![]() ![]() Lefteris Petrounias: Bronze medalist in Tokyoīorn in Athens in 1990, Lefteris Petrounias, father of two, is one of the most significant Olympic athletes our country has ever produced. Let’s discover together the people behind top performances as we travel in this arduous and wonderful journey together with the athletes - members of Stoiximan Tokyo Team who qualified and succeeded. In a year dominated by the scourge of the pandemic, the Olympics managed to strike a chord with the world, and our athletes, always making the greatest possible effort, stunned us with their performances against great opponents and countries. The following National records were set during this competition.The Olympic Games mean something more to Greece than to any other country. The following new Olympic record was set during this event: Prior to this event, the existing World and Olympic records stood as follows. Īll times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Barrondo's silver medal was the first Olympic medal for Guatemala. Erick Barrondo from Guatemala won silver and Wang Zhen, also of China, took bronze. Even though he gave up significant time along the way, Chen set a new Olympic Record at 1:18:46. A jubilant Chen celebrated all the way from the final turn. ![]() The third Chinese Zelin Cai hovered off the back of the pack and steadily picked off all the stragglers to eventually finish fourth for a remarkable 1-3-4 team performance. An exhausted Borchin chased for only a few moments then collapsed into a fence alongside the course. Barrondo reacted and accelerated to put some distance ahead of Wang. As Borchin struggled, Wang zoomed past the two remaining chasers. By the bell Chen had built an 8-second lead over Borchin, who was picking up warnings and cards from the judges. For a moment they were four abreast, but again Chen put the hammer down, eventually dropping Wang. Kanaykin was also given the paddle a minute after that. Moments after joining the lead group, Lopez was given the red paddle, signifying his disqualification. A few minutes later Vladimir Kanaykin, then Luis Fernando López managed to bridge back to the leaders. Wang, Borchin and Erick Barrondo were the strongest chasers, forming a pack of four. After gaining as much as a seven-second lead, the chasers caught back up to Moulinet and left him to fall off the pace, while Chen took his turn to break off the front as the pack started to string out in chase. Around the 11K mark, leader Wang made an odd gesture, hand over head, to the pack behind him, moments later Bertrand Moulinet broke away from the pack as Wang slowed. By the half way mark the lead pack was down to twelve. Suzuki led past the 8k mark but was eventually swallowed by a group led by Wang Zhen, followed by his teammate Chen Ding and Valeriy Borchin. Like a bicycle race, the unheralded Suzuki steadily broke away from the peloton. Robert Heffernan and Grzegorz Sudol took the early lead, soon joined by Yusuke Suzuki. The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place on 4 August on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill in central London. ![]()
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