Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 kilometer Race Walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia.

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	22 September
Competitors	47 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:18:59 OR
Medalists
Robert Korzeniowski  Poland Noé Hernández  Mexico Vladimir Andreyev  Russia

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland
Silver	Noé Hernández  Mexico
Bronze	Vladimir Andreyev  Russia

Abbreviations

• 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

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	1:17.46	5 August 1999	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	23 September 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	1:18:59	OR
	Noé Hernández	Mexico	1:19:03	PB
	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	1:19:27
4	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	1:20:18
5	Andreas Erm	Germany	1:20:25
6	Roman Rasskazov	Russia	1:20:57
7	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	1:21:01
8	Nathan Deakes	Australia	1:21:03	SB
9	Alessandro Gandellini	Italy	1:21:14
10	Nicholas A'Hern	Australia	1:21:34
11	Michele Didoni	Italy	1:21:43	SB
12	Daniel Garcia	Mexico	1:22:05	SB
13	Yu Guohui	China	1:22:32	SB
14	Aigars Fadejevs	Latvia	1:22:43
15	Ilya Markov	Russia	1:23:03
16	Giovanni de Benedictis	Italy	1:23:14	SB
17	Andrey Makarov	Belarus	1:23:33
18	Costică Bălan	Romania	1:23:42
19	Jiří Malysa	Czech Republic	1:24:08
20	David Márquez	Spain	1:24:36
21	Artur Meleshkevich	Belarus	1:24:50
22	Satoshi Yanagisawa	Japan	1:25:03
23	Moussa Aouanouk	Algeria	1:25:04
24	Arturo Huerta	Canada	1:25:24
25	Dion Russell	Australia	1:25:26
26	Tim Berrett	Canada	1:25:29
27	Daisuke Ikeshima	Japan	1:25:34
28	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	1:26:04
29	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary	1:26:16
30	Shin Il-Yong	South Korea	1:26:22
31	Igor Kollár	Slovakia	1:26:31
32	Luis Fernando García	Guatemala	1:27:16
33	Anthony Gillet	France	1:27:36
34	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy	Belarus	1:28:02
35	José David Dominguez	Spain	1:28:16
36	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	1:28:16
37	Gyula Dudás	Hungary	1:28:34
38	Valeriy Borisov	Kazakhstan	1:28:36
39	David Kimutai	Kenya	1:28:45
40	Timothy Seaman	United States	1:30:32
41	Róbert Valíček	Slovakia	1:30:46
42	Julius Sawe	Kenya	1:30:55
43	Julio René Martínez	Guatemala	1:31:47
44	Ramy Deeb	Palestine	1:32:32	NR
—	Efim Motpan	Moldova	DNF
—	Māris Putenis	Latvia	DSQ
—	Bernardo Segura	Mexico	DSQ
—	João Vieira	Portugal	DNS

See also

• 2000 Race Walking Year Ranking

External links

• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics