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 |
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1:00:41 | |
2 | Aleksandr Ivanov |
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1:00:41 | |
3 | Erick Barrondo |
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1:00:41 | |
4 | Miguel Ángel López |
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1:01:03 | |
5 | Iñaki Gómez |
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1:01:05 | |
6 | Takumi Saito |
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1:01:06 | |
7 | Yusuke Suzuki |
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1:01:08 | |
8 | Zelin Cai |
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1:01:11 | |
9 | Denis Strelkov |
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1:01:16 | |
10 | João Vieira |
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1:01:28 | |
11 | Ruslan Dmytrenko |
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1:01:30 | |
12 | Dane Bird-Smith |
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1:01:35 | |
13 | Hyunsub Kim |
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1:01:41 | |
14 | Christopher Linke |
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1:01:43 | |
15 | Bertrand Moulinet |
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1:01:56 | |
16 | Andrii Kovenko |
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1:02:01 | |
17 | Matteo Giupponi |
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1:02:03 | |
18 | Aléxandros Papamihaíl |
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1:02:29 | |
19 | Jaime Quiyuch |
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1:02:38 | |
20 | Ivan Losev |
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1:02:47 | |
21 | Rafal Augustyn |
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1:02:48 | |
22 | Rolando Saquipay |
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1:02:48 | |
23 | Isaac Palma |
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1:02:56 | |
24 | José Leonardo Montaña |
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1:02:56 | |
25 | Benjamin Thorne |
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1:03:05 | |
26 | Anton Kucmin |
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1:03:20 | |
27 | Hatem Ghoula |
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1:03:20 | |
28 | Álvaro Martín |
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1:03:33 | |
29 | Marius Žiukas |
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1:03:33 | |
30 | Yerko Araya |
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1:03:48 |
31 | Giorgio Rubino |
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1:03:48 | |
32 | Ato Ibáñez |
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1:03:56 | |
33 | Diego Flores |
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1:03:56 | |
34 | Chandan Singh |
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1:04:01 | |
35 | Gurmeet Singh |
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1:04:05 | |
36 | Alex Wright |
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1:04:37 | |
37 | Mauricio Arteaga |
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1:04:43 | |
38 | Sérgio Vieira |
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1:05:10 | |
39 | Federico Tontodonati |
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1:05:19 | |
40 | Byeong Kwang Choe |
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1:05:20 | |
41 | Georgiy Sheiko |
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1:05:30 | |
42 | Andrey Ruzavin |
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1:05:40 | |
43 | Perseus Karlström |
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1:05:54 | |
44 | Anibal Paau |
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1:06:03 | |
45 | Arnis Rumbenieks |
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1:06:09 | |
46 | Máté Helebrandt |
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1:06:24 | |
47 | Vitaliy Anichkin |
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1:06:24 | |
48 | Ebrahim Rahimian |
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1:06:44 | |
49 | Francisco Arcilla |
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1:06:49 | |
50 | Dzianis Simanovich |
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1:07:20 | |
51 | Rhydian Cowley |
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1:07:31 | |
52 | Juan Manuel Cano |
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1:07:31 | |
53 | Alejandro Francisco Florez |
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1:10:38 | |
54 | Timothy Seaman |
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1:10:58 |
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