Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were a total number of 21 participants from 10 nations.^[1]

Men's 20 kilometre walk at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Competitors	21 from 10 nations
Winning time	1:31:27.4
Medalists
Leonid Spirin  Soviet Union Antanas Mikėnas  Soviet Union Bruno Junk  Soviet Union
1960 →

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Leonid Spirin	Soviet Union	1:31:27.4
	Antanas Mikėnas	Soviet Union	1:32:03.0
	Bruno Junk	Soviet Union	1:32:12.0
4	John Ljunggren	Sweden	1:32:24.0
5	Stan Vickers	Great Britain	1:32:34.2
6	Don Keane	Australia	1:33:52.0
7	George Coleman	Great Britain	1:34:01.8
8	Roland Hardy	Great Britain	1:34:40.4
9	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy	1:35:00.4
10	Ted Allsopp	Australia	1:35:43.0
11	Abdon Pamich	Italy	1:36:03.6
12	Henry Laskau	United States	1:38:46.8
13	Ronald Crawford	Australia	1:39:35.0
14	Dumitru Parachivescu	Romania	1:39:57.4
15	Ion Barbu	Romania	1:41:37.8
16	Bruce MacDonald	United States	1:43:25.6
17	James Hewson	United States	1:46:24.8
—	Josef Dolezal	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Alexander Oakley	Canada	DNF
	Dieter Lindner	United Team of Germany	DSQ
	Lars Hindmar	Sweden	DSQ