Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 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
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
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were a total number of 21 participants from 10 nations.

Final classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	TIME
	Leonid Spirin (URS)	1:31:27.4
	Antanas Mikenas (URS)	1:32:03.0
	Bruno Junk (URS)	1:32:12.0
4.	John Ljunggren (SWE)	1:32:24.0
5.	Stan Vickers (GBR)	1:32:34.2
6.	Don 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.	Ted Allsopp (AUS)	1:35:43.0
11.	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	1:36:03.6
12.	Henry Laskau (USA)	1:38:46.8
13.	Ronald Crawford (AUS)	1:39:35.0
14.	Dumitru Parachivescu (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
—	Josef Dolezal (TCH)	DNF
—	Alexander Oakley (CAN)	DNF
—	Dieter Lindner (EUA)	DSQ
—	Lars Hindmar (SWE)	DSQ

References

• Official Report
• Results