Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk


The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 16 August at the Beijing National Stadium.
The qualifying standards were 1:23:00 and 1:24:30.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

RankAthleteNationalityTimeNotes
Valeriy Borchin1:19:01
Jefferson Pérez1:19:15SB
Jared Tallent1:19:42
Wang Hao1:19:47PB
Ivano Brugnetti1:19:51SB
Luke Adams1:19:57
Paquillo Fernández1:20:32
Robert Heffernan1:20:36
Luis Fernando López1:20:59SB
10Chu Yafei1:21:17
11Yuki Yamazaki1:21:18SB
12Juan Manuel Molina1:21:25
13Benjamin Sánchez1:21:38
14José Alessandro Bagio1:21:43SB
15Eder Sánchez1:21:53
16Koichiro Morioka1:21:57
17Ilya Markov1:22:02
18Giorgio Rubino1:22:11
19David Kimutai1:22:21SB
20Rolando Saquipay1:22:32
21Erik Tysse1:22:43
22Ivan Trotski1:22:55
23Kim Hyun-Sub1:22:57
24Andriy Kovenko1:22:59
25André Höhne1:23:13
26Matej Tóth1:23:17
27Hatem Ghoula1:23:44
28Dzianis Simanovich1:23:53
29Rafał Augustyn1:24:25
30Dong Jimin1:24:34
31James Rendón1:24:41
32João Vieira1:25:05
33Park Chil-Sung1:25:07
34Hassanine Sebei1:25:23
35Marius Žiukas1:25:36
36David Mejia1:26:45
37Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi1:26:53
38Andrés Chocho1:27:09
39Allan Segura1:27:10
40Juan Manuel Cano1:27:17
41Predrag Filipovic1:28:15
42Rustam Kuvatov1:28:25
43Kevin Eastler1:28:44
44Siarhei Charnou1:29:38
45Sérgio Vieira1:29:51
46Jakub Jelonek1:30:37
47Fedosei Ciumacenco1:31:37
48Mohamed Ameur1:32:21
49Recep Çelik1:32:54
Chris EricksonDQ
Takayuki TaniiDQ

PB = Personal Best, SB = Season Best

Intermediates

s.t. - same time.