Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1992 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	women
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
10 km walk		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

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, held on July 31, 1992. There were a total number of 42 competitors, with five athletes who were disqualified.

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

Medalists

Gold	Daniel Plaza Spain (ESP)
Silver	Guillaume LeBlanc Canada (CAN)
Bronze	Giovanni De Benedictis 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 1992 Summer Olympics
World Record	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:18.13	September 16, 1990	Hildesheim, West Germany
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Startlist

Intermediates

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time
1 !	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:21:45
2 !	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	1:22:25
3 !	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:11
4	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:39
5	Chen Shaoguo (CHN)	1:24:06
6	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:25:16
7	Daniel García (MEX)	1:25:35
8	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:26:08
9	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:26:23
10	Miguel Ángel Prieto (ESP)	1:26:38
11	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:26:56
12	Mikhail Shchennikov (EUN)	1:27:17
13	Vladimir Andreyev (EUN)	1:28:25
14	Tim Berrett (CAN)	1:28:25
15	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:28:37
16	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:28:45
17	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:29:23
18	Walter Arena (ITA)	1:29:34
19	Igor Kollár (TCH)	1:29:38
20	Axel Noack (GER)	1:29:55
21	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	1:30:12
22	Nicholas A'Hern (AUS)	1:31:39
23	Andrew Penn (GBR)	1:31:40
24	Martin Rush (TCH)	1:31:56
25	Shemisu Hasen (ETH)	1:32:39
26	Viktoras Meškauskas (LTU)	1:33:24
27	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:33:32
28	Ján Záhončík (TCH)	1:33:37
29	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:33:51
30	Allen James (USA)	1:35:12
31	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:36:49
32	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:40:11
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Li Mingcai (CHN)	DNF
—	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	DNF
—	Oleg Trochin (EUN)	DNF
—	Ademar Kammler (BRA)	DNF
—	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Valentí Massana (ESP)	DSQ
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DSQ
—	Bobby O'Leary (IRL)	DSQ
—	José Urbano (POR)	DSQ
—	Saleumphone Sopraseut (LAO)	DSQ

References

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