Massimo Stano strikes gold! – Men’s 35km race walk results at World Athletics Championships

EUGENE, Oregon (July 24) — Italy’s Massimo Stano, the Tokyo Olympics men’s 20km gold medalist last summer, returned a year later to win the first men’s 35km race walk at a World Athletics Championships 2022 on Day 10 on Sunday (24). Stano, who won the first gold medal at this year’s world championships for Italy crossed the line in a time of 2:23:14.

The 30-year-old was also winning the second medal for Italy in Oregon after Elena Vallortigara won bronze in the women’s high jump on Tuesday. Read more: Day 10: Women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals start lists – Kendra Harrison vs Tobi Amusan

Masatora Kawano of Japan who also performed brilliantly in the event that is included in the World Athletics Championships for the first time, finished in second place in an Asian record of 2:23:15 before collapsing on the group in exhaustion.

Stano and Kawano battled closely in the final 3km until the Italian managed to pull away slightly in the closing 300m to copped the gold medal with the second-fastest performance in history for 35km.

Perseus Karlstrom of Sweden, sporting a yellow and blue Viking hat, earned his second bronze of these Championships. He was also third in the men’s 20km race walk on the first day of the action on 15 July.

Brian Daniel Pintado of Ecuador was fourth with a South American record time of 2:24:37 with the top five completed by He Xianghong (2:24:45).

Evan Dunfee of Canada was sixth in a North American record of 2:25:02, while the American finisher was Nick Christie in 36th with a time of 2:41:08.

Five athletes were disqualified and an additional handful ended with DNF status.

Meanwhile, Kimberly Garcia Leon of Peru won the women’s 35km race walk on Day 8 to complete a golden double at the World Athletics Championships 2022. Read more here

Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images for World Athletics

35 KILOMETRES RACE WALK MEN’S RESULTS – More details

RESULT
POS	COUNTRY	ATHLETE	MARK
1	ITA	Massimo STANO	2:23:14 CR
2	JPN	Masatora KAWANO	2:23:15 AR
3	SWE	Perseus KARLSTRÖM	2:23:44 PB
4	ECU	Brian Daniel PINTADO	2:24:37 AR
5	CHN	Xianghong HE	2:24:45 NR
6	CAN	Evan DUNFEE	2:25:02 AR
7	BRA	Caio BONFIM	2:25:14 NR
8	COL	Eider ARÉVALO	2:25:21 NR
9	JPN	Tomohiro NODA	2:25:29 PB
10	ESP	Miguel Ángel LÓPEZ	2:25:58 NR
11	MEX	Ricardo ORTIZ	2:27:11 NR
12	MEX	Ever Jair PALMA OLIVARES	2:27:55 PB
13	FIN	Aleksi OJALA	2:28:22 NR
14	FRA	Aurelien QUINION	2:28:46 NR
15	CHN	Yangben ZHAXI	2:28:56 PB
16	PER	César Augusto RODRÍGUEZ	2:29:24 NR
17	CHN	Hao XU	2:29:55 PB
18	AUS	Rhydian COWLEY	2:30:34 NR
19	POL	Dawid TOMALA	2:30:47 PB
20	RSA	Wayne SNYMAN	2:31:15 AR
21	SVK	Miroslav ÚRADNÍK	2:31:16 PB
22	MEX	José Luis DOCTOR	2:32:43
23	CZE	Vít HLAVÁČ	2:32:50 NR
24	ECU	Andrés CHOCHO	2:33:28
25	IRL	Brendan BOYCE	2:33:31 SB
26	JPN	Daisuke MATSUNAGA	2:33:56
27	LTU	Marius ŽIŪKAS	2:34:16 NR
28	COL	Diego PINZON	2:34:26 PB
29	GRE	Alexandros PAPAMICHAIL	2:34:48 NR
30	GUA	Érick Bernabé BARRONDO	2:35:01
31	SVK	Dominik ČERNÝ	2:35:39 PB
32	ESP	Álvaro LÓPEZ	2:36:20
33	LTU	Artur MASTIANICA	2:36:25 PB
34	GER	Karl JUNGHANNSS	2:38:50
35	KAZ	Georgiy SHEIKO	2:39:47
36	USA	Nick CHRISTIE	2:41:08 SB
37	LAT	Arnis RUMBENIEKS	2:42:47
38	ROU	Marius Iulian COCIORAN	2:43:27
39	POR	Rui COELHO	2:44:55 SB
40	GER	Carl DOHMANN	2:45:44
	AUS	Carl GIBBONS	DNF
	COL	José MONTANA	DNF
	ECU	Jhonatan Javier AMORES CARUA	DNF
	PER	Luis Henry CAMPOS	DNF
	POR	João VIEIRA	DNF
	ESP	Marc TUR	DQ
	FIN	Veli-Matti PARTANEN	DQ
	GUA	Luis Angel SANCHEZ PÉREZ	DQ
	ITA	Andrea AGRUSTI	DQ
	POL	Artur BRZOZOWSKI	DQ