The Spanish Álvaro Martín, with a time of 1h17:32, was proclaimed this Saturday 20 km world champion walkon the opening day of the World Athletics Championships held in Budapest.
Running two hours behind schedule due to rain and a thunderstorm, fifty marchers from twenty-eight countries they took the exit in the Square of the Heroes of Budapest. Ahead of them, a one-kilometre central route that they took twenty times around Andrassy Street.
The Japanese Koki Ikedawho arrived in Budapest with the endorsement of the silver medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the last World Cup in Eugene in 2022, led the race from the beginning with a solidity that allowed him to have a twelve-second advantage over a group the pursuer was pulled by the Turkish Salih Korkmaz, the Ecuadorian Brian Daniel Pintado and the Brazilian Caio Bonfim.
Álvaro Martín, involved in that persecuting group, was from less to more in the race and, after the equator, he began to gain positions until after fifteen kilometers he managed to catch up with Ikeda, who took a long time in the test without being able to hold the high pace he set from the beginning.
The athlete from Extremadura, alone, raised his arms at the finish line, stopping the clock at 1h17:32, the best world record of the yearfar from the record that the Japanese Yusuke Suzuki still holds since March 15, 2015.
Second finished the Swedish Perseus Karlstromwho was already a bronze medalist at the World Cups in Doha 2019 and Eugene (United States) in 2022, entering the finish line at seven seconds (1h17:39), and third was the Brazilian Caio Bonfim, who repeated the position achieved in the World Cup of London 2017 with 1h17:47, national record.
Álvaro Martín, 29, extends with this world gold a honors which also includes two victories at the European Championships in Berlin 2018 and 2022.
Among the top ten, the presence in seventh place of the Ecuadorian Brian Daniel Paintedfourth in the past Eugene World Cup 2022.
Los two other Spaniards In the race, Alberto Amezcua (1h19:28, personal best) and Diego García Carrera (1h25:12), finished in 13th and 39th places, respectively.
2023-08-19 11:46:09
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