2...... Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 3...... Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 3...... Enrique Vera (Mexico) 4...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 4...... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 5...... Vladimir Svetsnikov (Soviet Union) 5...... Jorge Llopart (Spain) 6...... Gerard Lelievre () 6...... Vladimir Rezayev (Soviet Union) 7...... Raúl González (Mexico) 7...... Vyacheslav Fursov (Soviet Union) 8...... Vittorio Visini (Italy) 8...... Petr Myelnik (Soviet Union) 9...... Pedro Aroche (Mexico) 9...... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 10...... Vladimir Machnev (Soviet Union) 10...... José Marin (Spain) 1976 1980 1...Venyamin Soldatenko (Soviet Union) 1...... (East Germany) 2...... Enrique Vera (Mexico) 2...... Jorge Llopart (Spain) 3...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 3...... Raúl González (Mexico) 4...... Domingo Colín (Mexico) 4...... Yevgeniy Ivchenko (Soviet Union) 5...... Matthias Kroel (East Germany) 5...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 6...... Yevgeniy Lyungin (Soviet Union) 6...... Uwe Dünkel (East Germany) 7...... Paolo Grecucci (Italy) 7...... José Marin (Spain) 8...... Stefan Müller (East Germany) 8...... Bengt Simonsen () 9...... Ralf Knutter (East Germany) 9...... Vyacheslav Fursov (Soviet Union) 10...... Gerhard Weidner (West Germany) 10...... Stanisław Rola (Poland)

© Track & Field News 2019 — 2 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 1981 1985 1...... Raúl González (Mexico) 1...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 2...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 2...... (Soviet Union) 3...... (Italy) 3...... Erling Andersen () 4...... Uwe Dünkel (East Germany) 4...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 5...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 5...... (East Germany) 6...... (Soviet Union) 6...... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 7...... Marcel Jobin () 7...... Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 8...... Jorge Llopart (Spain) 8...... (East Germany) 9...... Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 9...... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 10...... Arturo Bravo (Mexico) 10...... (Italy) 1982 1986 1...... Raúl González (Mexico) 1...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 2...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 2.... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 3...... José Marin (Spain) 3...... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 4...... Felix Gomez (Mexico) 4...... Sergey Protsishin (Soviet Union) 5...... Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 5...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 6...... (Mexico) 6...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 7...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 7...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 8...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 8...... Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 9...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 9...... Nikolay Frolov (Soviet Union) 10...... Bogusław Duda (Poland) 10...... Pavol Szikora () 1983 1987 1...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 1...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 2...... José Marin (Spain) 2...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3...... Raúl González (Mexico) 3.... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 4...... Sergey Yung (Soviet Union) 4...... Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 5...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 5...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 6...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 6...... Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 7...... Viktor Dorovskikh (Soviet Union) 7...... Raffaello Ducceschi (Italy) 8...... Jorge Llopart (Spain) 8...... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 9...... Gerard Lelievre (France) 9...... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 10...... François Lapointe (Canada) 10...... Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 1984 1988 1...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 1.... Vyacheslav Ivanenko (Soviet Union) 2...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 2...... Ronald Weigel (East Germany) 3...... Raúl González (Mexico) 3...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 4...... Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 4...... (Soviet Union) 5...... Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 5...... José Marin (Spain) 6...... Valeriy Suntsov (Soviet Union) 6...... () 7...... Sandro Bellucci (Italy) 7...... Bo Gustafsson (Sweden) 8...... Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia) 8...... Raffaello Ducceschi (Italy) 9...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 9...... Dietmar Meisch (East Germany) 10...... Reima Salonen (Finland) 10...... Pavol Szikora (Czechoslovakia)

© Track & Field News 2019 — 3 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 1989 1993 1...... Simon Baker (Australia) 1...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 2...... Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 2...... (Finland) 3...... Stanislav Vezhel (Soviet Union) 3...... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 4...... Martín Bermúdez (Mexico) 4...... Tim Berrett (Canada) 5...... Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 5...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...... Vitaliy Popovich (Soviet Union) 6...... German Sánchez (Mexico) 7...... Vitaliy Matsko (Soviet Union) 7...... () 8..... Vyacheslav Smirnov (Soviet Union) 8...... René Piller (France) 9...... Valeriy Spitsyn (Soviet Union) 9...... Basilio Labrador (Spain) 10...... Anatoliy Grigoryev (Soviet Union) 10...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 1990 1994 1...... Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 1...... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 2...... Bernd Gummelt (East Germany) 2...... (France) 3...... Simon Baker (Australia) 3...... (Italy) 4...... Hartwig Gauder (East Germany) 4...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 5...... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 5...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 6...... (Soviet Union) 6...... René Piller (France) 7...... Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 7...... (Poland) 8...... Stanislav Vezhel (Soviet Union) 8...... (Russia) 9...... Basilio Labrador (Spain) 9...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 10...... José Marin (Spain) 10...... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 1991 1995 1...... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 1...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 2...... Andrey Perlov (Soviet Union) 2...... Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 3...... Aleksandr Potashov (Soviet Union) 3...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 4...... Hartwig Gauder (Germany) 4...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 5...... Simon Baker (Australia) 5...... Yongshen Zhao () 6...... Vitaliy Popovich (Soviet Union) 6...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 7...... Ronald Weigel (Germany) 7...... René Piller (France) 8...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 8...... Aleksandar Raković (Yugoslavia) 9...... Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 9...... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 10...... (Italy) 10...... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 1992 1996 1...... Andrey Perlov (Russia) 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2...... Carlos Mercenário (Mexico) 2...... (Russia) 3...... Ronald Weigel (Germany) 3...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 4...... Valeriy Spitsyn (Russia) 4...... (Italy) 5...... Roman Mrázek (Czechoslovakia) 5...... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 6...... Hartwig Gauder (Germany) 6...... Ignacio Zamudio (Mexico) 7...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 7...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 8...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 8...... () 9...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 9...... Daniel García (Mexico) 10...... José Marin (Spain) 10...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain)

© Track & Field News 2019 — 4 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 1997 2001 1...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 3...... Oleg Ishutkin (Russia) 3...... Edgar Hernández (Mexico) 4...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 4...... Vladimir Potemin (Russia) 5...... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 5...... Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 6...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 6...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 7...... Sylvain Caudron (France) 7...... Curt Clausen (US) 8...... (Russia) 8...... (Italy) 9...... Fumio Imamura () 9...... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 10...... (Russia) 10...... Santiago Pérez (Spain) 1998 2002 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 1...... Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 2...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 2...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 3...... Valentin Kononen (Finland) 3...... German Skurygin (Russia) 4...... Andrey Plotnikov (Russia) 4...... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 5...... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 5...... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 6...... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 6...... (Russia) 7...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 7...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 8...... Santiago Pérez (Spain) 8...... Denis Langlois (France) 9...... Giovanni Perricelli (Italy) 9...... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 10...... Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 10...... Modris Liepins (Latvia) 1999 2003 1...... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2...... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 2...... German Skurygin (Russia) 3...... (Italy) 3...... Andreas Erm (Germany) 4...... Curt Clausen (US) 4...... Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 5...... Tomasz Lipiec (Poland) 5...... (Russia) 6...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 6...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 7...... Robert Ihly (Germany) 7...... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8...... Craig Barrett (New Zealand) 8...... (Norway) 9...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 9...... Sergey Korepanov (Kazakhstan) 10...... Viktor Ginko (Belarus) 10...... Denis Langlois (France) 2000 2004 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 1...... Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) 2...... Aigars Fadejevs (Latvia) 2...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 3...... Joel Sánchez (Mexico) 3...... Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 4...... Nikolay Matyukhin (Russia) 4...... Chaohong Yu (China) 5...... Valentí Massana (Spain) 5...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 6...... (Australia) 6...... (Russia) 7...... Miguel Rodríguez (Mexico) 7...... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8...... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8...... German Skurygin (Russia) 9...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 9...... Alatan Gadasu (China) 10...... Modris Liepins (Latvia) 10...... Santiago Pérez (Spain)

© Track & Field News 2019 — 5 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 2005 2009 1...... (Russia) 1...... Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 2...... Aleksey Voyevodin (Russia) 2...... Trond Nymark (Norway) 3...... (Italy) 3...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 4...... Trond Nymark (Norway) 4...... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 5...... Chengliang Zhao (China) 5...... André Höhne (Germany) 6...... Chaohong Yu (China) 6...... (Australia) 7...... Yuriy Andronov (Russia) 7...... (Australia) 8...... Omar Zepeda (Mexico) 8...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 9...... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 9...... (Italy) 10...... Yucheng Han (China) 10...... Jarkko Kinnunen (Finland) 2006 2010 1...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 1...... Matej Tóth () 2...... Yohann Diniz (France) 2...... Yohann Diniz (France) 3...... Trond Nymark (Norway) 3...... (Mexico) 4...... Yuriy Andronov (Russia) 4...... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 5...... Nathan Deakes (Australia) 5...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 6...... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 6...... (Russia) 7...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 7...... (Ireland) 8...... Roman Magdziarczyk (Poland) 8...... Tianfeng Si (China) 9...... Horacio Nava (Mexico) 9...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 10...... Marco De Luca (Italy) 10...... Yuki Yamazaki (Japan) 2007 2011 1...... Nathan Deakes (Australia) 1...... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 2...... Yohann Diniz (France) 2...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 3...... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 3...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 4...... Tianfeng Si (China) 5...... (Russia) 5...... Yohann Diniz (France) 6...... (Norway) 6...... Luke Adams (Australia) 7...... Trond Nymark (Norway) 7...... Koichiro Morioka (Japan) 8...... Mikel Odriozola (Spain) 8...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 9...... Chao Sun (China) 9...... Faguang Xu (China) 10...... Oleg Kistkin (Russia) 10...... Chil-Sung Park () 2008 2012 1...... Alex Schwazer (Italy) 1...... Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 2...... Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) 2...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3...... Tianfeng Si (China) 4...... Jesús Ángel García (Spain) 4...... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 5...... Erik Tysse (Norway) 5...... (Russia) 6...... Horacio Nava (Mexico) 6...... Sergey Bakulin (Russia) 7...... Yuki Yamazaki (Japan) 7...... Jianbo Li (China) 8...... Rafał Fedaczyński (Poland) 8...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 9...... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 9...... Łukasz Nowak (Poland) 10...... Luke Adams (Australia) 10...... Koichiro Morioka (Japan)

© Track & Field News 2019 — 6 — World Rankings — Men’s 50K Walk 2013 2016 1...... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 1...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 2...... Mikhail Ryzhov (Russia) 2...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 3...... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 4...... Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 4...... (Canada) 5...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 5...... Wei Yu (China) 6...... Grzegorz Sudoł (Poland) 6...... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 7...... Yohann Diniz (France) 7...... Yohann Diniz (France) 8...... Ivan Noskov (Russia) 8...... Håvard Haukenes (Norway) 9...... Erick Barrondo (Guatemala) 9...... Caio Bonfim () 10...... Łukasz Nowak (Poland) 10...... Zhendong Wang (China) 2014 2017 1...... Yohann Diniz (France) 1...... Yohann Diniz (France) 2...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 2...... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 3...... Mikhail Ryzhov (Russia) 3...... Kai Kobayashi (Japan) 4...... Ivan Noskov (Russia) 4...... Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 5...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 5...... Satoshi Maruo (Japan) 6...... (Japan) 6...... Máté Helebrandt (Hungary) 7...... Aleksey Bartsaykin (Russia) 7...... Rafał Augustyn (Poland) 8...... Ivan Banzeruk (Ukraine) 8...... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 9...... Ihor Hlavan (Ukraine) 9...... Marco De Luca (Italy) 10...... Marco De Luca (Italy) 10...... Carl Dohmann (Germany) 2015 2018 1...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 1...... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 4...... Hiroki Arai (Japan) 2...... Hayato Katsuki (Japan) 3...... Takayuki Tanii (Japan) 3...... Satoshi Maruo (Japan) 2...... Jared Tallent (Australia) 4...... (Ukraine) 5...... Robert Heffernan (Ireland) 5...... Matej Tóth (Slovakia) 6...... Lin Zhang (China) 6...... Qin Wang (China) 7...... Wei Yu (China) 7...... Rafał Augustyn (Poland) 8...... Andrés Chocho (Ecuador) 8...... Dzmitry Dziubin (Belarus) 9...... Jesus Ángel García (Spain) 9...... Håvard Haukenes (Norway) 10...... Quentin Rew (New Zealand) 10...... Rui Wang (China)

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