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.
Records Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics World Record 1:19.08 July 30, 1988 Kiev, Soviet Union Olympic Record 1:23.13 August 3, 1984 Los Angeles, United StatesBroken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic Record 1:19.57 September 23, 1988 Seoul, South Korea
Results Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes Jozef Pribilinec 1:19:57 Ronald Weigel 1:20:00 Maurizio Damilano 1:20:144José Marín1:20:345Roman Mrázek1:20:436Mikhail Shchennikov1:20:477Carlos Mercenario1:20:538Axel Noack1:21:149Giovanni De Benedictis1:21:1810Guillaume Leblanc1:21:2911Simon Baker 1:21:4712Daniel Plaza 1:21:5313Ian McCombie 1:22:0314Aleksey Pershin1:22:3215Pavol Blažek1:22:3916Martial Fesselier 1:22:4317Jimmy McDonald1:22:4518Thierry Toutain 1:22:5519Carlo Mattioli 1:22:5820Jean-Claude Corré 1:23:0921Sándor Urbanik 1:23:1822Erling Andersen 1:23:3023Ricardo Pueyo 1:23:4024Chris Maddocks 1:23:4625Stefan Johansson1:23:5126Hirofumi Sakai 1:24:0827Yevgeniy Misyulya 1:24:3928Andrew Jachno 1:24:5229José Urbano 1:24:5630Jan Staaf 1:24:5931José Pinto 1:26:3332Abdelouahab Ferguene 1:26:3333Héctor Moreno 1:27:0634Mohamed Bouhalla 1:27:1035Godfried Dejonckheere 1:27:1436Zdzisław Szlapkin 1:27:2337Gary Morgan 1:27:2638Jim Heiring 1:27:3039Hélder Oliveira 1:27:3940Santiago Fonseca 1:27:4141Li Baojin 1:27:5742Reima Salonen 1:28:2543Lyubomir Ivanov 1:28:4344Timothy Lewis 1:31:0045Marcelo Palma 1:31:4246Jeong Pil-hwa 1:32:2347Tadahiro Kosaka 1:32:4648Rafael Valladares 1:37:0949Jeong Myeong-o 1:40:09— Querubín MorenoErnesto Canto Joel Sánchez Marc Sowa
See also 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking 1990 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Split) 1991 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Tokyo) 1992 Men's Olympic 20 km Walk (Barcelona)
References
External links Official Report