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

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.

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

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:34:07.2
	Noel Freeman	Australia	1:34:16.4
	Stan Vickers	Great Britain	1:34:56.4
4	Dieter Lindner	United Team of 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	United Team of 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 Bahrouni	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	United Team of Germany		DQ
-	Tibor Balajcza	Hungary		DQ
-	Ken Matthews	Great Britain		DNF

Key: DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish