Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Men's 20 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul Olympic Stadium (start and finish)
Dates	September 23
Competitors	53 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:19:57 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The Men's 20 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 53 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while one walker did not finish the race. The race was held on Friday September 23, 1988.^[1]

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:19.08	July 30, 1988	Kiev, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23.13	August 3, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Jozef Pribilinec	Czechoslovakia	1:19:57	OR
	Ronald Weigel	East Germany	1:20:00
	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:20:14
4	José Marín	Spain	1:20:34
5	Roman Mrázek	Czechoslovakia	1:20:43
6	Mikhail Shchennikov	Soviet Union	1:20:47
7	Carlos Mercenario	Mexico	1:20:53
8	Axel Noack	East Germany	1:21:14
9	Giovanni De Benedictis	Italy	1:21:18	PB
10	Guillaume Leblanc	Canada	1:21:29
11	Simon Baker	Australia	1:21:47
12	Daniel Plaza	Spain	1:21:53
13	Ian McCombie	Great Britain	1:22:03
14	Aleksey Pershin	Soviet Union	1:22:32
15	Pavol Blažek	Czechoslovakia	1:22:39
16	Martial Fesselier	France	1:22:43
17	Jimmy McDonald	Ireland	1:22:45
18	Thierry Toutain	France	1:22:55
19	Carlo Mattioli	Italy	1:22:58
20	Jean-Claude Corré	France	1:23:09
21	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary	1:23:18
22	Erling Andersen	Norway	1:23:30
23	Ricardo Pueyo	Spain	1:23:40
24	Chris Maddocks	Great Britain	1:23:46
25	Stefan Johansson	Sweden	1:23:51
26	Hirofumi Sakai	Japan	1:24:08
27	Yevgeniy Misyulya	Soviet Union	1:24:39
28	Andrew Jachno	Australia	1:24:52
29	José Urbano	Portugal	1:24:56
30	Jan Staaf	Sweden	1:24:59
31	José Pinto	Portugal	1:26:33
32	Abdelouahab Ferguene	Algeria	1:26:33
33	Héctor Moreno	Colombia	1:27:06
34	Mohamed Bouhalla	Algeria	1:27:10
35	Godfried Dejonckheere	Belgium	1:27:14
36	Zdzisław Szlapkin	Poland	1:27:23
37	Gary Morgan	United States	1:27:26
38	Jim Heiring	United States	1:27:30
39	Hélder Oliveira	Portugal	1:27:39
40	Santiago Fonseca	Honduras	1:27:41
41	Li Baojin	China	1:27:57
42	Reima Salonen	Finland	1:28:25
43	Lyubomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:28:43
44	Timothy Lewis	United States	1:31:00
45	Marcelo Palma	Brazil	1:31:42
46	Jeong Pil-hwa	South Korea	1:32:23
47	Tadahiro Kosaka	Japan	1:32:46
48	Rafael Valladares	Honduras	1:37:09
49	Jeong Myeong-o	South Korea	1:40:09
—	Querubín Moreno	Colombia	DNF
	Ernesto Canto	Mexico	DSQ
	Joel Sánchez	Mexico	DSQ
	Marc Sowa	Luxembourg	DSQ