Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
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		women
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 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Medalists

Gold	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador (ECU)
Silver	Ilya Markov Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Bernardo Segura Mexico (MEX)

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 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Bo Lingtang (CHN)	1:18:04	April 7, 1994	Beijing, PR China
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:20:07
	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:20:16
	Bernardo Segura (MEX)	1:20:23
4	Nick A'Hern (AUS)	1:20:31
5	Rishat Shafikov (RUS)	1:20:41
6	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	1:20:47
7	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	1:21:09
8	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:21:13
9	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:21:16
10	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:21:56
11	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:22:05
12	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (BLR)	1:22:17
13	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:22:18
14	Denis Langlois (FRA)	1:23:08
15	Nischan Daimer (GER)	1:23:23
16	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	1:23:41
17	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:23:47
18	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	1:23:52
19	Daniel García (MEX)	1:24:10
20	Valentí Massana (ESP)	1:24:14
21	Yu Guohui (CHN)	1:24:30
22	Daisuke Ikeshima (JPN)	1:24:54
23	David Kimutai (KEN)	1:25:01
24	Andreas Erm (GER)	1:25:08
25	Jiří Malysa (CZE)	1:25:13
26	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:25:14
27	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:25:22
28	Li Zewen (CHN)	1:25:28
29	Claus Jørgensen (DEN)	1:25:28
30	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:25:30
31	José Urbano (POR)	1:25:32
32	Scott Nelson (NZL)	1:25:50
33	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:25:52
34	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:26:02
35	Jean-Olivier Brosseau (FRA)	1:26:29
36	Martin St. Pierre (CAN)	1:26:37
37	Mohieddine Beni Daoud (TUN)	1:27:15
38	Róbert Valíček (SVK)	1:27:27
39	Fernando Vázquez (ESP)	1:27:25
40	Justus Kavulanya (KEN)	1:27:49
41	Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA)	1:27:57
42	Arturo Huerta (CAN)	1:28:23
43	Luis Fernando García (GUA)	1:28:28
44	Valdas Kazlauskas (LTU)	1:28:33
45	Costică Bălan (ROU)	1:28:36
46	Pavol Blažek (SVK)	1:29:41
47	Dion Russell (AUS)	1:30:04
48	Tomáš Kratochvíl (CZE)	1:30:11
49	Claudio Bertolino (BRA)	1:31:04
50	Curt Clausen (USA)	1:31:30
51	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:32:11
52	Hubert Sonnek (CZE)	1:32:42
53	Myint Htay (MYA)	1:42:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Héctor Moreno (COL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Igor Kollár (SVK)	DSQ
—	Li Mingcai (CHN)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Roberto Oscal (GUA)	DSQ
—	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Julius Sawe (KEN)	DSQ
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Moussa Aouanouk (ALG)	DNS

See also

• 1993 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1995 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Gothenburg)
• 1996 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1997 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1998 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Budapest)
• 1999 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Seville)

References

• Official Report
• Results
• sports-reference