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.[1]

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Medalists
Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union
José Pedraza  Mexico
Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union
Athletics at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
80 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Pentathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

Results
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union1-33:58.4
José Pedraza Mexico1-34:00.0
Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union1-34:03.4
4Rudy Haluza United States1-35:00.2
5Gerhard Sperling East Germany1-35:27.2
6Otto Barch Soviet Union1-36:16.8
7Hans-Georg Reimann East Germany1-36:31.4
8Stefan Ingvarsson Sweden1-36:43.4
9Leonida Caraiosifoglu Romania1-37:07.6
10Peter Frenkel East Germany1-37:20.8
11Arthur Jones Great Britain1-37:32.0
12Pasquale Busca Italy1-37:32.0
13José Oliveros Mexico1-38:17
14Antal Kiss Hungary1-38:24
15Stig Lindberg Sweden1-40:03
16Frank Clark Australia1-40:06
17Tom Dooley United States1-40:08
18Karl-Heinz Merschenz Canada1-40:11
19Charles Sowa Luxembourg1-40:17
20Eladio Campos Mexico1-41:52
21Örjan Andersson Sweden1-41:58
22John Webb Great Britain1-42:51
23René Pfister Switzerland1-43:36
24Bob Hughes Great Britain1-43:50
25Ron Laird United States1-44:38
26Mieczysław Rutyna Poland1-47:29
27Euclides Calzado Cuba1-49:27
28Julio Ortíz Guatemala1-54:48
29Roberto Castellanos El Salvador1-58:48
Julius Müller West GermanyDQ
José Esteban Valle NicaraguaDNF
Carlos Vanegas NicaraguaDNF
Felix Cappella CanadaDNF
Kazuo Saito JapanDNF

References
  1. "Athletics at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
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