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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.
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.
He won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2024 Summer Olympics with a time of 1:18:55, [2] only 9 seconds behind the Olympic record established in the 2012 Summer Olympics by Chen Ding. He became the second Ecuadorian athlete to win gold in this race after Jefferson Pérez at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The full 2024 Paris Olympics schedule, broken down day by day. ... Men's 20km Race Walk (Medal event): 1:30 p.m. ET on NBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.
The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running.
The current race walking contests at the Summer Olympics are the 20 kilometres race walk (men and women) and the marathon race walk mixed relay, the latter of which debuted at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 50 kilometres race walk (men only) was discontinued after the 2020 Summer Olympics. [1] The biennial World Athletics Championships also ...
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.
For the women'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 running the entry standard of 1:29.20 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.