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

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.[1]

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date31 August 1972
Competitors24 from 12 nations
Medalists
Peter Frenkel
 East Germany
Volodymyr Holubnychy
 Soviet Union
Hans-Georg Reimann
 East Germany

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Peter Frenkel East Germany1:26:42.4OR
Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union1:26:55.2
Hans-Georg Reimann East Germany1:27:16.6
4Gerhard Sperling East Germany1:27:55.0
5Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union1:28:16.6
6Paul Nihill Great Britain1:28:44.4
7Jan Ornoch Poland1:32:01.6
8Vittorio Visini Italy1:32:30.0
9José Oliveros Mexico1:32:40.6
10Larry Young United States1:32:53.4
11Jan Rolstad Norway1:33:03.2
12Pedro Aroche Mexico1:33:05.0
13Heinz Mayr West Germany1:33:13.8
14Phil Embleton Great Britain1:33:22.2
15Tom Dooley United States1:34:58.8
16Wilfried Wesch West Germany1:35:20.6
17Peter Marlow Great Britain1:35:38.8
18Charles Sowa Luxembourg1:36:23.8
19Goetz Klopfer United States1:38:33.6
20Hunde Toure Ethiopia1:43:11.6
21José Esteban Valle Nicaragua1:45:09.4
22Ismael Avila Mexico1:45:45.4
-Bernd Kannenberg West GermanyDNF
-Yevgeniy Ivchenko Soviet UnionDQ
-Tadeusz Gorzechowski PolandDNS
-Ludomir Nitkowski PolandDNS
-Shaul Ladany IsraelDNS
-Teodor Ionescu RomaniaDNS
-Ioan Mureşanu RomaniaDNS
-Daniel Björkgren SwedenDNS
-Stefan Ingvarsson SwedenDNS
-Hans Tenggren SwedenDNS
-Fernando Ielli ItalyDNS
-Oscar Barletta ItalyDNS
-Kjell Georg Lund NorwayDNS
-Aram Levonian BulgariaDNS
-János Dalmati HungaryDNS
-Antal Kiss HungaryDNS

References

  1. "Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
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