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The men's world record for the 20 km race walk is held by Yusuke Suzuki, who walked 1:16:36 at the Asian Race Walking Championships in his home town of Nomi, Japan.Suzuki's new World Record came exactly one week after Yohann Diniz's mark who walked a then record time of 1:17:02 in Arles at the 2015 French championships.
The following table shows the world record progression in the men's 20 kilometres walk, as recognised by the IAAF. Notice that the records for road walk and track walk are considered separately. Notice that the records for road walk and track walk are considered separately.
Championship record Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:17:21: Saint-Denis, France: 23 August 2003 World Leading Zhang Jun (CHN) 1:17:47: Taicang, China: 8 April 2023 African Record Samuel Gathimba (KEN) 1:18:23: Nairobi, Kenya: 18 June 2021 Asian Record Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 1:16:36: Nomi, Japan: 15 March 2015 North, Central American and Caribbean record
World Record Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:17.22: April 28, 2002: Turku, Finland: Event Record Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:19.37: August 24, 1991: Tokyo, Japan: Broken records during the 2003 World Athletics Championships World Record Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:17.21: August 23, 2003: Paris, France: Event Record
The following table shows the world record progression in the women's 20 kilometres walk, as recognised by the IAAF. World record progression. Time Athlete
Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date Location World: 1:16:36 Yusuke Suzuki JPN: 15 Mar 2015 Nomi, Japan Championship: 1:17:21 Jefferson Pérez ECU: 23 Aug 2003 Saint-Denis, France: World leading 1:17:15 Toshikazu Yamanishi JPN: 17 Mar 2019 Nomi, Japan African: 1:19:02 Hatem Ghoula TUN: 10 May 1997: Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany: Asian: 1:16:36 Yusuke ...
For the men's 20 kilometres race walk event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by walking the entry standard of 1:20.10 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [8]
The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place on 4 August on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill in central London. [1] [2] Robert Heffernan and Grzegorz Sudol took the early lead, soon joined by Yusuke Suzuki. Like a bicycle race, the unheralded Suzuki steadily broke away from the peloton.