# 2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Yohann Diniz (FRA) | 3:32:33 | Zürich, Switzerland | 15 August 2014 |
| Championship record | Robert Korzeniowski (POL) | 3:36:03 | Saint-Denis, France | 23 August 2003 |
| World Leading | Matej Tóth (SVK) | 3:34:38 | Dudince, Slovakia | 21 March 2015 |
| African Record | Marc Mundell (RSA) | 3:55:32 | London, Great Britain | 11 August 2012 |
| Asian Record | Yu Chaohong (CHN) | 3:36:06 | Nanjing, China | 22 October 2005 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Erick Barrondo (GUA) | 3:41:09 | Dudince, Slovakia | 23 March 2013 |
| South American Record | James Rendón (COL) | 3:47:41 | Valley Cottage, United States | 14 September 2014 |
| European Record | Yohann Diniz (FRA) | 3:32:33 | Zürich, Switzerland | 15 August 2014 |
| Oceanian record | Nathan Deakes (AUS) | 3:35:47 | Geelong, Australia | 2 December 2006 |
| The following records were established during the competition: |||||
| South American Record | Andrés Chocho (ECU) | 3:46:00 | Beijing, China | 29 August 2015 |

## Qualification standards

* Time
* 4:06:00

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 29 August 2015 | 07:30 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+8)

## Results

The race was started at 07:30.
| KEY: | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Matej Tóth | Slovakia (SVK) | 3:40:32 | |
| | Jared Tallent | Australia (AUS) | 3:42:17 | SB |
| | Takayuki Tanii | Japan (JPN) | 3:42:55 | |
| 4 | Hirooki Arai | Japan (JPN) | 3:43:44 | |
| 5 | Robert Heffernan | Ireland (IRL) | 3:44:17 | SB |
| 6 | Zhang Lin | China (CHN) | 3:44:39 | PB |
| 7 | Yu Wei | China (CHN) | 3:45:21 | PB |
| 8 | Andrés Chocho | Ecuador (ECU) | 3:46:00 | AR |
| 9 | Jesús Ángel García | Spain (ESP) | 3:46:43 | SB |
| 10 | Quentin Rew | New Zealand (NZL) | 3:48:48 | PB |
| 11 | Adrian Błocki | Poland (POL) | 3:49:11 | PB |
| 12 | Evan Dunfee | Canada (CAN) | 3:49:56 | PB |
| 13 | Chris Erickson | Australia (AUS) | 3:51:26 | SB |
| 14 | Wu Qianlong | China (CHN) | 3:51:35 | |
| 15 | Ivan Banzeruk | Ukraine (UKR) | 3:52:15 | |
| 16 | Marco De Luca | Italy (ITA) | 3:53:02 | |
| 17 | Matteo Giupponi | Italy (ITA) | 3:53:23 | |
| 18 | Aku Partanen | Finland (FIN) | 3:54:28 | |
| 19 | Serhiy Budza | Ukraine (UKR) | 3:55:10 | |
| 20 | Luis Fernando López | Colombia (COL) | 3:55:43 | PB |
| 21 | Pedro Isidro | Portugal (POR) | 3:55:44 | PB |
| 22 | Tadas Šuškevičius | Lithuania (LTU) | 3:56:27 | SB |
| 23 | Park Chil-sung | South Korea (KOR) | 3:56:42 | SB |
| 24 | Håvard Haukenes | Norway (NOR) | 3:56:50 | SB |
| 25 | Teodorico Caporaso | Italy (ITA) | 3:56:58 | |
| 26 | Sandeep Kumar | India (IND) | 3:57:03 | SB |
| 27 | Manish Singh | India (IND) | 3:57:11 | PB |
| 28 | Rafał Augustyn | Poland (POL) | 3:57:30 | |
| 29 | Jaime Quiyuch | Guatemala (GUA) | 3:57:41 | SB |
| 30 | Dušan Majdán | Slovakia (SVK) | 3:58:57 | SB |
| 31 | Mathieu Bilodeau | Canada (CAN) | 4:01:35 | SB |
| 32 | Jarkko Kinnunen | Finland (FIN) | 4:02:07 | SB |
| 33 | Marc Mundell | South Africa (RSA) | 4:02:41 | |
| 34 | Yuki Yamazaki | Japan (JPN) | 4:03:54 | |
| 35 | Francisco Arcilla | Spain (ESP) | 4:07:23 | SB |
| 36 | Luis Ángel Sánchez | Guatemala (GUA) | 4:09:26 | |
| 37 | John Nunn | United States (USA) | 4:09:44 | SB |
| 38 | Arnis Rumbenieks | Latvia (LAT) | 4:28:55 | |
| | Marius Cocioran | Romania (ROM) | DNF | |
| | Carl Dohmann | Germany (GER) | DNF | |
| | Mário dos Santos | Brazil (BRA) | DNF | |
| | Anders Hansson | Sweden (SWE) | DNF | |
| | Anatole Ibáñez | Sweden (SWE) | DNF | |
| | Aleksi Ojala | Finland (FIN) | DNF | |
| | Alexandros Papamichail | Greece (GRE) | DNF | |
| | Benjamin Sánchez | Spain (ESP) | DNF | |
| | Alex Wright | Ireland (IRL) | DNF | |
| | Erick Barrondo | Guatemala (GUA) | DQ | |
| | Brendan Boyce | Ireland (IRL) | DQ | |
| | Lukáš Gdula | Czech Republic (CZE) | DQ | |
| | Ihor Hlavan | Ukraine (UKR) | DQ | |
| | Łukasz Nowak | Poland (POL) | DQ | |
| | Martin Tišťan | Slovakia (SVK) | DQ | |
| | Aleksandr Yargunkin | Russia (RUS) | DNS | |