We continue the annual publication of the lists provided with the support of the archive of "All-Athletics.com", with the following:

world list - 10.000m track walk men

Two Italian athletes are in the top 100 list, in which were considered only one performance per athlete:

Leonardo Dei Tos with the performance of 41:18.88 obtained in Jesolo (ITA) on September 26, 2015 is 48th

Francesco Fortunato with the performance of 41:30.95 obtained in Jesolo (ITA) on September 26, 2015 is 55th

Leads the list the Chinese  Wang Zhen with the performance of 38:23.73 obtained in Genova (ITA), past February 8, 2015, followed by Spanish Miguel Angel Lopez with the performance of 38:53.42 (Cartagena - ESP; April 29, 2015) and by Christopher Linke (GER)  with the performance of 39:04.82, obtained in  Dusseldorf (GER) on June 13, 2015.

It's very interesting to note that in the list of the top 100 athletes are represented 25 Countries (26 in 2014), and first Country is Japan with 27 athletes, followed by China (16) and Spain (9). 

Here is the list of Countries:

Japan: 27 athletes

China: 16 athletes

Spain: 9 athletes

Russia: 8 athletes

Germania: 4 athletes

Poland: 4 athletes

Belarus: 3 athletesi

Canada: 3 athletes

Sweden: 3 athletes

Portugal: 3 athletes

Irland: 2 athletes

Italy: 2 athletes

Ukraine: 2 athletes

Peru: 2 athletes

Francia: 2 athletes

Finlandi: 2 athletes

llowed, all with 1 athlete, by: Australia, Chile, Greece, Great Britain, Ecuador, Turkey, Hungary, Mexico, Colombia.

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Eiki Takahashi after the Asian best performance obtaine on Dec. 13, 2015
(foto by Fumio Imamura - Japan)