2012 Olympic champion Ding Chen at the 2013 World Championships, in Moscow,
during the men's 20k race walk. He finished second. At the London Games he won the
race in 1:18:46 and established a new Olympic record. He was only the second* Chinese
to win an athletics gold medal. He was just nineteen at the time.
(*Liu Xiang won gold in 110 m hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.)
In 2019 he was awarded the gold medal following a drugs ban on Ivanov.
X
|
Aleksandr IVANOV |
Russia
|
1:20.58
|
1
|
Ding CHEN |
China |
1:21.09 |
2
|
Miguel Ángel LÓPEZ |
Spain
|
1:21.21 |
| 3 |
João VIEIRA |
Portugal |
1:22.05 |
| 4 |
Denis STRELKOV |
Russia |
1:22.06 |
| 5 |
Takumi SAITO |
Japan |
1:22.09 |
| 6 |
Ruslan DMYTRENKO |
Ukraine |
1:22.14 |
| 7 |
Iñaki GÓMEZ |
Canada |
1:22.21 |