Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City. It was held on 14 October 1968. 34 athletes from 20 nations entered.

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Volodymyr Holubnychy 1964
Medalists
Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union José Pedraza  Mexico Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1-33:58.4
	José Pedraza	Mexico	1-34:00.0
	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1-34:03.4
4	Rudy Haluza	United States	1-35:00.2
5	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1-35:27.2
6	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	1-36:16.8
7	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1-36:31.4
8	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1-36:43.4
9	Leonida Caraiosifoglu	Romania	1-37:07.6
10	Peter Frenkel	East Germany	1-37:20.8
11	Arthur Jones	Great Britain	1-37:32.0
12	Pasquale Busca	Italy	1-37:32.0
13	José Oliveros	Mexico	1-38:17
14	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1-38:24
15	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	1-40:03
16	Frank Clark	Australia	1-40:06
17	Tom Dooley	United States	1-40:08
18	Karl-Heinz Merschenz	Canada	1-40:11
19	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1-40:17
20	Eladio Campos	Mexico	1-41:52
21	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	1-41:58
22	John Webb	Great Britain	1-42:51
23	René Pfister	Switzerland	1-43:36
24	Bob Hughes	Great Britain	1-43:50
25	Ron Laird	United States	1-44:38
26	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	1-47:29
27	Euclides Calzado	Cuba	1-49:27
28	Julio Ortíz	Guatemala	1-54:48
29	Roberto Castellanos	El Salvador	1-58:48
	Julius Müller	West Germany		DQ
	José Esteban Valle	Nicaragua		DNF
	Carlos Vanegas	Nicaragua		DNF
	Felix Cappella	Canada		DNF
	Kazuo Saito	Japan		DNF