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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
Ernesto Canto  Mexico Raúl González  Mexico Maurizio Damilano  Italy
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Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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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.

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

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	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

See also

• 1982 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Friendship Games 20 km Walk (Moscow)
• 1984 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Rome)

References

1. "Athletics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2017.

External links

• (in English) Results

• Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Racewalking at the Olympics
• Men's events at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Walking in the United States