The men's 20 kilometre race walk of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 12 August 2016 in the Pontal. With 74 athletes competing, the event was won by Wang Zhen from China, with Cai Zelin from China taking the silver medal and Dane Bird-Smith from Australia taking bronze.
Format[]
The competition exists out of a single race, in which all competitors conduct a course of 20 kilometres of race walking. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner of the event.
Preview[]
Seventy-four athletes qualified for the event with a very strong Chinese team after winning two medals in London. Chen Ding was the defending Olympic champion, Wang Zhen the defending bronze medalist, and Cai Zelin as the third member of the Chinese team. Miguel Angel Lopez was the reigning world champion after beating Wang and Benjamin Thorne for the gold medal, after having won a silver medal at the world championships in 2013, but the fastest time of the year was held by Eiki Takahashi. Other possible medal contenders included Tom Bosworth, Quentin Rew, Inaki Gomez, home favorite Caio Bonfim, Dane Bird-Smith, and Rhydian Cowley.
Current Records[]
| Record | Date | Nat. | Name | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR | 15 March 2015 | 
|
Yusuke Suzuki | 1:16.36 |
| OR | 4 August 2012 | 
|
Chen Ding | 1:18.46 |
Results[]
| Result | Athlete | Nationality | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Wang Zhen | China | 1:19:14 | |
 |
Cai Zelin | China | 1:19:26 | |
 |
Dane Bird-Smith | Australia | 1:19:37 | PR |
| 4 | Caio Bonfim | Brazil | 1:19:42 | NR |
| 5 | Christopher Linke | Germany | 1:20:00 | |
| 6 | Tom Bosworth | Great Britain | 1:20:13 | NR |
| 7 | Daisuke Matsunaga | Japan | 1:20:22 | |
| 8 | Matteo Giupponi | Italy | 1:20:27 | PR |
| 9 | Manuel Esteban Soto | Colombia | 1:20:36 | PR |
| 10 | Evan Dunfee | Canada | 1:20:49 | |
| 11 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Spain | 1:20:58 | |
| 12 | Inaki Gomez | Canada | 1:21:12 | |
| 13 | Manish Singh | India | 1:21:21 | |
| 14 | Ever Palma | Mexico | 1:21:24 | |
| 15 | Eider Arevalo | Colombia | 1:21:36 | |
| 16 | Ruslan Dmytrenko | Ukraine | 1:21:40 | |
| 17 | Kim Hyun-sub | South Korea | 1:21:44 | |
| 18 | Hagen Pohle | Germany | 1:21:44 | |
| 19 | Jakub Jelonek | Poland | 1:21:52 | |
| 20 | Alexandros Papamichail | Greece | 1:21:55 | |
| 21 | Isamu Fujisawa | Japan | 1:22:03 | |
| 22 | Alvaro Martin | Spain | 1:22:11 | |
| 23 | Pedro Daniel Gomez | Mexico | 1:22:22 | |
| 24 | Richard Vargas | Venezuela | 1:22:23 | |
| 25 | Yerko Araya | Chile | 1:22:23 | |
| 26 | Marius Ziukas | Lithuania | 1:22:27 | |
| 27 | Benjamin Thorne | Canada | 1:22:28 | |
| 28 | Mate Hetebrandt | Hungary | 1:22:31 | PR |
| 29 | Luis Fernando Lopez | Colombia | 1:22:32 | |
| 30 | Ersin Tacir | Turkey | 1:22:53 | |
| 31 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 1:23:03 | |
| 32 | Anton Kucmin | Slovakia | 1:23:17 | |
| 33 | Rhydian Cowley | Australia | 1:23:30 | |
| 34 | Georgiy Sheiko | Kazakhstan | 1:23:31 | |
| 35 | Igor Glavan | Ukraine | 1:23:32 | |
| 36 | Hassanine Sebei | Tunisia | 1:23:44 | |
| 37 | Brian Pintado | Ecuador | 1:23:44 | |
| 38 | Nils Brembach | Germany | 1:23:46 | |
| 39 | Chen Ding | China | 1:23:54 | |
| 40 | Nazar Kovalenko | Ukraine | 1:24:40 | |
| 41 | Paolo Yurivilca | Peru | 1:24:48 | |
| 42 | Eiki Takahashi | Japan | 1:24:59 | |
| 43 | Aliaksandr Liakhovich | Belarus | 1:25:04 | |
| 44 | Lebogang Shange | South Africa | 1:25:07 | |
| 45 | Marco Antonio Rodriguez | Bolivia | 1:25:11 | |
| 46 | Alex Wright | Ireland | 1:25:25 | |
| 47 | Artur Brzozowski | Poland | 1:25:29 | |
| 48 | Erik Tysse | Norway | 1:26:06 | |
| 49 | Kevin Campion | France | 1:26:22 | |
| 50 | Erick Barrondo | Guatemala | 1:27:01 | |
| 51 | Juan Manuel Cano | Argentina | 1:27:27 | |
| 52 | Julio Cesar Salazar | Mexico | 1:27:38 | |
| 53 | Sergio Vieira | Portugal | 1:27:39 | |
| 54 | Hamidreza Zooravand | Iran | 1:27:45 | |
| 55 | Francisco Arcilla | Spain | 1:27:50 | |
| 56 | Jose Maria Raymundo | Guatemala | 1:29:07 | |
| 57 | Choe Byeong-kwang | South Korea | 1:29:08 | |
| 58 | Wayne Snyman | South Africa | 1:29:20 | |
| 59 | Marius Savelskis | Lithuania | 1:29:26 | |
| 60 | Thanh Ngung Nguyen | Vietnam | 1:30:01 | |
| 61 | Byun Young-jin | South Korea | 1:30:38 | |
| 62 | Mert Atli | Turkey | 1:31:36 | |
| 63 | Moacir Zimmermann | Brazil | 1:33:58 | |
| - | Samuel Ireri Gathimba | Kenya | DNF | |
| - | Simon Wachira | Kenya | DNF | |
| - | Perseus Karlstrom | Sweden | DNF | |
| - | Dzianis Simanovich | Belarus | DNF | |
| - | Jose Alessandro Bagio | Brazil | DNF | |
| - | Mauricio Artaega | Ecuador | DQ | |
| - | Andres Chocho | Ecuador | DQ | |
| - | Ganapathi Krishnan | India | DQ | |
| - | Lukasz Nowak | Poland | DQ | |
| - | Quentin Rew | New Zealand | DQ | |
| - | Gurmeet Singh | India | DQ | |
| 2016 Summer Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
| Athletics 2016 | |
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| Men | |
| Track | |
| 100 m | 110 m hurdles |
| 200 m | 400 m hurdles |
| 400 m | 3000 m steeplechase |
| 800 m | 4x100 m relay |
| 1500 m | 4x400 m relay |
| 5000 m | 20 km walk |
| 10000 m | 50 km walk |
| Field | |
| High jump | Shot put |
| Pole vault | Discus throw |
| Long jump | Hammer throw |
| Triple jump | Javelin throw |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Marathon | Decathlon |
| Women | |
| Track | |
| 100 m | 100 m hurdles |
| 200 m | 400 m hurdles |
| 400 m | 3000 m steeplechase |
| 800 m | 4x100 m relay |
| 1500 m | 4x400 m relay |
| 5000 m | 20 km walk |
| 10000 m | |
| Field | |
| High jump | Shot put |
| Pole vault | Discus throw |
| Long jump | Hammer throw |
| Triple jump | Javelin throw |
| Miscellaneous | |
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