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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]
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.
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.
The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12 August on a route along Pontal. Wang Zhen was the first male athletics medallist of the games. His Chinese teammate Cai Zelin was second and Dane Bird-Smith of Australia took the bronze.
Race walking technique may look funny. But the competitors can walk 7-minute miles over the course of a 31-mile event. Yes, you can bet on that: The Olympic men's 20K and 50K race walk fields are ...
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.
The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 5 August 2021 in Sapporo. [1] Approximately 60 athletes competed; the exact number was dependent on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the number qualifying through time (no universality places were used in 2016). [2]