Athletics 2024/Men's 20 kilometre race walk

Men's 20 kilometre race walk
General information
Sport	Athletics 2024
Date	1 August 2024
Competitors	49 athletes
Venue	Pont d'Iena
Previous medalists
Gold	Massimo Stano
Silver	Koki Ikeda
Bronze	Toshikazu Yamanishi
Conditions
Length	20000 metres
Medalists
	Brian Daniel Pintado
	Caio Bonfim
	Alvaro Martin

The men's 20 kilometre race walk of Athletics 2024 during the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 1 August 2024 in the Pont d'Iena. With 49 athletes competing, the event was won by Brian Daniel Pintado from Ecuador, with Caio Bonfim from Brazil taking the silver medal and Alvaro Martin from Spain taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of a single race, in which all competitors conduct a racewalking course of 20 kilometres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner of the event.

Preview

Forty-nine athletes qualified for the event with the Chinese and Japanese runners as the apparent favorites for the medals.

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
	Brian Daniel Pintado	Ecuador	1:18:55
	Caio Bonfim	Brazil	1:19:09
	Alvaro Martin	Spain	1:19:11
4	Massimo Stano	Italy	1:19:12
5	Evan Dunfee	Canada	1:19:16
6	Misgana Wakuma Fekansa	Ethiopia	1:19:31	NR
7	Koki Ikeda	Japan	1:19:41
8	Yuta Koga	Japan	1:19:50
9	Aurelien Quinion	France	1:19:56	PR
10	Zhang Jun	China	1:19:56
11	Declan Tingay	Australia	1:19:56
12	Rhydian Cowley	Australia	1:20:04
13	Noel Chama	Mexico	1:20:19
14	Ricardo Ortiz	Mexico	1:20:27
15	David Hurtado	Ecuador	1:20:30
16	Callum Wilkinson	Great Britain	1:20:31
17	Paul McGrath	Spain	1:20:32
18	Ryo Hamanishi	Japan	1:20:33
19	Christopher Linke	Germany	1:20:35
20	Francesco Fortunato	Italy	1:20:38
21	Perseus Karlstrom	Sweden	1:21:05
22	Samuel Kireri Gathimba	Kenya	1:21:26
23	Leo Koepp	Germany	1:21:36
24	Gabriel Bordier	France	1:21:40
25	Jordy Rafael Jimenez Arrobo	Ecuador	1:21:44
26	Luis Henry Campos	Peru	1:22:00
27	Artur Brzozowski	Poland	1:22:11
28	Max Batista Goncalves dos Santos	Brazil	1:22:16
29	Maher Ben Hlima	Poland	1:22:34
30	Vikash Singh	India	1:22:36
31	Li Yandong	China	1:22:46
32	Veli-Matti Partanen	Finland	1:22:56
33	Diego Garcia Carrera	Spain	1:23:10
34	Dominik Cerny	Slovakia	1:23:25
35	Kyle Swan	Australia	1:23:32
36	Wang Zhaozhao	China	1:23:40
37	Paramjeet Singh Bisht	India	1:23:48
38	Jose Alejandro Barrondo	Guatemala	1:24:17
39	Matheus Correa	Brazil	1:24:25
40	Ihor Hlavan	Ukraine	1:24:52
41	Riccardo Orsoni	Italy	1:25:08
42	Choe Byeong-kwang	South Korea	1:26:15
43	Erick Bernabe Barrondo	Guatemala	1:26:19
44	Mate Helebrandt	Hungary	1:27:17
45	Salih Korkmaz	Turkey	1:29:05
46	Bence Venyercsan	Hungary	1:29:14
—	Cesar Augusto Rodríguez	Peru	DNF
—	Akshdeep Singh	India	DNF
—	Jose Luis Doctor	Mexico	DQ