Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
# Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The Men's 20 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 53 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while one walker did not finish the race. The race was held on Friday September 23, 1988.

## Medalists

| Gold | Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia |
| - | - |
| Silver | Ronald Weigel East Germany |
| Bronze | Maurizio Damilano Italy |

## 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 1988 Summer Olympics :

| World Record | Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) | 1:19.08 | July 30, 1988 | Kiev, Soviet Union |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic Record | Ernesto Canto (MEX) | 1:23.13 | August 3, 1984 | Los Angeles, United States |
| Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics |||||
| Olympic Record | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 1:19.57 | September 23, 1988 | Seoul, South Korea |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 1:19:57 | OR |
| | Ronald Weigel (GDR) | 1:20:00 | |
| | Maurizio Damilano (ITA) | 1:20:14 | |
| 4 | José Marín (ESP) | 1:20:34 | |
| 5 | Roman Mrázek (TCH) | 1:20:43 | |
| 6 | Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) | 1:20:47 | |
| 7 | Carlos Mercenario (MEX) | 1:20:53 | |
| 8 | Axel Noack (GDR) | 1:21:14 | |
| 9 | Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) | 1:21:18 | PB |
| 10 | Guillaume Leblanc (CAN) | 1:21:29 | |
| 11 | Simon Baker (AUS) | 1:21:47 | |
| 12 | Daniel Plaza (ESP) | 1:21:53 | |
| 13 | Ian McCombie (GBR) | 1:22:03 | |
| 14 | Aleksey Pershin (URS) | 1:22:32 | |
| 15 | Pavol Blažek (TCH) | 1:22:39 | |
| 16 | Martial Fesselier (FRA) | 1:22:43 | |
| 17 | Jimmy McDonald (IRL) | 1:22:45 | |
| 18 | Thierry Toutain (FRA) | 1:22:55 | |
| 19 | Carlo Mattioli (ITA) | 1:22:58 | |
| 20 | Jean-Claude Corré (FRA) | 1:23:09 | |
| 21 | Sándor Urbanik (HUN) | 1:23:18 | |
| 22 | Erling Andersen (NOR) | 1:23:30 | |
| 23 | Ricardo Pueyo (ESP) | 1:23:40 | |
| 24 | Chris Maddocks (GBR) | 1:23:46 | |
| 25 | Stefan Johansson (SWE) | 1:23:51 | |
| 26 | Hirofumi Sakai (JPN) | 1:24:08 | |
| 27 | Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) | 1:24:39 | |
| 28 | Andrew Jachno (AUS) | 1:24:52 | |
| 29 | José Urbano (POR) | 1:24:56 | |
| 30 | Jan Staaf (SWE) | 1:24:59 | |
| 31 | José Pinto (POR) | 1:26:33 | |
| 32 | Abdelouahab Ferguene (ALG) | 1:26:33 | |
| 33 | Héctor Moreno (COL) | 1:27:06 | |
| 34 | Mohamed Bouhalla (ALG) | 1:27:10 | |
| 35 | Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL) | 1:27:14 | |
| 36 | Zdzisław Szlapkin (POL) | 1:27:23 | |
| 37 | Gary Morgan (USA) | 1:27:26 | |
| 38 | Jim Heiring (USA) | 1:27:30 | |
| 39 | Hélder Oliveira (POR) | 1:27:39 | |
| 40 | Santiago Fonseca (HON) | 1:27:41 | |
| 41 | Li Baojin (CHN) | 1:27:57 | |
| 42 | Reima Salonen (FIN) | 1:28:25 | |
| 43 | Lyubomir Ivanov (BUL) | 1:28:43 | |
| 44 | Timothy Lewis (USA) | 1:31:00 | |
| 45 | Marcelo Palma (BRA) | 1:31:42 | |
| 46 | Jeong Pil-hwa (KOR) | 1:32:23 | |
| 47 | Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN) | 1:32:46 | |
| 48 | Rafael Valladares (HON) | 1:37:09 | |
| 49 | Jeong Myeong-o (KOR) | 1:40:09 | |
| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) ||||
| — | Querubín Moreno (COL) | DNF |
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) ||||
| — | Ernesto Canto (MEX) | DSQ | |
| — | Joel Sánchez (MEX) | DSQ | |
| — | Marc Sowa (LUX) | DSQ | |
