This document summarizes the results of the men's 20 kilometre race walk final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Zhen Wang of China won gold in a time of 1:19:14. Zelin Cai of China won silver in 1:19:26. Dane Bird-Smith of Australia won bronze in 1:19:37. Several athletes were disqualified for infringement of the race walk rules. The event took place on August 5-6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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SESSION
LIVENOW
05 AUG 2016 - 21 AUG 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Olympic Games
THE XXXI OLYMPIC GAMES
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 05 AUG 2016 ­ 21 AUG 2016
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MEN'S FINAL
20 KILOMETRES RACE WALK RESULT
STARTLIST RESULT
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FINAL
POS BIB ATHLETE MARK DETAIL
1 125 Zhen WANG
CHN
1:19:14
2 122 Zelin CAI
CHN
1:19:26 SB
3 101 Dane BIRD-SMITH
AUS
1:19:37 PB
4 112 Caio BONFIM
BRA
1:19:42 NR
5 155 Christopher LINKE
GER
1:20:00
6 151 Tom BOSWORTH
GBR
1:20:13 NR
7 179 Daisuke MATSUNAGA
JPN
1:20:22
8 176 Matteo GIUPPONI
ITA
1:20:27 PB
9 133 Manuel Esteban SOTO
COL
1:20:36 PB
10 117 Evan DUNFEE
CAN
1:20:49
11 144 Miguel Ángel LÓPEZ
ESP
1:20:58
12 118 Iñaki GÓMEZ
CAN
1:21:12
13 169 Manish SINGH
IND
1:21:21
12/08/2016 06:30 (08:30 LOCAL TIME) 

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14 198 Ever PALMA
MEX
1:21:24
15 128 Eider ARÉVALO
COL
1:21:36
16 235 Ruslan DMYTRENKO
UKR
1:21:40
17 188 Hyunsub KIM
KOR
1:21:44 SB
18 156 Hagen POHLE
GER
1:21:44
19 211 Jakub JELONEK
POL
1:21:52
20 157 Aléxandros PAPAMICHAÍL
GRE
1:21:55
21 178 Isamu FUJISAWA
JPN
1:22:03
22 145 Álvaro MARTÍN
ESP
1:22:11
23 195 Pedro Daniel GÓMEZ
MEX
1:22:22
24 240 Richard VARGAS
VEN
1:22:23
25 121 Yerko ARAYA
CHI
1:22:23
26 194 Marius ŽIUKAS
LTU
1:22:27 SB
27 119 Benjamin THORNE
CAN
1:22:28
28 162 Máté HELEBRANDT
HUN
1:22:31 PB
29 129 Luis Fernando LÓPEZ
COL
1:22:32

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COL
30 232 Ersin TACIR
TUR
1:22:53
31 215 João VIEIRA
POR
1:23:03
32 225 Anton KUCMIN
SVK
1:23:17
33 102 Rhydian COWLEY
AUS
1:23:30
34 183 Georgiy SHEIKO
KAZ
1:23:31
35 236 Igor GLAVAN
UKR
1:23:32
36 230 Hassanine SEBEI
TUN
1:23:44
37 137 Brian PINTADO
ECU
1:23:44
38 153 Nils BREMBACH
GER
1:23:46
39 123 Ding CHEN
CHN
1:23:54
40 237 Nazar KOVALENKO
UKR
1:24:40
41 206 Paolo YURIVILCA
PER
1:24:48
42 181 Eiki TAKAHASHI
JPN
1:24:59
43 106 Aliaksandr LIAKHOVICH
BLR
1:25:04
44 220 Lebogang SHANGE
RSA
1:25:07

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45 110 Marco Antonio RODRÍGUEZ
BOL
1:25:11 SB
46 173 Alex WRIGHT
IRL
1:25:25
47 209 Artur BRZOZOWSKI
POL
1:25:29
48 202 Erik TYSSE
NOR
1:26:06
49 149 Kevin CAMPION
FRA
1:26:22
50 158 Erick BARRONDO
GUA
1:27:01
51 100 Juan Manuel CANO
ARG
1:27:27
52 199 Julio César SALAZAR
MEX
1:27:38
53 216 Sérgio VIEIRA
POR
1:27:39
54 170 Hamidreza ZOORAVAND
IRI
1:27:45
55 141 Francisco ARCILLA
ESP
1:27:50
56 161 José María RAYMUNDO
GUA
1:29:07
57 187 Byeongkwang CHOE
KOR
1:29:08
58 221 Wayne SNYMAN
RSA
1:29:20
59 192 Marius ŠAVELSKIS
LTU
1:29:26
60 241 Thanh Ngung NGUYEN
VIE
1:30:01

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VIE
61 186 Youngjun BYUN
KOR
1:30:38
62 231 Mert ATLI
TUR
1:31:36
63 115 Moacir ZIMMERMANN
BRA
1:33:58
212 Lukasz NOWAK
POL
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
135 Mauricio ARTEAGA
ECU
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
168 Gurmeet SINGH
IND
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
136 Andrés CHOCHO
ECU
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
203 Quentin REW
NZL
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
166 Ganapathi KRISHNAN
IND
DQ RIAAF 230.7a
111 José Alessandro BAGIO
BRA
DNF
107 Dzianis SIMANOVICH
BLR
DNF
229 Perseus KARLSTRÖM
SWE
DNF
184 Samuel Ireri GATHIMBA
KEN
DNF
185 Simon WACHIRA
KEN
DNF

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RECORDS
ATHLETE MARK DATE / VENUE
Yusuke SUZUKI
JPN
1:16:36 15 MAR 2015
Nomi, JPN
WR
Ding CHEN
CHN
1:18:46 04 AUG 2012
London (The Mall)
OR
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21:20 The hammer throw qualifying has completed now, 70.30m turned out to be the
mark to advance with.
21:16 Dane Bird-Smith is over the moon with his bronze medal. If we could bottle that
emotion...
21:15 The 20km walk medal ceremony is happening now, after the final this afternoon.
21:12 Swoboda was the U20 silver medalist last month in Bydgoszcz.
21:11 Tianna Bartoletta 11.23 to win the fifth heat, Ewa Swoboda second in 11.24.
21:04 10.96 for SAFP ahead of Ta Lou at 11.01.
21:03 Speaking of SAFP, she's in the blocks.
21:02 Adams is now the second woman to reach for a third consecutive gold and fall
short, after Tirunesh Dibaba this morning. Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce will have the
next chance, should she make the 100m final tomorrow.
21:00 Wenxiu Zhang picked up a 73.58m throw in the women's hammer while we were
watching the shot.
21:00 Torie Bowie and Blessing Okagbare get the big Qs in heat three of the women's
100m.
20:55 It's the first Olympic medal of any colour for the USA in the women's shot.