20,000-Meter Walk
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1956 | Leonid Spirin, USSR | 1:31:27.40 |
| 1960 | Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR | 1:34:07.20 |
| 1964 | Ken Mathews, Great Britain | 1:29:34.00 |
| 1968 | Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR | 1:33:58.40 |
| 1972 | Peter Frenkel, East Germany | 1:26:42.40 |
| 1976 | Daniel Bautista, Mexico | 1:24:40.60 |
| 1980 | Maurizio Damiliano, Italy | 1:23:35.50 |
| 1984 | Ernesto Conto, Mexico | 1:23.13.00 |
| 1988 | Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia | 1:19:57.00 |
| 1992 | Daniel Plaza, Spain | 1:21:45.00 |
| 1996 | Jefferson Perez, Ecuador | 1:20:07.00 |
| 2000 | Robert Korzeniowski, Poland | 1:18:59.00 |
| 2004 | Ivano Brugnetti, Italy | 1:19:40.00 |
| 2008 | Valeriy Borchin, Russia | 1:19:01.00 |
