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2013 World Championships Statistics - Men’s 50Km Walk by K Ken Nakamura

The records to look for in Moskva: 1) Can Kirdyapkin win third gold medal to tie Korzeniowski? 2) The highest finish by Asian at this event is fourth. Can Si Tianfeng (CHN) win a first medal for Asia?

All time Performance List at the World Championships Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue Year 1 1 3:36.03 WR POL 1 2003 2 2 3:36:42 RUS 2 Paris 2003 3 3 3:37:46 Andreas Erm GER 3 Paris 2003 4 4 3:38:01 RUS 4 Paris 2003 5 5 3:38:08 RUS 1 2005 6 6 3:38:23 RUS 5 Paris 2003 7 3:38:35 Sergey Kirdyapkin 1 2009 8 7 3:40:53 GDR 1 Roma 1987 9 8 3:41:16 NOR 2 Berlin 2009 10 9 3:41:24 RUS 1 2011 11 10 3:41:25 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 2 Helsinki 2005 12 11 3:41:30 GDR 2 Roma 1987 13 12 3:41:37 Jesus Angel Garcia ESP 3 Berlin 2009 14 3:41:41 Jesus Angel Garcia 1 1993 15 13 3:41:54 ITA 3 Helsinki 2005 16 14 3:42:02 FIN 2 Stuttgart 1993 17 3:42:08 Robert Korzeniowski 1 2001 18 15 3:42:34 Grzequorz Sudol POL 4 Berlin 2009 19 3:42:45 Denis Nizhegorodov 2 Daegu 2011 20 16 3:42:50 RUS 3 Stuttgart 1993 21 3:43:07 Jesus Angel Garcia 2 Edmonton 2001 22 3:43:08 Ronald Weigel 1 Helsinki 1983 23 17 3:43:19 Andre Höhne GER 5 Berlin 2009 24 18 3:43:36 AUS 3 Daegu 2011 25 19 3:43:39 AUS 6 Berlin 2009 26 3:43:42 Valentin Kononen 1 Göteborg 1995 27 20 3:43:50 Alex Noack GER 4 Stuttgart 1993 28 21 3:43:53 AUS 1 2007 29 3:43.56 Jesus Angel Garcia 6 Paris 2003 30 22 3:44:02 Vyacheslav Ivanenko URS 3 Roma 1987 31 3:44:04 Trond Nymark 4 Helsinki 2005 32 23 3:44:22 Yohan Diniz FRA 2 Osaka 2007 33 3:44:38 Alex Schwazer 3 Osaka 2007 34 24 3:44:40 Si Tianfeng CHN 4 Daegu 2011 35 25 3:44:45 Zhao Chengliang CHN 5 Helsinki 2005 36 3:44:46 Robert Korzeniowski 1 Athinai 1997 37 3:44:50 Jared Tallent 7 Berlin 2009 38 26 3:44:53 Roman Magdziarczyk POL 7 Paris 2003 39 3:44:59 Jesus Angel Garcia 2 Athinai 1997

Slowest winning time: 3:53:09 by (URS) in 1991

Margin of Victory Difference Winning time Name Nat Venue Year Max 3 min 24 seconds 3:43:08 Ronald Weigel GDR Helsinki 1983 3 min 17 seconds 3:38:08 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS Helsinki 2005 Min 0.01 second 3:53:08.15 Aleksandr Potashov URS 1991 13 seconds 3:44.46 Robert Korzeniowski POL Athinai 1997

Difference between first and third Diff Winning time 3rd place time Winner’s Name Nat Venue Year Max 5:55 3:43:08 3:49:03 Ronald Weigel GDR Helsinki 1983 Min 45sec 3:43:53 3:44:38 Nathan Deakes AUS Osaka 2007

Difference between third and fourth (medal versus no medal) Diff 3rd place time Name Nat Venue Year Max 4:56 3:55:14 Harwig Gauder GER Tokyo 1991 Min 8 sec 3:46:12 Edgar Hernandez MEX Edmonton 2001

Average of last six (21 st century) World Championships Average 2011 2009 2007 2005 2003 2001 Winning Time 3:40:02 3:41:24 3:38:35 3:43:53 3:38:08 3:36:03 3:42:08 Winning Medal 3:42:37 3:43:36 3:41:37 3:44:38 3:41:54 3:37:46 3:46:12 8th place 3:49:58 3:47:19 3:46:31 3:57:22 3:51:15 3:46:14 3:51:09

Best Marks for Places in the World Championships Pos Time Name Nat Venue Year 1 3:36.03 Robert Korzeniowski POL Paris 2003 2 3:36:42 German Skurygin RUS Paris 2003 3 3:37:46 Andreas Erm GER Paris 2003 4 3:38:01 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS Paris 2003 5 3:38:23 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS Paris 2003 6 3:43:39 Luke Adams AUS Berlin 2009 7 3:44:50 Jared Tallent AUS Berlin 2009 8 3:46:14 Trond Nymark NOR Paris 2003

Best Marks for Places – all competitions Pos Time Name Nat Venue Day Month Year 1 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 11 May 2008 2 3:36:13 Zhao Chengliang CHN Nanjing 22 Oct 2005 3:36:42 German Skurygin RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3 3:37:16 Si Tianfeng CHN 11 Aug 2012 3:37:46 Andreas Erm GER Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 4 3:37:54 IRL London 11 Aug 2012 3:38:01 Aleksey Voyevodin RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 5 3:37:54 RUS London 11 Aug 2012 3:38:23 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 6 3:38:55 Sergey Bakulin RUS London 11 Aug 2012 3:41:56 Yevgeniy Shamalyuk RUS Mezidon-Canon 2 May 1999 7 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN London 11 Aug 2012 3:43:15 Viktor Ginko BLR Medizon-Canon 2 May 1999 8 3:41:24 Matej Toth SVK London 11 Aug 2012 3:45:13 Li Jianbo CHN Nanning 27 Feb 2005

Multiple Gold Medalists: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS): 2005, 2009 Robert Korzeniowski (POL): 1997, 2001, 2003

Multiple Medalists: Alex Schwazer (ITA): 2005 Bronze, 2007 Bronze Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS): 2005 Gold, 2009 Gold Jesus Angel Garcia (ESP): 1993 Gold, 1997 Silver, 2001 Silver, 2009 Bronze Robert Korzeniowski (POL): 1995 Bronze, 1997 Gold, 2001 Gold, 2003 Gold Valentin Kononen (FIN): 1993 Silver, 1995 Gold Hartwig Gauder (GDR): 1987 Gold, 1991 Bronze Ronald Weigel (GDR): 1983 Gold, 1987 Silver

Multiple Medals by athletes from a single nation Nation Year Gold Silver Bronze RUS 2011 Sergey Bakulin Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 2005 Sergey Kirdyapkin Aleksey Voyevodin URS 1991 Aleksandr Potashov GDR 1987 Hartwig Gauder Ronald Weigel

Medals by Countries: Nation Gold Silver Bronze RUS 3 4 1 POL 3 1 GDR 2 1 ESP 1 3 1 URS 1 1 2 ITA 1 1 2 FIN 1 1 AUS 1 1 FRA 1 NOR 1 MEX 2 GER 2 USA 1

World Champion with Olympic Gold medal Name Nat World Championships Olympics Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 2005, 2009 2012 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1997, 2001, 2003 1996, 2000, 2004 Hartwig Gauder GDR 1987 1980

World Champion who previously won World Junior gold medal Name Nat World Championships Year World Junior Championships Year Nathan Deakes AUS Gold 2007 Bronze (10000m Walk) 1996

World Championships medalists who previously won World Youth medal: None

World Champion with European Championships gold medal Name Nat World Championships European Championships Robert Korzeniowski POL 1997, 2001, 2003 1998, 2002 Hatwig Gauder GDR 1987 1986

World Championships medalists with Asian Games medal: None Highest finish by Asian at the World Championships is fourth by Su Tianfeng (CHN) in 2011

World Championships medalists with All African Games medal: None

World Championships medalist with medal Name Nat World Championships Year Pan American Games Year Miguel Rodriguez MEX Bronze 1997 Silver 1991, 1995

World Champion with Gold medal: Name Nat World Championships Commonwealth Games Nathan Deakes AUS 2007 2002, 2006

Last six World Championships: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2011 Sergey Bakulin RUS 3:41:24 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 3:42:45 Jared Tallent AUS 3:43:36 2009 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:38:35 Trod Nymark NOR 3:41:16 Jesus Angel ESP 3:41:37 2007 Nathan Deakes 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 four Olympics: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2012 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:35:59 Jared Tallent AUS 3:36:53 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:37:16 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

Last seven World Junior Championships: (10000m walk) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2012 Eider Arevalo COL 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 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 eight World Youth Championships: (10000m walk) Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2013 JPN 41:53.80 Maksim Krasnov RUS 42:03.10 Diego Garcia ESP 42:0.32 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 three European Championships: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 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 2010 Si Tianfeng CHN 3:47:04 Li Lei CHN 3:47:34 Koichiro Morioka JPN 3:47:41

Last three Pan American Games: Year Gold Nat Time Silver Nat Time Bronze Nat Time 2011 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: (not contested in 2010) 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

Fastest Performances in Europe Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 1 Cheboksary 11 May 2008 2 3:35:29 Denis Nizhegorodov 1 Cheboksary 13 June 2004 3 2 3:35:59 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 1 London 11 Aug 2012 4 3 3:36:03 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1 Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003

Russian All-Comer’s List Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov RUS 1 Cheboksary 11 May 2008 2 3:35:29 Denis Nizhegorodov 1 Cheboksary 13 June 2004 3 2 3:37:04 Alex Schwarzer ITA 2 Cheboksary 11 May 2008

Fastest Performances in Moskva: Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos DMY 1 1 3:37:26 Valeriy Spitsyn RUS 1 21 May 2000 2 2 3:39:21 Vladimir Potemin RUS 2 21 May 2000 3 3 3:40:02 Aleksandr Potashov URS 1 27 May 1990

Fastest performances in August Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:35:59 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 1 London 11 Aug 2012 2 2 3:36:03 Robert Korzeniowski POL 1 Saint Denis 27 Aug 2003 3 3:36:39 Robert Korzeniowski 1 München 8 Aug 2002

Combined 2012 & 2013 World List Performance Performer Time Name Nat Pos Venue DMY 1 1 3:35:59 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 1 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 2 2 3:36:53 Jared Tallent AUS 2 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 3 3 3:37:16 Si Tianfeng CHN 3 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 4 4 3:37:54 Robert Heffernan IRL 4 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 5 5 3:37:54 Igor Yerokhin RUS 5 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 6 3:38:08 Sergey Kirdyapkin 1 13 May 2012 7 3:38:10 Igor Yerokhin 2 Saransk 13 May 2012 8 6 3:38:55 Sergey Bakulin RUS 6 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 9 7 3:39:01 Li Jianbo CHN 7 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 10 3:40:32 Jared Tallent 3 Saransk 13 May 2012 11 8 3:40:46 Yuriy Andronov RUS 1 Moskva 11 June 2012 12 9 3:40:58 Alex Schwazer ITA 1 Dudince 24 Mar 2012 13 10 3:41.07 FRA 1 Dudince 19 May 2013 14 11 3:41.09 GUA 1 Dudince 23 Mar 2013 15 12 3:41:24 Matej Toth SVK 8 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 16 13 3:41:47 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 1 Wajima 15 Apr 2012 17 14 3:42:47 Lukasz Nowak POL 9 London – OG 11 Aug 2012 18 3:43:05 Si Tiangeng 4 Saransk 13 May 2012 19 15 3:43:14 Koichiro Morioka JPN 10 London – OG 11 Aug 2012

Gold Medal Contenders:

Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) DOB: 18 June 1980 Personal Best: 3:35:59 (2012); Season Best: None Championships Highlights: 2012 Olympic Champion; 2005 & 2009 World Champion Average of top performances in 2012 and 2013 Time Race Place Date 1 3:35:59 London – OG 1 11 Aug 2012 2 3:38:08 Saransk 1 13 May 2012 Top 4 Average 3:37:04

Jared Tallent (AUS) DOB: 17 Oct 1984 Personal Best: 3:36:53 (2012); Season Best: None Championships Highlights: 2008 & 2012 Olympic Silver medalist; 2011 Worlds bronze medalist Average of top performances in 2011, 2012 and 2013 (including 50000mWalk) Time Race Place Date 1 3:36:53 London – OG 2 11 Aug 2012 2 3:40:32 Saransk 3 13 May 2012 3 3:43:36 Daegu – WC 3 3 Sept 2011 4 3:49:33 1 11 Dec 2011 Top 4 Average 3:42:39

Yohann Diniz (FRA) DOB: 1 Jan 1978 Personal Best: 3:38:45 (2009); 3:35:27.20 for 50000mW (2011); Season Best: 3:41:07 Championships Highlights: 2006 & 2010 European Champion; 2007 World Champ Silver medalist Average of top performances in 2011, 2012 and 2013 (including 50000mWalk) Time Race Place Date 1 3:35:27.20 Reims (50000mW) 1 12 Mar 2011 2 3:41:07 Dudince 1 19 May 2013 3 3:49:52 Dudince 2 23 Mar 2013 Top 3 Average 3:42:09

Erick Barrondo (GUT) DOB: 14 June 1991 Personal Best: 3:41:09 (2013); Season Best: 3:41:09 Championships Highlights: DQ in 2012 Olympics Average of top performances in 2012 and 2013 Time Race Place Date 1 3:41:09 Dudince 1 23 Mar 2013 2 3:44:59 Pont evedra 1 4 Mar 2012 Top 2 Average 3:43:04

Si Tianfeng (CHN) DOB: 17 June 1984 Personal Best: 3:37:16 (2012); Season Best: 3:53:19 Championships Highlights: 2012 Olympic bronze medalist; 4 th in 2011 World Championships Average of top performances in 2011, 2012 and 2013 Time Race Place Date 1 3:37:16 London – OG 3 11 Aug 2012 2 3:38:48 Taicang 1 24 Apr 2011 3 3:43:05 Saransk 4 13 May 2012 4 3:44:40 Daegu – WC 4 3 Sept 2011 5 3:53:19 Shenyang 3 10 May 2013 Top 3 Average 3:43:26

Last 3 competitions:

Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) Time Race Place Date 1 3:35:59 London – OG 1 11 Aug 2012 2 3:38:08 Saransk – World Cup 1 13 May 2012 3 DNF Daegu – World Champ DNF 3 Sept 2011 Average 3:37:04

Jared Tallent (AUS) Time Race Place Date 1 3:36:53 London – OG 2 11 Aug 2012 2 3:40:32 Saransk – World Cup 3 13 May 2012 3 3:49:33 Melbourne 1 11 Dec 2011 Average 3:42:19

Si Tianfeng (CHN) Time Race Place Date 1 3:53:19 Shenyang 3 10 May 2013 2 3:37:16 London – OG 3 11 Aug 2012 3 3:43:05 Saransk 4 13 May 2012 Average 3:44.33

Yohann Diniz (FRA) Time Race Place Date 1 3:41:07 Dudince 1 19 May 2013 2 3:49:52 Dudince 2 23 Mar 2013 3 DQ London – OG DQ 11 Aug 2012 Average 3:45:30

References: Athletics annual, Athletics International, All-Athletics.com, Alltime-athletics.com, gbrathletics.com, IAAF Statistics Handbooks, RRW, Tilastopaja OY and News etc.

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