1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
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These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 37 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday August 24, 1991, with the start at 08:30h local time.
Medalists
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| bgcolor="gold"|Gold | {{flagicon|ITA}} Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA) |
| bgcolor="silver"|Silver | {{flagicon|URS}} Mikhail Shchennikov Soviet Union (URS) |
| bgcolor="CC9966"|Bronze | {{flagicon|URS}} Yevgeniy Misyulya Soviet Union (URS) |
Abbreviations
- All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
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| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |
Records
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| colspan="5"|Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships | ||||
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| World Record | {{flagathlete|Pavol Blažek|TCH}} | 1:18.13 | September 16, 1990 | {{flagicon|GER}} Hildesheim, Germany |
| Event Record | {{flagathlete|Maurizio Damilano|ITA}} | 1:20.45 | August 30, 1987 | {{flagicon|ITA}} Rome, Italy |
| colspan="5"|Broken records during the 1991 World Athletics Championships | ||||
| Event Record | {{flagathlete|Maurizio Damilano|ITA}} | 1:19.37 | August 24, 1991 | {{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan |
Intermediates
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Final
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!RANK !style="width: 20em"|FINAL !style="width: 5em"|TIME |
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|{{flagathlete|Maurizio Damilano|ITA}} |align="center"|1:19:37 CR |
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|{{flagathlete|Mikhail Shchennikov|URS}} |align="center"|1:19:46 |
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|{{flagathlete|Yevgeniy Misyulya|URS}} |align="center"|1:20:22 |
| align="center"|4.
|{{flagathlete|Giovanni De Benedictis|ITA}} |align="center"|1:20:29 |
| align="center"|5.
|{{flagathlete|Valentí Massana|ESP}} |align="center"|1:20:29 |
| align="center"|6.
|{{flagathlete|Robert Ihly|GER}} |align="center"|1:20:52 |
| align="center"|7.
|{{flagathlete|Walter Arena|ITA}} |align="center"|1:21:01 |
| align="center"|8.
|{{flagathlete|Li Mingcai|CHN}} |align="center"|1:21:15 |
| align="center"|9.
|{{flagathlete|Thierry Toutain|FRA}} |align="center"|1:21:22 |
| align="center"|10.
|{{flagathlete|Robert Korzeniowski|POL}} |align="center"|1:21:32 |
| align="center"|11.
|{{flagathlete|Axel Noack|GER}} |align="center"|1:21:35 |
| align="center"|12.
|{{flagathlete|Carlos Mercenario|MEX}} |align="center"|1:21:37 |
| align="center"|13.
|{{flagathlete|Igor Kollár|TCH}} |align="center"|1:21:44 |
| align="center"|14.
|{{flagathlete|Sándor Urbanik|HUN}} |align="center"|1:21:57 |
| align="center"|15.
|{{flagathlete|Roman Mrazek|TCH}} |align="center"|1:22:03 |
| align="center"|16.
|{{flagathlete|Ronald Weigel|GER}} |align="center"|1:22:18 |
| align="center"|17.
|{{flagathlete|Pavol Blažek|TCH}} |align="center"|1:22:34 |
| align="center"|18.
|{{flagathlete|José Urbano|POR}} |align="center"|1:23:09 |
| align="center"|19.
|{{flagathlete|Héctor Moreno|COL}} |align="center"|1:23:27 |
| align="center"|20.
|{{flagathlete|Nick A'Hern|AUS}} |align="center"|1:23:44 |
| align="center"|21.
|{{flagathlete|Miguel Ángel Prieto|ESP}} |align="center"|1:24:06 |
| align="center"|22.
|{{flagathlete|Tim Berrett|CAN}} |align="center"|1:24:10 |
| align="center"|23.
|{{flagathlete|Vladimir Ostrovskiy|ISR}} |align="center"|1:24:35 |
| align="center"|24.
|{{flagathlete|Marcelo Palma|BRA}} |align="center"|1:24:54 |
| align="center"|25.
|{{flagathlete|Sérgio Galdino|BRA}} |align="center"|1:25:20 |
| align="center"|26.
|{{flagathlete|Artur Shumak|URS}} |align="center"|1:25:22 |
| align="center"|27.
|{{flagathlete|Ian McCombie|GBR}} |align="center"|1:25:30 |
| align="center"|28.
|{{flagathlete|Gyula Dudás|HUN}} |align="center"|1:25:52 |
| align="center"|29.
|{{flagathlete|Bobby O'Leary|IRL}} |align="center"|1:29:28 |
| align="center"|30.
|{{flagathlete|Stefan Johansson|SWE}} |align="center"|1:29:47 |
| align="center"|31.
|{{flagathlete|Tim Lewis|USA}} |align="center"|1:30:55 |
| align="center"|32.
|{{flagathlete|Santiago Fonseca|HON|1949}} |align="center"|1:38:36 |
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|{{flagathlete|Joel Sánchez|MEX}} |align="center"|DNF |
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|{{flagathlete|Claudio Luiz Bertolino|BRA}} |align="center"|DNF |
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|{{flagathlete|Guillaume LeBlanc|CAN}} |align="center"|DSQ |
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|{{flagathlete|Daniel Plaza|ESP}} |align="center"|DSQ |
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|{{flagathlete|Hirofumi Sakai|JPN}} |align="center"|DSQ |
See also
References
- [http://todor66.com/athletics/world/1991/Men_20km_Walk.html Results]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090626022227/http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH91/data/M/20KR/Rf.html IAAF]
- [http://www.maik-richter.de/ Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite]
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