Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
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
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The Men's 20 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 53 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while one walker did not finish the race. The race was held on Friday September 23, 1988.

Medalists

Gold	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Silver	Ronald Weigel East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:19.08	July 30, 1988	Kiev, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23.13	August 3, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:57	OR
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	1:20:00
	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:20:14
4	José Marín (ESP)	1:20:34
5	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	1:20:43
6	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:20:47
7	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	1:20:53
8	Axel Noack (GDR)	1:21:14
9	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:21:18
10	Guillaume Leblanc (CAN)	1:21:29
11	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:21:47
12	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:21:53
13	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:22:03
14	Aleksey Pershin (URS)	1:22:32
15	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:22:39
16	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:22:43
17	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:22:45
18	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:22:55
19	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:22:58
20	Jean-Claude Corré (FRA)	1:23:09
21	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:23:18
22	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:23:30
23	Ricardo Pueyo (ESP)	1:23:40
24	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:23:46
25	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:23:51
26	Hirofumi Sakai (JPN)	1:24:08
27	Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS)	1:24:39
28	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:24:52
29	José Urbano (POR)	1:24:56
30	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:24:59
31	José Pinto (POR)	1:26:33
32	Abdelouahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:26:33
33	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:27:06
34	Mohamed Bouhalla (ALG)	1:27:10
35	Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL)	1:27:14
36	Zdzisław Szlapkin (POL)	1:27:23
37	Gary Morgan (USA)	1:27:26
38	Jim Heiring (USA)	1:27:30
39	Helder Oliveira (POR)	1:27:39
40	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:27:41
41	Li Baojin (CHN)	1:27:57
42	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:28:25
43	Lyubomir Ivanov (BUL)	1:28:43
44	Timothy Lewis (USA)	1:31:00
45	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:31:42
46	Chung Pil-Hwa (KOR)	1:32:23
47	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	1:32:46
48	Rafael Valladares (HON)	1:37:09
49	Jung Myong-Oh (KOR)	1:40:09
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Querubín Moreno (COL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	DSQ
—	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Marc Sowa (LUX)	DSQ

See also

• 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1990 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Tokyo)
• 1992 Men's Olympic 20 km Walk (Barcelona)

References

• (English) Official Report
• (English) sports-reference