Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's 20 kilometre walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the athletics competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres and women's pentathlon events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.-Men's...

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. It was held on 15 October 1964. 35 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 30 starting and 26 finishing.

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ken Matthews		1:29:34.0 OB
2	Dieter Lindner Dieter Lindner (athlete) Dieter Lindner is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the 20 kilometre walk.He won the silver medal for the United Team of Germany in the 20 kilometre walk at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo and the gold medal at the 1966 European Championships in Athletics...		1:31:13.2
3	Vladimir Golubnichy Vladimir Golubnichy Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy was a Ukrainian race walker who competed for the Soviet Union.He was born in Sumy.Holubnychy dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning the total of four Olympic medals. He trained at VSS Spartak in Sumy.Holubnychy began athletics in 1953...		1:31:59.4
4	Noel Frederick Freeman		1:32:06.8
5	Gennady Solodov		1:32:33.0
6	Ronald Lloyd Zinn		1:32:43.0
7	Boris Khrolovich		1:32:45.4
8	John William Edgington		1:32:46.0
9	Gerhard Sperling Gerhard Sperling Gerhard Sperling is a former East German race walker.Sperling represented the sports club TSC Berlin and became East German champion over 20 km in 1966, 1968, 1969 and 1971.-Achievements:-References:...		1:33:15.8
10	John Chester Paddick John Paddick John Chester Paddick is a British athlete. In 1964, he represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Tokyo Olympics in the men's 20 kilometre walk event and came 10th overall with a time of 1 hour, 33 minutes and 28.4 seconds...		1:33:28.4
11	Alexander Bilek		1:33:45
12	Hans Reimann Hans Reimann Hans-Georg Reimann is an East German athlete, who starts for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the GDR and won two Olympic medals in 20 km racewalking at the Olympic summer games 1972 in Munich he won the third place , and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal he became the second place Hans-Georg...		1:34:51.0
13	Henri Delerue		1:34:58
14	Tommy Kristensen		1:35:30
15	István Gori		1:35:38
16	Charles Sowa		1:36:16
17	John Eggert Mortland		1:36:35
18	Ake Wilhelm Soderlund		1:36:53
19	John Artur Ljunggren		1:37:03
20	Roine Sven Karlsson		1:37:07
21	Antal Kiss Antal Kiss Antal Kiss was a Hungarian athlete, who mainly competed in the 50 kilometre walk.He competed for Hungary in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico where he won the silver medal in the 50 kilometre walk....		1:38:27
22	Ronald John Crawford		1:38:47
23	Ishiguro Noboru		1:39:40
24	Chedli El Marghni		1:41:11
25	Kuribayashi Kiue		1:43:07
26	Mieczyslaw Rutyna		1:48:41
—	Robert Charles Gardiner		Did not finish 1:12:29 at 15 km
	Alex Harold Oakley		Did not finish 0:47:25 at 10 km
	Ronald Owen Laird Ron Laird Ronald Owen Laird was a race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at four Summer Olympics, starting in 1960. His best finish was the 19th place in the men's 50 km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. He won the 20 km event at the 1967 Pan...		Disqualified 1:11:31 at 15 km
	Naito Yasuo		Disqualified 0:23:43 at 5 km
	Hassine Belkhodja		Did not start
	Naceur Ben Messaoud		Did not start
	Elias Baruh		Did not start
	István Havasi István Havasi István Havasi was a male race walker from Hungary. He competed for his native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:*...		Did not start
	Andrei Savescu		Did not start

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