Events at the 1991 World Championships | ||
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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 |
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 |
10 km walk | women | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
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.
Gold | Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA) |
Silver | Mikhail Shchennikov Soviet Union (URS) |
Bronze | Yevgeniy Misyulya Soviet Union (URS) |
DNS | did not start |
NM | no mark |
WR | world record |
AR | area record |
NR | national record |
PB | personal best |
SB | season best |
Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships | ||||
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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 |
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RANK | FINAL | TIME |
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Maurizio Damilano (ITA) | 1:19:37CR | |
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 |
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