Russia's Kirdyapkin wins 50km race walk gold
Posted : Saturday, 11 August 2012 07:50AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's Sergey Kirdyapkin won gold in the men's 50km race walk on Saturday in a new Olympic record time of 3 hours 35.59 minutes.
The 32-year-old double world champion finished ahead of Australia's Jared Tallent, who collected his second consecutive Olympic silver medal in a time of 3:36:53.
China's Si Tianfeng won bronze in a time of 3:37:16.
(Reporting by Neil Maidment, editing by Mark Meadows)
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