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

Yusuke Suzuki could not hold the pace and in between 10km and 15km the pack of Chen, Barrondo, and Ivanov dismissed him as an also walked.

As the 85 degree heat combined with a course with little shade the large packs broke into smaller groups and the leaders were followed by Spain's Miguel Ángel López, France's Bertrand Moulinet, Canada's Iñaki Gómez and Japan's Takumi Saito trying to hand on.

Everyone continued to struggle to stay cool.

Our boy Tim Seaman gets lapped by the lead pack.

Chen, Gomez and Ivanov battle for postion on the podium.

Lopez leads the 2nd pack.

By 15K, 9 walkers were walking no more and the remaining athlete's splits were as follows:

1	Ding Chen	CHN	1:00:41
2	Aleksandr Ivanov	RUS	1:00:41
3	Erick Barrondo	GUA	1:00:41
4	Miguel Ángel López	ESP	1:01:03
5	Iñaki Gómez	CAN	1:01:05
6	Takumi Saito	JPN	1:01:06
7	Yusuke Suzuki	JPN	1:01:08
8	Zelin Cai	CHN	1:01:11
9	Denis Strelkov	RUS	1:01:16
10	João Vieira	POR	1:01:28
11	Ruslan Dmytrenko	UKR	1:01:30
12	Dane Bird-Smith	AUS	1:01:35
13	Hyunsub Kim	KOR	1:01:41
14	Christopher Linke	GER	1:01:43
15	Bertrand Moulinet	FRA	1:01:56
16	Andrii Kovenko	UKR	1:02:01
17	Matteo Giupponi	ITA	1:02:03
18	Aléxandros Papamihaíl	GRE	1:02:29
19	Jaime Quiyuch	GUA	1:02:38
20	Ivan Losev	UKR	1:02:47
21	Rafal Augustyn	POL	1:02:48
22	Rolando Saquipay	ECU	1:02:48
23	Isaac Palma	MEX	1:02:56
24	José Leonardo Montaña	COL	1:02:56
25	Benjamin Thorne	CAN	1:03:05
26	Anton Kucmin	SVK	1:03:20
27	Hatem Ghoula	TUN	1:03:20
28	Álvaro Martín	ESP	1:03:33
29	Marius Žiukas	LTU	1:03:33
30	Yerko Araya	CHI	1:03:48

31	Giorgio Rubino	ITA	1:03:48
32	Ato Ibáñez	SWE	1:03:56
33	Diego Flores	MEX	1:03:56
34	Chandan Singh	IND	1:04:01
35	Gurmeet Singh	IND	1:04:05
36	Alex Wright	GBR	1:04:37
37	Mauricio Arteaga	ECU	1:04:43
38	Sérgio Vieira	POR	1:05:10
39	Federico Tontodonati	ITA	1:05:19
40	Byeong Kwang Choe	KOR	1:05:20
41	Georgiy Sheiko	KAZ	1:05:30
42	Andrey Ruzavin	RUS	1:05:40
43	Perseus Karlström	SWE	1:05:54
44	Anibal Paau	GUA	1:06:03
45	Arnis Rumbenieks	LAT	1:06:09
46	Máté Helebrandt	HUN	1:06:24
47	Vitaliy Anichkin	KAZ	1:06:24
48	Ebrahim Rahimian	IRI	1:06:44
49	Francisco Arcilla	ESP	1:06:49
50	Dzianis Simanovich	BLR	1:07:20
51	Rhydian Cowley	AUS	1:07:31
52	Juan Manuel Cano	ARG	1:07:31
53	Alejandro Francisco Florez	SUI	1:10:38
54	Timothy Seaman	USA	1:10:58

The story continues...

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