Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
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.
Results
Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Ken Matthews | 1:29:34.0 OB | |
| 2 | Dieter Lindner | 1:31:13.2 | |
| 3 | Vladimir Golubnichy | 1:31:59.4 | |
| 4 | Noel Frederick Freeman | 1:32:06.8 | |
| 5 | Gennady Solodov | 1:32:33.0 | |
| 6 | Ron Zinn | 1:32:43.0 | |
| 7 | Boris Khrolovich | 1:32:45.4 | |
| 8 | John Edgington | 1:32:46.0 | |
| 9 | Gerhard Sperling | 1:33:15.8 | |
| 10 | John Chester Paddick | 1:33:28.4 | |
| 11 | Alexander Bílek | 1:33:45 | |
| 12 | Hans-Georg Reimann | 1:34:51.0 | |
| 13 | Henri Delerue | 1:34:58 | |
| 14 | Tommy Kristensen | 1:35:30 | |
| 15 | István Göri | 1:35:38 | |
| 16 | Charles Sowa | 1:36:16 | |
| 17 | Jack Mortland | 1:36:35 | |
| 18 | Åke Söderlund | 1:36:53 | |
| 19 | John Artur Ljunggren | 1:37:03 | |
| 20 | Roine Karlsson | 1:37:07 | |
| 21 | Antal Kiss | 1:38:27 | |
| 22 | Ronald John Crawford | 1:38:47 | |
| 23 | Noboru Ishiguro | 1:39:40 | |
| 24 | Chedli El-Marghni | 1:41:11 | |
| 25 | Kiue Kuribayashi | 1:43:07 | |
| 26 | Mieczysław Rutyna | 1:48:41 | |
| — | Robert Charles Gardiner | Did not finish 1:12:29 at 15 km | |
| — | Alex Harold Oakley | Did not finish 0:47:25 at 10 km | |
| — | Ronald Owen Laird | Disqualified 1:11:31 at 15 km | |
| — | Yasuo Naito | Disqualified 0:23:43 at 5 km | |
| — | Naceur Ben Messaoud | Did not start | |
| — | Elias Baruh | Did not start | |
| — | István Havasi | Did not start | |
| — | Andrei Savescu | Did not start | |
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