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20 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date	15 October 1964
Status	Olympic
Location	Kokuritsu Kyogijo, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Participants	30 from 15 countries

Ken Matthews was the heavy favorite, having won the 1962 European Championships and the 1961 and 1963 Lugano Trophy 20 km. walk. Matthews went to the lead immediately and was never caught, although several walkers tried. The GDR’s Dieter Lindner was only 100 metres back at the halfway point, but would lose ground and finish almost two minutes down as the silver medalist. Gold medalist from 1960, Volodymyr Holubnychiy, won the bronze medal, his second of four consecutive medals in the event. The sixth-place finisher, Ron Zinn, was the highest placed American ever in this event to this date. An Army Lieutenant, he would be killed fighting in the Vietnam War less than nine months after the Olympics.

Pos	Nr	Walker	NOC	Time	Warnings	Loss of Contact	Bent Knee	5 km (Pos)	10 km (Pos)	15 km (Pos)
1	189	Ken Matthews	GBR	1-29:34.0	–	–	–	22:19.0 (1)	44:23.0 (1)	1-06:52.0 (1)	OR	Gold
2	256	Dieter Lindner	GER	1-31:13.2	–	–	–	22:22.0 (3)	44:47.0 (2)	1-07:45.0 (2)		Silver
3	694	Vladimir Golubnichy	URS	1-31:59.4	–	–	–	22:23.0 (4)	44:51.0 (3)	1-08:12.0 (3)		Bronze
4	24	Noel Freeman	AUS	1-32:06.8	–	–	–	22:40.0 (8)	45:29.0 (5)	1-08:48.0 (=3)
5	693	Gennady Solodov	URS	1-32:33.0	–	–	–	23:00.0 (11)	46:27.0 (=11)	1-08:48.0 (=3)
6	762	Ron Zinn	USA	1-32:43.0	–	–	–	22:20.0 (2)	45:28.0 (4)	1-09:48.0 (=9)
7	695	Boris Khrolovich	URS	1-32:45.4	–	–	–	22:46.0 (9)	45:54.0 (9)	1-08:48.0 (=3)
8	188	John Edgington	GBR	1-32:46.0	–	–	–	23:15.0 (=14)	46:41.0 (13)	1-09:56.0 (13)
9	258	Gerhard Sperling	GER	1-33:15.8	–	–	–	23:15.0 (=14)	46:17.0 (10)	1-09:48.0 (=9)
10	190	John Paddick	GBR	1-33:28.4	–	–	–	22:52.0 (10)	46:27.0 (=11)	1-09:48.0 (=9)
11	92	Alexander Bílek	TCH	1-33:45.0	–	–	–	22:34.0 (=5)	45:44.0 (7)	1-09:23.0 (7)
12	257	Hans-Georg Reimann	GER	1-34:51.0	–	–	–	22:34.0 (=5)	45:42.0 (6)	1-09:24.0 (8)
13	148	Henri Delerue	FRA	1-34:58	–	–	–	22:34.0 (=5)	45:49.0 (8)	1-09:55.0 (12)
14	94	Tommy Kristensen	DEN	1-35:30	–	–	–	23:15.0 (=14)	46:55.0 (14)	1-10:54.0 (14)
15	305	István Göri	HUN	1-35:38	–	–	–	23:55.0 (27)	47:55.0 (=22)	1-11:45.0 (=16)
16	410	Charel Sowa	LUX	1-36:16	–	–	–	23:20.0 (=18)	47:17.0 (=15)	1-11:45.0 (=16)
17	761	Jack Mortland	USA	1-36:35	–	–	–	23:41.0 (22)	47:44.0 (21)	1-11:45.0 (=16)
18	576	Åke Söderlund	SWE	1-36:53	–	–	–	23:20.0 (=18)	47:27.0 (=18)	1-12:13.0 (21)
19	575	John Ljunggren	SWE	1-37:03	–	–	–	23:29.0 (20)	47:27.0 (=18)	1-12:10.0 (20)
20	574	Roine Karlsson	SWE	1-37:07	–	–	–	23:15.0 (=14)	48:13.0 (=24)	1-12:01.0 (19)
21	304	Antal Kiss	HUN	1-38:27	–	–	–	23:53.0 (26)	48:13.0 (=24)	1-12:51.0 (23)
22	23	Ronald Crawford	AUS	1-38:47	–	–	–	24:12.0 (=28)	48:50.0 (27)	1-14:41.0 (=26)
23	831	Noboru Ishiguro	JPN	1-39:40	–	–	–	23:38.0 (21)	47:55.0 (=22)	1-14:41.0 (=26)
24	620	Chedli El-Marghni	TUN	1-41:11	–	–	–	23:03.0 (12)	48:35.0 (26)	1-13:41.0 (24)
25	833	Kiue Kuribayashi	JPN	1-43:07	–	–	–	24:12.0 (=28)	49:50.0 (28)	1-14:08.0 (25)
26	519	Mieczysław Rutyna	POL	1-48:41	–	–	–	25:17.0 (30)	52:16.0 (29)	1-19:54.0 (28)
DNF	25	Bob Gardiner	AUS	–	–	–	–	23:47.0 (=24)	47:36.0 (20)	1-12:29.0 (22)
DNF	64	Alex Oakley	CAN	–	–	–	–	23:08.0 (13)	47:26.0 (17)	– (–)
DQ	760	Ron Laird	USA	–	–	–	–	[23:47.0] ([=24])	[47:17.0] ([=15])	[1-11:31.0] ([15])
DQ	832	Yasuo Naito	JPN	–	–	–	–	[23:43.0] ([23])	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	541	Baruch Elias	ROU	–	–	–	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	540	Andrei Savescu	ROU	–	–	–	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	621	Hassine Bel Khodja	TUN	–	–	–	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	303	István Havasi	HUN	–	–	–	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	619	Naceur Ben Messaoud	TUN	–	–	–	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)