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Men's 20 kilometre walk at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 2
Competitors	36 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:34:07.2
Medalists
Vladimir Golubnichy  Soviet Union Noel Freeman  Australia Stan Vickers  Great Britain
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Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
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
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The men's 20 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 2. The event was held in a final only format.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:34:07.2
	Noel Freeman	Australia	1:34:16.4
	Stan Vickers	Great Britain	1:34:56.4
4	Dieter Lindner	United Team of Germany	1:35:33.8
5	Norman Read	New Zealand	1:36:59.0
6	Lennart Back	Sweden	1:37:17.0
7	John Ljunggren	Sweden	1:37:59.0
8	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	1:38:32.4
9	Alex Oakley	Canada	1:38:46.0
10	Eric Hall	Great Britain	1:38:54.0
11	Ronald Crawford	Australia	1:39:16.2
12	Henri Delerue	France	1:39:37.6
13	George Hazle	South Africa	1:40:16.2
14	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	1:40:25.0
15	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	1:41:07.6
16	Hannes Koch	United Team of Germany	1:41:53.4
17	Louis Marquis	Switzerland	1:41:59.6
18	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:42:43.8
19	Ron Zinn	United States	1:42:47.0
20	Zora Singh	India	1:43:19.8
21	Stefano Serchinich	Italy	1:43:58.6
22	Luigi De Rosso	Italy	1:45:04.2
23	Bob Mimm	United States	1:45:09.0
24	Rudy Haluza	United States	1:45:11.0
25	Leo Rosschou	Denmark	1:46:35.8
26	Gianni Corsaro	Italy	1:46:47.2
27	Khalifa Bahrouni	Tunisia	1:47:09.6
28	Naoui Zlassi	Tunisia	1:55:21.0
—	Ajit Singh	India	DSQ
	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	DSQ
	Mohamed Ben Lazhar	Tunisia	DSQ
	Gabriel Reymond	Switzerland	DSQ
	Gennady Solodov	Soviet Union	DSQ
	Siegfried Lefanczik	United Team of Germany	DSQ
	Tibor Balajcza	Hungary	DSQ
	Ken Matthews	Great Britain	DNF

Key: DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

References

1. "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

• Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Racewalking at the Olympics
• Men's events at the 1960 Summer Olympics