50K racewalk

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The Men's 50K Racewalk is an Olympic event.

2008 Olympic Trials

Held on February 9, 2008, in Crandon Park in Miami, Florida.

The race featured a prize purse of $55,000, with the top eight finishers guaranteed prize money. The local organizing committee was led by event director Robin Beamon from the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department. ING Miami Marathon race director Robert Pozo served as the technical director of the race.

Phillip Dunn and Matt Boyles, who was competing in only the second 50 km race walk of his career, had ample opportunity to get to know each other during the majority of the race. They led a group that included veteran Ray Sharp, 48, and newcomer Yariv Pomeranz after the first three laps of the 25-lap, 2-kilometer course. The race, which began at 7:15 a.m., was staged under partly sunny skies with 62% humidity, light winds and temperatures that ranged from 72 degrees at the beginning of the race, to 80 degrees at the end when the heat index hit 82.^[1]

Pl Name             Affiliation                       Time
== ================ ================================= =======
 1 Philip Dunn      New Balance                       4:12:55
 2 Matthew Boyles   Miami Valley TC                   4:14:30
 3 Benjamin Shorey  University of Wisconsin-Parkside  4:27:14
 4 Stephen Quirke   Parkside Athletic Club            4:27:15
 5 Raymond Sharp    unattached                        4:49:24
 6 Marco Evoniuk    unattached                        4:53:39
 7 Theron Kissinger New Balance                       5:04:15
 8 John Souchek     Shore Athletic Club of New Jersey 5:10:22
 9 Mark Green       unattached                        5:13:22
10 Curt Clausen     New York Athletic Club            5:17:50
-- Dave McGovern    New Balance                           DNF
-- Tim Seaman       New York Athletic Club                DNF
-- Kevin Eastler    U.S. Air Force                        DNF
-- Yariv Pomeranz   unattached                             DQ

2008 Olympic Games

Position	Athlete/Country	Mark	Comments[3]
	Alex Schwazer (ITA)	3:37:09	OR
	Jared Tallent (AUS)	3:39:27	PB
	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	3:40:14
4	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	3:44:08	SB
5	Erik Tysse (NOR)	3:45:21	PB
6	Horacio Nava (MEX)	3:45:21	PB
7	Yuki Yamazaki (JPN)	3:45:47
8	Rafal Fedaczynski (POL)	3:46:51	PB
9	Grzegorz Sudol (POL)	3:47:18
10	Luke Adams (AUS)	3:47:45	PB
11	Antonio Pereira (POR)	3:48:12	NR
12	Andre Hohne (GER)	3:49:52
13	Mikel Odriozola (ESP)	3:51:30
14	Jianbo Li (CHN)	3:52:20
15	Jarkko Kinnunen (FIN)	3:52:25	PB
16	Igors Kazakevics (LAT)	3:52:38	PB
17	Tianfeng Si (CHN)	3:52:58
18	Jesús Sánchez (MEX)	3:53:58
19	Marco de Luca (ITA)	3:54:47
20	Antti Kempas (FIN)	3:55:19	PB
21	Chengliang Zhao (CHN)	3:56:47
22	Luis Fernando García (GUA)	3:56:58	SB
23	Mario Iván Flores (MEX)	3:58:04
24	Sergiy Budza (UKR)	3:58:21	PB
25	Fausto Quinde (ECU)	3:59:28	PB
26	Santiago Pérez (ESP)	3:59:41	SB
27	Oleksiy Shelest (UKR)	3:59:46
28	Eddy Riva (FRA)	4:00:49
29	Takayuki Tanii (JPN)	4:01:37
30	Nenad Filipovic (SRB)	4:02:16	PB
31	Dong-young Kim (KOR)	4:02:32
32	Tadas Suskevicius (LTU)	4:02:45
33	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	4:03:47
34	Rodrigo Moreno (COL)	4:03:52
35	Milos Batovsky (SVK)	4:06:30
36	Xavier Moreno (ECU)	4:07:04
37	Konstadinos Stefanopoulos (GRE)	4:07:53
38	Tim Berrett (CAN)	4:08:18
39	Phillip Dunn (USA)	4:08:32
40	Augusto Cardoso (POR)	4:09:00
41	Jr Mario Jose dos Santos (BRA)	4:10:25
42	Ingus Janevics (LAT)	4:12:45
43	Andrei Stsepanchuk (BLR)	4:14:09
44	Jamie Costin (IRL)	4:15:16
45	Roman Bilek (CZE)	4:18:32
46	Zoltan Czukor (HUN)	4:20:07
47	Kazimir Verkin (SVK)	4:21:26
	Oleksiy Kazanin (UKR)	DNF
	Yohan Diniz (FRA)	DNF
	Trond Nymark (NOR)	DNF
	Donatas Skarnulis (LTU)	DNF
	Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS)	DNF
	Adam Rutter (AUS)	DNF
	Peter Korcok (SVK)	DNF
	Artur Brzozowski (POL)	DQ
	Diego Cafagna (ITA)	DQ
	Colin Griffin (IRL)	DQ
	Salvador Mira (ESA)	DQ
	Darius Skarnulis (LTU)	DQ
	Igor Erokhin (RUS)	DNS
	Joao Vieira (POR)	DNS

OR - Olympic Record / PB - Personal Best / SB - Season Best / NR - National Record / DNF - Did Not Finish / DQ - Disqualified / DNS - Did Not Start

References

1. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2008_02_09_12_46_58
2. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/events/2008/OlympicTrials-RW/results.asp
3. ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/oly08/results/eventCode=3659/racedate=08-22-2008/sex=M/discCode=50KR/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html Retrieved 2008-08-22.