The Men's 50 kilometres race walk event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held on September 3 on a loop course starting and finishing at Gukchae – bosang Memorial Park in the center of Daegu.
Yohann Diniz took the early lead, challenged by Nathan Deakes until Diniz was disqualified. Deakes continued to lead by as much as 30 seconds over Sergey Bakulin but began to falter with hamstring problems. First he was passed by Bakulin before dropping out. Bakulin stretched out to almost a 2-minute lead, between 40 and 45 km, only Jared Tallent looked like he had a chance, gaining several seconds per kilometer but not really enough to make a dent in the huge lead. Tallent paid for the extra effort trying to chase the leader, slowing considerably on the final 2 km lap, being passed by world record holder Denis Nizhegorodov. Bakulin would later be found Guilty of Doping and have the Gold Stripped from him and handed to Nizhegorodov. Nizhegorodov is also currently under suspicion of Doping, with his B Sample yet to be tested, after his A Sample Tested Positive. Nizhegorodov, still currently holds the Gold Medal as of May 2016.
Medalists GoldSilverBronzeDenis NizhegorodovJared TallentSi Tianfeng
Records World record3:34:14Cheboksary, Russia11 May 2008Championship record3:36:03Paris, France27 August 2003World Leading3:38:46Saransk, Russia12 June 2011African record3:58:44Santa Eulària des Riu, Spain4 March 2007Asian record3:36:06Nanjing, China22 October 2005North, Central American and Caribbean record3:41:20Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia11 June 1978South American record3:52:07Rio de Janeiro, Brazil28 July 2007European record3:34:14Cheboksary, Russia11 May 2008Oceanian record3:35:47Geelong, Australia2 December 2006
Qualification standards A timeB time 3:58:00 4:09:00
Schedule Date Time RoundSeptember 3, 2011 08:00 Final
Results KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Final Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Denis Nizhegorodov 3:42:45 SB Jared Tallent 3:43:36 SB Si Tianfeng 3:44:40 Luke Adams 3:45:41 SB Kōichirō Morioka 3:46:21 Park Chil-sung 3:47:13 NR Xu Faguang 3:47:19 Takayuki Tanii 3:48:03 SB Hirooki Arai 3:48:40 PB10 Andrés Chocho 3:49:32 AR11 Marco De Luca 3:49:40 SB12 Rafał Sikora 3:50:24 13 Kim Dong-Young 3:51:12 PB14 Jarkko Kinnunen 3:52:32 SB15 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi 3:52:35 PB16 Trond Nymark 3:54:26 SB17 Édgar Hernández 3:54:46 SB18 José Leyver 3:55:37 19 Oleksiy Kazanin 3:56:18 SB20 Omar Zepeda 3:56:41 21 Andreas Gustafsson 4:00:05 SB22 Bertrand Moulinet 4:07:58 23 Quentin Rew 4:08:46 24 Li Jianbo 4:10:26 Jesús Ángel García Mikel Odriozola Antti Kempas Yohann Diniz Cédric Houssaye Colin Griffin Yim Jung-hyun Tadas Šuškevičius Rafał Fedaczyński Igor Erokhin Nenad Filipović Miloš Bátovský Nathan Deakes José Ignacio Díaz Igors Kazakēvičs Grzegorz Sudoł Sergey Kirdyapkin Matej Tóth Christopher Linke Robert Heffernan DSQ Sergey Bakulin 3:41:24 dopingEuropean Athletics banned athletes
References
External links 50 kilometres walk results at IAAF website results at IAAF website