| Final | time | | 1. Jefferson Perez Quezada |  Ecuador | 1:20:07 | | 2. Ilya Markov |  Russia | 1:20:16 | | 3. Bernardo Segura |  Mexico | 1:20:23 | | 4. Nick A'Hern |  Australia | 1:20:31 | | 5. Rishat Shafikov | Russia | 1:20:41 | | 6. Aigars Fadejevs |  Latvia | 1:20:47 | | 7. Mikhail Shchennikov | Russia | 1:21:09 | | 8. Robert Korzeniowski |  Poland | 1:21:13 | | 9. Yevgeniy Misyulya |  Belarus | 1:21:16 | | 10.Thierry Toutain |  France | 1:21:56 | | 11.Daniel Plaza |  Spain | 1:22:05 | | 12.Mikhail Khmelnitskiy | Belarus | 1:22:17 | | 13.Sandor Urbanik |  Hungary | 1:22:18 | | 14.Denis Langlois | France | 1:23:08 | | 15.Nischan Daimer |  Germany | 1:23:23 | | 16.Giovanni Perricelli |  Italy | 1:23:41 | | 17.Robert Ihly | Germany | 1:23:47 | | 18.Valeriy Borisov |  Kazakhstan | 1:23:52 | | 19.Daniel Garcia | Mexico | 1:24:10 | | 20.Valentin Massana | Spain | 1:24:14 | | 21.Guohui Yu |  China | 1:24:30 | | 22.Daisuke Ikeshima |  Japan | 1:24:54 | | 23.David Kimtai |  Kenya | 1:25:01 | | 24.Andreas Erm | Germany | 1:25:08 | | 25.Jiri Malysa |  Czechia | 1:25:13 | | 26.Sergio Galdino |  Brazil | 1:25:14 | | 27.Giovanni de Benedictis | Italy | 1:25:22 | | 28.Zewen Li | China | 1:25:28 | | 29.Claus Jorgensen |  Denmark | 1:25:28 | | 30.Jan Staf |  Sweden | 1:25:30 | | 31.Jose Urbano |  Portugal | 1:25:32 | | 32.Scott Nelson |  New Zealand | 1:25:50 | | 33.Hatem Ghoula |  Tunisia | 1:25:52 | | 34.Michele Didoni | Italy | 1:26:02 | | 35.Jean-Olivier Brosseau | France | 1:26:29 | | 36.Martin St. Pierre |  Canada | 1:26:37 | | 37.Mohieddine Beni Daoud | Tunisia | 1:27:15 | | 38.Robert Valicek |  Slovakia | 1:27:27 | | 39.Fernando Vazquez | Spain | 1:27:35 | | 40.Justus Kavulanya | Kenya | 1:27:49 | | 41.Fedosei Ciumacenco |  Moldova | 1:27:57 | | 42.Arturo Huerta | Canada | 1:28:23 | | 43.Luis Garcia |  Guatemala | 1:28:28 | | 44.Valdas Kazlauskas |  Lithuania | 1:28:33 | | 45.Costica Balan |  Romania | 1:28:36 | | 46.Pavol Blazek | Slovakia | 1:29:41 | | 47.Dion Russell | Australia | 1:30:04 | | 48.Tomas Kratochvil | Czechia | 1:30:11 | | 49.Claudio Bertolino | Brazil | 1:31:04 | | 50.Curt Clausen |  United States | 1:31:30 | | 51.Jimmy Mcdonald |  Ireland | 1:32:11 | | 52.Hubert Sonnek | Czechia | 1:32:42 | | 53.Myint Htay |  Myanmar | 1:42:28 | | -. Hector Moreno |  Colombia | DNF | | -. Igor Kollar | Slovakia | DQ | | -. Mingcai LI | China | DQ | | -. Julio Martinez | Guatemala | DQ | | -. Roberto Oscal | Guatemala | DQ | | -. Miguel Angel Rodriguez | Mexico | DQ | | -. Julius Sawe | Kenya | DQ | | -. Moussa Aouanouk |  Algeria | DNS |
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| | | Finish: Centennial Olympic Stadium 85,000. | | 60 competitors from 33 nations. |
The elements were kind to the walkers with the temperature at 28°C
rather than the expected mid-30s. The race was led at the first (4K)
checkpoint by Valentí Massana (ESP) in 16:46, but he soon fell back,
and Shafikov led a group of 18 at 8km. The pack shrunk as the race
went on, with just seven together at 16km. Shafikov and Markov led
with 2km to go, but Miguel Rodríguez (MEX) and Pérez chased after
the Russians, though Rodríguez was disqualified with 1500m to go.
Pérez caught Markov with a kilometre to go, with Shafikov fading. He
quickly broke away from Markov, to win by 30m, with Segura another
25m behind. The mass finish, with six men covered by 40 seconds, was
the closest in Olympic history.
| Splits | 4km | 8km | 12km | 16km | | 1. Pérez | 16:49 | 32:59 | 48:57 | 64:45 | | 2. Markov | 16:47 | 32:57 | 48:56 | 64:45 | | 3. Segura | 16:47 | 32:59 | 48:57 | 64:45 | | 4. A'Hern | 16:50 | 33:00 | 48:57 | 64:45 | | 5. Shafikov | 16:47 | 32:56 | 48:41 | 64:45 | | 6. Fadejevs | 16:51 | 32:59 | 48:57 | 64:45 | | 7. Shchennikov | 16:49 | 32:57 | 48:56 | 64:52 | | 8. Korzeniowski | 16:48 | 33:00 | 49:02 | 65:10 |
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