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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates15 October
Competitors35 from 15 nations
Winning time1:29:34.0 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ken Matthews  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vladimir Golubnichy  Soviet Union
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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]

Results

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Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ken Matthews  Great Britain 1:29:34.0 OB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany 1:31:13.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union 1:31:59.4
4 Noel Freeman  Australia 1:32:06.8
5 Gennadiy Solodov  Soviet Union 1:32:33.0
6 Ron Zinn  United States 1:32:43.0
7 Boris Khrolovich  Soviet Union 1:32:45.4
8 John Edgington  Great Britain 1:32:46.0
9 Gerhard Sperling  United Team of Germany 1:33:15.8
10 John Chester Paddick  Great Britain 1:33:28.4
11 Alexander Bílek  Czechoslovakia 1:33:45
12 Hans-Georg Reimann  United Team of Germany 1:34:51.0
13 Henri Delerue  France 1:34:58
14 Tommy Kristensen  Denmark 1:35:30
15 István Göri  Hungary 1:35:38
16 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 1:36:16
17 Jack Mortland  United States 1:36:35
18 Åke Söderlund  Sweden 1:36:53
19 John Artur Ljunggren  Sweden 1:37:03
20 Roine Karlsson  Sweden 1:37:07
21 Antal Kiss  Hungary 1:38:27
22 Ronald John Crawford  Australia 1:38:47
23 Noboru Ishiguro  Japan 1:39:40
24 Chedli El-Marghni  Tunisia 1:41:11
25 Kiue Kuribayashi  Japan 1:43:07
26 Mieczysław Rutyna  Poland 1:48:41
Robert Charles Gardiner  Australia DNF 1:12:29 at 15 km
Alex Harold Oakley  Canada DNF 0:47:25 at 10 km
Ronald Owen Laird  United States DSQ 1:11:31 at 15 km
Yasuo Naito  Japan DSQ 0:23:43 at 5 km
Naceur Ben Messaoud  Tunisia DNS
Elias Baruh  Romania DNS
István Havasi  Hungary DNS
Andrei Savescu  Romania DNS


References

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  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.