# 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 14 August.
From the start on home soil, Russians Mikhail Ryzhov and Ivan Noskov took the lead, with Jared Tallent in tow. By 15K the three had broken away to a 12-second lead. Tallent began to fall back to lead a large chasing pack as the two men continued to set the pace. By the half way mark Grzegorz Sudol and Robert Heffernan, who had spotted the leaders 30 seconds earlier, joined world leader Yohann Diniz to form a 5-man pack at the front. By 35K roles had reversed, Heffernan was now leading the Russians, Diniz was exiting the back and Sudol was trying to hold on. Over the next 5K, Heffernan pushed the lead with Ryzhov, as Noskov and Sudol formed their own group now steadily losing ground. Meanwhile, Tallent continued to hang around, leading the chase pack then leaving them behind to do a one-man chase of the leaders. Heffernan finally broke Ryzhov and pushed his way to almost a minute victory. Tallent continued his pace to finish third. After giving up minutes to the leaders, Ihor Hlavan put in an impressive 21:38 final 5K to chase Tallent.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) | 3:34:14 | Cheboksary, Russia | 11 May 2008 |
| Championship record | Robert Korzeniowski (POL) | 3:36:03 | Saint-Denis, France | 23 August 2003 |
| World Leading | Yohann Diniz (FRA) | 3:41:07 | Dudince, Slovakia | 19 May 2013 |
| African Record | Marc Mundell (RSA) | 3:55:32 | London, Great Britain | 11 August 2012 |
| Asian Record | Yu Chaohong (CHN) | 3:36:06 | Nanjing, People's Republic of China | 22 October 2005 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Érick Barrondo (GUA) | 3:41:09 | Dudince, Slovakia | 23 March 2013 |
| South American Record | Andrés Chocho (ECU) | 3:49:26 | Valley Cottage, United States | 28 October 2012 |
| European Record | Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) | 3:34:14 | Cheboksary, Russia | 11 May 2008 |
| Oceanian record | Nathan Deakes (AUS) | 3:35:47 | Geelong, Australia | 2 December 2006 |

## Qualification standards

| A standard | B standard |
| 4:02:00 | 4:16:00 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 14 August 2013 | 08:30 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+4)

## Results

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

### Final

The final was held at 08:30.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Robert Heffernan | Ireland (IRL) | 3:37:56 | WL |
| DSQ | Mikhail Ryzhov | Russia (RUS) | 3:38:58 | PB |
| | Jared Tallent | Australia (AUS) | 3:40:03 | SB |
| | Ihor Hlavan | Ukraine (UKR) | 3:40:39 | PB |
| 5 | Matej Tóth | Slovakia (SVK) | 3:41:07 | SB |
| 6 | Grzegorz Sudoł | Poland (POL) | 3:41:20 | PB |
| 7 | Ivan Noskov | Russia (RUS) | 3:41:36 | PB |
| 8 | Łukasz Nowak | Poland (POL) | 3:43:38 | SB |
| 9 | Takayuki Tanii | Japan (JPN) | 3:44:26 | |
| 10 | Yohann Diniz | France (FRA) | 3:45:18 | |
| 11 | Hirooki Arai | Japan (JPN) | 3:45:56 | PB |
| 12 | Jesús Ángel García | Spain (ESP) | 3:46:44 | SB |
| 13 | Serhiy Budza | Ukraine (UKR) | 3:47:36 | PB |
| 14 | Ivan Trotski | Belarus (BLR) | 3:47:52 | SB |
| 15 | Marco De Luca | Italy (ITA) | 3:48:05 | SB |
| 16 | Chris Erickson | Australia (AUS) | 3:49:41 | PB |
| 17 | Quentin Rew | New Zealand (NZL) | 3:50:27 | PB |
| 18 | Claudio Villanueva | Spain (ESP) | 3:50:29 | PB |
| 19 | Omar Zepeda | Mexico (MEX) | 3:50:43 | SB |
| 20 | Jarkko Kinnunen | Finland (FIN) | 3:50:56 | SB |
| 21 | Adrian Błocki | Poland (POL) | 3:51:00 | |
| 22 | Ato Ibáñez | Sweden (SWE) | 3:53:38 | PB |
| 23 | Kōichirō Morioka | Japan (JPN) | 3:53:54 | |
| 24 | Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | Italy (ITA) | 3:54:00 | SB |
| 25 | Brendan Boyce | Ireland (IRL) | 3:54:24 | PB |
| 26 | Li Jianbo | China (CHN) | 3:56:13 | |
| 27 | Jonnathan Caceres | Ecuador (ECU) | 3:56:58 | |
| 28 | Pedro Isidro | Portugal (POR) | 3:57:30 | |
| 29 | Dušan Majdán | Slovakia (SVK) | 3:57:50 | PB |
| 30 | Xu Faguang | China (CHN) | 3:57:54 | SB |
| 31 | Marc Mundell | South Africa (RSA) | 3:57:55 | SB |
| 32 | Horacio Nava | Mexico (MEX) | 3:58:09 | |
| 33 | Basanta Bahadur Rana | India (IND) | 3:58:20 | SB |
| 34 | José Ignacio Díaz | Spain (ESP) | 3:58:26 | |
| 35 | Omar Segura | Mexico (MEX) | 3:58:34 | |
| 36 | Evan Dunfee | Canada (CAN) | 3:59:28 | PB |
| 37 | Oh Se-Han | South Korea (KOR) | 4:01:00 | |
| 38 | Tadas Šuškevičius | Lithuania (LTU) | 4:01:29 | |
| 39 | Andreas Gustafsson | Sweden (SWE) | 4:01:40 | SB |
| 40 | Marius Cocioran | Romania (ROM) | 4:04:23 | SB |
| 41 | Veli-Matti Partanen | Finland (FIN) | 4:04:59 | |
| 42 | Teodorico Caporaso | Italy (ITA) | 4:05:25 | |
| 43 | Mário dos Santos | Brazil (BRA) | 4:06:12 | SB |
| 44 | Xavier Moreno | Ecuador (ECU) | 4:07:29 | SB |
| 45 | Sándor Rácz | Hungary (HUN) | 4:12:18 | |
| 46 | John Nunn | United States (USA) | 4:34:55 | SB |
| | Ian Rayson | Australia (AUS) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Edward Araya | Chile (CHI) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Andrés Chocho | Ecuador (ECU) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Emerson Esnal Hernández | El Salvador (ESA) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Sandeep Kumar | India (IND) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Yim Jung-hyun | South Korea (KOR) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Håvard Haukenes | Norway (NOR) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Ivan Banzeruk | Ukraine (UKR) | DQ | R 230.6 |
| | Si Tianfeng | China (CHN) | DNF | |
| | Fredy Hernández | Colombia (COL) | DNF | |
| | Maciej Rosiewicz | Georgia (GEO) | DNF | |
| | Erik Tysse | Norway (NOR) | DNF |
| | Predrag Filipović | Serbia (SRB) | DNF | |
| | Yerenman Salazar | Venezuela (VEN) | DNF | |
| | Alexandros Papamichail | Greece (GRE) | DNS | |