Athletics at the 1964 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 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]

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates15 October
Competitors35 from 15 nations
Medalists
Ken Matthews  Great Britain
Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany
Vladimir Golubnichy  Soviet Union
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

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Ken Matthews Great Britain1:29:34.0 OB
2Dieter Lindner United Team of Germany1:31:13.2
3Vladimir Golubnichy Soviet Union1:31:59.4
4Noel Frederick Freeman Australia1:32:06.8
5Gennady Solodov Soviet Union1:32:33.0
6Ron Zinn United States1:32:43.0
7Boris Khrolovich Soviet Union1:32:45.4
8John Edgington Great Britain1:32:46.0
9Gerhard Sperling United Team of Germany1:33:15.8
10John Chester Paddick Great Britain1:33:28.4
11Alexander Bílek Czechoslovakia1:33:45
12Hans-Georg Reimann United Team of Germany1:34:51.0
13Henri Delerue France1:34:58
14Tommy Kristensen Denmark1:35:30
15István Göri Hungary1:35:38
16Charles Sowa Luxembourg1:36:16
17Jack Mortland United States1:36:35
18Åke Söderlund Sweden1:36:53
19John Artur Ljunggren Sweden1:37:03
20Roine Karlsson Sweden1:37:07
21Antal Kiss Hungary1:38:27
22Ronald John Crawford Australia1:38:47
23Noboru Ishiguro Japan1:39:40
24Chedli El-Marghni Tunisia1:41:11
25Kiue Kuribayashi Japan1:43:07
26Mieczysław Rutyna Poland1:48:41
—Robert Charles Gardiner AustraliaDid not finish
1:12:29 at 15 km
Alex Harold Oakley CanadaDid not finish
0:47:25 at 10 km
Ronald Owen Laird United StatesDisqualified
1:11:31 at 15 km
Yasuo Naito JapanDisqualified
0:23:43 at 5 km
Naceur Ben Messaoud TunisiaDid not start
Elias Baruh RomaniaDid not start
István Havasi HungaryDid not start
Andrei Savescu RomaniaDid 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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