2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 2009 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held throughout the city of Berlin on August 15, beginning and ending at the Brandenburg Gate.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Valeriy Borchin Russia	Wang Hao China	Eder Sánchez Mexico

Records

World Record	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	1:17:16	Saransk, Russia	29 September 2007
Championship Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21	Paris, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Valeriy Borchin (RUS)	1:17:38	Adler, Russia	28 February 2009
African Record	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:19:02	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	10 May 1997
Asian Record	Zhu Hongjun (CHN)	1:17:41	Cixi, China	23 April 2005
North American Record	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	1:17:46	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	8 May 1999
South American record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21	Paris, France	23 August 2003
European Record	Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)	1:17:16	Saransk, Russia	29 September 2007
Oceanian Record	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	1:17:33	Cixi, China	23 April 2005

Qualification standards

A Time	B Time
1:22:30	1:24:20

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 15, 2009	13:00	Final

Competition notes

With the 2007 champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jefferson Pérez having retired, the reigning Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin was regarded as strong favourite. He had recorded the world-leading time prior to the tournament and had been undefeated that season. The Olympic third and fourth place finishers, Jared Tallent and Wang Hao, were regarded as the strongest challengers to Borchin. Italians Giorgio Rubino and Ivano Brugnetti were singled out as medal contenders, while former world record holder and three-time World silver medallist Francisco Javier Fernández was seen as being past his peak.

Borchin prevailed and was first to cross the line at the Brandenburg gate, with a winning time of 1:18:41. Chinese athlete Hao improved upon his previous best to take the silver medal while Mexican Eder Sánchez produced a season's best performance for the bronze medal. The veteran competitor Francisco Javier Fernández withdrew from the race before the halfway mark.

Despite becoming the reigning World and Olympic champion, Borchin stated that he needed to achieve much more to match the achievements of his sporting heroes Jefferson Pérez and Robert Korzeniowski.

Results

Valeriy Borchin became the new 20 km walk world champion

Wang Hao set a new personal best to take the silver

Eder Sánchez took the bronze, his first World Championships medal

2008 Olympic medallist Jared Tallent only managed sixth place

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1:18:41
02 !	Wang Hao	China	1:19:06	PB
03 !	Eder Sánchez	Mexico	1:19:22	SB
04 !4	Giorgio Rubino	Italy	1:19:50
05 !5	Luis Fernando López	Colombia	1:20:03	NR
06 !6	Jared Tallent	Australia	1:20:27
07 !7	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:20:38
08 !8	Jesús Sánchez	Mexico	1:20:52	PB
09 !9	Matej Tóth	Slovakia	1:21:13
10	João Vieira	Portugal	1:21:43	SB
11	Koichiro Morioka	Japan	1:21:48
12	Li Jianbo	China	1:21:54
13	Zhu Yafei	China	1:21:56
14	André Höhne	Germany	1:21:59
15	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	1:22:09	SB
16	José Ignacio Díaz	Spain	1:22:12	SB
17	Andrey Krivov	Russia	1:22:19
18	Luke Adams	Australia	1:22:37
19	Hassanine Sebei	Tunisia	1:22:52
20	Babubhai Panucha	India	1:23:06	NR
21	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi	Italy	1:23:07	SB
22	Dzianis Simanovich	Belarus	1:23:36
23	Rolando Saquipay	Ecuador	1:23:51	SB
24	Juan Manuel Molina	Spain	1:24:00
25	Park Chil-Sung	South Korea	1:24:01
26	Artur Brzozowski	Poland	1:24:17
27	Sérgio Vieira	Portugal	1:24:32
28	Pedro Daniel Gómez	Mexico	1:24:39
29	Yerko Araya	Chile	1:24:49
30	Isamu Fujisawa	Japan	1:25:12
31	Petr Trofimov	Russia	1:26:02
32	David Kimutai	Kenya	1:26:35
33	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine	1:27:01
34	Kim Hyun-Sub	South Korea	1:27:08
35	Predrag Filipović	Serbia	1:27:44
36	Pavel Chihuan	Peru	1:27:54
37	Rustam Kuvatov	Kazakhstan	1:28:47	SB
38	Jakub Jelonek	Poland	1:28:59
39	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador	1:29:14
40	Juan Manuel Cano	Argentina	1:29:20	SB
41	Allan Segura	Costa Rica	1:29:52
42	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	1:30:21
43	Byun Youngjun	South Korea	1:30:35
44	Mauricio Arteaga	Ecuador	1:32:25
45	Vilius Mikelionis	Lithuania	1:32:53
99 !	Adam Rutter	Australia	1:40:00 !	DQ
99 !	Moacir Zimmermann	Brazil	1:40:00 !	DQ
99 !	José Alessandro Bagio	Brazil	1:40:00 !	DNF
99 !	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	1:40:00 !	DNF
99 !	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	1:40:00 !	DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

See also

• 2009 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

General

• 20 kilometres race walk results (Archived 2009-09-08). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-15.

Specific