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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.
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. The first men's events came at the 1908 London Olympics, which featured 3500 m and 10-mile distances.
400 metres hurdles In October 2022, more than 10 years and 2 months after the race, Natalya Antyukh's results from July 2012 to June 2013 were disqualified for doping after a retest of her samples, stripping her of the gold medal in the 400 m hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [23] Medals were reallocated.
Nick Christie and Robyn Stevens won the men's and women's 20K race walk at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday morning in Springfield.
Robyn Stevens (born April 24, 1983) is an American Olympic race walker. [1] [2] She competed for Vacaville High School, then went on to San José State University.Stevens suffered from an eating disorder and body dysmorphia while attending, which forced her to quit racing in 2004.
An hour into the race Lu began to lose contact, allowing Lashmanova, Kirdyapkina and Qieyang to chase and pass Liu. By 14 km Kaniskina had a 33-second lead. Almost unnoticeably, the gap between Kaniskina and the chasers had come down to 24 seconds at 16 km, with Kirdyapkina and then Liu struggling to stay with the group.
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.
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