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

Men's 20 kilometres walk

at the Games of the XIX Olympiad

Volodymyr Holubnychy 1964

Medalists

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Athletics at the 1968 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 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City. It was held on 14 October 1968. 34 athletes from 20 nations entered.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1-33:58.4
	José Pedraza	Mexico	1-34:00.0
	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1-34:03.4
4	Rudy Haluza	United States	1-35:00.2
5	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1-35:27.2
6	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	1-36:16.8
7	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1-36:31.4
8	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1-36:43.4
9	Leonida Caraiosifoglu	Romania	1-37:07.6
10	Peter Frenkel	East Germany	1-37:20.8
11	Arthur Jones	Great Britain	1-37:32.0
12	Pasquale Busca	Italy	1-37:32.0
13	José Oliveros	Mexico	1-38:17
14	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1-38:24
15	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	1-40:03
16	Frank Clark	Australia	1-40:06
17	Tom Dooley	United States	1-40:08
18	Karl-Heinz Merschenz	Canada	1-40:11
19	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1-40:17
20	Eladio Campos	Mexico	1-41:52
21	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	1-41:58
22	John Webb	Great Britain	1-42:51
23	René Pfister	Switzerland	1-43:36
24	Bob Hughes	Great Britain	1-43:50
25	Ron Laird	United States	1-44:38
26	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	1-47:29
27	Euclides Calzado	Cuba	1-49:27
28	Julio Ortíz	Guatemala	1-54:48
29	Roberto Castellanos	El Salvador	1-58:48
	Julius Müller	West Germany		DQ
	José Esteban Valle	Nicaragua		DNF
	Carlos Vanegas	Nicaragua		DNF
	Felix Cappella	Canada		DNF
	Kazuo Saito	Japan		DNF

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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