title: 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
text: # 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
  
  The Men's 20 km race walk event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 6 in the streets of Helsinki with the start at 18:40h local time, and the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Jefferson Pérez Ecuador (ECU) |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP) |
  | Bronze | Juan Manuel Molina Spain (ESP) |
  
  ## Abbreviations
  
  * All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
  
  | DNS | did not start |
  | - | - |
  | NM | no mark |
  | WR | world record |
  | AR | area record |
  | NR | national record |
  | PB | personal best |
  | SB | season best |
  
  ## Records
  
  Standing records prior to the 2005 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 |
  
  ## Intermediates
  
  | Rank | Number | Athlete | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 5 KILOMETRES ||||
  | 1 | 227 | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 19:47 |
  | 2 | 156 | Yu Chaohong (CHN) | 19:47 |
  | 3 | 158 | Zhu Hongjun (CHN) | 19:47 |
  | 4 | 832 | Vladimir Stankin (RUS) | 19:47 |
  | 5 | 459 | Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) | 19:47 |
  | 10 KILOMETRES ||||
  | 1 | 227 | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 39:31 |
  | 2 | 459 | Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) | 39:32 |
  | 3 | 158 | Zhu Hongjun (CHN) | 39:32 |
  | 4 | 818 | Ilya Markov (RUS) | 39:32 |
  | 5 | 210 | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 39:32 |
  | 15 KILOMETRES ||||
  | 1 | 227 | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 59:10 |
  | 2 | 210 | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 59:10 |
  | 3 | 212 | Rolando Saquipay (ECU) | 59:22 |
  | 4 | 240 | Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) | 59:23 |
  | 5 | 158 | Zhu Hongjun (CHN) | 59:29 |
  
  ## Final ranking
  
  | Rank | Athlete | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Jefferson Pérez (ECU) | 1:18:35 | SB |
  | | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 1:19:36 | |
  | | Juan Manuel Molina (ESP) | 1:19:44 | PB |
  | 4 | André Höhne (GER) | 1:20:00 | PB |
  | 5 | Hatem Ghoula (TUN) | 1:20:19 | SB |
  | 6 | Vladimir Stankin (RUS) | 1:20:25 | |
  | 7 | Benjamin Kuciński (POL) | 1:20:34 | |
  | 8 | Eder Sánchez (MEX) | 1:20:45 | |
  | 9 | Zhu Hongjun (CHN) | 1:21:01 | |
  | 10 | Luke Adams (AUS) | 1:21:43 | |
  | 11 | Andriy Yurin (UKR) | 1:22:15 | |
  | 12 | Luis Fernando López (COL) | 1:22:28 | |
  | 13 | Erik Tysse (NOR) | 1:22:45 | |
  | 14 | Lorenzo Civallero (ITA) | 1:22:52 | SB |
  | 15 | Sérgio Galdino (BRA) | 1:23:03 | |
  | 16 | Shin Il-Yong (KOR) | 1:23:10 | |
  | 17 | Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) | 1:23:12 | |
  | 18 | Jared Tallent (AUS) | 1:23:42 | |
  | 19 | Silviu Casandra (ROM) | 1:23:46 | |
  | 20 | Andrei Talashko (BLR) | 1:23:52 | |
  | 21 | Matej Tóth (SVK) | 1:23:55 | |
  | 22 | José Ignacio Díaz (ESP) | 1:24:00 | |
  | 23 | Takayuki Tanii (JPN) | 1:24:17 | |
  | 24 | Kamil Kalka (POL) | 1:25:02 | |
  | 25 | Akihiro Sugimoto (JPN) | 1:25:28 | |
  | 26 | Rafał Dyś (POL) | 1:26:35 | |
  | 27 | Edwin Centeno (PER) | 1:26:45 | |
  | 28 | Liu Yunfeng (CHN) | 1:26:54 | |
  | 29 | Koichiro Morioka (JPN) | 1:27:08 | |
  | 30 | John Nunn (USA) | 1:27:10 | SB |
  | 31 | Timothy Seaman (USA) | 1:29:58 | |
  | 32 | Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) | 1:30:10 | |
  | DID NOT FINISH (DNF) ||||
  | — | Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) | DNF | |
  | — | Viktor Burayev (RUS) | DNF | |
  | — | João Vieira (POR) | DNF | |
  | DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) ||||
  | — | Ilya Markov (RUS) | DSQ | |
  | — | Bernardo Segura (MEX) | DSQ | |
  | — | Ivan Trotski (BLR) | DSQ | |
  | — | Yu Chaohong (CHN) | DSQ | |
  | — | Cristian Berdeja (MEX) | DSQ | |
  | — | Robert Heffernan (IRL) | DSQ | |
  | — | Walter Sandoval (ESA) | DSQ | |
  | — | Rolando Saquipay (ECU) | DSQ | |
  