| Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad |
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
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| Dates | 15 October | |||||||||
| Competitors | 35 from 15 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Pentathlon | women | |||
| Decathlon | men | |||
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.
Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.
| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Ken Matthews | Great Britain | 1:29:34.0 OB |
| 2 | Dieter Lindner | Germany | 1:31:13.2 |
| 3 | Vladimir Golubnichy | Soviet Union | 1:31:59.4 |
| 4 | Noel Frederick Freeman | Australia | 1:32:06.8 |
| 5 | Gennady Solodov | Soviet Union | 1:32:33.0 |
| 6 | Ronald Lloyd Zinn | United States | 1:32:43.0 |
| 7 | Boris Khrolovich | Soviet Union | 1:32:45.4 |
| 8 | John William Edgington | Great Britain | 1:32:46.0 |
| 9 | Gerhard Sperling | Germany | 1:33:15.8 |
| 10 | John Chester Paddick | Great Britain | 1:33:28.4 |
| 11 | Alexander Bilek | Czechoslovakia | 1:33:45 |
| 12 | Hans Reimann | Germany | 1:34:51.0 |
| 13 | Henri Delerue | France | 1:34:58 |
| 14 | Tommy Kristensen | Denmark | 1:35:30 |
| 15 | István Gori | Hungary | 1:35:38 |
| 16 | Charles Sowa | Luxembourg | 1:36:16 |
| 17 | John Eggert Mortland | United States | 1:36:35 |
| 18 | Ake Wilhelm Soderlund | Sweden | 1:36:53 |
| 19 | John Artur Ljunggren | Sweden | 1:37:03 |
| 20 | Roine Sven Karlsson | Sweden | 1:37:07 |
| 21 | Antal Kiss | Hungary | 1:38:27 |
| 22 | Ronald John Crawford | Australia | 1:38:47 |
| 23 | Ishiguro Noboru | Japan | 1:39:40 |
| 24 | Chedli El Marghni | Tunisia | 1:41:11 |
| 25 | Kuribayashi Kiue | Japan | 1:43:07 |
| 26 | Mieczyslaw Rutyna | Poland | 1:48:41 |
| — | Robert Charles Gardiner | Australia | Did not finish 1:12:29 at 15 km |
| Alex Harold Oakley | Canada | Did not finish 0:47:25 at 10 km |
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| Ronald Owen Laird | United States | Disqualified 1:11:31 at 15 km |
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| Naito Yasuo | Japan | Disqualified 0:23:43 at 5 km |
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| Hassine Belkhodja | Tunisia | Did not start | |
| Naceur Ben Messaoud | Tunisia | Did not start | |
| Elias Baruh | Romania | Did not start | |
| István Havasi | Hungary | Did not start | |
| Andrei Savescu | Romania | Did not start |
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