Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometre walk
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue
Olympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 2
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Vladimir Golubnichy
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Noel Freeman
 Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Stan Vickers
 Great Britain
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The men's

20 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 2. The event was held in a final only format.[1]

Results

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union 1:34:07.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Noel Freeman  Australia 1:34:16.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Stan Vickers  Great Britain 1:34:56.4
4 Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany 1:35:33.8
5 Norman Read  New Zealand 1:36:59.0
6 Lennart Back  Sweden 1:37:17.0
7 John Ljunggren  Sweden 1:37:59.0
8 Ladislav Moc  Czechoslovakia 1:38:32.4
9 Alex Oakley  Canada 1:38:46.0
10 Eric Hall  Great Britain 1:38:54.0
11 Ronald Crawford  Australia 1:39:16.2
12 Henri Delerue  France 1:39:37.6
13 George Hazle  South Africa 1:40:16.2
14 Lennart Carlsson  Sweden 1:40:25.0
15 Tommy Kristensen  Denmark 1:41:07.6
16 Hannes Koch  United Team of Germany 1:41:53.4
17 Louis Marquis  Switzerland 1:41:59.6
18 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 1:42:43.8
19
Ron Zinn
 United States 1:42:47.0
20 Zora Singh  India 1:43:19.8
21
Stefano Serchinich
 Italy 1:43:58.6
22 Luigi De Rosso  Italy 1:45:04.2
23 Bob Mimm  United States 1:45:09.0
24 Rudy Haluza  United States 1:45:11.0
25 Leo Rosschou  Denmark 1:46:35.8
26 Gianni Corsaro  Italy 1:46:47.2
27 Khalifa Bahrouni  Tunisia 1:47:09.6
28 Naoui Zlassi  Tunisia 1:55:21.0
- Ajit Singh  India DQ
- Anatoly Vedyakov  Soviet Union DQ
- Mohamed Ben Lazhar  Tunisia DQ
- Gabriel Reymond  Switzerland DQ
-
Gennady Solodov
 Soviet Union DQ
- Siegfried Lefanczik  United Team of Germany DQ
- Tibor Balajcza  Hungary DQ
- Ken Matthews  Great Britain DNF

Key: DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2017.