2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk Arai finally taking a slight lead for silver, 8:05 behind Diniz. It was the second fastest 50k racewalk of all time, only behind Diniz' world record and the largest margin of victory in World Championship history. Before the competition records were as follows: The following records were set at the competition: The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4:06:00. The final took place on 13 August at 07:46. The results were as follows: 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held on a
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place on 4 August on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill in central London. Robert Heffernan and Grzegorz Sudol took the early lead, soon joined by Yusuke Suzuki. Like a bicycle race, the unheralded Suzuki steadily broke away from the peloton. Suzuki led past the 8k mark but was eventually swallowed by a group led by Wang Zhen, followed by his teammate Chen Ding and Valeriy Borchin. By the half way mark the