Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Lenin Stadium
Date	24 July
Competitors	34 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:23:35.5
Medalists
Maurizio Damilano  Italy Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union Roland Wieser  East Germany

The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 34 competitors. Seven athletes were disqualified and two did not finish in the final, which was held on Thursday, 24 July 1980.

The race occurred on a very hot and humid day in the Grand Arena of Central Lenin Stadium. The defending champion of the Montreal summer games, Daniel Bautista of Mexico, led along with Soviet Anatoly Solomin for the majority of the race. However, Bautista was disqualified less than two kilometres from the finish and Solomin a few 100 metres later. There were a total of 136 caution flags and seven disqualifications during the course of the race.^[1]

In what was considered a major upset, Maurizio Damilano of Italy won the gold with a finishing time of 1-23:35.5, over a minute faster than silver medalist Pyotr Pochinchuk of Belarus, competing for the USSR. Roland Wieser took the bronze for East Germany, the country with the second highest medal total at these Olympics after the USSR.^[1]

Also notable was the 18-year-old 25th place finisher, Thipsamay Chanthaphone, who was competing for Laos in its first Olympic appearance. Chanthaphone completed the 20 kilometres in 2:20:22.0, finishing during the medal ceremony almost 57 minutes after Damilano's win and 31 minutes after 24th place.^[2]

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time behind	Notes
	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:23:35.5
	Pyotr Pochynchuk	Soviet Union	1:24:45.4
	Roland Wieser	East Germany	1:25:58.2
4	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov	Soviet Union	1:26:28.3
5	Josep Marín	Spain	1:26:45.6
6	Raúl González	Mexico	1:27:48.6
7	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	1:28:36.3
8	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany	1:29:21.7
9	Reima Salonen	Finland	1:31:32.0
10	Roger Mills	Great Britain	1:32:37.8
11	Giorgio Damilano	Italy	1:33:26.2
12	János Szálas	Hungary	1:34:10.5
13	Alf Brandt	Sweden	1:34:44.0
14	Pavol Blažek	Czechoslovakia	1:35:30.8
15	Aristidis Karageorgos	Greece	1:36:53.4
16	Hunde Toure	Ethiopia	1:37:16.6
17	Enrique Peña	Colombia	1:38:00.0
18	Ranjit Singh	India	1:38:27.2
19	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	1:42:19.7
20	Jozef Pribilinec	Czechoslovakia	1:42:52.4
21	Martin Toporek	Austria	1:44:56.0
22	Johann Siegele	Austria	1:45:17.8
23	Tekeste Mitiku	Ethiopia	1:45:45.7
24	Stefano Casali	San Marino	1:49:21.3
25	Thipsamay Chanthaphone	Laos	2:20:22.0
—	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	DNF
	Wilfried Siegele	Austria	DNF
	Anatoliy Solomin	Soviet Union	DNS
	Daniel Bautista	Mexico	DNS
	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden	DNS
	David Smith	Australia	DNS
	Domingo Colín	Mexico	DNS
	Werner Heyer	East Germany	DNS
	Juraj Benčík	Czechoslovakia	DNS

See also

• 1982 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)

References

1. "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
2. Thipsamay Chanthaphone at Sports Reference

External links

• (in English) Results