Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
| Men's 20 kilometres walk at the Games of the XX Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany | |||||||||
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| Date | 31 August 1972 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 12 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | women | ||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 100 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | women | ||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Pentathlon | women | |||
| Decathlon | men | |||
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.
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Peter Frenkel |  East Germany | 1:26:42.4 | OR |
 | Volodymyr Holubnychy | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} Bulgaria | DNS | |
| - | János Dalmati |  Hungary | DNS | |
| - | Antal Kiss | Hungary | DNS | |
References
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