2003 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 km Walk at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France was held on 23 August 2003, with the start at 08.30h local time.

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Gold	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador (ECU)
Silver	Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Roman Rasskazov Russia (RUS)

Standing records prior to the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:17.22	April 28, 2002	Turku, Finland
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19.37	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Broken records during the 2003 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17.21	August 23, 2003	Paris, France
Event Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17.21	August 23, 2003	Paris, France

Rank	Number	Athlete	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	19:29
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	19:35
3	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	19:35
4	1164	Viktor Burayev (RUS)	19:36
5	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	19:36
10 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	38:38
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	39:10
3	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	39:11
4	1181	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	39:11
5	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	39:11
15 KILOMETRES
1	385	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	58:03
2	366	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	58:19
3	1181	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	58:34
4	935	Noé Hernández (MEX)	58:38
5	1159	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	58:39

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17:21
	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:18:00
	Roman Rasskazov (RUS)	1:18:07
4	Noé Hernández (MEX)	1:18:14
5	Luke Adams (AUS)	1:19:35
6	Ivan Trotski (BLR)	1:19:40
7	David Márquez (ESP)	1:19:46
8	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:20:14
9	José David Dominguez (ESP)	1:20:15
10	Alejandro López (MEX)	1:20:24
11	Lorenzo Civallero (ITA)	1:20:34
12	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:20:38
13	André Höhne (GER)	1:20:44
14	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:21:12
15	Yu Chaohong (CHN)	1:21:18
16	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:21:23
17	João Vieira (POR)	1:22:07
18	Kevin Eastler (USA)	1:22:25
19	Erik Tysse (NOR)	1:22:43
20	Akinori Matsuzaki (JPN)	1:24:22
21	Alessandro Gandellini (ITA)	1:24:45
22	Predrag Filipović (SCG)	1:25:15
23	Xu Xingde (CHN)	1:25:41
24	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:26:48
25	Feodosiy Chumachenko (MDA)	1:27:27
26	Benjamin Kuciński (POL)	1:27:41
27	Jiří Malysa (CZE)	1:30:17
28	Allan Segura (CRC)	1:30:53	NR
29	Ronald Huayta (BOL)	1:31:15
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Toshihito Fujinohara (JPN)	DSQ
—	Eiichi Yoshizawa (JPN)	DSQ
—	Julius Sawe (KEN)	DSQ
—	Vladimir Andreyev (RUS)	DSQ
—	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	DSQ
—	Bernardo Segura (MEX)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Lee Dae-Ro (KOR)	DSQ
—	Viktor Burayev (RUS)	DSQ

Medalists