Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1992 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
10 km walk				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

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, held on July 31, 1992. There were a total number of 42 competitors, with five athletes who were disqualified.

Medalists

Gold	Daniel Plaza Spain (ESP)
Silver	Guillaume LeBlanc Canada (CAN)
Bronze	Giovanni De Benedictis 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 1992 Summer Olympics
World Record	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:18.13	September 16, 1990	Hildesheim, West Germany
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19.57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:21:45
	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	1:22:25
	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:23:11
4	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:39
5	Chen Shaoguo (CHN)	1:24:06
6	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:25:16
7	Daniel García (MEX)	1:25:35
8	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:26:08
9	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:26:23
10	Miguel Ángel Prieto (ESP)	1:26:38
11	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:26:56
12	Mikhail Shchennikov (EUN)	1:27:17
13	Vladimir Andreyev (EUN)	1:28:25
14	Tim Berrett (CAN)	1:28:25
15	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:28:37
16	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	1:28:45
17	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:29:23
18	Walter Arena (ITA)	1:29:34
19	Igor Kollár (TCH)	1:29:38
20	Axel Noack (GER)	1:29:55
21	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	1:30:12
22	Nicholas A'Hern (AUS)	1:31:39
23	Andrew Penn (GBR)	1:31:40
24	Martin Rush (GBR)	1:31:56
25	Shemisu Hasen (ETH)	1:32:39
26	Viktoras Meškauskas (LTU)	1:33:24
27	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:33:32
28	Ján Záhončík (TCH)	1:33:37
29	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:33:51
30	Allen James (USA)	1:35:12
31	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	1:36:49
32	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:40:11
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Li Mingcai (CHN)	DNF
—	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	DNF
—	Oleg Trochin (EUN)	DNF
—	Ademar Kammler (BRA)	DNF
—	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Valentí Massana (ESP)	DSQ
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DSQ
—	Bobby O'Leary (IRL)	DSQ
—	José Urbano (POR)	DSQ
—	Saleumphone Sopraseut (LAO)	DSQ

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Tokyo)
• 1992 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1993 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)

References

• Official Report
• Results
• sports-reference