Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
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
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entrylist of 42 competitors. Four athletes did not start in the final, held on August 3, 1984.

Contents 1 Medalists 2 Abbreviations 3 Records 4 Startlist 5 Intermediates 6 Final ranking 7 See also 8 References

Medalists

Gold	Ernesto Canto Mexico (MEX)
Silver	Raúl González Mexico (MEX)
Bronze	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics
World Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:30	September 23, 1983	Bergen, Norway
Olympic Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:35.5	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Broken records during the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23:13	August 3, 1984	Los Angeles, United States

Startlist

Intermediates

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
1 !	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23:13	OR
2 !	Raúl González (MEX)	1:23:20
3 !	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:26
4	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	1:24:29
5	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:25:07
6	Josep Marín (ESP)	1:25:32
7	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	1:25:42
8	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:25:54
9	Querubín Moreno (COL)	1:26:04
10	David Smith (AUS)	1:26:48
11	François Lapointe (CAN)	1:27:06
12	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:27:12
13	Philip Vesty (GBR)	1:27:28
14	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:27:43
15	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	1:27:50
16	Willi Sawall (AUS)	1:28:24
17	Marcelino Colin (MEX)	1:28:26
18	Francisco Vargas (COL)	1:28:46
19	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:28:53
20	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:29:46
21	Marcel Jobin (CAN)	1:29:49
22	Chand Ram (IND)	1:30:06
23	Jim Heiring (USA)	1:30:20
24	Steve Barry (GBR)	1:30:46
25	José Pinto (POR)	1:30:54
26	Abdelouahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:31:24
27	Zhang Fuxin (CHN)	1:32:10
28	Alessandro Pezzatini (ITA)	1:32:27
29	Martin Toporek (AUT)	1:33:58
30	Benamar Kechkouche (ALG)	1:34:12
31	Santiago Folseca (HON)	1:34:47
32	Pius Munyasia (KEN)	1:34:53
33	Daniel O'Connor (USA)	1:35:12
34	José Víctor Alonzo (GUA)	1:35:32
35	Stefano Casali (SMR)	1:35:48
36	Osvaldo Morejon (BOL)	1:44:42
37	Luis Campos (ESA)	1:48:45
38	Amjad Tawalbeh (JOR)	1:49:35
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Reima Salonen (FIN)	DNS
—	Dominique Guebey (FRA)	DNS
—	Dieter Hoffmann (FRG)	DNS
—	Lars Ove Moen (NOR)	DNS

See also

• 1982 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1984 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Rome)

References

• (English) Results
• (English) sports-reference

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