The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 16 August at the Beijing National Stadium.
The qualifying standards were 1:23:00 (A standard) and 1:24:30 (B standard).
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.
Results
RankAthleteNationalityTimeNotes Retrieved 2008-08-16 Valeriy Borchin 1:19:01 Jefferson Pérez 1:19:15 SB Jared Tallent 1:19:42 Wang Hao 1:19:47 PB Ivano Brugnetti 1:19:51 SB Luke Adams 1:19:57 Paquillo Fernández 1:20:32 Robert Heffernan 1:20:36 Luis Fernando López 1:20:59 SB10 Chu Yafei 1:21:17 11 Yuki Yamazaki 1:21:18 SB12 Juan Manuel Molina 1:21:25 13 Benjamin Sánchez 1:21:38 14 José Alessandro Bagio 1:21:43 SB15 Eder Sánchez 1:21:53 16 Koichiro Morioka 1:21:57 17 Ilya Markov 1:22:02 18 Giorgio Rubino 1:22:11 19 David Kimutai 1:22:21 SB20 Rolando Saquipay 1:22:32 21 Erik Tysse 1:22:43 22 Ivan Trotski 1:22:55 23 Kim Hyun-Sub 1:22:57 24 Andriy Kovenko 1:22:59 25 André Höhne 1:23:13 26 Matej Tóth 1:23:17 27 Hatem Ghoula 1:23:44 28 Dzianis Simanovich 1:23:53 29 Rafał Augustyn 1:24:25 30 Dong Jimin 1:24:34 31 James Rendón 1:24:41 32 João Vieira 1:25:05 33 Park Chil-Sung 1:25:07 34 Hassanine Sebei 1:25:23 35 Marius Žiukas 1:25:36 36 David Mejia 1:26:45 37 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi 1:26:53 38 Andrés Chocho 1:27:09 39 Allan Segura 1:27:10 40 Juan Manuel Cano 1:27:17 41 Predrag Filipovic 1:28:15 42 Rustam Kuvatov 1:28:25 43 Kevin Eastler 1:28:44 44 Siarhei Charnou 1:29:38 45 Sérgio Vieira 1:29:51 46 Jakub Jelonek 1:30:37 47 Fedosei Ciumacenco 1:31:37 48 Mohamed Ameur 1:32:21 49 Recep Çelik 1:32:54 Chris Erickson DQ Takayuki Tanii DQ
PB = Personal Best, SB = Season Best
Intermediates Intermediate Athlete Country Mark 4 km 1. Rustam Kuvatov 16:202. Paquillo Fernández +0:033. Ivano Brugnetti s.t.4. Luke Adams s.t.5. Luis Fernando López s.t. 8 km 1. Ivano Brugnetti 32:382. Paquillo Fernández +0:013. Luke Adams s.t.4. Yafei Chu s.t.5. Eder Sánchez s.t. 12 km 1. Ivano Brugnetti 48:362. Paquillo Fernández s.t.3. Luis Fernando López +0:014. Robert Heffernan s.t.5. Jefferson Pérez s.t. 16 km 1. Valeriy Borchin 1:04:052. Jefferson Pérez s.t.3. Jared Tallent +0:024. Ivano Brugnetti +0:035. Paquillo Fernández +0:07
s.t. - same time.
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