# 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Denis Nizhegorodov Russia (RUS) | Jared Tallent Australia (AUS) | Si Tianfeng China (CHN) |

## Records

| World record | Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) | 3:34:14 | Cheboksary, Russia | 11 May 2008 |
| Championship record | Robert Korzeniowski (POL) | 3:36:03 | Paris, France | 27 August 2003 |
| World Leading | Sergey Bakulin (RUS) | 3:38:46 | Saransk, Russia | 12 June 2011 |
| African record | Hatem Ghoula (TUN) | 3:58:44 | Santa Eulària des Riu, Spain | 4 March 2007 |
| Asian record | Yu Chaohong (CHN) | 3:36:06 | Nanjing, China | 22 October 2005 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Raúl González (MEX) | 3:41:20 | Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia | 11 June 1978 |
| South American record | Xavier Moreno (ECU) | 3:52:07 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 28 July 2007 |
| 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 time | B time |
| 3:58:00 | 4:09:00 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| September 3, 2011 | 08:00 | Final |

## Results

| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia (RUS) | 3:42:45 | SB |
| | Jared Tallent | Australia (AUS) | 3:43:36 | SB |
| | Si Tianfeng | China (CHN) | 3:44:40 | |
| 4 | Luke Adams | Australia (AUS) | 3:45:41 | SB |
| 5 | Kōichirō Morioka | Japan (JPN) | 3:46:21 | |
| 6 | Park Chil-sung | South Korea (KOR) | 3:47:13 | NR |
| 7 | Xu Faguang | China (CHN) | 3:47:19 | |
| 8 | Takayuki Tanii | Japan (JPN) | 3:48:03 | SB |
| 9 | Hirooki Arai | Japan (JPN) | 3:48:40 | PB |
| 10 | Andrés Chocho | Ecuador (ECU) | 3:49:32 | AR |
| 11 | Marco De Luca | Italy (ITA) | 3:49:40 | SB |
| 12 | Rafał Sikora | Poland (POL) | 3:50:24 | |
| 13 | Kim Dong-Young | South Korea (KOR) | 3:51:12 | PB |
| 14 | Jarkko Kinnunen | Finland (FIN) | 3:52:32 | SB |
| 15 | Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | Italy (ITA) | 3:52:35 | PB |
| 16 | Trond Nymark | Norway (NOR) | 3:54:26 | SB |
| 17 | Édgar Hernández | Mexico (MEX) | 3:54:46 | SB |
| 18 | José Leyver | Mexico (MEX) | 3:55:37 | |
| 19 | Oleksiy Kazanin | Ukraine (UKR) | 3:56:18 | SB |
| 20 | Omar Zepeda | Mexico (MEX) | 3:56:41 | |
| 21 | Andreas Gustafsson | Sweden (SWE) | 4:00:05 | SB |
| 22 | Bertrand Moulinet | France (FRA) | 4:07:58 | |
| 23 | Quentin Rew | New Zealand (NZL) | 4:08:46 | |
| 24 | Li Jianbo | China (CHN) | 4:10:26 | |
| | Jesús Ángel García | Spain (ESP) | DSQ | |
| | Mikel Odriozola | Spain (ESP) | DSQ | |
| | Antti Kempas | Finland (FIN) | DSQ | |
| | Yohann Diniz | France (FRA) | DSQ | |
| | Cédric Houssaye | France (FRA) | DSQ | |
| | Colin Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | DSQ | |
| | Yim Jung-hyun | South Korea (KOR) | DSQ | |
| | Tadas Šuškevičius | Lithuania (LTU) | DSQ | |
| | Rafał Fedaczyński | Poland (POL) | DSQ | |
| | Igor Erokhin | Russia (RUS) | DSQ | |
| | Nenad Filipović | Serbia (SRB) | DSQ | |
| | Miloš Bátovský | Slovakia (SVK) | DSQ | |
| | Nathan Deakes | Australia (AUS) | DNF | |
| | José Ignacio Díaz | Spain (ESP) | DNF | |
| | Igors Kazakēvičs | Latvia (LAT) | DNF | |
| | Grzegorz Sudoł | Poland (POL) | DNF | |
| | Sergey Kirdyapkin | Russia (RUS) | DNF | |
| | Matej Tóth | Slovakia (SVK) | DNF | |
| | Christopher Linke | Germany (GER) | DNS | |
| | Robert Heffernan | Ireland (IRL) | DNS | |
| DSQ | Sergey Bakulin | Russia (RUS) | 3:41:24 | doping |