Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km race walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 29 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia, starting at 08:00h[1]

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueStadium Australia
Date29 September
Competitors56 from 28 nations
Winning time3:42:22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Korzeniowski
 Poland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aigars Fadejevs
 Latvia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joel Sánchez
 Mexico
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Medalists

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Gold Robert Korzeniowski
  Poland
Silver Aigars Fadejevs
  Latvia
Bronze Joel Sánchez
  Mexico

Abbreviations

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  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
OR olympic record
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 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record   Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) 3:37.26 21 May 2000   Moscow, Russia
Olympic Record   Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 3:38.29 30 September 1988   Seoul, South Korea

Results

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Place Athlete Nation Time Record
1 Robert Korzeniowski   Poland 3:42:22
2 Aigars Fadejevs   Latvia 3:43:40
3 Joel Sanchez   Mexico 3:44:36 PB
4 Valentí Massana   Spain 3:46:01
5 Nikolay Matyukhin   Russia 3:46:37
6 Nathan Deakes   Australia 3:47:29 PB
7 Miguel Angel Rodriguez   Mexico 3:48:12
8 Roman Magdziarczyk   Poland 3:48:17 PB
9 Modris Liepins   Latvia 3:48:36
10 Yang Yongjian   China 3:48:42 PB
11 Aleksandar Raković   FR Yugoslavia 3:49:16 SB
12 Jesus Angel Garcia   Spain 3:49:31
13 Wang Yinhang   China 3:50:19 PB
14 Denis Langlois   France 3:52:56
15 Sergey Korepanov   Kazakhstan 3:53:30
16 Milos Holusa   Czech Republic 3:53:48 SB
17 Peter Tichy   Slovakia 3:54:47
18 Craig Barrett   New Zealand 3:55:53
19 Mike Trautmann   Germany 3:56:19
20 Stefan Malik   Slovakia 3:56:44 SB
21 Denis Trautmann   Germany 3:58:18
22 Curt Clausen   United States 3:58:39
23 Peter Korcok   Slovakia 3:58:46
24 Mikel Odriozola   Spain 3:59:50
25 Valeriy Borisov   Kazakhstan 4:01:11
26 Vladimir Potemin   Russia 4:02:38
27 Dion Russell   Australia 4:02:50
28 Philip Dunn   United States 4:03:05 SB
29 Sylvain Caudron   France 4:03:22
30 Daugvinas Zujus   Lithuania 4:06:04
31 Andrew Hermann   United States 4:07:18
32 Oleksiy Shelest   Ukraine 4:07:39
33 Pedro Martins   Portugal 4:08:13
34 Duane Cousins   Australia 4:10:43
35 Ugis Bruvelis   Latvia 4:11:41
36 Fumio Imamura   Japan 4:13:28
37 Gyula Dudás   Hungary 4:17:55
38 Jamie Costin   Ireland 4:24:22
39 Chris Maddocks   Great Britain 4:52:12
Ivano Brugnetti   Italy DNF
Robert Ihly   Germany DNF
Spyridon Kastanis   Greece DNF
Tomasz Lipiec   Poland DNF
Giovanni Perricelli   Italy DNF
René Piller   France DNF
Valeriy Spitsyn   Russia DNF
Theodoros Stamatopoulos   Greece DNF
Arturo Di Mezza   Italy DNF
Tim Berrett   Canada DQ
Fedosei Ciumacenco   Moldova DQ
Zoltán Czukor   Hungary DQ
Viktor Ginko   Belarus DQ
Arturo Huerta   Canada DQ
Akihiko Koike   Japan DQ
Valentin Kononen   Finland DQ
Germán Sánchez   Mexico DQ

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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