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 and 45 km, only Jared Tallent looked like he had a chance, gaining several seconds per kilometer but not really enough to make a dent in the huge lead. Tallent paid for the extra effort trying to chase the leader, slowing considerably on the final 2 km lap, being passed by world record holder Denis Nizhegorodov. Bakulin would later be found Guilty of Doping and have the Gold Stripped from him and handed to Nizhegorodov. Nizhegorodov is also currently under suspicion of Doping, with his B Sample yet to be tested, after his A Sample Tested Positive. Nizhegorodov, still currently holds the Gold Medal as of May 2016.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Denis Nizhegorodov Russia (RUS)	Jared Tallent Australia (AUS)	Si Tianfeng China (CHN)

Records

World record	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	3:34:14	Cheboksary, Russia	11 May 2008
Championship record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:03	Paris, France	27 August 2003
World Leading	Sergey Bakulin (RUS)	3:38:46	Saransk, Russia	12 June 2011
African record	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	3:58:44	Santa Eulària des Riu, Spain	4 March 2007
Asian record	Yu Chaohong (CHN)	3:36:06	Nanjing, China	22 October 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:41:20	Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia	11 June 1978
South American record	Xavier Moreno (ECU)	3:52:07	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	28 July 2007
European record	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	3:34:14	Cheboksary, Russia	11 May 2008
Oceanian record	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	3:35:47	Geelong, Australia	2 December 2006

Qualification standards

A time	B time
3:58:00	4:09:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 3, 2011	08:00	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia (RUS)	3:42:45	SB
	Jared Tallent	Australia (AUS)	3:43:36	SB
	Si Tianfeng	China (CHN)	3:44:40
4	Luke Adams	Australia (AUS)	3:45:41	SB
5	Kōichirō Morioka	Japan (JPN)	3:46:21
6	Park Chil-sung	South Korea (KOR)	3:47:13	NR
7	Xu Faguang	China (CHN)	3:47:19
8	Takayuki Tanii	Japan (JPN)	3:48:03	SB
9	Hirooki Arai	Japan (JPN)	3:48:40	PB
10	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador (ECU)	3:49:32	AR
11	Marco De Luca	Italy (ITA)	3:49:40	SB
12	Rafał Sikora	Poland (POL)	3:50:24
13	Kim Dong-Young	South Korea (KOR)	3:51:12	PB
14	Jarkko Kinnunen	Finland (FIN)	3:52:32	SB
15	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi	Italy (ITA)	3:52:35	PB
16	Trond Nymark	Norway (NOR)	3:54:26	SB
17	Édgar Hernández	Mexico (MEX)	3:54:46	SB
18	José Leyver	Mexico (MEX)	3:55:37
19	Oleksiy Kazanin	Ukraine (UKR)	3:56:18	SB
20	Omar Zepeda	Mexico (MEX)	3:56:41
21	Andreas Gustafsson	Sweden (SWE)	4:00:05	SB
22	Bertrand Moulinet	France (FRA)	4:07:58
23	Quentin Rew	New Zealand (NZL)	4:08:46
24	Li Jianbo	China (CHN)	4:10:26
	Jesús Ángel García	Spain (ESP)	DSQ
	Mikel Odriozola	Spain (ESP)	DSQ
	Antti Kempas	Finland (FIN)	DSQ
	Yohann Diniz	France (FRA)	DSQ
	Cédric Houssaye	France (FRA)	DSQ
	Colin Griffin	Ireland (IRL)	DSQ
	Yim Jung-hyun	South Korea (KOR)	DSQ
	Tadas Šuškevičius	Lithuania (LTU)	DSQ
	Rafał Fedaczyński	Poland (POL)	DSQ
	Igor Erokhin	Russia (RUS)	DSQ
	Nenad Filipović	Serbia (SRB)	DSQ
	Miloš Bátovský	Slovakia (SVK)	DSQ
	Nathan Deakes	Australia (AUS)	DNF
	José Ignacio Díaz	Spain (ESP)	DNF
	Igors Kazakēvičs	Latvia (LAT)	DNF
	Grzegorz Sudoł	Poland (POL)	DNF
	Sergey Kirdyapkin	Russia (RUS)	DNF
	Matej Tóth	Slovakia (SVK)	DNF
	Christopher Linke	Germany (GER)	DNS
	Robert Heffernan	Ireland (IRL)	DNS
DSQ	Sergey Bakulin	Russia (RUS)	~~3:41:24~~	doping^[2]