Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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The Men's 20 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 53 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while one walker did not finish the race. The race was held on Friday September 23, 1988.

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

Medalists

Gold	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Silver	Ronald Weigel East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:19.08	July 30, 1988	Kiev, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23.13	August 3, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Startlist

Intermediates

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
1 !	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:57	OR
2 !	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	1:20:00
3 !	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:20:14
4	José Marín (ESP)	1:20:34
5	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	1:20:43
6	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:20:47
7	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	1:20:53
8	Axel Noack (GDR)	1:21:14
9	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:21:18
10	Guillaume Leblanc (CAN)	1:21:29
11	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:21:47
12	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:21:53
13	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:22:03
14	Aleksey Pershine (URS)	1:22:32
15	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:22:39
16	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:22:43
17	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:22:45
18	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:22:55
19	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:22:58
20	Jean-Claude Corré (FRA)	1:23:09
21	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:23:18
22	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:23:30
23	Ricardo Pueyo (ESP)	1:23:40
24	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:23:46
25	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:23:51
26	Hirofumi Sakai (JPN)	1:24:08
27	Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS)	1:24:39
28	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:24:52
29	José Urbano (POR)	1:24:56
30	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:24:59
31	José Pinto (POR)	1:26:33
32	Abdelouahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:26:33
33	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:27:06
34	Mohamed Bouhalla (ALG)	1:27:10
35	Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL)	1:27:14
36	Zdzisław Szlapkin (POL)	1:27:23
37	Gary Morgan (USA)	1:27:26
38	Jim Heiring (USA)	1:27:30
39	Helder Oliveira (POR)	1:27:39
40	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:27:41
41	Li Baojin (CHN)	1:27:57
42	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:28:25
43	Lyubomir Ivanov (BUL)	1:28:43
44	Timothy Lewis (USA)	1:31:00
45	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:31:42
46	Chung Pil-Hwa (KOR)	1:32:23
47	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	1:32:46
48	Rafael Valladares (HON)	1:37:09
49	Jung Myong-Oh (KOR)	1:40:09
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Querubín Moreno (COL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	DSQ
—	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Marc Sowa (LUX)	DSQ

References

(English) Official Report
(English) sports-reference

20 kilometres race walk at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Men's 3 km	1908 • 1912 • 1920

Men's 3500 m	1908

Men's 10 km	1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952

Men's 10 mile	1908

Men's 20 km	1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's 10 km	1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's 20 km	2000 • 2004 • 2008