Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometre walk at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 2
Medalists
Vladimir Golubnichy Soviet Union   Noel Freeman Australia   Stan Vickers Great Britain

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
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
Decathlon		men

The men's 20 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 2. The event was held in a final only format.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vladimir Golubnichy	Soviet Union	1:34:07.2
	Noel Freeman	Australia	1:34:16.4
	Stan Vickers	Great Britain	1:34:56.4
4	Dieter Lindner	Germany	1:35:33.8
5	Norman Read	New Zealand	1:36:59.0
6	Lennart Back	Sweden	1:37:17.0
7	John Ljunggren	Sweden	1:37:59.0
8	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	1:38:32.4
9	Alex Oakley	Canada	1:38:46.0
10	Eric Hall	Great Britain	1:38:54.0
11	Ronald Crawford	Australia	1:39:16.2
12	Henri Delerue	France	1:39:37.6
13	George Hazle	South Africa	1:40:16.2
14	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	1:40:25.0
15	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	1:41:07.6
16	Hannes Koch	Germany	1:41:53.4
17	Louis Marquis	Switzerland	1:41:59.6
18	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:42:43.8
19	Ron Zinn	United States	1:42:47.0
20	Zora Singh	India	1:43:19.8
21	Stefano Serchinich	Italy	1:43:58.6
22	Luigi De Rosso	Italy	1:45:04.2
23	Bob Mimm	United States	1:45:09.0
24	Rudy Haluza	United States	1:45:11.0
25	Leo Rosschou	Denmark	1:46:35.8
26	Gianni Corsaro	Italy	1:46:47.2
27	Khalifa Bahroumi	Tunisia	1:47:09.6
28	Naoui Zlassi	Tunisia	1:55:21.0
-	Ajit Singh	India		DQ
-	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union		DQ
-	Mohamed Ben Lazhar	Tunisia		DQ
-	Gabriel Reymond	Switzerland		DQ
-	Gennady Solodov	Soviet Union		DQ
-	Siegfried Lefanczik	Germany		DQ
-	Tibor Balajcza	Hungary		DQ
-	Ken Matthews	Great Britain		DNF

Key: DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 20 kilometre walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-10.