Men's Olympic 20-kilometer Walk Through the Years

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

20-kilometer Walk

Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 20km walking race from 1956 to the present.

Year   Time Record
1956 Leonid Spirin, USSR 1:31:27.4  
1960 Vladimir Golubnichiy, USSR 1:34:07.2  
1964 Ken Matthews, GBR 1:29:34.0 OR
1968 Vladimir Golubnichiy, USSR 1:33:58.4  
1972 Peter Frenkel, E. Ger 1:26:42.4 OR
1976 Daniel Bautista, MEX 1:24:40.6 OR
1980 Maurizio Damilano, ITA 1:23:35.5 OR
1984 Ernesto Canto, MEX 1:23:13 OR
1988 Jozef Pribilinec, CZE 1:19:57 OR
1992 Daniel Plaza Montero, SPA 1:21:45  
1996 Jefferson Perez, ECU 1:20:07  
2000 Robert Korzeniowski, POL 1:18.59 OR
2004 Ivano Brugnetti, ITA 1:19:40  
2008 Valeriy Borchin, URS 1:19:01  
2012 Chen Ding, CHN 1:18:46 OR

 

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