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Host City: Sydney, Australia

Date Started: September 22, 2000

Date Finished: September 22, 2000

(Competitors: 48; Countries: 30)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Overview by IAAF

Only two walkers were disqualified, compared with seven in 1996, but unfortunately one of them was the first man across the line, Bernardo Segura, the track world record holder and bronze medallist four years earlier. Segura had been given two warnings and was spotted “lifting” for the third time just before the athletes returned to the stadium. Regretably he was allowed to enter the stadium where he overtook Korzeniowski with the finish in sight before “winning” in 1:18:57. Because of communication difficulties, it was 15 minutes later – while Segura was taking a congratulatory telephone call from his country’s President – that he was informed of his disqualification by the Chief Judge. The Mexican authorities took Segura’s disqualification hard, appealing unsuccessfully to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after the Jury of Appeal had rejected their claim. The episode led to rule changes, introduced from 2001, which gave the Chief Walking Judge to the power to disqualify rule-breaking walkers in the last part of the race regardless of previous warnings. Beside Segura, only one of the 47 starters was disqualified.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Robert Korzeniowski won this event, adding a second gold medal to his 1996 50 km. title. As they entered the stadium he had a slight lead on Mexico’s Bernardo Segura but Segura surged ahead of him on the track, and crossed the line first. But the Mexican had been given his third warning for lifting just before entering the stadium, and was disqualified. Unfortunately, he was allowed to continue onto the track instead of being pulled from the race. Segura did not immediately realize he had been DQed and was speaking to the Mexican President when he was told of it. Mexican authorities protested, even taking it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but it was to no avail.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	1:17.46	5 August 1999	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	23 September 1988	Seoul, South Korea

		Results

*20 km walk*	Men	Final	22 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	1.18.59	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	POL	30 Jul 68
2	1.19.03	Noé Hernández	Mexico	MEX	15 Mar 78
3	1.19.27	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	RUS	7 Sep 66
4	1.20.18	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	ECU	1 Jul 74
5	1.20.25	Andreas Erm	Germany	GER	12 Mar 76
6	1.20.57	Roman Rasskazov	Russia	RUS	28 Apr 79
7	1.21.01	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	ESP	6 Mar 77
8	1.21.03	Nathan Deakes	Australia	AUS	17 Aug 77
9	1.21.14	Alessandro Gandellini	Italy	ITA	30 Apr 73
10	1.21.34	Nick A'Hern	Australia	AUS	6 Jan 69
11	1.21.43	Michele Didoni	Italy	ITA	7 Mar 74
12	1.22.05	Daniel García	Mexico	MEX	28 Oct 71
13	1.22.32	Yu Guohui	China	CHN	30 Apr 77
14	1.22.43	Aigars Fadejevs	Latvia	LAT	27 Dec 75
15	1.23.03	Ilya Markov	Russia	RUS	19 Jun 72
16	1.23.14	Giovanni De Benedictis	Italy	ITA	8 Jan 68
17	1.23.33	Andrei Makarov	Belarus	BLR	2 Jan 71
18	1.23.42	Costică Bălan	Romania	ROU	25 Aug 64
19	1.24.08	Jiří Malysa	Czech Republic	CZE	14 Aug 66
20	1.24.36	David Márquez	Spain	ESP	13 Oct 77
21	1.24.50	Artur Meleshkevich	Belarus	BLR	11 Apr 75
22	1.25.03	Satoshi Yanagisawa	Japan	JPN	19 Jan 71
23	1.25.04	Moussa Aouanouk	Algeria	ALG	2 Aug 72
24	1.25.24	Arturo Huerta	Canada	CAN	30 Mar 64
25	1.25.26	Dion Russell	Australia	AUS	8 May 75
26	1.25.29	Tim Berrett	Canada	CAN	23 Jan 65
27	1.25.34	Daisuke Ikeshima	Japan	JPN	30 Jan 75
28	1.26.04	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	IRL	20 Feb 78
29	1.26.16	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary	HUN	15 Dec 64
30	1.26.22	Shin Il-Yong	South Korea	KOR	17 Feb 79
31	1.26.31	Igor Kollár	Slovakia	SVK	26 Jun 65
32	1.27.16	Luis García	Guatemala	GUA	13 Sep 74
33	1.27.36	Anthony Gillet	France	FRA	7 Feb 76
34	1.28.02	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy	Belarus	BLR	24 Jul 69
35	1.28.16	José David Domínguez	Spain	ESP	29 Jul 80
36	1.28.16	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	TUN	7 Jun 73
37	1.28.34	Gyula Dudás	Hungary	HUN	20 Aug 66
38	1.28.36	Valeriy Borisov	Kazakhstan	KAZ	18 Sep 66
39	1.28.45	David Kimutai	Kenya	KEN	19 Aug 69
40	1.30.32	Tim Seaman	United States	USA	14 May 72
41	1.30.46	Róbert Valíček	Slovakia	SVK	10 Mar 69
42	1.30.55	Julius Sawe	Kenya	KEN	21 Nov 71
43	1.31.47	Julio Martínez	Guatemala	GUA	27 Sep 73
44	1.32.32	Ramy Dieb	Palestine	PLE	14 Jun 77	NR
	DQ	Bernardo Segura	Mexico	MEX	11 Feb 70
	DQ	Maris Putenis	Latvia	LAT	20 Jun 82
	DNF	Efim Motpan	Moldova	MDA	10 Feb 71
	DNS	João Vieira	Portugal	POR	20 Feb 76