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Host City: Sydney, Australia

Date Started: September 29, 2000

Date Finished: September 29, 2000

(Entries 56; Countries: 30)

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

Overview by IAAF

Korzeniowski was endeavouring to become the first man to win two consecutive 50Km titles, and followed Sánchez closely until 40k when he surged away to win by over a minute from Fadeyevs. The Latvian moved passed Sánchez in the later stages, but the Mexican was a clear winner of the bronze medal in a personal best time. Disqualifications were more rife in this event (with 8) than in the 20k, but less controversial. The winner became the first road walker to win a third Olympic gold.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Robert Korzeniowski set several records in this race. He became the first walker to win the 20/50K double at the same Olympics. He became the first walker to defend the 50 km. gold medal. And he became the first walker to win three Olympic gold medals. The race was close thru 40 km. when Korzo pulled away from Joel Sánchez (MEX). Sánchez was passed in the last 10K by Latvia’s Aigars Fadejevs.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)	3:37.26	21 May 2000	Moscow, Russia
Olympic Record	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38.29	30 September 1988	Seoul, South Korea

		Results

*50 km walk*	Men	Final	29 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.42.22	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	POL	30 Jul 68
2	3.43.40	Aigars Fadejevs	Latvia	LAT	27 Dec 75
3	3.44.36	Joel Sánchez	Mexico	MEX	16 Mar 74
4	3.46.01	Valentí Massana	Spain	ESP	5 Jul 70
5	3.46.37	Nikolay Matyukhin	Russia	RUS	13 Dec 68
6	3.47.29	Nathan Deakes	Australia	AUS	17 Aug 77
7	3.48.12	Miguel Angel Rodríguez	Mexico	MEX	15 Jan 67
8	3.48.17	Roman Magdziarczyk	Poland	POL	5 Jul 77
9	3.48.36	Modris Liepiņš	Latvia	LAT	3 Aug 66
10	3.48.42	Yang Yongjian	China	CHN	28 Apr 73
11	3.49.16	Aleksandar Raković	Yugoslavia	YUG	13 Apr 68
12	3.49.31	Jesús Ángel García	Spain	ESP	17 Oct 69
13	3.50.19	Wang Yinhang	China	CHN	15 Feb 77
14	3.52.56	Denis Langlois	France	FRA	10 Oct 68
15	3.53.30	Sergey Korepanov	Kazakhstan	KAZ	9 May 64
16	3.53.48	Miloš Holuša	Czech Republic	CZE	2 May 65
17	3.54.47	Peter Tichý	Slovakia	SVK	12 Mar 69
18	3.55.53	Craig Barrett	New Zealand	NZL	16 Nov 71
19	3.56.19	Mike Trautmann	Germany	GER	13 Mar 74
20	3.56.44	Štefan Malík	Slovakia	SVK	11 Feb 66
21	3.58.14	Denis Trautmann	Germany	GER	15 Aug 72
22	3.58.39	Curt Clausen	United States	USA	9 Oct 67
23	3.58.46	Peter Korčok	Slovakia	SVK	12 Aug 74
24	3.59.50	Mikel Odriozola	Spain	ESP	25 May 73
25	4.01.11	Valeriy Borisov	Kazakhstan	KAZ	18 Sep 66
26	4.02.38	Vladimir Potemin	Russia	RUS	24 Jan 80
27	4.02.50	Dion Russell	Australia	AUS	8 May 75
28	4.03.05	Phillip Dunn	United States	USA	12 Jun 71
29	4.03.22	Sylvain Caudron	France	FRA	10 Sep 69
30	4.06.04	Daugvinas Zujus	Lithuania	LTU	16 Oct 75
31	4.07.18	Andrew Hermann	United States	USA	22 Feb 71
32	4.07.39	Oleksiy Shelest	Ukraine	UKR	27 Mar 73
33	4.08.13	Pedro Martins	Portugal	POR	12 Jan 68
34	4.10.43	Duane Cousins	Australia	AUS	13 Jul 73
35	4.11.41	Uģis Brūvelis	Latvia	LAT	20 May 71
36	4.13.28	Fumio Imamura	Japan	JPN	5 Nov 66
37	4.17.55	Gyula Dudás	Hungary	HUN	20 Aug 66
38	4.24.22	Jamie Costin	Ireland	IRL	1 Jun 77
39	4.52.12	Chris Maddocks	Great Britain	GBR	28 Mar 57
	DQ	Akihiko Koike	Japan	JPN	10 Apr 73
	DQ	Germán Sánchez	Mexico	MEX	31 Jul 67
	DQ	Viktar Ginko	Belarus	BLR	7 Dec 65
	DQ	Valentin Kononen	Finland	FIN	7 Mar 69
	DNF	René Piller	France	FRA	23 Apr 65
	DNF	Robert Ihly	Germany	GER	5 May 63
	DNF	Spirídon Kastánis	Greece	GRE	23 Sep 64
	DNF	Theódoros Stamatópoulos	Greece	GRE	24 Apr 70
	DQ	Zóltan Czukor	Hungary	HUN	18 Dec 62
	DNF	Arturo Di Mezza	Italy	ITA	16 Jul 69
	DNF	Giovanni Perricelli	Italy	ITA	25 Aug 67
	DNF	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	ITA	1 Sep 76
	DQ	Feodosii Ciumacenco	Moldova	MDA	27 Jan 73
	DNF	Tomasz Lipiec	Poland	POL	10 May 71
	DNF	Valeriy Spitsyn	Russia	RUS	5 Dec 65
	DQ	Arturo Huerta	Canada	CAN	30 Mar 64
	DQ	Tim Berrett	Canada	CAN	23 Jan 65