Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 16 August at the Beijing National Stadium.^[1]

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 16
Competitors	51 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:19:01
Medalists
Valeriy Borchin  Russia Jefferson Perez  Ecuador Jared Tallent  Australia
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The qualifying standards were 1:23:00 (A standard) and 1:24:30 (B standard).^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Sergey Morozov (RUS)	1:16:43	Saransk, Russia	8 June 2008
Olympic record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:18:59	Sydney, Australia	22 September 2000

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes[3]
	Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1:19:01
	Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	1:19:15	SB
	Jared Tallent	Australia	1:19:42
4	Wang Hao	China	1:19:47	PB
5	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	1:19:51	SB
6	Luke Adams	Australia	1:19:57
7	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	1:20:32
8	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	1:20:36
9	Luis Fernando López	Colombia	1:20:59	SB
10	Chu Yafei	China	1:21:17
11	Yuki Yamazaki	Japan	1:21:18	SB
12	Juan Manuel Molina	Spain	1:21:25
13	Benjamin Sánchez	Spain	1:21:38
14	José Alessandro Bagio	Brazil	1:21:43	SB
15	Eder Sánchez	Mexico	1:21:53
16	Koichiro Morioka	Japan	1:21:57
17	Ilya Markov	Russia	1:22:02
18	Giorgio Rubino	Italy	1:22:11
19	David Kimutai	Kenya	1:22:21	SB
20	Rolando Saquipay	Ecuador	1:22:32
21	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:22:43
22	Ivan Trotski	Belarus	1:22:55
23	Kim Hyun-Sub	South Korea	1:22:57
24	Andriy Kovenko	Ukraine	1:22:59
25	André Höhne	Germany	1:23:13
26	Matej Tóth	Slovakia	1:23:17
27	Hatem Ghoula	Tunisia	1:23:44
28	Dzianis Simanovich	Belarus	1:23:53
29	Rafał Augustyn	Poland	1:24:25
30	Dong Jimin	China	1:24:34
31	James Rendón	Colombia	1:24:41
32	João Vieira	Portugal	1:25:05
33	Park Chil-Sung	South Korea	1:25:07
34	Hassanine Sebei	Tunisia	1:25:23
35	Marius Žiukas	Lithuania	1:25:36
36	David Mejia	Mexico	1:26:45
37	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi	Italy	1:26:53
38	Andrés Chocho	Ecuador	1:27:09
39	Allan Segura	Costa Rica	1:27:10
40	Juan Manuel Cano	Argentina	1:27:17
41	Predrag Filipovic	Serbia	1:28:15
42	Rustam Kuvatov	Kazakhstan	1:28:25
43	Kevin Eastler	United States	1:28:44
44	Siarhei Charnou	Belarus	1:29:38
45	Sérgio Vieira	Portugal	1:29:51
46	Jakub Jelonek	Poland	1:30:37
47	Fedosei Ciumacenco	Moldova	1:31:37
48	Mohamed Ameur	Algeria	1:32:21
49	Recep Çelik	Turkey	1:32:54
	Chris Erickson	Australia	DQ
	Takayuki Tanii	Japan	DQ

PB = Personal Best, SB = Season Best

Intermediates

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
4 km	1. Rustam Kuvatov	Kazakhstan	16:20
	2. Paquillo Fernández	Spain	+0:03
	3. Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	s.t.
	4. Luke Adams	Australia	s.t.
	5. Luis Fernando López	Colombia	s.t.
8 km	1. Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	32:38
	2. Paquillo Fernández	Spain	+0:01
	3. Luke Adams	Australia	s.t.
	4. Yafei Chu	China	s.t.
	5. Eder Sánchez	Mexico	s.t.
12 km	1. Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	48:36
	2. Paquillo Fernández	Spain	s.t.
	3. Luis Fernando López	Colombia	+0:01
	4. Robert Heffernan	Ireland	s.t.
	5. Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	s.t.
16 km	1. Valeriy Borchin	Russia	1:04:05
	2. Jefferson Pérez	Ecuador	s.t.
	3. Jared Tallent	Australia	+0:02
	4. Ivano Brugnetti	Italy	+0:03
	5. Paquillo Fernández	Spain	+0:07

s.t. - same time.