Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul Olympic Stadium (start and finish)
Dates	September 23
Competitors	53 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:19:57 OR
Medalists
Jozef Pribilinec  Czechoslovakia Ronald Weigel  East Germany Maurizio Damilano  Italy
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Athletics at the 1988 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	women
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 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.^[1]

Medalists

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

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

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

• (in English) Official Report