BEIJING: Slovakian Matej Toth captured the world title in the men's 50 kilometres walk on Saturday with a crushing victory as his rivals wilted under a brutal Beijing sun.
Toth won the iron man event in three hours, 40 minutes and 32 seconds, crossing the line draped in a Slovakian flag to win his country's first ever world championship gold medal. He finished a whopping 1min 45sec ahead of Australian Jared Tallent.
Japan's Takayuki Tani clocked 3:42:55 for bronze to break Japan's medal drought in China.
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