Gold medal times in the 20km walking race at the Summer Olympics 1956-2020

Gold medal winning times in the Men's and Women's 20km walking race at the Summer Olympics from 1956 to 2020

YearMen's 20kmWomen's 20km
Tokyo 2020 81.08 89.2
Rio 2016 79.23 88.58
London 2012 78.77 85.03
Beijing 2008 79.02 86.52
Athens 2004 79.07 89.2
Sydney 2000 78.98 89.08
Atlanta 1996 80.12 -
Barcelona 1992 81.75 -
Seoul 1988 79.95 -
Los Angeles 1984 83.22 -
Moscow 1980 83.59 -
Montreal 1976 84.68 -
Munich 1972 86.71 -
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2YearFinishing time in minutes*Men's 20kmWomen's 20kmMelbourne 1956Rome 1960Tokyo 1964Mexico City 1968Munich 1972Montreal 1976Moscow 1980Los Angeles 1984Seoul 1988Barcelona 1992Atlanta 1996Sydney 2000Athens 2004Beijing 2008London 2012Rio 2016Tokyo 2020
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Release date

2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1956 to 2021

Supplementary notes

This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).

In order to display the data visually, the times have been converted into metric minutes. The standard times (male listed first) are as follows (mm:ss):
1956 - 91:27
1960 - 94:07
1964 - 89:34
1968 - 93:58
1972 - 86:43
1976 - 84:41
1980 - 83:36
1984 - 83:13
1988 - 79:57
1992 - 81:45
1996 - 80:07
2000 - 78:59 & 89:05
2004 - 79:04 & 89:12
2008 - 79:01 & 86:31
2012 - 78:46 & 85:02
2016 - 79:14 & 88:35
2020 - 81:05 & 89:12

The winning athletes (male listed first) and their represented countries are as follows:
1956 - Leonid Spirin (Soviet Union)
1960 - Vladimir Golubnichy (Soviet Union)
1964 - Kenneth Joseph Matthews (Great Britain)
1968 - Vladimir Golubnichy (Soviet Union)
1972 - Peter Frenkel (East Germany)
1976 - Daniel Bautista Rocha (Mexico)
1980 - Maurizio Damilano (Italy)
1984 - Ernesto Canto (Mexico)
1988 - Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia)
1992 - Daniel Plaza (Spain)
1996 - Jefferson Perez (Ecuador)
2000 - Robert Korzeniowski (Poland) & Wang Liping (China)
2004 - Ivano Brugnetti (Italy) & Athanasia Tsoumeleka (Greece)
2008 - Valeriy Borchin (Russia) & Olga Kaniskina (Russia)
2012 - Chen Ding (China) & Elena Lashmanova (Russia)
2016 - Wang Zhen (China) & Liu Hong (China)
2020 - Massimo Stano (Italy) & Antonella Palmisano (Italy)

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