Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates27 August
Competitors54 from 29 nations
Winning time3:38:46
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Robert Korzeniowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Silver medal icon.svg Denis Nizhegorodov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Bronze medal icon.svg Aleksey Voyevodin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
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The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held through the streets of Athens with the start and finish at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 27. [1] [2]

The race had started in the virtually empty Olympic Stadium with fifty-four walkers lining up the field. The Chinese trio of Han Yucheng, Yu Chaohong, and Alatan Gadasu hurtled away from the pack to take the front as they left the stadium. In the early laps, Han made a tactical move to continuously lead the Chinese walkers within five minutes, but he received his first of three warnings, fell off back to the pack, and was later disqualified after the red paddle. Ten minutes into the race, the Chinese duo were soon joined by four other walkers, Russia's world record holder Denis Nizhegorodov and his teammate Aleksey Voyevodin, 20 km bronze medalist Nathan Deakes of Australia, and defending Olympic champion Robert Korzeniowski.

Between 10 and 30k, Nizhegorodov and Korzeniowski moved to the front of the pack and stayed abreast each other through most of the race. At the halfway point, the leading group had been whittled down to four. Korzeniowski was still in the lead with the Russian duo and Deakes attempting to overtake him. While Nizhegorodov and Voyevodin created a gap as they separated from the group to gain a thirty second advantage, it came down to a chase between Korzeniowski and Deakes to take the lead with only one hour to go. Deakes was eventually disqualified after his third warning with the red card, and Korzeniowski steadily broke away from the field to own the remaining third of the race.

At around 35k, Korzeniowski had commanded a 30 second lead over the weary Nizhegorodov and a further 22 seconds over Yu Chaohong. Walking tirelessly in fourth, Voyevodin managed to bridge back to the pack and launched a charge to strengthen his pace closely behind Yu.

Coming through the 45k mark and into the Olympic Stadium, Korzeniowski increased his lead by fifteen seconds ahead of the world record holder before storming his way at the final turn to cross the finish line for the last time in his competitive career. With a historic win, he added a fourth gold medal to his Olympic tally in 3:38:46. [3]

Five minutes behind Korzeniowski, Nizhegorodov appeared unstable on the home stretch, but had accumulated much ground to finish strong with a silver medal, before collapsing to the track in exhaustion. Meanwhile, his fast-charging teammate Voyevodin surpassed the confident Yu just outside the stadium to claim the bronze with a tremendous finish, edging the Chinese off the podium by eleven seconds. [3] [4] [5]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of Russia.svg  Denis Nizhegorodov  (RUS)3:35:29 Cheboksary, Russia 13 June 2004
Olympic recordFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Vyacheslav Ivanenko  (URS)3:38:29 Seoul, South Korea 30 September 1988

No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's 20 kilometres race walk, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 4:00:00 or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 4:07:00 or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

DateTimeRound
Friday, 27 August 200407:00Final

Results

RankNameNationalityResultNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Robert Korzeniowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:38:46
Silver medal icon.svg Denis Nizhegorodov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:42:50
Bronze medal icon.svg Aleksey Voyevodin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:43:34
4 Yu Chaohong Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:43:45
5 Jesús Ángel García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3:44:42SB
6 Roman Magdziarczyk Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:48:11
7 Grzegorz Sudoł Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:49:09PB
8 Santiago Pérez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3:49:48SB
9 Yuriy Andronov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3:50:28
10 Alatan Gadasu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 3:51:55
11 Aigars Fadejevs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:52:52
12 Jefferson Pérez Flag of Ecuador (1900-2009).svg  Ecuador 3:53:04 NR
13 Trond Nymark Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 3:53:20SB
14 Peter Korčok Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 3:54:22
15 Miguel Rodríguez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3:55:43
16 Yuki Yamazaki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 3:57:00
17 Germán Sánchez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3:58:33
18 Miloš Bátovský Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 3:59:11
19 Andrei Stsepanchuk Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 3:59:32
20 Sergey Korepanov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 3:59:33
21 Eddy Riva Flag of France.svg  France 4:00:25
22 David Boulanger Flag of France.svg  France 4:01:32
23 Aleksandar Raković Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg  Serbia and Montenegro 4:02:06
24 Zoltán Czukor Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 4:03:51
25 Modris Liepinš Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 4:04:26
26 Sérgio Galdino Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:05:02
27 Kim Dong-young Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 4:05:16
28 Jani Lehtinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 4:05:35
29 Craig Barrett Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 4:06:48
30 Daugvinas Zujus Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 4:09:41
31 Tim Berrett Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4:10:31
32 Curt Clausen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:11:31
33 José Antonio González Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 4:11:51
34 Jorge Costa Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 4:12:24
35 Philip Dunn Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:12:49
36 Kazimír Verkin Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 4:13:11
37 Rustam Kuvatov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 4:13:40
38 Miloš Holuša Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 4:15:01
39 Georgios Argiropoulos Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 4:17:25
40 Mario José dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:20:11
41 János Tóth Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 4:29:33
Spiridon Kastanis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DNF
Denis Langlois Flag of France.svg  France DNF
André Höhne Flag of Germany.svg  Germany DNF
Luis Fernando García Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala DNF
Mario Iván Flores Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico DNF
Pedro Martins Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal DNF
Theodoros Stamatopoulos Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DNF
Han Yucheng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China DNF
Takayuki Tanii Flag of Japan.svg  Japan DSQ
Nathan Deakes Flag of Australia.svg  Australia DSQ
Andreas Erm Flag of Germany.svg  Germany DSQ
Julio René Martínez Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala DSQ
Giovanni de Benedictis Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy DSQ

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References

  1. ↑ "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's 50km Race Walk Final". Athens 2004 . IAAF . Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Athletics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 Arcoleo, Laura (27 August 2004). "Olympic gold number four for Korzeniowski". IAAF . Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Korzeniowski wins historic third 50km walk". Rediff.com. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Polish walker earns fourth Olympic gold". USA Today. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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