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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.
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 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.
Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date World record Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 1:16:36: Nomi, Japan: 15 March 2015 Championship record Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:17:21: Saint-Denis, France
Racewalking events at the Summer Olympics have been contested over a variety of distances at the multi-sport event. There were three race walking events in the 2020 Summer Olympics: a men's and a women's 20 kilometres race walk, and a men's 50 kilometres race walk. The races were held in a final-only format.
Top-level athletics championships and games typically feature 20 km racewalking events. The sport emerged from a British culture of long-distance competitive walking known as pedestrianism, which began to develop the ruleset that is the basis of the modern discipline around the mid-19th century. Since the mid-20th century onwards, Russian and ...
20 March 2021 European record Vera Sokolova (RUS) 1:25:08 [3] Sochi, Russia: 26 February 2011 Championship record María Pérez (ESP) 1:26:36: Berlin, Germany: 11 August 2018 World Leading Elvira Chepareva (RUS) 1:24:31 [4] [5] Sochi, Russia: 27 February 2024 Europe Leading
Standing records prior to the 2022 European Athletics Championships World record Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 1:16:36 [2]: Nomi, Japan: 15 March 2015 European record Yohann Diniz (FRA)