2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
# 2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Barcelona on 27 July.

The race was originally won by Russian race walker Stanislav Emelyanov, who in 2014 was banned due to irregularities in his biological passport, and stripped of the gold medal.

Italian Alex Schwazer was promoted to gold, with fourth-placed Rob Heffernan promoted to the bronze medal position.

## Medalists

| Gold | Alex Schwazer Italy (ITA) |
| - | - |
| Silver | João Vieira Portugal (POR) |
| Bronze | Robert Heffernan Ireland (IRL) |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) | 1:17:16 | Saransk, Russia | 29 September 2007 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) | 1:17:16 | Saransk, Russia | 29 September 2007 |
| Championship record | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 1:18:37 | Munich, Germany | 6 August 2002 |
| World Leading | Alex Schwazer (ITA) | 1:18:24 | Lugano, Switzerland | 14 March 2010 |
| European Leading | Alex Schwazer (ITA) | 1:18:24 | Lugano, Switzerland | 14 March 2010 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 27 July 2010 | 8:05 | Final |

## Results

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| DQ | Stanislav Emelyanov | Russia (RUS) | 1:20:10 | Doping |
| | Alex Schwazer | Italy (ITA) | 1:20:38 | |
| | João Vieira | Portugal (POR) | 1:20:49 | SB |
| | Robert Heffernan | Ireland (IRL) | 1:21:00 | |
| 4 | Giorgio Rubino | Italy (ITA) | 1:22:12 | SB |
| 5 | Andrey Krivov | Russia (RUS) | 1:22:20 | SB |
| 6 | Matej Tóth | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:22:20 | |
| 7 | Jakub Jelonek | Poland (POL) | 1:22:24 | SB |
| 8 | Juan Manuel Molina | Spain (ESP) | 1:22:35 | |
| 9 | Rafał Augustyn | Poland (POL) | 1:22:40 | |
| 10 | Andriy Kovenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:22:43 | SB |
| 11 | Ruslan Dmytrenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:22:45 | |
| 12 | Hervé Davaux | France (FRA) | 1:24:12 | |
| 13 | Miguel Ángel López | Spain (ESP) | 1:24:28 | |
| 14 | Silviu Casandra | Romania (ROM) | 1:24:51 | |
| 15 | Maik Berger | Germany (GER) | 1:25:01 | |
| 16 | Anton Kucmin | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:25:12 | |
| 17 | José Ignacio Díaz | Spain (ESP) | 1:25:36 | |
| 18 | Dawid Tomala | Poland (POL) | 1:25:50 | |
| 19 | Jamie Costin | Ireland (IRL) | 1:26:05 | |
| 20 | Sérgio Vieira | Portugal (POR) | 1:27:07 | |
| 21 | Ivan Losyev | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:27:12 | |
| 22 | Arnis Rumbenieks | Latvia (LAT) | 1:30:50 | SB |
| | Máté Helebrandt | Hungary (HUN) | DNF | |
| | Ivano Brugnetti | Italy (ITA) | DNF | |
| | Ato Ibáñez | Sweden (SWE) | DQ | |
| | Dzianis Simanovich | Belarus (BLR) | DQ | |
