2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk The Men's 50 kilometres race walk event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held on September 3 on a loop course starting and finishing at Gukchae – bosang Memorial Park in the center of Daegu. Yohann Diniz took the early lead, challenged by Nathan Deakes until Diniz was disqualified. Deakes continued to lead by as much as 30 seconds over Sergey Bakulin but began to falter with hamstring problems. First he was passed by Bakulin before dropping out. Bakulin stretched out to almost a 2-minute lead, between 40
2011 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk event. 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk The Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, at Městský stadion on 17 July. 17 July 2011 / 8:00 Intermediate times:<br> 2km: 8:53 Veli-Matti Partanen <br> 4km: 17:25 Veli-Matti Partanen <br> 6km: 26:02 Veli-Matti Partanen <br> 8km: 34:25 Veli-Matti Partanen <br> 10km: 42:54 Veli-Matti Partanen <br> 12km: 51:27 Máté Helebrandt <br> 14km: 59:57 Máté Helebrandt <br> 16km: 1:08:15 Petr Bogatyrev <br> 18km: 1:16:18 Petr Bogatyrev <br> According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 9 countries participated in