Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue
Olympic Stadium
Dates15 October
Competitors35 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ken Matthews  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Vladimir Golubnichy
  Soviet Union
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Athletics at the
1964 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

The men's

20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964. 35 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 30 starting and 26 finishing.[1]

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Ken Matthews  Great Britain 1:29:34.0 OB
2 Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany 1:31:13.2
3 Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union 1:31:59.4
4 Noel Freeman  Australia 1:32:06.8
5 Gennadiy Solodov  Soviet Union 1:32:33.0
6
Ron Zinn
  United States 1:32:43.0
7 Boris Khrolovich  Soviet Union 1:32:45.4
8 John Edgington  Great Britain 1:32:46.0
9 Gerhard Sperling  United Team of Germany 1:33:15.8
10 John Chester Paddick  Great Britain 1:33:28.4
11 Alexander Bílek  Czechoslovakia 1:33:45
12 Hans-Georg Reimann  United Team of Germany 1:34:51.0
13 Henri Delerue  France 1:34:58
14 Tommy Kristensen  Denmark 1:35:30
15 István Göri  Hungary 1:35:38
16 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 1:36:16
17 Jack Mortland  United States 1:36:35
18 Åke Söderlund  Sweden 1:36:53
19
John Artur Ljunggren
  Sweden 1:37:03
20 Roine Karlsson  Sweden 1:37:07
21 Antal Kiss  Hungary 1:38:27
22
Ronald John Crawford
  Australia 1:38:47
23 Noboru Ishiguro  Japan 1:39:40
24 Chedli El-Marghni  Tunisia 1:41:11
25 Kiue Kuribayashi  Japan 1:43:07
26 Mieczysław Rutyna  Poland 1:48:41
—
Robert Charles Gardiner
  Australia Did not finish
1:12:29 at 15 km
Alex Harold Oakley
  Canada Did not finish
0:47:25 at 10 km
Ronald Owen Laird  United States Disqualified
1:11:31 at 15 km
Yasuo Naito  Japan Disqualified
0:23:43 at 5 km
Naceur Ben Messaoud  Tunisia Did not start
Elias Baruh  Romania Did not start
István Havasi  Hungary Did not start
Andrei Savescu  Romania Did not start

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
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