2013 IAAF World Championships Moscow, Russia - Photo Story Men's 20km

Japan’s Takumi Saito looked like he was ready to steal the race as he navigated the far turn for a second time.

Eying his teammate Yusuke Suzuki cranked it up and stepped ahead of the rest of the competitors to own second place

Andrey Ruzavin trailed in third

Bringing up fourth was Andrii Kovenko

The pack followed, lead by China's Zelin Cai.

The men came through 5K as follows:

POS	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK
1	Takumi Saito	JPN	20:17
2	Yusuke Suzuki	JPN	20:19
3	Andrey Ruzavin	RUS	20:23
4	Andrii Kovenko	UKR	20:25
5	Denis Strelkov	RUS	20:30
6	Ruslan Dmytrenko	UKR	20:31
7	Bertrand Moulinet	FRA	20:31
8	Ding Chen	CHN	20:31
9	Eider Arévalo	COL	20:31
10	Zhen Wang	CHN	20:31
11	Zelin Cai	CHN	20:31
12	Irfan Kolothum Thodi	IND	20:31
13	Aleksandr Ivanov	RUS	20:31
14	Matteo Giupponi	ITA	20:31
15	Iñaki Gómez	CAN	20:31
16	Dane Bird-Smith	AUS	20:31
17	Erick Barrondo	GUA	20:31
18	Miguel Ángel López	ESP	20:32
19	Ivan Losev	UKR	20:32
20	Isaac Palma	MEX	20:32
21	Gurmeet Singh	IND	20:32
22	Luis Fernando López	COL	20:32
23	Hatem Ghoula	TUN	20:32
24	Hyunsub Kim	KOR	20:32
25	Diego Flores	MEX	20:32
26	Christopher Linke	GER	20:32
27	Caio Bonfim	BRA	20:32
28	João Vieira	POR	20:33
29	Ebrahim Rahimian	IRI	20:33
30	Rafal Augustyn	POL	20:35

31	Chandan Singh	IND	20:36
32	Youngjun Byun	KOR	20:36
33	Aléxandros Papamihaíl	GRE	20:38
34	Dawid Tomala	POL	20:42
35	Jaime Quiyuch	GUA	20:44
36	Federico Tontodonati	ITA	20:47
37	Francisco Arcilla	ESP	20:48
38	José Leonardo Montaña	COL	20:49
39	Rolando Saquipay	ECU	20:51
40	Sérgio Vieira	POR	20:51
41	Benjamin Thorne	CAN	20:52
42	Mauricio Arteaga	ECU	20:53
43	Anton Kucmin	SVK	20:53
44	Anibal Paau	GUA	20:54
45	Yerko Araya	CHI	20:55
46	Giorgio Rubino	ITA	20:56
47	Alex Wright	GBR	21:08
48	Marius Žiukas	LTU	21:10
49	Álvaro Martín	ESP	21:11
50	Byeong Kwang Choe	KOR	21:11
51	Lebogang Shange	RSA	21:11
52	Georgiy Sheiko	KAZ	21:13
53	Ato Ibáñez	SWE	21:20
54	Máté Helebrandt	HUN	21:21
55	Dzianis Simanovich	BLR	21:22
56	Rhydian Cowley	AUS	21:26
57	Kevin Campion	FRA	21:27
58	Arnis Rumbenieks	LAT	21:36
59	Juan Manuel Cano	ARG	21:37
60	Perseus Karlström	SWE	21:48
61	Vitaliy Anichkin	KAZ	21:48
62	Timothy Seaman	USA	22:22
63	Alejandro Francisco Florez	SUI	22:22

The story continues...

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