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]

Medalists edit

Gold	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia
Silver	Ronald Weigel East Germany
Bronze	Maurizio Damilano Italy

Abbreviations edit

All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records edit

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

Final ranking edit

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:57	OR
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	1:20:00
	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:20:14
4	José Marín (ESP)	1:20:34
5	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	1:20:43
6	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:20:47
7	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	1:20:53
8	Axel Noack (GDR)	1:21:14
9	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:21:18	PB
10	Guillaume Leblanc (CAN)	1:21:29
11	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:21:47
12	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:21:53
13	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:22:03
14	Aleksey Pershin (URS)	1:22:32
15	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:22:39
16	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:22:43
17	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:22:45
18	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:22:55
19	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:22:58
20	Jean-Claude Corré (FRA)	1:23:09
21	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:23:18
22	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:23:30
23	Ricardo Pueyo (ESP)	1:23:40
24	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:23:46
25	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:23:51
26	Hirofumi Sakai (JPN)	1:24:08
27	Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS)	1:24:39
28	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:24:52
29	José Urbano (POR)	1:24:56
30	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:24:59
31	José Pinto (POR)	1:26:33
32	Abdelouahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:26:33
33	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:27:06
34	Mohamed Bouhalla (ALG)	1:27:10
35	Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL)	1:27:14
36	Zdzisław Szlapkin (POL)	1:27:23
37	Gary Morgan (USA)	1:27:26
38	Jim Heiring (USA)	1:27:30
39	Hélder Oliveira (POR)	1:27:39
40	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:27:41
41	Li Baojin (CHN)	1:27:57
42	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:28:25
43	Lyubomir Ivanov (BUL)	1:28:43
44	Timothy Lewis (USA)	1:31:00
45	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:31:42
46	Jeong Pil-hwa (KOR)	1:32:23
47	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	1:32:46
48	Rafael Valladares (HON)	1:37:09
49	Jeong Myeong-o (KOR)	1:40:09
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Querubín Moreno (COL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	DSQ
—	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Marc Sowa (LUX)	DSQ