1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 37 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 24, 1991, with the start at 08:30h local time.

Medalists

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Gold   Maurizio Damilano
Italy (ITA)
Silver   Mikhail Shchennikov
Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze   Yevgeniy Misyulya
Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

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  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Pavol Blažek (TCH) 1:18.13 September 16, 1990   Hildesheim, Germany
Event Record   Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:20.45 August 30, 1987   Rome, Italy
Broken records during the 1991 World Athletics Championships
Event Record   Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:19.37 August 24, 1991   Tokyo, Japan

Intermediates

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Final

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RANK FINAL TIME
    Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1:19:37 CR
    Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1:19:46
    Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) 1:20:22
4.   Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) 1:20:29
5.   Valentí Massana (ESP) 1:20:29
6.   Robert Ihly (GER) 1:20:52
7.   Walter Arena (ITA) 1:21:01
8.   Li Mingcai (CHN) 1:21:15
9.   Thierry Toutain (FRA) 1:21:22
10.   Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 1:21:32
11.   Axel Noack (GER) 1:21:35
12.   Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1:21:37
13.   Igor Kollár (TCH) 1:21:44
14.   Sándor Urbanik (HUN) 1:21:57
15.   Roman Mrazek (TCH) 1:22:03
16.   Ronald Weigel (GER) 1:22:18
17.   Pavol Blažek (TCH) 1:22:34
18.   José Urbano (POR) 1:23:09
19.   Héctor Moreno (COL) 1:23:27
20.   Nick A'Hern (AUS) 1:23:44
21.   Miguel Ángel Prieto (ESP) 1:24:06
22.   Tim Berrett (CAN) 1:24:10
23.   Vladimir Ostrovskiy (ISR) 1:24:35
24.   Marcelo Palma (BRA) 1:24:54
25.   Sérgio Galdino (BRA) 1:25:20
26.   Artur Shumak (URS) 1:25:22
27.   Ian McCombie (GBR) 1:25:30
28.   Gyula Dudás (HUN) 1:25:52
29.   Bobby O'Leary (IRL) 1:29:28
30.   Stefan Johansson (SWE) 1:29:47
31.   Tim Lewis (USA) 1:30:55
32.   Santiago Fonseca (HON) 1:38:36
  Joel Sánchez (MEX) DNF
  Claudio Luiz Bertolino (BRA) DNF
  Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN) DSQ
  Daniel Plaza (ESP) DSQ
  Hirofumi Sakai (JPN) DSQ

See also

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References

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