Athletics — 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Times held 18
Total participants 513
Total countries 77

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1956 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 21 10
1960 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 36 18
1964 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 30 15
1968 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 34 20
1972 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 24 12
1976 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 38 21
1980 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 34 20
1984 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 38 22
1988 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 53 28
1992 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 42 23
1996 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 60 33
2000 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 47 28
2004 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 48 28
2008 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 51 30
2012 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 56 34
2016 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 74 40
2020 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 57 28
2024 20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Olympic 49 25

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1956 Leonid SpirinURS Antanas MikėnasURS Bruno JunkURS
1960 Vladimir GolubnichyURS Noel FreemanAUS Stan VickersGBR
1964 Ken MatthewsGBR Dieter LindnerGER Vladimir GolubnichyURS
1968 Vladimir GolubnichyURS José PedrazaMEX Nikolay SmagaURS
1972 Peter FrenkelGDR Vladimir GolubnichyURS Hans-Georg ReimannGDR
1976 Daniel BautistaMEX Hans-Georg ReimannGDR Peter FrenkelGDR
1980 Maurizio DamilanoITA Pyotr PochenchukURS Roland WieserGDR
1984 Ernesto CantoMEX Raúl GonzálezMEX Maurizio DamilanoITA
1988 Jozef PribilinecTCH Ronald WeigelGDR Maurizio DamilanoITA
1992 Daniel PlazaESP Guillaume LeBlancCAN Giovanni De BenedictisITA
1996 Jefferson PérezECU Ilya MarkovRUS Bernardo SeguraMEX
2000 Robert KorzeniowskiPOL Noé HernándezMEX Vladimir AndreyevRUS
2004 Ivano BrugnettiITA Francisco Javier FernándezESP Nathan DeakesAUS
2008 Valery BorchinRUS Jefferson PérezECU Jared TallentAUS
2012 Chen DingCHN Érick BarrondoGUA Wang ZhenCHN
2016 Wang ZhenCHN Cai ZelinCHN Dane Bird-SmithAUS
2020 Massimo StanoITA Koki IkedaJPN Toshikazu YamanishiJPN
2024 Brian PintadoECU Caio BonfimBRA Álvaro MartínESP

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 3 3 3 9
Italy ITA 3 0 3 6
Mexico MEX 2 3 1 6
People's Republic of China CHN 2 1 1 4
Ecuador ECU 2 1 0 3
East Germany GDR 1 2 3 6
Russian Federation RUS 1 1 1 3
Spain ESP 1 1 1 3
Great Britain GBR 1 0 1 2
Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 0 1
Poland POL 1 0 0 1
Australia AUS 0 1 3 4
Japan JPN 0 1 1 2
Brazil BRA 0 1 0 1
Canada CAN 0 1 0 1
Germany GER 0 1 0 1
Guatemala GUA 0 1 0 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Vladimir Golubnichy URS
UKR
2 1 1 4
Jefferson Pérez ECU 1 1 0 2
Maurizio Damilano ITA 1 0 2 3
Peter Frenkel GDR 1 0 1 2
Wang Zhen CHN 1 0 1 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Algeria ALG 2000 Summer Olympics Moussa Aouanouk 23 See all
Argentina ARG 2012 Summer Olympics Juan Manuel Cano 22 See all
Australia AUS 1960 Summer Olympics Noel Freeman 2 Silver See all
Austria AUT 1980 Summer Olympics Martin Toporek 21 See all
Belarus BLR 1996 Summer Olympics Yauhen Misiulia 9 See all
Belgium BEL 1976 Summer Olympics Godfried De Jonckheere 25 See all
Bolivia BOL 1984 Summer Olympics Osvaldo Morejón 36 See all
Brazil BRA 2024 Summer Olympics Caio Bonfim 2 Silver See all
Bulgaria BUL 1988 Summer Olympics Lyubomir Ivanov 43 See all
Canada CAN 1992 Summer Olympics Guillaume LeBlanc 2 Silver See all
Chile CHI 2016 Summer Olympics Yerko Araya 25 See all
Colombia COL 1984 Summer Olympics José Querubín Moreno 9 See all
1992 Summer Olympics Héctor Moreno 9
2008 Summer Olympics Luis Fernando López 9
2016 Summer Olympics Esteban Soto 9
Costa Rica CRC 2008 Summer Olympics Allan Segura 39 See all
Cuba CUB 1968 Summer Olympics Euclides Calzado 27 See all
Czechia CZE 2000 Summer Olympics Jiří Malysa 19 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1988 Summer Olympics Jozef Pribilinec 1 Gold See all
Denmark DEN 1964 Summer Olympics Tommy Kristensen 14 See all
East Germany GDR 1972 Summer Olympics Peter Frenkel 1 Gold See all
Ecuador ECU 1996 Summer Olympics Jefferson Pérez 1 Gold See all
2024 Summer Olympics Brian Pintado 1 Gold
El Salvador ESA 1968 Summer Olympics Roberto Castellanos 29 See all
Ethiopia ETH 2024 Summer Olympics Misgane Wakuma 6 See all
Finland FIN 1980 Summer Olympics Reima Salonen 9 See all
France FRA 2012 Summer Olympics Bertrand Moulinet 8 See all
Germany GER 1964 Summer Olympics Dieter Lindner 2 Silver See all
Great Britain GBR 1964 Summer Olympics Ken Matthews 1 Gold See all
Greece GRE 1980 Summer Olympics Aris Karageorgos 15 See all
2012 Summer Olympics Alexandros Papamichail 15
Guatemala GUA 2012 Summer Olympics Érick Barrondo 2 Silver See all
Honduras HON 1976 Summer Olympics Santiago Fonseca 27 See all
Hungary HUN 1992 Summer Olympics Sándor Urbanik 8 See all
India IND 2012 Summer Olympics Irfan Kolothum Thodi 10 See all
Ireland IRL 1992 Summer Olympics Jimmy McDonald 6 See all
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 2016 Summer Olympics Hamid Reza Zooravand 54 See all
Israel ISR 1972 Summer Olympics Shaul Ladany DNS See all
Italy ITA 1980 Summer Olympics Maurizio Damilano 1 Gold See all
2004 Summer Olympics Ivano Brugnetti 1 Gold
2020 Summer Olympics Massimo Stano 1 Gold
Japan JPN 2020 Summer Olympics Koki Ikeda 2 Silver See all
Jordan JOR 1984 Summer Olympics Amjad Tawalbeh 38 See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 1996 Summer Olympics Valery Borisov 17 See all
Kenya KEN 2008 Summer Olympics David Kimutai 19 See all
Lao People's Democratic Republic LAO 1980 Summer Olympics Thipsamay Chanthaphone 25 See all
Latvia LAT 1996 Summer Olympics Aigars Fadejevs 6 See all
Lithuania LTU 1992 Summer Olympics Viktoras Meškauskas 26 See all
2016 Summer Olympics Marius Žiūkas 26
Luxembourg LUX 1964 Summer Olympics Charel Sowa 16 See all
Malaysia MAS 1976 Summer Olympics Khoo Chong Beng 32 See all
Mexico MEX 1976 Summer Olympics Daniel Bautista 1 Gold See all
1984 Summer Olympics Ernesto Canto 1 Gold
Myanmar MYA 1996 Summer Olympics Htay Myint 52 See all
New Zealand NZL 1960 Summer Olympics Norman Read 5 See all
Nicaragua NCA 1972 Summer Olympics José Esteban Valle 21 See all
Norway NOR 1984 Summer Olympics Erling Andersen 8 See all
Palestine PLE 2000 Summer Olympics Ramy Deeb 44 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2012 Summer Olympics Chen Ding 1 Gold See all
2016 Summer Olympics Wang Zhen 1 Gold
Peru PER 2020 Summer Olympics César Augusto Rodríguez 21 See all
Poland POL 2000 Summer Olympics Robert Korzeniowski 1 Gold See all
Portugal POR 2004 Summer Olympics João Vieira 10 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics Vasily Mizinov DQ See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2012 Summer Olympics Kim Hyeon-Seop 17 See all
2016 Summer Olympics Kim Hyeon-Seop 17
Republic of Moldova MDA 2004 Summer Olympics Feodosiy Ciumacenco 34 See all
Romania ROU 1968 Summer Olympics Leonida Caraiosifoglu 9 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2008 Summer Olympics Valery Borchin 1 Gold See all
San Marino SMR 1980 Summer Olympics Stefano Casali 24 See all
Serbia SRB 2008 Summer Olympics Predrag Filipović 41 See all
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2004 Summer Olympics Predrag Filipović 39 See all
Slovakia SVK 2012 Summer Olympics Anton Kučmín 23 See all
South Africa RSA 1960 Summer Olympics George Hazle 13 See all
Soviet Union URS 1956 Summer Olympics Leonid Spirin 1 Gold See all
1960 Summer Olympics Vladimir Golubnichy 1 Gold
1968 Summer Olympics Vladimir Golubnichy 1 Gold
Spain ESP 1992 Summer Olympics Daniel Plaza 1 Gold See all
Sweden SWE 1956 Summer Olympics John Ljunggren 4 See all
Switzerland SUI 1960 Summer Olympics Louis Marquis 17 See all
Tunisia TUN 2004 Summer Olympics Hatem Ghoula 11 See all
Türkiye TUR 2016 Summer Olympics Ersin Tacir 30 See all
Ukraine UKR 2016 Summer Olympics Ruslan Dmytrenko 16 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Mikhail Shchennikov 12 See all
United States USA 1968 Summer Olympics Rudy Haluza 4 See all
United States Virgin Islands ISV 1976 Summer Olympics Hank Klein 36 See all
Venezuela VEN 2016 Summer Olympics Richard Vargas 24 See all
Vietnam VIE 2016 Summer Olympics Nguyễn Thành Ngưng 60 See all
West Germany FRG 1972 Summer Olympics Heinz Mayr 13 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1976 Summer Olympics Vinko Galušić 24 See all