2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk holds the Gold Medal as of May 2016. 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
2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk were as follows: 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk The women's 20 kilometres walk was held on a 2 kilometre course comprising lengths of The Mall between Buckingham Palace and Admiralty Arch on 13 August. Defending champion, Olympic champion and defending champion Liu Hong was absent. Still the race started faster than the Olympics. A pack of 20 formed on the front. That pack was whittled down to 10 by the half way point. That group reduced to five by 12K after Kimberly García (Peru) fell off the pace; two Chinese, Yang Jiayu and Lü Xiuzhi;