Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Southport Broadwater Parklands
Dates	8 April 2018
Competitors	15 from 8 nations
Winning time	1:19:34 GR
Medalists
Dane Bird-Smith    Australia   Tom Bosworth    England   Samuel Gathimba    Kenya

Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Para events
100 m (T12)	men
100 m (T35)		women
100 m (T38)	men	women
100 m (T47)	men
1500 m (T54)	men	women
Marathon (T54)	men	women
Long jump (T38)		women
Shot put (F38)	men
Javelin throw (F46)		women

The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place at Currumbin Beachfront on 8 April 2018.^[1]

Irfan Kolothum Thodi was later removed from the Games after a needle was found in his apartment, which was in contravention of Games policy.^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:^[3]

World record	Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)	1:16:36	Nomi, Japan	15 March 2015[4]
Games record	Nathan Deakes (AUS)	1:19:55	Melbourne, Australia	20 March 2006

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[1]

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Results

The results were as follows:^[3]

Rank	Order	Name	Result	Notes	Race violations
	10	Dane Bird-Smith (AUS)	1:19:34	GR
	8	Tom Bosworth (ENG)	1:19:38	NR[UK]	~
	12	Samuel Gathimba (KEN)	1:19:51		~~
4	15	Benjamin Thorne (CAN)	1:20:49	SB	~
5	4	Quentin Rew (NZL)	1:21:47	SB	~
6	3	Manish Singh (IND)	1:22:22	R 125.5	~~
7	2	Callum Wilkinson (ENG)	1:22:35		~~
8	9	Evan Dunfee (CAN)	1:23:26	SB	>
9	1	Lebogang Shange (RSA)	1:23:27
10	7	Michael Hosking (AUS)	1:25:35		~
11	13	Rhydian Cowley (AUS)	1:26:12		~~
12	5	Simon Wachira (KEN)	1:26:33		~
13	6	Irfan Kolothum Thodi (IND)	1:27:34
14	11	Wayne Snyman (RSA)	1:28:09
15	14	Jérôme Caprice (MRI)	1:33:12

Notes

• ^UK Also a British record
• > Bent knee
• ~ Loss of contact

References