Race walking at the Olympics the first two editions, the women's event was extended to match the men's 20 km distance from the 2000 Sydney Olympics onwards. Women have never commonly competed internationally over 50 km, thus it has never been proposed as an Olympic event – as of 2012 it remains the only event on the Olympic athletics programme in which men compete, but women do not have an equivalent. The 50 km is also the longest distance race for an Olympic athletics event. The Olympic records in racewalking were all broken at the 2012 London Olympics. In the 20 km walk Chen Ding
2013 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk The Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Tampere, Finland, on 10 July. 10 July 2013 Intermediate times:<br> 2 km: 8:26 Hagen Pohle <br> 4 km: 16:44 Hagen Pohle <br> 6 km: 25:02 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 8 km: 33:17 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 10 km: 41:34 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 12 km: 49:52 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 14 km: 58:00 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 16 km: 1:05:58 Pyotr Bogatyrev <br> 18 km: 1:13:52 Pyotr Bogatyrev According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 12 countries participated