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20 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date	24 July 1980 — 17:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Bolshaya arena, Tsentralny stadion imeni V.I. Lenina, Moskva
Participants	34 from 20 countries

The race was held on a very hot and humid day. The defending champion, Daniel Bautista, led along with Soviet Anatoly Solomin for most of the race. But less than two kilometers from the finish, Bautista was disqualified and Solomin was likewise only a few 100 metres later. Overall, the race saw 136 caution flags and seven DQs. Maurizio Damilano won the race for Italy by over a minute from Pyotr Pochinchuk, in what was considered a major upset.

Pos	Start Order	Competitor	NOC	Time	5 km	10 km	15 km
1	25	Maurizio Damilano	ITA	1-23:35.5	20:36.0 (=6)	41:25.0 (=1)	1-02:15.0 (3)	Gold	OR
2	29	Pyotr Pochenchuk	URS	1-24:45.4	20:36.0 (=6)	41:25.0 (=1)	1-02:18.0 (4)	Silver
3	17	Roland Wieser	GDR	1-25:58.2	20:57.0 (=13)	42:17.0 (10)	1-04:25.0 (8)	Bronze
4	31	Yevgeny Yevsyukov	URS	1-26:28.3	20:35.0 (=1)	41:36.0 (6)	1-03:23.0 (5)
5	28	José Marín	ESP	1-26:45.6	20:36.0 (=6)	41:54.0 (8)	1-04:18.0 (7)
6	21	Raúl González	MEX	1-27:48.6	20:36.0 (=6)	42:23.0 (11)	1-04:45.0 (9)
7	2	Bohdan Bułakowski	POL	1-28:36.3	21:18.0 (16)	43:18.0 (13)	1-05:42.0 (10)
8	15	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	GDR	1-29:21.7	21:06.0 (15)	43:11.0 (12)	1-06:01.0 (11)
9	19	Reima Salonen	FIN	1-31:32.0	21:36.0 (19)	44:49.0 (16)	1-07:39.0 (14)
10	3	Roger Mills	GBR	1-32:37.8	22:16.0 (22)	44:54.0 (17)	1-08:29.0 (15)
11	26	Giorgio Damilano	ITA	1-33:26.2	21:29.0 (18)	43:43.0 (15)	1-07:07.0 (13)
12	4	János Szálas	HUN	1-34:10.5	22:18.0 (23)	45:09.0 (19)	1-09:15.0 (16)
13	33	Alf Brandt	SWE	1-34:44.0	21:53.0 (20)	45:00.0 (18)	1-09:32.0 (17)
14	5	Pavol Blažek	TCH	1-35:30.8	21:28.0 (17)	45:11.0 (20)	1-09:57.0 (18)
15	27	Aris Karageorgos	GRE	1-36:53.4	23:37.0 (29)	46:58.0 (=22)	1-10:56.0 (20)
16	9	Hunde Toure	ETH	1-37:16.6	23:19.0 (28)	47:26.0 (24)	1-12:30.0 (21)
17	11	Enrique Peña	COL	1-38:00.0	23:15.0 (26)	48:17.0 (26)	1-13:12.0 (23)
18	24	Ranjit Singh	IND	1-38:27.2	20:57.0 (=13)	46:58.0 (=22)	1-12:45.0 (22)
19	10	Ernesto Alfaro	COL	1-42:19.7	24:42.0 (31)	50:45.0 (27)	1-16:52.0 (25)
20	7	Jozef Pribilinec	TCH	1-42:52.4	20:35.0 (=1)	42:00.0 (9)	1-10:05.0 (19)
21	12	Martin Toporek	AUT	1-44:56.0	22:00.0 (21)	46:54.0 (21)	1-14:16.0 (24)
22	14	Hans Siegele	AUT	1-45:17.8	24:43.0 (32)	50:48.0 (28)	1-17:42.0 (26)
23	8	Tekeste Mitiku	ETH	1-45:45.7	24:35.0 (30)	51:24.0 (29)	1-18:38.0 (27)
24	18	Stefano Casali	SMR	1-49:21.3	25:09.0 (33)	51:45.0 (30)	1-19:50.0 (28)
25	1	Thipsamay Chanthaphone	LAO	2-20:22.0	32:01.0 (34)	1-05:59.0 (31)	1-41:20.0 (29)
DNF	34	Lucien Faber	LUX	–	22:37.0 (25)	47:46.0 (25)	– (–)
DNF	13	Wilfried Siegele	AUT	–	23:16.0 (27)	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	30	Anatoly Solomin	URS	–	[20:39.0] ([11])	[41:25.0] ([=1])	[1-02:05.0] ([=1])
DQ	22	Daniel Bautista	MEX	–	[20:35.0] ([=1])	[41:25.0] ([=1])	[1-02:05.0] ([=1])
DQ	32	Bo Gustafsson	SWE	–	[20:49.0] ([12])	[41:44.0] ([7])	[1-03:24.0] ([6])
DQ	20	Dave Smith	AUS	–	[20:36.0] ([=6])	[43:21.0] ([14])	[1-06:22.0] ([12])
DQ	23	Domingo Colín	MEX	–	[20:35.0] ([=1])	[41:25.0] ([=1])	– (–)
DQ	6	Juraj Benčík	TCH	–	[20:35.0] ([=1])	– (–)	– (–)
DQ	16	Werner Heyer	GDR	–	[22:34.0] ([24])	– (–)	– (–)