The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 11 August.

[1] The first leader was Takumi Saito who set the pace for the first 5K, opening up a gap on the pack, with his Japanese teammate Yusuke Suzuki the first to chase him down.

The first to catch him was bronze medalist Wang Zhen who pulled out to the lead only to get disqualified.

But Chen couldn't catch Ivanov, who took a ten-second victory in front of cheering Russian fans.

[2] One walker gave a positive test at the competition: second last finisher Ebrahim Rahimian of Iran had used erythropoietin.