# 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 11 August.
The first leader was Takumi Saito who set the pace for the first 5K, opening up a gap on the pack, with his Japanese teammate Yusuke Suzuki the first to chase him down. Suzuki moved out to a 13-second lead by the 10K mark. The six chasers included all three 2012 Olympic medalists. The first to catch him was bronze medalist Wang Zhen who pulled out to the lead only to get disqualified. Even though he had received the notification, Wang continued until he was taken off the course. Behind him, Olympic gold medalist Chen Ding, Erick Barrondo silver medalist and local favorite Aleksandr Ivanov took up the front, 22 seconds ahead of the next group. But Barrondo picked up two red cards.
After 15K, Ivanov took off, with Barrondo giving chase. First Ivanov picked up a red card and slowed down. Then Barrondo picked up his third red card and was told to leave the race to his disbelief. When Chen passed him, he raised his arm to wave good bye. But Chen couldn't catch Ivanov, who took a ten-second victory in front of cheering Russian fans.
One walker gave a positive test at the competition: second last finisher Ebrahim Rahimian of Iran had used erythropoietin.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) | 1:17:16 | Saransk, Russia | 29 September 2007 |
| Championship record | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 1:17:21 | Saint-Denis, France | 23 August 2003 |
| World Leading | Petr Trofimov (RUS) | 1:18:28 | Sochi, Russia | 23 February 2013 |
| African Record | Hatem Ghoula (TUN) | 1:19:02 | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 10 May 1997 |
| Asian Record | Wang Zhen (CHN) | 1:17:36 | Taicang, China | 30 March 2012 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Julio René Martínez (GUA) | 1:17:46 | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 8 May 1999 |
| South American Record | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 1:17:21 | Saint-Denis, France | 23 August 2003 |
| European Record | Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) | 1:17:16 | Saransk, Russia | 29 September 2007 |
| Oceanian record | Nathan Deakes (AUS) | 1:17:33 | Cixi, China | 23 April 2005 |

## Qualification standards

| A standard | B standard |
| 1:24:00 | 1:26:00 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 11 August 2013 | 17:00 | Final |

## Results

| KEY: | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Final

The race was started at 17:00.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| DQ | Aleksandr Ivanov | Russia (RUS) | 1:20:58 | Doping |
| | Chen Ding | China (CHN) | 1:21:09 | SB |
| | Miguel Ángel López | Spain (ESP) | 1:21:21 | SB |
| | João Vieira | Portugal (POR) | 1:22:05 | |
| 4 | Denis Strelkov | Russia (RUS) | 1:22:06 | |
| 5 | Takumi Saito | Japan (JPN) | 1:22:09 | |
| 6 | Ruslan Dmytrenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:22:14 | |
| 7 | Inaki Gomez | Canada (CAN) | 1:22:21 | SB |
| 8 | Christopher Linke | Germany (GER) | 1:22:36 | SB |
| 9 | Kim Hyun-sub | South Korea (KOR) | 1:22:50 | SB |
| 10 | Dane Bird-Smith | Australia (AUS) | 1:23:06 | |
| 11 | Yusuke Suzuki | Japan (JPN) | 1:23:20 | |
| 12 | Jaime Quiyuch | Guatemala (GUA) | 1:23:24 | |
| 13 | Matteo Giupponi | Italy (ITA) | 1:23:27 | SB |
| 14 | Matteo Giupponi | Italy (ITA) | 1:23:27 | SB |
| 15 | Andrii Kovenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:23:46 | |
| 16 | Alexandros Papamihail | Greece (GRE) | 1:23:48 | SB |
| 17 | José Leonardo Montaña | Colombia (COL) | 1:23:50 | SB |
| 18 | Rolando Saquipay | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:24:01 | SB |
| 19 | Rafał Augustyn | Poland (POL) | 1:24:03 | |
| 20 | Benjamin Thorne | Canada (CAN) | 1:24:26 | |
| 21 | Anton Kučmín | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:24:38 | |
| 22 | Yerko Araya | Chile (CHI) | 1:24:42 | SB |
| 23 | Ato Ibáñez | Sweden (SWE) | 1:24:49 | |
| 24 | Álvaro Martín | Spain (ESP) | 1:25:12 | |
| 25 | Marius Žiūkas | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:25:17 | |
| 26 | Cai Zelin | China (CHN) | 1:25:31 | |
| 27 | Hatem Ghoula | Tunisia (TUN) | 1:25:41 | |
| 28 | Giorgio Rubino | Italy (ITA) | 1:25:42 | |
| 29 | Bertrand Moulinet | France (FRA) | 1:26:12 | SB |
| 30 | Ivan Losyev | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:26:32 | |
| 31 | Alex Wright | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 1:26:40 | |
| 32 | Diego Flores | Mexico (MEX) | 1:26:46 | |
| 33 | Gurmeet Singh | India (IND) | 1:26:47 | |
| 34 | Chandan Singh | India (IND) | 1:26:51 | |
| 35 | Mauricio Arteaga | Ecuador (ECU) | 1:27:35 | |
| 36 | Georgiy Sheiko | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:27:41 | |
| 37 | Isaac Palma | Mexico (MEX) | 1:28:14 | |
| 38 | Perseus Karlstrom | Sweden (SWE) | 1:28:20 | SB |
| 39 | Choe Byeong Kwang | South Korea (KOR) | 1:28:26 | |
| 40 | Sérgio Vieira | Portugal (POR) | 1:28:34 | |
| 41 | Máté Helebrandt | Hungary (HUN) | 1:28:49 | |
| 42 | Arnis Rumbenieks | Latvia (LAT) | 1:29:13 | |
| 43 | Federico Tontodonati | Italy (ITA) | 1:29:26 | |
| 44 | Francisco Arcilla | Spain (ESP) | 1:29:38 | |
| 45 | Vitaliy Anichkin | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1:30:02 | |
| 46 | Juan Manuel Cano | Argentina (ARG) | 1:30:45 | SB |
| 47 | Anibal Paau | Guatemala (GUA) | 1:30:54 | |
| 48 | Dzianis Simanovich | Belarus (BLR) | 1:31:52 | |
| 49 | Andrey Ruzavin | Russia (RUS) | 1:32:45 | |
| 50 | Rhydian Cowley | Australia (AUS) | 1:33:35 | |
| 51 | Alejandro Francisco Florez | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:35:01 | |
| DQ | Ebrahim Rahimian | Iran (IRI) | 1:35:46 | Doping |
| 52 | Tim Seaman | United States (USA) | 1:36:35 | |
| | Irfan Kolothum Thodi | India (IND) | DQ | |
| | Érick Barrondo | Guatemala (GUA) | DQ | |
| | Wang Zhen | China (CHN) | DQ | |
| | Byun Young-Jun | South Korea (KOR) | DQ | |
| | Caio Bonfim | Brazil (BRA) | DQ | |
| | Lebogang Shange | South Africa (RSA) | DNF | |
| | Dawid Tomala | Poland (POL) | DNF | |
| | Éider Arévalo | Colombia (COL) | DNF | |
| | Luis Fernando López | Colombia (COL) | DNF | |
| | Kevin Campion | France (FRA) | DNF | |
| | Hassanine Sebei | Tunisia (TUN) | DNF | |