They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 27 July to 1 August 2010.

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 1 Stanislav Emelyanov of Russia originally won the 20 km walk gold medal with a time of 1:20:10, but he was disqualified in 2014 after he tested positive for drugs.

[2] 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 2 Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus originally won the gold medal in 21.01 m, but was disqualified in 2013 (all his results starting from the 2005 World Championships were canceled).

The women's medal standings were significantly altered after various post-race doping controversies.

The following medals were revoked years after the event for doping cases, and assigned to the athletes who followed in the ranking.