Oldest gold medallist at an IAAF World Athletics Championships (male)
- Who
- Yohann Diniz
- What
- 39:224 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom (London)
- When
- 13 August 2017
Yohann Diniz (France, b. 1 January 1978) won the men’s 50 kilometres road walk at the IAAF 2017 World Athletics Championships on 13 August 2017 in London, UK, aged 39 years 224 days. His winning time of 3 hours 33 minutes 12 seconds was the second fastest ever recorded, his winning margin of more than eight minutes the largest in World Championship history.