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Men's 20 km walk - Athletics |  | ||||
Men's 20 km walk 1956
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| Final | |||||||||
 | Leonid Spirin |  | URS | 1.31.27,4 | OR | ||||
 | Antanas Mikenas | | URS | 1.32.03,0 | |||||
 | Bruno Junk | | URS | 1.32.12,0 | |||||
| 4. | John Ljunggren |  | SWE | 1.32.24,0 | |||||
| 5. | Stanley Vickers |  | GBR | 1.32.34,2 | |||||
| 6. | Donald Keane |  | AUS | 1.33.52,0 | |||||
| 7. | George Coleman | | GBR | 1.34.01,8 | |||||
| 8. | Roland Hardy | | GBR | 1.34.40,4 | |||||
| 9. | Giuseppe Dordoni |  | ITA | 1.35.00,4 | |||||
| 10. | Edward Allsopp | | AUS | 1.35.43,0 | |||||
| 11. | Abdon Pamich | | ITA | 1.36.03,6 | |||||
| 12. | Helmut Laskau |  | USA | 1.38.46,8 | |||||
| 13. | Ronald Crawford | | AUS | 1.39.35,0 | |||||
| 14. | Dumitru Paraschivescu |  | ROU | 1.39.57,4 | |||||
| 15. | Ion Barbu | | ROU | 1.41.37,8 | |||||
| 16. | Bruce MacDonald | | USA | 1.43.25,6 | |||||
| 17. | James Hewson | | USA | 1.46.24,8 | |||||
| Dieter Lindner |  | GER | dq | ||||||
| Alexander Oakley |  | CAN | dq | ||||||
| Josef Dolezal |  | TCH | dq | ||||||
| Lars Hindmar | | SWE | dq | ||||||
Men's 20 km walk - Athletics - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics
Event Format: The competition was a mass start event where all athletes started together at the same time. The first athlete to pass the finishing line was the Gold Medal winner. Event facts: Men's 20 km walk competition was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and 21 athletes participated in the event. |
| These results for Men's 20 km walk - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database |
