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
Volodymyr Holubnychy 1964
VenueEstadio Olimpico Universitario
DatesOctober 14
Competitors34 from 20 nations
Winning time1:33:58.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) José Pedraza  Mexico
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union
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Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
  Volodymyr Holubnychy   Soviet Union 1:33:58.4
  José Pedraza   Mexico 1:34:00.0
  Nikolay Smaga   Soviet Union 1:34:03.4
4 Rudy Haluza   United States 1:35:00.2
5 Gerhard Sperling   East Germany 1:35:27.2
6 Otto Barch   Soviet Union 1:36:16.8
7 Hans-Georg Reimann   East Germany 1:36:31.4
8 Stefan Ingvarsson   Sweden 1:36:43.4
9 Leonida Caraiosifoglu   Romania 1:37:07.6
10 Peter Frenkel   East Germany 1:37:20.8
11 Arthur Jones   Great Britain 1:37:32.0
12 Pasquale Busca   Italy 1:37:32.0
13 José Oliveros   Mexico 1:38:17
14 Antal Kiss   Hungary 1:38:24
15 Stig Lindberg   Sweden 1:40:03
16 Frank Clark   Australia 1:40:06
17 Tom Dooley   United States 1:40:08
18 Karl-Heinz Merschenz   Canada 1:40:11
19 Charles Sowa   Luxembourg 1:40:17
20 Eladio Campos   Mexico 1:41:52
21 Örjan Andersson   Sweden 1:41:58
22 John Webb   Great Britain 1:42:51
23 René Pfister   Switzerland 1:43:36
24 Bob Hughes   Great Britain 1:43:50
25 Ron Laird   United States 1:44:38
26 Mieczysław Rutyna   Poland 1:47:29
27 Euclides Calzado   Cuba 1:49:27
28 Julio Ortíz   Guatemala 1:54:48
29 Roberto Castellanos   El Salvador 1:58:48
Julius Müller   West Germany DSQ
José Esteban Valle   Nicaragua DNF
Carlos Vanegas   Nicaragua DNF
Felix Cappella   Canada DNF
Kazuo Saito   Japan DNF

References

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  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.