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2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held throughout the city of Berlin on August 15, beginning and ending at the Brandenburg Gate.

Medalists

Gold		width=200 style="background-color:silver"	Silver		width=200 style="background-color:#CC9966"	Bronze
Wang Hao
China

Records

Oceanian record	Nathan Deakes	1:17:33	Cixi, China	23 April 2005

Qualification standards

A Time	B Time
1:22:30	1:24:20

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 15, 2009	13:00	Final

Competition notes

With the 2007 champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jefferson Pérez having retired, the reigning Olympic champion Valeriy Borchin was regarded as strong favourite. He had recorded the world-leading time prior to the tournament and had been undefeated that season. The Olympic third and fourth-place finishers, Jared Tallent and Wang Hao, were regarded as the strongest challengers to Borchin. Italians Giorgio Rubino and Ivano Brugnetti were singled out as medal contenders, while former world record holder and three-time World silver medallist Paquillo Fernández was seen as being past his peak.

Borchin prevailed and was first to cross the line at the Brandenburg gate, with a winning time of 1:18:41. Chinese athlete Hao improved upon his previous best to take the silver medal while Mexican Eder Sánchez produced a season's best performance for the bronze medal. The veteran competitor Paquillo Fernández withdrew from the race before the halfway mark.

Despite becoming the reigning World and Olympic champion, Borchin stated that he needed to achieve much more to match the achievements of his sporting heroes Jefferson Pérez and Robert Korzeniowski.

Results

The medals of some of the athletics world championship events in 2009 were re-awarded 24 March 2016 as a result of doping disqualifications. Among these reallocations were the medals of the 20 km walk, which saw the Italian Giorgio Rubino, who originally finished fourth, awarded the bronze medal.

This allowed Italy to enter the medal table, with another bronze medal awarded to Antonietta Di Martino in 2019.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1:18:41	DQ (doping)
	Wang Hao	China	1:19:06	PB
	Eder Sánchez	Mexico	1:19:22	SB
	Giorgio Rubino	Italy	1:19:50
	Luis Fernando López	Colombia	1:20:03	****
	Jared Tallent	Australia	1:20:27
	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:20:38
	Jesús Sánchez	Mexico	1:20:52	PB
	Matej Tóth	Slovakia	1:21:13
	João Vieira	Portugal	1:21:43	SB
10	Koichiro Morioka	Japan	1:21:48
11	Li Jianbo	China	1:21:54
12	Zhu Yafei	China	1:21:56
13	André Höhne	Germany	1:21:59
14	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	1:22:09	SB
15	José Ignacio Díaz	Spain	1:22:12	SB
16	Andrey Krivov	Russia	1:22:19
17	Luke Adams	Australia	1:22:37
18	Hassanine Sebei	Tunisia	1:22:52
19	Babubhai Panucha	India	1:23:06	NR
20	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi	Italy	1:23:07	SB
21	Dzianis Simanovich	Belarus	1:23:36
22	Rolando Saquipay	Ecuador	1:23:51	SB
23	Juan Manuel Molina	Spain	1:24:00
24	Park Chil-Sung	South Korea	1:24:01
25	Artur Brzozowski	Poland	1:24:17
26	Sérgio Vieira	Portugal	1:24:32
27	Pedro Daniel Gómez	Mexico	1:24:39
28	Yerko Araya	Chile	1:24:49
29	Isamu Fujisawa	Japan	1:25:12
30	Petr Trofimov	Russia	1:26:02
31	David Kimutai	Kenya	1:26:35
32	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine	1:27:01
33	Kim Hyun-Sub	South Korea	1:27:08
34	Predrag Filipović	Serbia	1:27:44
35	Pavel Chihuan	Peru	1:27:54
36	Rustam Kuvatov	Kazakhstan	1:28:47	SB
37	Jakub Jelonek	Poland	1:28:59
38	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador	1:29:14
39	Juan Manuel Cano	Argentina	1:29:20	SB
40	Allan Segura	Costa Rica	1:29:52
41	Yusuke Suzuki	Japan	1:30:21
42	Byun Youngjun	South Korea	1:30:35
43	Mauricio Arteaga	Ecuador	1:32:25
44	Vilius Mikelionis	Lithuania	1:32:53
	Adam Rutter	Australia
	Moacir Zimmermann	Brazil
	José Alessandro Bagio	Brazil
	Paquillo Fernández	Spain
	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DQ = Disqualified, NR = National record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best

References

;General

20 kilometres race walk results IAAF. ;Specific

References

Jalava, Mirko (2009-08-09). [http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=109/newsid=52505.html Men's 20 Kilometres Race Walk - PREVIEW]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2009-08-15. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090916053013/http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=109/newsid=52505.html Archived] 2009-09-08.
link. (2009-08-18 . [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2009-08-15.)
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"GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS AFFECTED BY THE 24 MARCH 2016 CAS DECISION". iaaf.org.

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