2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 35 kilometres walk explained

Event:	Men's 35 kilometres walk
Competition:	2023 World Championships
Venue:	National Athletics Centre
Dates:	24 August
Competitors:	49
Nations:	26
Win Value:	2:24:30
Gold:	Álvaro Martín
Goldnoc:	ESP
Silver:	Brian Pintado
Silvernoc:	ECU
Bronze:	Masatora Kawano
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2022
Next:	2025

The men's 35 kilometres walk at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 24 August 2023.^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

width=25% align=center	Record	width=25% align=center	Athlete &	width=10% align=center	width=25% align=center	Location	width=15% align=center	Date
World record	Target performance	2:22:00
Championship record		2:23:14	Eugene, United States	24 July 2022
World Leading		2:22:55	Huangshan, China	4 March 2023
African Record		2:32:52	Cape Town, South Africa	15 January 2022
Asian Record		2:22:55	Huangshan, China	4 March 2023
North, Central American and Caribbean record		2:25:02	Eugene, United States	24 July 2022
South American Record		2:24:37	Eugene, United States	24 July 2022
European Record		2:23:14	Eugene, United States	24 July 2022
Oceanian record		2:27:33	Melbourne, Australia	21 May 2023

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:29:40.^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:^[4]

Results

The race was started on 24 August at 7:00.^[5]

Rank

Name

Nationality

Time

Warnings

Notes

2:24:30

2:24:34

2:25:12

2:25:28

2:25:35

2:25:50

2:25:59

2:27:03

2:27:08

2:27:45

2:29:14

2:29:32

2:29:52

2:30:18

2:30:32

2:31:41

2:31:45

2:32:28

~>~

2:32:56

2:34:58

2:35:13

2:36:04

2:37:31

2:37:26

2:38:34

2:38:45

>>~

2:39:07

~~~|||-|28|| align=left|Wang Qin || align=left| ||2:39:19|| ~|||-|29|| align=left|Ever Jair Palma Olivares || align=left| ||2:39:40||~|||-|30|| align=left|Bence Venyercsán || align=left| ||2:40:34||>|||-|31|| align=left|José Leyver || align=left| ||2:41:34||~~~|||-|32|| align=left|Arnis Rumbenieks || align=left| ||2:43:36||>|||-|33|| align=left|Ihor Hlavan || align=left| ||2:45:18||>|||-||| align=left|Éider Arévalo || align=left| ||rowspan=9||| |||-||| align=left|Ivan Banzeruk || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|Andrés Chocho || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|Rhydian Cowley || align=left| || >|||-||| align=left|Carl Dohmann || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|Narcis Mihăilă || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|Alexandros Papamichail || align=left| || ~>|||-||| align=left|Dawid Tomala || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|João Vieira || align=left| || |||-||| align=left|Artur Brzozowski || align=left| || rowspan=5|||>~>>|||-||| align=left|Michal Morvay || align=left| || >>>> |

~~~~ |

>~>> |||-||| align=left|Zhaxi Yangben || align=left| || ~>~> |||-||| align=left|Luis Henry Campos || align=left| || rowspan=2||||||-||| align=left|César Augusto Rodríguez || align=left| || ||||}

Key:	~ Red card for loss of contact	> Red card for bent knee	TR54.7.5: Disqualified by Rule TR54.7.5 (4 red cards)

References

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Notes and References

Web site: 14 August 2023 . WCH Budapest 23 preview: race walks . 24 August 2023 . . 16 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230816191554/https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/news/preview/world-championships-budapest-preview-20km-35km-race-walk . live .
Web site: 35 Kilometres Walk Men − Records. World Athletics. 24 August 2023. 11 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220711074202/https://worldathletics.org/records/by-discipline/race-walks/35-kilometres-race-walk/outdoor/men. live.
Web site: 19 August 2022 . Qualifying System and Entry Standards . 19 August 2022 . . 19 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819191514/https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/62ff627cef4200119b5555be.pdf . live .
Web site: Men 35 Kilometres Race Walk - Timetable . 24 August 2023 . . 22 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230722094113/https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/timetable/bydiscipline/men/35-kilometres-race-walk . live .
Web site: Results 35 Kilometres Race Walk Men - Final . . 24 August 2023 . 24 August 2023 . 24 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230824102309/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-35KR-M-f----.RS6.pdf . live .