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The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 11 August [1] on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill. [2] The event was marred by the disqualification of all three Russian athletes due to doping violations.
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 athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games, on 3–12 August. Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London. The road events, however, started and finished on The Mall in central London. [3]
On 24 March 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has issued a decision that all competitive results obtained by Olga Kaniskina from 15 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 are disqualified for doping. [11] The medals and places were reallocated. [12] Anisya Kirdyapkina was also disqualified for doping. [8]
The 50 km is also the longest distance race for an Olympic athletics event. [1] In April 2023, a new Marathon Race Walking Mixed Relay event was announced for the 2024 Games, replacing the men's 50 km event. [2] The Olympic records in racewalking were all broken at the 2012 London Olympics.
The 50 kilometre race walk [2] was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it.
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World Race Walking Team Championships: Rome, Italy 3rd 20 km 1:19:36: Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22nd 20 km 1:22:11: 2017 World Championships: London, United Kingdom 8th 20 km 1:19:41: 2018 World Race Walking Team Championships: Taicang, China 8th 20 km 1:23:22: European Championships: Berlin, Germany: 1st 20 km 1:20:42: 2019 World ...