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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
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The men's 20 kilometres walk was an event 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 Mikėnas (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※

External links※

• Official Report
• Results