The men's 20 kilometres walk at the
2010 European Athletics Championships
The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, C ...
was held on the streets of
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
on 27 July.
The race was originally won by Russian race walker
Stanislav Emelyanov
Stanislav Valeryevich Emelyanov (; born 23 October 1990) is a former Russian race walking, race walker.
Doping
Bio passport ban
IAAF announced 28 July 2014 that Emelyanov was sanctioned for doping after his biological passport had shown anom ...
, who in 2014 was banned due to irregularities in his
biological passport
An athlete biological passport is an individual electronic record for professional athletes, in which profiles of biological markers of doping and results of doping tests are collated over a period of time. Doping violations can be detected by ...
, and stripped of the gold medal.
Italian
Alex Schwazer
Alex Schwazer, OMRI (born 26 December 1984), is an Italian race walker. He was the 2008 Olympic 50k walk champion.
Just before the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified for two years for doping with EPO. He immediately admitted his guilt ...
was promoted to gold, with fourth-placed
Rob Heffernan promoted to the bronze medal position.
Medalists
Records
Schedule
Results
Final
References
Results
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Walk 20 km
Race walking at the European Athletics Championships
Walking in Spain