Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date 31 August 1972
Competitors 24 from 12 nations
Medalists
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1st Peter Frenkel  East Germany
2nd Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union
3rd Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany
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Athletics at the
1972 Summer Olympics
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Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
100 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 women
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

These are the official results of the Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 31 August. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Peter Frenkel  East Germany 1:26:42.4 OR
2nd Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union 1:26:55.2
3rd Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany 1:27:16.6
4 Gerhard Sperling  East Germany 1:27:55.0
5 Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union 1:28:16.6
6 Paul Nihill  Great Britain 1:28:44.4
7 Jan Ornoch  Poland 1:32:01.6
8 Vittorio Visini  Italy 1:32:30.0
9 José Oliveros  Mexico 1:32:40.6
10 Larry Young  United States 1:32:53.4
11 Jan Rolstad  Norway 1:33:03.2
12 Pedro Aroche  Mexico 1:33:05.0
13 Heinz Mayr  West Germany 1:33:13.8
14 Phil Embleton  Great Britain 1:33:22.2
15 Tom Dooley  United States 1:34:58.8
16 Wilfried Wesch  West Germany 1:35:20.6
17 Peter Marlow  Great Britain 1:35:38.8
18 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 1:36:23.8
19 Goetz Klopfer  United States 1:38:33.6
20 Hunde Toure 23x15px Ethiopia 1:43:11.6
21 José Esteban Valle  Nicaragua 1:45:09.4
22 Ismael Avila  Mexico 1:45:45.4
- Bernd Kannenberg  West Germany DNF
- Yevgeniy Ivchenko  Soviet Union DQ
- Tadeusz Gorzechowski  Poland DNS
- Ludomir Nitkowski  Poland DNS
- Shaul Ladany  Israel DNS
- Teodor Ionescu  Romania DNS
- Ioan Mureşanu  Romania DNS
- Daniel Björkgren  Sweden DNS
- Stefan Ingvarsson  Sweden DNS
- Hans Tenggren  Sweden DNS
- Fernando Ielli  Italy DNS
- Oscar Barletta  Italy DNS
- Kjell Georg Lund  Norway DNS
- Aram Levonian  Bulgaria DNS
- János Dalmati  Hungary DNS
- Antal Kiss  Hungary DNS

References