1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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

Gold	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)
Silver	Mikhail Shchennikov Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Yevgeniy Misyulya Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:18.13	September 16, 1990	Hildesheim, Germany
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:20.45	August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy
Broken records during the 1991 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19.37	August 24, 1991	Tokyo, Japan

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:19:37 CR
	Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)	1:19:46
	Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS)	1:20:22
4.	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:20:29
5.	Valentí Massana (ESP)	1:20:29
6.	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:20:52
7.	Walter Arena (ITA)	1:21:01
8.	Li Mingcai (CHN)	1:21:15
9.	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:21:22
10.	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:21:32
11.	Axel Noack (GER)	1:21:35
12.	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	1:21:37
13.	Igor Kollár (TCH)	1:21:44
14.	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:21:57
15.	Roman Mrazek (TCH)	1:22:03
16.	Ronald Weigel (GER)	1:22:18
17.	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:22:34
18.	José Urbano (POR)	1:23:09
19.	Héctor Moreno (COL)	1:23:27
20.	Nick A'Hern (AUS)	1:23:44
21.	Miguel Ángel Prieto (ESP)	1:24:06
22.	Tim Berrett (CAN)	1:24:10
23.	Vladimir Ostrovskiy (ISR)	1:24:35
24.	Marcelo Palma (BRA)	1:24:54
25.	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:25:20
26.	Artur Shumak (URS)	1:25:22
27.	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:25:30
28.	Gyula Dudás (HUN)	1:25:52
29.	Bobby O'Leary (IRL)	1:29:28
30.	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	1:29:47
31.	Tim Lewis (USA)	1:30:55
32.	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:38:36
—	Joel Sánchez (MEX)	DNF
—	Claudio Luiz Bertolino (BRA)	DNF
—	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	DSQ
—	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	DSQ
—	Hirofumi Sakai (JPN)	DSQ

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Split)
• 1991 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1992 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Barcelona)
• 1993 Men's World Championships 20km Walk (Stuttgart)

References

• Results
• IAAF
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite