Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium
DateJuly 23
Competitors36 from 21 nations
Winning time1:24:40.6
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Daniel Bautista
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Silver medal icon.svg Hans-Georg Reimann
Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Peter Frenkel
Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
  1972
1980  

The official results of the Men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held on Friday July 23, 1976. A total number of thirty-six athletes completed the race, while two of them did not finish. [1]

Final ranking

PlaceAthleteTime
1Flag of Mexico.svg  Daniel Bautista  (MEX)1:24:40.6
2Flag of East Germany.svg  Hans-Georg Reimann  (GDR)1:25:13.8
3Flag of East Germany.svg  Peter Frenkel  (GDR)1:25:29.4
4.Flag of East Germany.svg  Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  (GDR)1:26:50.6
5.Flag of Mexico.svg  Raúl González  (MEX)1:28:18.2
6.Flag of Italy.svg  Armando Zambaldo  (ITA)1:28:25.2
7.Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Volodymyr Holubnychiy  (URS)1:29:24.6
8.Flag of Italy.svg  Vittorio Visini  (ITA)1:29:31.6
9.Flag of France.svg  Gérard Lelièvre  (FRA)1:29:53.6
10.Flag of Italy.svg  Roberto Buccione  (ITA)1:30:40.0
11.Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Brian Adams  (GBR)1:30:46.2
12.Flag of Australia.svg  Ross Haywood  (AUS)1:30:59.2
13.Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Otto Barch  (URS)1:31:12.4
14.Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Olly Flynn  (GBR)1:31:42.4
15.Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Viktor Semyonov  (URS)1:31:59.0
16.Flag of Hungary.svg  Imre Stankovics  (HUN)1:32:06.6
17.Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Jan Ornoch  (POL)1:32:19.2
18.Flag of Germany.svg  Gerhard Weidner  (FRG)1:32:56.8
19.Flag of Colombia.svg  Ernesto Alfaro  (COL)1:33:13.8
20.Flag of the United States.svg  Ron Laird  (USA)1:33:27.6
21.Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Bogusław Duda  (POL)1:33:53.4
22.Flag of the United States.svg  Larry Walker  (USA)1:34:19.4
23.Flag of Canada.svg  Marcel Jobin  (CAN)1:34:33.4
24.Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Vinko Galušić  (YUG)1:34:46.8
25.Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Godfried De Jonckheere  (BEL)1:35:03.8
26.Flag of Sweden.svg  Bengt Simonsen  (SWE)1:35:31.8
27.Flag of Honduras.svg  Santiago Fonseca  (HON)1:36:07.0
28.Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Lucien Faber  (LUX)1:36:21.2
29.Flag of the United States.svg  Todd Scully  (USA)1:36:37.4
30.Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Paul Nihill  (GBR)1:36:40.4
31.Flag of Colombia.svg  Rafael Vega  (COL)1:37:27.4
32.Flag of Malaysia.svg  Khoo Chong Beng  (MAS)1:40:16.8
33.Flag of Canada.svg  Pat Farrelly  (CAN)1:41:36.2
34.Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Yoshio Morikawa  (JPN)1:42:20.6
35.Flag of Canada.svg  Alex Oakley  (CAN)1:44:08.8
36.Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Henry Klein  (ISV)1:50:50.4
Flag of Germany.svg  Bernd Kannenberg  (FRG)DNF
Flag of Mexico.svg  Domingo Colín  (MEX)DSQ

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  1. "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2017.