1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km Walk at the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain was held on Wednesday August 25, 1999, with the start at 07:45h local time

The first person to cross the finish line was Russian German Skurygin. Unlike the other DQ's listed for form violations (loss of contact or bent knee), his was announced two years later. He was disqualified for a doping violation,[1] one of the first for a string of doping violations by athletes in the charge of his coach Viktor Chegin. Skurygin was removed from the results all athletes behind him advancing one place. Skurygin died of a heart attack 9 years later at age 45.

Medalists

Gold	Ivano Brugnetti Italy (ITA)
Silver	Nikolay Matyukhin Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Curt Clausen United States (USA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	371	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	23:43
2	1002	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	23:43
3	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	23:43
4	1146	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	23:43
5	378	Valentí Massana (ESP)	23:43
10 KILOMETRES
1	922	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	46:20
2	1261	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS)	46:24
3	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	46:24
4	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	46:30
5	371	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	46:30
15 KILOMETRES
1	922	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	1:07:59
2	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	1:08:42
3	371	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	1:08:42
4	1261	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS)	1:08:42
5	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	1:09:06
20 KILOMETRES
1	922	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	1:29:39
2	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	1:30:54
3	1261	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS)	1:30:56
4	371	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	1:30:57
5	1450	Curt Clausen (USA)	1:31:38
25 KILOMETRES
1	922	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	1:52:01
2	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	1:52:50
3	1261	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS)	1:53:48
4	371	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	1:53:48
5	1146	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:54:14
30 KILOMETRES
1	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	2:14:33
2	769	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	2:16:46
3	1146	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	2:16:46
4	1450	Curt Clausen (USA)	2:16:46
5	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	2:16:46
35 KILOMETRES
1	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	2:36:14
2	1146	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	2:39:07
3	1450	Curt Clausen (USA)	2:39:08
4	769	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	2:39:08
5	912	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	2:39:20
40 KILOMETRES
1	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	2:58:15
2	769	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	3:01:47
3	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:02:02
4	1450	Curt Clausen (USA)	3:02:18
5	912	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	3:03:49
45 KILOMETRES
1	1263	German Skurygin (RUS)	3:20:42
2	769	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	3:24:41
3	1245	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:25:05
4	1450	Curt Clausen (USA)	3:26:35
5	378	Valentí Massana (ESP)	3:28:04

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	3:47:54	PB
	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:48:18
	Curt Clausen (USA)	3:50:55
4	Valentí Massana (ESP)	3:51:55
5	Robert Ihly (GER)	3:53:47
6	Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)	3:53:50
7	Craig Barrett (NZL)	3:54:38
8	Yang Yongjian (CHN)	3:55:23	PB
9	René Piller (FRA)	3:56:39
10	Modris Liepins (LAT)	3:57:11
11	Theodoros Stamatopoulos (GRE)	3:58:37	PB
12	Dion Russell (AUS)	3:59:23
13	Aleksandar Raković (YUG)	3:59:56
14	Ma Hongye (CHN)	4:01:28
15	Fumio Imamura (JPN)	4:01:47
16	Milos Holusa (CZE)	4:03:20
17	Spiridon Kastanis (GRE)	4:03:59
18	Wang Yinhang (CHN)	4:04:57
19	Roman Magdziarczyk (POL)	4:05:10
20	Gyula Dudás (HUN)	4:05:58
21	Pedro Martins (POR)	4:06:31
22	Bengt Bengtsson (SWE)	4:09:34
23	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	4:09:40
24	Denis Franke (GER)	4:10:16
25	Pascal Servanty (FRA)	4:11:02
26	Santiago Pérez (ESP)	4:11:30
27	Akihiko Koike (JPN)	4:18:43
28	Jeff Cassin (IRL)	4:20:43
29	Klaus David Jensen (DEN)	4:32:06
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	DNF
	Trond Nymark (NOR)	DNF
	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	DNF
	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	DNF
	Viktor Ginko (BLR)	DNF
	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	DNF
	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS)	DNF
	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	DNF
	Sylvain Caudron (FRA)	DNF
	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
	Peter Tichy (SVK)	DSQ
	Denis Trautmann (GER)	DSQ
	Daugvinas Zujus (LTU)	DSQ
	Jacob Sørensen (DEN)	DSQ
	Tomasz Lipiec (POL)	DSQ
	Zoltán Czukor (HUN)	DSQ
	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	DSQ
	German Skurygin (RUS)	DSQ
	Andrew Hermann (USA)	DSQ
	Tim Berrett (CAN)	DSQ
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	DSQ
	Allen Heppner (USA)	DSQ
	Igor Kollár (SVK)	DSQ

See also

• 1999 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

1. http://www.sport1.de/de/leichtathletik/newspage_39643.html

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