Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	15 October
Competitors	35 from 15 nations
Medalists
Ken Matthews  Great Britain Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany Vladimir Golubnichy  Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964. 35 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 30 starting and 26 finishing.

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Ken Matthews	Great Britain	1:29:34.0 OB
2	Dieter Lindner	United Team of Germany	1:31:13.2
3	Vladimir Golubnichy	Soviet Union	1:31:59.4
4	Noel Frederick Freeman	Australia	1:32:06.8
5	Gennady Solodov	Soviet Union	1:32:33.0
6	Ron Zinn	United States	1:32:43.0
7	Boris Khrolovich	Soviet Union	1:32:45.4
8	John William Edgington	Great Britain	1:32:46.0
9	Gerhard Sperling	United Team of Germany	1:33:15.8
10	John Chester Paddick	Great Britain	1:33:28.4
11	Alexander Bilek	Czechoslovakia	1:33:45
12	Hans-Georg Reimann	United Team of Germany	1:34:51.0
13	Henri Delerue	France	1:34:58
14	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	1:35:30
15	István Gori	Hungary	1:35:38
16	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:36:16
17	John Eggert Mortland	United States	1:36:35
18	Ake Wilhelm Soderlund	Sweden	1:36:53
19	John Artur Ljunggren	Sweden	1:37:03
20	Roine Sven Karlsson	Sweden	1:37:07
21	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:38:27
22	Ronald John Crawford	Australia	1:38:47
23	Ishiguro Noboru	Japan	1:39:40
24	Chedli El Marghni	23x15px Tunisia	1:41:11
25	Kuribayashi Kiue	Japan	1:43:07
26	Mieczyslaw Rutyna	Poland	1:48:41
—	Robert Charles Gardiner	Australia	Did not finish 1:12:29 at 15 km
	Alex Harold Oakley	23x15px Canada	Did not finish 0:47:25 at 10 km
	Ronald Owen Laird	United States	Disqualified 1:11:31 at 15 km
	Naito Yasuo	Japan	Disqualified 0:23:43 at 5 km
	Hassine Belkhodja	23x15px Tunisia	Did not start
	Naceur Ben Messaoud	23x15px Tunisia	Did not start
	Elias Baruh	Romania	Did not start
	István Havasi	Hungary	Did not start
	Andrei Savescu	Romania	Did not start

References

• Official Report