Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 31 August. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.^[1]

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	31 August 1972
Competitors	24 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:26:42.4 OR
Medalists
Peter Frenkel  East Germany Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany
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Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Peter Frenkel	East Germany	1:26:42.4		OR
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:26:55.2
	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:27:16.6
4	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:27:55.0
5	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:28:16.6
6	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	1:28:44.4
7	Jan Ornoch	Poland	1:32:01.6
8	Vittorio Visini	Italy	1:32:30.0
9	José Oliveros	Mexico	1:32:40.6
10	Larry Young	United States	1:32:53.4
11	Jan Rolstad	Norway	1:33:03.2
12	Pedro Aroche	Mexico	1:33:05.0
13	Heinz Mayr	West Germany	1:33:13.8
14	Phil Embleton	Great Britain	1:33:22.2
15	Tom Dooley	United States	1:34:58.8
16	Wilfried Wesch	West Germany	1:35:20.6
17	Peter Marlow	Great Britain	1:35:38.8
18	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:36:23.8
19	Goetz Klopfer	United States	1:38:33.6
20	Hunde Toure	Ethiopia	1:43:11.6
21	José Esteban Valle	Nicaragua	1:45:09.4
22	Ismael Avila	Mexico	1:45:45.4
—	Bernd Kannenberg	West Germany	DNF
	Yevgeniy Ivchenko	Soviet Union	DQ
	Tadeusz Gorzechowski	Poland	DNS
	Ludomir Nitkowski	Poland	DNS
	Shaul Ladany	Israel	DNS
	Teodor Ionescu	Romania	DNS
	Ioan Mureşanu	Romania	DNS
	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	DNS
	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	DNS
	Hans Tenggren	Sweden	DNS
	Fernando Ielli	Italy	DNS
	Oscar Barletta	Italy	DNS
	Kjell Georg Lund	Norway	DNS
	Aram Levonian	Bulgaria	DNS
	János Dalmati	Hungary	DNS
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	DNS