Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk


The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City. It was held on 14 October 1968. 34 athletes from 20 nations entered.

Results

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Volodymyr Holubnychy1-33:58.4
José Pedraza1-34:00.0
Nikolay Smaga1-34:03.4
4Rudy Haluza1-35:00.2
5Gerhard Sperling1-35:27.2
6Otto Barch1-36:16.8
7Hans-Georg Reimann1-36:31.4
8Stefan Ingvarsson1-36:43.4
9Leonida Caraiosifoglu1-37:07.6
10Peter Frenkel1-37:20.8
11Arthur Jones1-37:32.0
12Pasquale Busca1-37:32.0
13José Oliveros1-38:17
14Antal Kiss1-38:24
15Stig Lindberg1-40:03
16Frank Clark1-40:06
17Tom Dooley1-40:08
18Karl-Heinz Merschenz1-40:11
19Charles Sowa1-40:17
20Eladio Campos1-41:52
21Örjan Andersson1-41:58
22John Webb1-42:51
23René Pfister1-43:36
24Bob Hughes1-43:50
25Ron Laird1-44:38
26Mieczysław Rutyna1-47:29
27Euclides Calzado1-49:27
28Julio Ortíz1-54:48
29Roberto Castellanos1-58:48
Julius MüllerDQ
José Esteban ValleDNF
Carlos VanegasDNF
Felix CappellaDNF
Kazuo SaitoDNF