Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk was the shorter of the two men's racewalking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964. 35 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 30 starting and 26 finishing.

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	15 October
Competitors	35 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:29:34.0 OR
Medalists
Ken Matthews  Great Britain Dieter Lindner  United Team of Germany Vladimir Golubnichy  Soviet Union

Results

Matthews and Lindner both beat the old best Olympic time.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Ken Matthews	Great Britain	1:29:34.0		OB
	Dieter Lindner	United Team of Germany	1:31:13.2
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:31:59.4
4	Noel Freeman	Australia	1:32:06.8
5	Gennadiy Solodov	Soviet Union	1:32:33.0
6	Ron Zinn	United States	1:32:43.0
7	Boris Khrolovich	Soviet Union	1:32:45.4
8	John Edgington	Great Britain	1:32:46.0
9	Gerhard Sperling	United Team of Germany	1:33:15.8
10	John Chester Paddick	Great Britain	1:33:28.4
11	Alexander Bílek	Czechoslovakia	1:33:45
12	Hans-Georg Reimann	United Team of Germany	1:34:51.0
13	Henri Delerue	France	1:34:58
14	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	1:35:30
15	István Göri	Hungary	1:35:38
16	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:36:16
17	Jack Mortland	United States	1:36:35
18	Åke Söderlund	Sweden	1:36:53
19	John Artur Ljunggren	Sweden	1:37:03
20	Roine Karlsson	Sweden	1:37:07
21	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:38:27
22	Ronald John Crawford	Australia	1:38:47
23	Noboru Ishiguro	Japan	1:39:40
24	Chedli El-Marghni	Tunisia	1:41:11
25	Kiue Kuribayashi	Japan	1:43:07
26	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	1:48:41
—	Robert Charles Gardiner	Australia	DNF		1:12:29 at 15 km
	Alex Harold Oakley	Canada	DNF		0:47:25 at 10 km
	Ronald Owen Laird	United States	DSQ		1:11:31 at 15 km
	Yasuo Naito	Japan	DSQ		0:23:43 at 5 km
	Naceur Ben Messaoud	Tunisia	DNS
	Elias Baruh	Romania	DNS
	István Havasi	Hungary	DNS
	Andrei Savescu	Romania	DNS