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20 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date	2 September 1960
Status	Olympic
Location	Stadio Olimpico, Roma
Participants	36 from 18 countries

Volodymyr Holubnychiy of the Soviet Union, but a native Ukrainian, started his Olympic career at Roma. In the shorter walk he would be among the dominant walkers for the next five Olympics, and never entered the 50 km. Olympic race. In Roma Holubnychiy was in the lead group throughout. Noel Freeman (AUS) was well back in the early stages but closed very quickly and finished only nine seconds down to Holubnychiy at the finish.

Pos	Start Order	Competitor	NOC	Time	5 km	10 km	15 km
1	13	Vladimir Golubnichy	URS	1-34:07.2	22:27.8 (3)	45:13.4 (1)	1-08:41.8 (1)	Gold
2	9	Noel Freeman	AUS	1-34:16.4	22:18.4 (2)	45:37.0 (3)	1-09:46.2 (3)	Silver
3	12	Stan Vickers	GBR	1-34:56.4	22:40.0 (5)	47:17.6 (=5)	1-10:10.8 (4)	Bronze
4	7	Dieter Lindner	GER	1-35:33.8	1-10:34.2 (5)	– (–)	– (–)
5	33	Norman Read	NZL	1-36:59.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
6	11	Lennart Back	SWE	1-37:17.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
7	27	John Ljunggren	SWE	1-37:59.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
8	22	Ladislav Moc	TCH	1-38:32.4	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
9	21	Alex Oakley	CAN	1-38:46.0	23:27.0 (7)	– (–)	– (–)
10	28	Eric Hall	GBR	1-38:54.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
11	15	Ronald Crawford	AUS	1-39:16.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
12	6	Henri Delerue	FRA	1-39:37.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
13	26	George Hazle	RSA	1-40:16.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
14	29	Lennart Carlsson	SWE	1-40:25.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
15	14	Tommy Kristensen	DEN	1-41:07.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
16	2	Hannes Koch	GER	1-41:53.4	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
17	35	Louis Marquis	SUI	1-41:59.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
18	1	Charel Sowa	LUX	1-42:43.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
19	5	Ron Zinn	USA	1-42:47.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
20	37	Zora Singh	IND	1-43:19.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
21	34	Stefano Serchinic	ITA	1-43:58.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
22	19	Luigi De Rosso	ITA	1-45:04.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
23	24	Bob Mimm	USA	1-45:09.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
24	30	Rudy Haluza	USA	1-45:11.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
25	17	Leo Rosschou	DEN	1-46:35.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
26	4	Gianni Corsaro	ITA	1-46:47.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
27	32	Khalifa Bahrouni	TUN	1-47:09.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
28	8	Naoui Zlassi	TUN	1-55:21.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	36	Ajit Singh	IND	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	23	Anatoly Vedyakov	URS	–	[23:21.8] ([6])	[47:17.6] ([=5])	– (–)
DQ	3	Mohamed Ben Lazhar	TUN	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	10	Gabriel Reymond	SUI	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	25	Gennady Solodov	URS	–	[22:33.6] ([4])	[46:14.8] ([4])	[1-09:23.8] ([2])
DQ	18	Siegfried Lefanczik	GER	–	[1-11:30.2] ([6])	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	31	Tibor Balajcza	HUN	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNF	20	Ken Matthews	GBR	–	22:11.4 (1)	45:32.2 (2)	– (–)
DNS	16	Eugen Filipescu	ROU	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)