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The following table shows the World Record Progression in the Men's 20 km Walk, as recognised by the IAAF.
[edit] World Record Progression
| TIME |
NAME ATHLETE |
DATE |
PLACE |
| 1:38:43 |
 Hermann Müller (GER) |
1911-10-04 |
Berlin, Germany |
| 1:37:57 |
 Emile Anthoine (FRA) |
1913-07-13 |
Paris, France |
| 1:34:15 |
 Václav Balšán (TCH) |
1933-08-13 |
Český Brod, Czechoslovakia |
| 1:33:25 |
Fritz Bleiweiss (GER) |
1936-06-07 |
Fürstenwalde, Germany |
| 1:32:12 |
 John Mikaelsson (SWE) |
1937-05-30 |
Malmö, Sweden |
| 1:31:44 |
John Mikaelsson (SWE) |
1946-06-10 |
Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1:31:21 |
Josef Doležal (TCH) |
1955-06-05 |
Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1:30:36 |
 Vladimir Golubnichy (URS) |
1955-09-23 |
Kiev, Soviet Union |
| 1:30:00 |
Josef Doležal (TCH) |
1956-07-25 |
Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1:28:39 |
Vladimir Guk (URS) |
1957-04-13 |
Kiev, Soviet Union |
| 1:27:29 |
Leonid Spirin (URS) |
1959-07-07 |
Moscow, Soviet Union |
| 1:27:04 |
Vladimir Golubnichy (URS) |
1959-07-15 |
Moscow, Soviet Union |
| 1:25:58 |
Anatoliy Vedyakov (URS) |
1959-09-06 |
Moscow, Soviet Union |
| 1:25:22 |
Gennadiy Agapov (URS) |
1968-07-21 |
Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| 1:25:19 |
Gennadiy Agapov (URS) |
1972-05-07 |
Berlin, Germany |
| 1:24:50 |
 Paul Nihill (GBR) |
1972-07-30 |
Munich, Germany |
| 1:23:40 |
 Daniel Bautista (MEX) |
1976-05-30 |
Bydgoszcz, Poland |
| 1:23:30 |
Anatoliy Solomin (URS) |
1978-07-19 |
Vilnius, Soviet Union |
| 1:23:12 |
 Roland Wieser (GDR) |
1978-08-30 |
Vilnius, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1:22:19 |
Vadim Tsvetkov (URS) |
1979-05-13 |
Klaipėda, Soviet Union |
| 1:22:16 |
Daniel Bautista (MEX) |
1979-05-19 |
Valencia, Spain |
| 1:21:04 |
Daniel Bautista (MEX) |
1979-06-09 |
Vretstorp, Sweden |
| 1:21:01 |
 Reima Salonen (FIN) |
1979-06-09 |
Raisio, Finland |
| 1:21:00 |
Daniel Bautista (MEX) |
1980-03-30 |
Xalapa, Mexico |
| 1:19:35 |
Domingo Colin (MEX) |
1980-04-27 |
Cherkasy, Soviet Union |
| 1:19:30 |
Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) |
1983-09-24 |
Bergen, Norway |
| 1:19:24 |
Carlos Mercenario (MEX) |
1987-05-03 |
New York, USA |
| 1:19:12 |
Axel Noack (GDR) |
1987-06-21 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR |
| 1:19:08 |
Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) |
1988-07-30 |
Kiev, Soviet Union |
| 1:18:20 |
Andrey Perlov (URS) |
1990-05-26 |
Moscow, Soviet Union |
| 1:18:13 |
Pavol Blažek (TCH) |
1990-09-16 |
Hildesheim, Germany |
| 1:18:04 |
 Bu Lingtang (CHN) |
1994-04-07 |
Beijing, PR China |
| 1:17:25 |
Bernardo Segura (MEX) |
1994-05-07 |
Bergen, Norway |
| 1:17:22 |
 Francisco Javier Fernández (ESP) |
2002-04-28 |
Turku, Finland |
| 1:17:21 |
 Jefferson Pérez (ECU) |
2003-08-23 |
Paris, France |
| 1:17:16 |
 Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) |
2007-09-29 |
Saransk, Russia |
| 1:16:43 |
Sergey Morozov (RUS) |
2008-06-08 |
Saransk, Russia |
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