Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Men's 20 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Date	August 3
Competitors	38 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:23:13 OR
Medalists
	← 1980 1988 →

The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entry list of 42 competitors. Four athletes did not start in the final, held on August 3, 1984.^[1]

Records

Standing records prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics
World Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:30	September 23, 1983	Bergen, Norway
Olympic Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:35.5	July 24, 1980	Moscow, Soviet Union
Broken records during the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:23:13	August 3, 1984	Los Angeles, United States

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Ernesto Canto	Mexico	1:23:13	OR
	Raúl González	Mexico	1:23:20
	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:23:26
4	Guillaume LeBlanc	Canada	1:24:29
5	Carlo Mattioli	Italy	1:25:07
6	Josep Marín	Spain	1:25:32
7	Marco Evoniuk	United States	1:25:42
8	Erling Andersen	Norway	1:25:54
9	Querubín Moreno	Colombia	1:26:04
10	David Smith	Australia	1:26:48
11	François Lapointe	Canada	1:27:06
12	Héctor Moreno	Colombia	1:27:12
13	Philip Vesty	Great Britain	1:27:28
14	Simon Baker	Australia	1:27:43
15	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:27:50
16	Willi Sawall	Australia	1:28:24
17	Marcelino Colín	Mexico	1:28:26
18	Francisco Vargas	Colombia	1:28:46
19	Ian McCombie	Great Britain	1:28:53
20	Martial Fesselier	France	1:29:46
21	Marcel Jobin	Canada	1:29:49
22	Chand Ram	India	1:30:06
23	Jim Heiring	United States	1:30:20
24	Steve Barry	Great Britain	1:30:46
25	José Pinto	Portugal	1:30:54
26	Abdelouahab Ferguene	Algeria	1:31:24
27	Zhang Fuxin	China	1:32:10
28	Alessandro Pezzatini	Italy	1:32:27
29	Martin Toporek	Austria	1:33:58
30	Benamar Kechkouche	Algeria	1:34:12
31	Santiago Folseca	Honduras	1:34:47
32	Pius Munyasia	Kenya	1:34:53
33	Daniel O'Connor	United States	1:35:12
34	José Víctor Alonzo	Guatemala	1:35:32
35	Stefano Casali	San Marino	1:35:48
36	Oswaldo Morejón	Bolivia	1:44:42
37	Luis Campos	El Salvador	1:48:45
38	Amjad Tawalbeh	Jordan	1:49:35
—	Reima Salonen	Finland	DNS
	Dominique Guebey	France	DNS
	Dieter Hoffmann	West Germany	DNS
	Lars Ove Moen	Norway	DNS