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

Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

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.

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

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

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

• 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)

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