Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk

at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

15 October

Competitors

35 from 15 nations

Medalists

← 1960

1968 →

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964. 35 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 30 starting and 26 finishing.^[1]

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ken Matthews	Great Britain	1:29:34.0 OB
2	Dieter Lindner	United Team of Germany	1:31:13.2
3	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:31:59.4
4	Noel Freeman	Australia	1:32:06.8
5	Gennadiy Solodov	Soviet Union	1:32:33.0
6	Ron Zinn	United States	1:32:43.0
7	Boris Khrolovich	Soviet Union	1:32:45.4
8	John Edgington	Great Britain	1:32:46.0
9	Gerhard Sperling	United Team of Germany	1:33:15.8
10	John Chester Paddick	Great Britain	1:33:28.4
11	Alexander Bílek	Czechoslovakia	1:33:45
12	Hans-Georg Reimann	United Team of Germany	1:34:51.0
13	Henri Delerue	France	1:34:58
14	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	1:35:30
15	István Göri	Hungary	1:35:38
16	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:36:16
17	Jack Mortland	United States	1:36:35
18	Åke Söderlund	Sweden	1:36:53
19	John Artur Ljunggren	Sweden	1:37:03
20	Roine Karlsson	Sweden	1:37:07
21	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:38:27
22	Ronald John Crawford	Australia	1:38:47
23	Noboru Ishiguro	Japan	1:39:40
24	Chedli El-Marghni	Tunisia	1:41:11
25	Kiue Kuribayashi	Japan	1:43:07
26	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	1:48:41
—	Robert Charles Gardiner	Australia	Did not finish 1:12:29 at 15 km
	Alex Harold Oakley	Canada	Did not finish 0:47:25 at 10 km
	Ronald Owen Laird	United States	Disqualified 1:11:31 at 15 km
	Yasuo Naito	Japan	Disqualified 0:23:43 at 5 km
	Naceur Ben Messaoud	Tunisia	Did not start
	Elias Baruh	Romania	Did not start
	István Havasi	Hungary	Did not start
	Andrei Savescu	Romania	Did not start

^ "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

v t e 10 and 20 kilometres race walk at the Olympic Games
Summary
Men's 10 km	1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Men's 20 km	1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Women's 10 km	1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Women's 20 km	1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Other distances: 1908: Men's 3500 m walk • 1908: Men's 10 miles walk • 1920: Men's 3000 m walk

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