Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Volodymyr Holubnychy 1964 | |||||||||||||
Venue | Estadio Olimpico Universitario | ||||||||||||
Dates | October 14 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:33:58.4 | ||||||||||||
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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 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City. It was held on 14 October 1968. 34 athletes from 20 nations entered.[1]
Results
Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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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
- ^ "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.