2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	20 September
Competitors	48 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:18:35
Medalists
Caio Bonfim    Brazil   Wang Zhaozhao    China   Paul McGrath    Spain
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The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 20 September 2025. ^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World Record	Toshikazu Yamanishi  (JPN)	1:16:10	Kobe, Japan	16 February 2025
Championship Record	Jefferson Pérez  (ECU)	1:17:21	Saint-Denis, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Toshikazu Yamanishi  (JPN)	1:16:10	Kobe, Japan	16 February 2025
African Record	Samuel Gathimba  (KEN)	1:18:23	Nairobi, Kenya	18 June 2021
Asian Record	Toshikazu Yamanishi  (JPN)	1:16:10	Kobe, Japan	16 February 2025
European Record	Yohann Diniz  (FRA)	1:17:02	Arles, France	8 March 2015
North, Central American and Caribbean Record	Evan Dunfee  (CAN)	1:17:39	Adelaide, Australia	16 February 2025
Oceanian Record	Nathan Deakes  (AUS)	1:17:33	Cixi, China	23 April 2005
South American Record	Jefferson Pérez  (ECU)	1:17:21	Saint-Denis, France	23 August 2003

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:19:20. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
20 September	09:55	Final

Results

The race was started on 20 September at 9:55.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Warnings	Notes
	Caio Bonfim	Brazil	1:18:35	~ ~
	Wang Zhaozhao	China	1:18:43	~ ~
	Paul McGrath	Spain	1:18:45	~ ~
4	Aurélien Quinion	France	1:18:49	~	PB
5	Gabriel Bordier	France	1:19:23	~ ~
6	Qian Haifeng	China	1:19:38
7	Kento Yoshikawa	Japan	1:19:46
8	Diego García	Spain	1:20:05
9	Satoshi Maruo	Japan	1:20:09
10	Christopher Linke	Germany	1:20:11
11	Leo Köpp	Germany	1:20:35
12	Ricardo Ortiz	Mexico	1:20:36	~ ~
13	Perseus Karlström	Sweden	1:20:37
14	Maher Ben Hlima	Poland	1:20:39	~
15	Jordy Jiménez	Ecuador	1:20:43
16	Francesco Fortunato	Italy	1:21:00
17	Matheus Corrêa	Brazil	1:21:04	~	SB
18	Misgana Wakuma	Ethiopia	1:21:17	>	SB
19	David Hurtado	Ecuador	1:21:18	~ ~ ~ PZ
20	Rhydian Cowley	Australia	1:21:18	~
21	Álvaro López	Spain	1:21:28
22	Dominik Černý	Slovakia	1:21:29
23	Declan Tingay	Australia	1:21:30	~ >
24	Li Chenjie	China	1:21:39
25	Veli-Matti Partanen	Finland	1:21:41	~	SB
26	Mukola Rushchak	Ukraine	1:21:57
27	Serhii Svitlychnyi	Ukraine	1:22:24	~
28	Toshikazu Yamanishi	Japan	1:22:39	~ ~ ~ PZ
29	Mateo Romero	Colombia	1:22:44
30	Choe Byeong-kwang	South Korea	1:22:52
31	Servin Sebastian	India	1:23:03	~
32	Bence Venyercsán	Hungary	1:23:06	~
33	Noel Chama	Mexico	1:23:41	> >
34	Gianluca Picchiottino	Italy	1:23:50
35	Mazlum Demir	Turkey	1:24:11
36	Andrea Cosi	Italy	1:24:18	~ ~ ~ PZ
37	Jerry Jokinen	Finland	1:24:37	~
38	Érick Barrondo	Guatemala	1:24:42		SB
39	Tim Fraser	Australia	1:24:55	>
40	César Herrera	Colombia	1:25:01	~
41	Raivo Saulgriezis	Latvia	1:27:25	> > > PZ
42	Max Batista Gonçalves dos Santos	Brazil	1:27:34	~
43	Wayne Snyman	South Africa	1:30:12	~	SB
	Luis Henry Campos	Peru	DQ	~ > > ~
	José Luis Doctor	Mexico		~ ~ > ~
	Ihor Hlavan	Ukraine		~ > ~ ~
	Hayrettin Yıldız	Turkey		> > > >
	Alexandros Papamichail	Greece	DNS
[4]

Key:

~ Red card for loss of contact

> Red card for bent knee

PZ 3.5 min. Penalty Zone

TR54.7.5: Disqualified by Rule TR54.7.5 (4 red cards)

References

1. "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Men's 20 kilometres walk". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
2. "20 kilometres walk Men − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
3. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
4. "Results 20 Kilometres Race Walk Men - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 20 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.