KORZENIOWSKI

...ironman master of the 50km walk

Olympic Champion in the 50km walk;ATLANTA,SYDNEY,and ATHENS!
[Only man in history to win the Olympic 20km/50km double (Sydney)]


The eventual Victor from Poland* in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic 50km walk leads some Mexicans, and the Spanish legend Massana.
(Photo - Linda Talbott) Source: Dave's World Class Racewalking site.



The final top 3 in the Atlanta 1996 Olympic 50km walk;
1. Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 3:43.30
2. Mikhail Schennikov (RUSS) 3:43.46
3. Valentin Massana (SP) 3:44.19
The Official Robert Korzeniowski website...Excellent webpage....note it helps if you can read Polish....
Korzeniowski didnt stop there but kept on walking at the front to take the 2000 Sydney Olympic 50km walk in 3hr 42min AND 20km walk in 1hr18min59, the first in history to do the double?!!!
(a rather unfit Jon (webmaster of this page) had the privelege of competing in the trials for (in the 20km & 50km), and watching the race at Stadium Australia, see this webpage)

Korzeniowski set a world record of 3hr 36min for the 50km walk in 2002 2 years later.

Korzeniowski has done the "hat-trick"!!!,
and taken the 50km Walk in Athens 2004
for the 3rd Olympics in a row,
making him the master of this event for over 12 years!!!
Like Carl Lewis dominated the Olympic Long Jump for over a decade, Korzeniowski has made the Olympic 50km walk his own over more than a decade!!!

Good profile of the 20 year Korzeniowski Racewalking Odyssey on the VRWC website in the 25/10/04 heel and toe newsletter....
Deakes took a Bronze in the 20k at Athens 2004, and was DQ in the Athens 50k while trying to mix it with Korzeniowski...[Australians to compete in both the 20km walk AND the 50km walk at Sydney 2000 included; Nathan Deakes, who was close to the medals in the 50km Walk in Sydney towards the end of the race but faded to 6th,(also 8th in 20km Walk...)and Dion Russell also completed both 20km walk & 50km walk with excellent results see below. Deakes went on to win the 20km Walk and 50km Walk double at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, which also saw Jane Saville win the Womans 20km Walk to complete an Australian dominance of the Racewalking at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Simon Baker's 3hr 43min to win the 1989 Barcelona World Cup 50km Walk, remains one of the best efforts by an Australian in the last 15 years, and followed his 3hr 44min effort at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 for 6th. see the VRWC International Representatives page.]
Korzeniowski AGAIN! the master, this time of the Sydney 2000 Olympic 50km walk, goes on to beat Massana from Spain again, who is seen leading the bunch here.
Sydney Olympic 50km walk results;
1 Korzeniowski Robert POL 3:42:22
2 Fadejevs Aigars LAT 3:43:40
3 Sánchez Joel MEX 3:44:36 (PB)
4 Massana Valentí ESP 3:46:01
5 Matyukhin Nikolay RUS 3:46:37
6 Deakes Nathan AUS 3:47:29 (PB)
7 Rodriguez Miguel Angel MEX 3:48:12
8 Magdziarczyk Roman POL 3:48:17 (PB)
9 Liepins Modris LAT 3:48:36 (SB)
10 Yang Yongjian CHN 3:48:42 (PB)
11 Rakovic Aleksandar YUG 3:49:16 (SB)
12 García Jesús Angel ESP 3:49:31
13 Wang Yinhang CHN 3:50:19 (PB)
14 Langlois Denis FRA 3:52:56
15 Korepanov Sergey KZK 3:53:30
16 Holuša Miloš CZE 3:53:48 (SB)
17 Tichý Peter SVK 3:54:47
18 Barrett Craig NZL 3:55:53
19 Trautmann Mike GER 3:56:19
20 Malík Štefan SVK 3:56:44 (SB)
21 Trautmann Denis GER 3:58:14
22 Clausen Curt USA 3:58:39
23 Korcok Peter SVK 3:58:46
24 Odriozola Mikel ESP 3:59:50
25 Borisov Valeriy KZK 4:01:11
26 Potemin Vladimir RUS 4:02:38
27 Russell Dion AUS 4:02:50
28 Abshire Brian USA 4:03:05 (SB) (or Philip Dunn?)
29 Caudron Sylvain FRA 4:03:22
30 Zujus Daugvinas LIT 4:06:04
31 Hermann Andrew USA 4:07:18
32 Shelest Alexey UKR 4:07:39
33 Martins Pedro POR 4:08:13
34 Cousins Duane AUS 4:10:43
35 Bruvelis Ugis LAT 4:11:41
36 Imamura Fumio JPN 4:13:28
37 Dudás Gyula HUN 4:17:55
38 Costin Jamie IRL 4:24:22
39 Maddocks Christopher GBR 4:52:12
Spitsyn Valeriy RUS DNF
Stamatopoulos Theodoros GRE DNF
Di Mezza Arturo ITA DNF
Piller René FRA DNF
Lipiec Tomasz POL DNF
Kastanis Spyros GRE DNF
Ihly Robert GER DNF
Perricelli Giovanni ITA DNF
Brugnetti Ivano ITA DNF
Czukor Zoltán HUN DQ
Ciumacenco Fedosei MOL DQ
Ginko Viktor BLR DQ
Kononen Valentin FIN DQ
Huerta Arturo CAN DQ
Sánchez Germán MEX DQ
Berrett Tim CAN DQ
Koike Akihiko JPN DQ
Sydney 2000 Olympic 20km Walk results;
1. Poland 
   Result: 01h18:59 
   Competitor: Robert Korzeniowski 

2. Mexico 
   Result: 01h19:03 
   Competitor: Noe Hernandez Valentin 

3. Russia 
   Result: 01h19:27 
   Competitor: Vladimir Andreyev 

4. Ecuador 
   Result: 01h20:18 
   Competitor: Jefferson Perez 

5. Germany 
   Result: 01h20:25 
   Competitor: Andreas Erm 

6. Russia 
   Result: 01h20:57 
   Competitor: Roman Rasskazov 

7. Spain 
   Result: 01h21:01 
   Competitor: Francisco Javier Fernandez
 
8. Australia 
   Result: 01h21:03 
   Competitor: Nathan Deakes 

9. Italy 
   Result: 01h21:14 
   Competitor: Alessandro Gandellini 

10. Australia 
   Result: 01h21:34 
   Competitor: Nicholas A'Hern 

11. Italy 
   Result: 01h21:43 
   Competitor: Michele Didoni 

12. Mexico 
   Result: 01h22:05 
   Competitor: Daniel Garcia 

13. China 
   Result: 01h22:32 
   Competitor: Guohui Yu 

14. Latvia 
   Result: 01h22:43 
   Competitor: Aigars Fadejevs 
 
15. Russia 
   Result: 01h23:03 
   Competitor: Ilya Markov 

16. Italy 
   Result: 01h23:14 
   Competitor: Giovanni De Benedictis 

17. Belarus 
   Result: 01h23:33 
   Competitor: Andrei Makarov 

18. Romania 
   Result: 01h23:42 
   Competitor: Costica Balan 

19. Czech Republic 
   Result: 01h24:08 
   Competitor: Jiri Malysa 

20. Spain 
   Result: 01h24:36 
   Competitor: David Marquez 

21. Belarus 
   Result: 01h24:50 
   Competitor: Artur Meleshkevich
 
22. Japan 
   Result: 01h25:03 
   Competitor: Satoshi Yanagisawa 

23. Algeria 
   Result: 01h25:04 
   Competitor: Moussa Aouanouk 

24. Canada 
   Result: 01h25:24 
   Competitor: Arturo Huerta 

25. Australia 
   Result: 01h25:26 
   Competitor: Dion Russell 

26. Canada 
   Result: 01h25:29 
   Competitor: Tim Berrett 

27. Japan 
   Result: 01h25:34 
   Competitor: Daisuke Ikeshima
 
28. Ireland 
   Result: 01h26:04 
   Competitor: Robert Heffernan 

29. Hungary 
   Result: 01h26:16 
   Competitor: Sandor Urbanik 

30. South Korea 
   Result: 01h26:22 
   Competitor: Il-Yong Shin 

31. Slovakia 
   Result: 01h26:31 
   Competitor: Igor Kollar 

32. Guatemala 
   Result: 01h27:16 
   Competitor: Luis Garcia Bechinie 

33. France 
   Result: 01h27:36 
   Competitor: Antony Gillet 

34. Belarus 
   Result: 01h28:02 
   Competitor: Mikhail Khmelnitsky
 
35. Spain 
   Result: 01h28:16 
   Competitor: Jose David Dominguez 

36. Tunisia 
   Result: 01h28:16 
   Competitor: Hatem Ghoula 

37. Hungary 
   Result: 01h28:34 
   Competitor: Gyula Csaba Dudas
 
38. Kazakhstan 
   Result: 01h28:36 
   Competitor: Valeriy Borissov 

39. Kenya 
   Result: 01h28:45 
   Competitor: David Kimutai 

40. United States 
   Result: 01h30:32 
   Competitor: Timothy Seaman 

41. Slovakia 
   Result: 01h30:46 
   Competitor: Robert Valicek 

42. Kenya 
   Result: 01h30:55 
   Competitor: Julius Kipkoech Sawe
 
43. Guatemala 
   Result: 01h31:47 
   Competitor: Julio Rene Martinez Sican
 
44. Palestine 
   Result: 01h32:32 
   Competitor: Ramy Aly Dieb Abdel Hady 

44. Latvia 
   Result: DSQ 
   Competitor: Maris Putenis 

44. Mexico 
   Result: DSQ 
   Competitor: Bernardo Segura Rivera 

44. Moldova 
   Result: ABD 
   Competitor: Efim Motpan 

44. Portugal 
   Result: FRF 
   Competitor: Joao Vieira

Korzeniowski has done the "hat-trick"!!!,
and taken the 50km Walk in Athens 2004
for the 3rd Olympics in a row,
making him the master of this event for over 12 years!!!
Like Carl Lewis dominated the Olympic Long Jump for over a decade, Korzeniowski has made the Olympic 50km walk his own over more than a decade!!!

IAAF article about Korzenowski