The following table shows the world record progression in the men's 20 kilometres walk , as recognised by the IAAF. Notice that the records for road walk and track walk are considered separately. [1]
Time | Athlete | Date | Place |
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1:38:43 | Hermann Müller (GER) | 1911-10-04 | Berlin, Germany |
1:37:57 | Emile Anthoine (FRA) | 1913-07-13 | Paris, France |
1:34:15 | Václav Balšán (TCH) | 1933-08-13 | Český Brod, Czechoslovakia |
1:33:25 | Fritz Bleiweiss (GER) | 1936-06-07 | Fürstenwalde, Germany |
1:32:12 | John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 1937-05-30 | Malmö, Sweden |
1:31:44 | John Mikaelsson (SWE) | 1946-06-10 | Stockholm, Sweden |
1:31:21 | Josef Doležal (TCH) | 1955-06-05 | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
1:30:36 | Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) | 1955-09-23 | Kiev, Soviet Union |
1:30:00 | Josef Doležal (TCH) | 1956-07-25 | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
1:28:39 | Valentin Guk (URS) | 1957-04-13 | Kiev, Soviet Union |
1:27:29 | Leonid Spirin (URS) | 1959-07-07 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
1:27:04 | Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) | 1959-07-15 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
1:25:58 | Anatoly Vedyakov (URS) | 1959-09-06 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
1:25:22 | Gennadiy Agapov (URS) | 1968-07-21 | Leningrad, Soviet Union |
1:25:19 | Gennadiy Agapov (URS) | 1972-05-07 | Berlin, Germany |
1:24:50 | Paul Nihill (GBR) | 1972-07-30 | Munich, Germany |
1:23:40 | Daniel Bautista (MEX) | 1976-05-30 | Bydgoszcz, Poland |
1:23:30 | Anatoliy Solomin (URS) | 1978-07-19 | Vilnius, Soviet Union |
1:23:12 | Roland Wieser (GDR) | 1978-08-30 | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
1:22:19 | Vadim Tsvetkov (URS) | 1979-05-13 | Klaipėda, Soviet Union |
1:22:16 | Daniel Bautista (MEX) | 1979-05-19 | Valencia, Spain |
1:21:04 | Daniel Bautista (MEX) | 1979-06-09 | Vretstorp, Sweden |
1:21:01 | Reima Salonen (FIN) | 1979-06-09 | Raisio, Finland |
1:21:00 | Daniel Bautista (MEX) | 1980-03-30 | Xalapa, Mexico |
1:19:35 | Domingo Colin (MEX) | 1980-04-27 | Cherkasy, Soviet Union |
1:19:30 | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 1983-09-24 | Bergen, Norway |
1:19:24 | Carlos Mercenario (MEX) | 1987-05-03 | New York City, United States |
1:19:12 | Axel Noack (GDR) | 1987-06-21 | Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR |
1:19:08 | Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) | 1988-07-30 | Kiev, Soviet Union |
1:18:20 | Andrey Perlov (URS) | 1990-05-26 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
1:18:13 | Pavol Blažek (TCH) | 1990-09-16 | Hildesheim, Germany |
1:18:04 | Bu Lingtang (CHN) | 1994-04-07 | Beijing, PR China |
1:17:46 | Julio Martinez (GUA) | 1999-05-08 | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany |
1:17:22 | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 2002-04-28 | Turku, Finland |
1:17:21 | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 2003-08-23 | Paris, France |
1:17:16 | Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) | 2007-09-29 | Saransk, Russia |
1:17:02 | Yohann Diniz (FRA) | 2015-03-08 | Arles, France |
1:16:36 | Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) | 2015-03-15 | Nomi, Japan |
Yohann Diniz is a French race walker. He is the current world-record holder for the 50 km race, with a time of 3:32:33, and for the 50,000 metres track walk, with a time of 3:35:27.
The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it.