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
Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Valeriy Borchin | | 1:19:01 | |
| Jefferson Pérez | | 1:19:15 | SB |
| Jared Tallent | | 1:19:42 | |
| Wang Hao | | 1:19:47 | PB |
| Ivano Brugnetti | | 1:19:51 | SB |
| Luke Adams | | 1:19:57 | |
| Paquillo Fernández | | 1:20:32 | |
| Robert Heffernan | | 1:20:36 | |
| Luis Fernando López | | 1:20:59 | SB |
10 | Chu Yafei | | 1:21:17 | |
11 | Yuki Yamazaki | | 1:21:18 | SB |
12 | Juan Manuel Molina | | 1:21:25 | |
13 | Benjamin Sánchez | | 1:21:38 | |
14 | José Alessandro Bagio | | 1:21:43 | SB |
15 | Eder Sánchez | | 1:21:53 | |
16 | Koichiro Morioka | | 1:21:57 | |
17 | Ilya Markov | | 1:22:02 | |
18 | Giorgio Rubino | | 1:22:11 | |
19 | David Kimutai | | 1:22:21 | SB |
20 | Rolando Saquipay | | 1:22:32 | |
21 | Erik Tysse | | 1:22:43 | |
22 | Ivan Trotski | | 1:22:55 | |
23 | Kim Hyun-Sub | | 1:22:57 | |
24 | Andriy Kovenko | | 1:22:59 | |
25 | André Höhne | | 1:23:13 | |
26 | Matej Tóth | | 1:23:17 | |
27 | Hatem Ghoula | | 1:23:44 | |
28 | Dzianis Simanovich | | 1:23:53 | |
29 | Rafał Augustyn | | 1:24:25 | |
30 | Dong Jimin | | 1:24:34 | |
31 | James Rendón | | 1:24:41 | |
32 | João Vieira | | 1:25:05 | |
33 | Park Chil-Sung | | 1:25:07 | |
34 | Hassanine Sebei | | 1:25:23 | |
35 | Marius Žiukas | | 1:25:36 | |
36 | David Mejia | | 1:26:45 | |
37 | Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | | 1:26:53 | |
38 | Andrés Chocho | | 1:27:09 | |
39 | Allan Segura | | 1:27:10 | |
40 | Juan Manuel Cano | | 1:27:17 | |
41 | Predrag Filipovic | | 1:28:15 | |
42 | Rustam Kuvatov | | 1:28:25 | |
43 | Kevin Eastler | | 1:28:44 | |
44 | Siarhei Charnou | | 1:29:38 | |
45 | Sérgio Vieira | | 1:29:51 | |
46 | Jakub Jelonek | | 1:30:37 | |
47 | Fedosei Ciumacenco | | 1:31:37 | |
48 | Mohamed Ameur | | 1:32:21 | |
49 | Recep Çelik | | 1:32:54 | |
| Chris Erickson | | DQ | |
| Takayuki Tanii | | DQ | |
PB = Personal Best, SB = Season BestIntermediates
s.t. - same time.