2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 km race walk event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 6 in the streets of Helsinki with the start at 18:40h local time, and the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

The winning margin was 61 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's 20 km walk was won by more than 45 seconds at these championships.

Medalists

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Gold   Jefferson Pérez
Ecuador (ECU)
Silver   Paquillo Fernández
Spain (ESP)
Bronze   Juan Manuel Molina
Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations

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  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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Standing records prior to the 2005 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:17.21 August 23, 2003   Paris, France
Event Record

Startlist

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Intermediates

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Rank Number Athlete Time
5 KILOMETRES
1 227   Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 19:47
2 156   Yu Chaohong (CHN) 19:47
3 158   Zhu Hongjun (CHN) 19:47
4 832   Vladimir Stankin (RUS) 19:47
5 459   Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) 19:47
10 KILOMETRES
1 227   Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 39:31
2 459   Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) 39:32
3 158   Zhu Hongjun (CHN) 39:32
4 818   Ilya Markov (RUS) 39:32
5 210   Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 39:32
15 KILOMETRES
1 227   Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 59:10
2 210   Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 59:10
3 212   Rolando Saquipay (ECU) 59:22
4 240   Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) 59:23
5 158   Zhu Hongjun (CHN) 59:29

Final ranking

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Rank Athlete Time Note
    Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:18:35 SB
    Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:19:36
    Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) 1:19:44 PB
4   André Höhne (GER) 1:20:00 PB
5   Hatem Ghoula (TUN) 1:20:19 SB
6   Vladimir Stankin (RUS) 1:20:25
7   Benjamin Kuciński (POL) 1:20:34
8   Eder Sánchez (MEX) 1:20:45
9   Zhu Hongjun (CHN) 1:21:01
10   Luke Adams (AUS) 1:21:43
11   Andriy Yurin (UKR) 1:22:15
12   Luis Fernando López (COL) 1:22:28
13   Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:22:45
14   Lorenzo Civallero (ITA) 1:22:52 SB
15   Sérgio Galdino (BRA) 1:23:03
16   Shin Il-Yong (KOR) 1:23:10
17   Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) 1:23:12
18   Jared Tallent (AUS) 1:23:42
19   Silviu Casandra (ROM) 1:23:46
20   Andrei Talashko (BLR) 1:23:52
21   Matej Tóth (SVK) 1:23:55
22   José Ignacio Díaz (ESP) 1:24:00
23   Takayuki Tanii (JPN) 1:24:17
24   Kamil Kalka (POL) 1:25:02
25   Akihiro Sugimoto (JPN) 1:25:28
26   Rafał Dyś (POL) 1:26:35
27   Edwin Centeno (PER) 1:26:45
28   Liu Yunfeng (CHN) 1:26:54
29   Koichiro Morioka (JPN) 1:27:08
30   John Nunn (USA) 1:27:10 SB
31   Timothy Seaman (USA) 1:29:58
32   Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) 1:30:10
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
  Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) DNF
  Viktor Burayev (RUS) DNF
  João Vieira (POR) DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
  Ilya Markov (RUS) DSQ
  Bernardo Segura (MEX) DSQ
  Ivan Trotski (BLR) DSQ
  Yu Chaohong (CHN) DSQ
  Cristian Berdeja (MEX) DSQ
  Robert Heffernan (IRL) DSQ
  Walter Sandoval (ESA) DSQ
  Rolando Saquipay (ECU) DSQ

See also

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