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Men's 20-Kilometer Walk Olympic Medalists

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The gold, silver, and bronze medal winners in the men’s 20-kilometer walk from the Summer Olympic games.

  • 1956
    GOLD Leonid Spirin, URS 1:31:27.4
    SILVER Antonas Mikenas, URS 1:323:03.0
    BRONZE Bruno Junk, URS 1:32:12.0

  • 1960
    GOLD Volodymyr Holubnichiy, URS 1:34:07.2
    SILVER Noel Freeman, AUS 1:34:16.4
    BRONZE Stan Vickers,GBR 1:34:56.4

  • 1964
    GOLD Ken Matthews, GBR 1:29:34.0
    SILVER Dieter Lindner, GDR 1:31:13.2
    BRONZE Volodymyr Holubnichiy, URS 1:31:59.4

  • 1968
    GOLD Volodymyr Holubnichiy, URS 1:33:58.4
    SILVER José Pedraza, MEX 1:34:00.0
    BRONZE Mykola Smaga, URS 1:34:03.4

  • 1972
    GOLD Peter Frenkel, GDR 1:26:42.4
    SILVER Volodymyr Holubnichiy, URS 1:26:55.2
    BRONZE Hans-Georg Reimann, GDR 1:27:16.6

  • 1976
    GOLD Daniel Bautista, MEX 1:24:40.6
    SILVER Hans-Georg Reimann, GDR 1:25:13.8
    BRONZE Peter Frenkel, GDR 1:25:29.4

  • 1980
    GOLD Maurizio Damilano, ITA 1:23:35.5
    SILVER Pyotr Pochenchuk, URS 1:24:45.4
    BRONZE Roland Wieser, GDR 1:25:58.2

  • 1984
    GOLD Ernesto Canto, MEX 1:23:13
    SILVER Raúl González, MEX 1:23:20
    BRONZE Maurizio Damilano, ITA 1:23:26

  • 1988
    GOLD Jozef Pribilinec, CZE 1:19:57
    SILVER Ronald Weigel, GDR 1:20:00
    BRONZE Maurizio Damilano, ITA 1:20:14

  • 1992
    GOLD Daniel Plaza, ESP 1:21:45
    SILVER Guillaume Leblanc, CAN 1:22:25
    BRONZE Giovanni DeBenedictis, ITA 1:23:11

  • 1996
    GOLD Jefferson Pérez, ECU 1:20:07
    SILVER Ilya Markov, RUS 1:20:16
    BRONZE Bernardo Segura, MEX 1:20:23

  • 2000
    GOLD Robert Korzeniowski, POL 1:18:59
    SILVER Noe Hernández, MEX 1:19:03
    BRONZE Vladimir Andreyev, RUS 1:19:27

  • 2004
    GOLD Ivano Brugnetti, ITA 1:19:40
    SILVER Francisco Fernández, ESP 1:19:45
    BRONZE Nathan Deakes, AUS 1:20:02

  • 2008
    GOLD Valeriy Borchin, RUS 1:19:01
    SILVER Jefferson Pérez, ECU 1:19:15
    BRONZE Jared Tallent, AUS 1:19:42


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