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Men's 20 kilometres walk at the: Games of the——XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Lenin Stadium
Date	24 July
Competitors	34 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:23:35.5
Medalists
Maurizio Damilano  Italy Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union Roland Wieser  East Germany
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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 34 competitors. Seven athletes were disqualified. And two did not finish in the "final," which was held on Thursday, "24 July 1980."

The race occurred on a very hot and "humid day in the Grand Arena of Central Lenin Stadium." The defending champion of the Montreal summer games, Daniel Bautista of Mexico, led along with Soviet Anatoly Solomin for the majority of the race. However, Bautista was disqualified less than two kilometres from the finish and Solomin a few 100 metres later. There were a total of 136 caution flags and seven disqualifications during the course of the race.

In what was considered a major upset, Maurizio Damilano of Italy won the gold with a finishing time of 1-23:35.5, over a minute faster than silver medalist Pyotr Pochinchuk of Belarus, competing for the USSR. Roland Wieser took the bronze for East Germany, the country with the second highest medal total at these Olympics after the USSR.

Also notable was the 18-year-old 25th place finisher, Thipsamay Chanthaphone, who was competing for Laos in its first Olympic appearance. Chanthaphone completed the 20 kilometres in 2:20:22.0, finishing during the medal ceremony almost 57 minutes after Damilano's win and 31 minutes after 24th place.

Medalists※

Gold	Maurizio Damilano  Italy
Silver	Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union
Bronze	Roland Wieser  East Germany

Results※

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:23:35.5
	Pyotr Pochynchuk (URS)	1:24:45.4
	Roland Wieser (GDR)	1:25:58.2
4.	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (URS)	1:26:28.3
5.	Josep Marín (ESP)	1:26:45.6
6.	Raúl González (MEX)	1:27:48.6
7.	Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)	1:28:36.3
8.	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)	1:29:21.7
9.	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:31:32.0
10.	Roger Mills (GBR)	1:32:37.8
11.	Giorgio Damilano (ITA)	1:33:26.2
12.	János Szálas (HUN)	1:34:10.5
13.	Alf Brandt (SWE)	1:34:44.0
14.	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:35:30.8
15.	Aristidis Karageorgos (GRE)	1:36:53.4
16.	Hunde Toure (ETH)	1:37:16.6
17.	Enrique Peña (COL)	1:38:00.0
18.	Ranjit Singh (IND)	1:38:27.2
19.	Ernesto Alfaro (COL)	1:42:19.7
20.	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:42:52.4
21.	Martin Toporek (AUT)	1:44:56.0
22.	Johann Siegele (AUT)	1:45:17.8
23.	Tekeste Mitiku (ETH)	1:45:45.7
24.	Stefano Casali (SMR)	1:49:21.3
25.	Thipsamay Chanthaphone (LAO)	2:20:22.0
—	Lucien Faber (LUX)	DNF
—	Wilfried Siegele (AUT)	DNF
—	Anatoliy Solomin (URS)	DSQ
—	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	DSQ
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DSQ
—	David Smith (AUS)	DSQ
—	Domingo Colín (MEX)	DSQ
—	Werner Heyer (GDR)	DSQ
—	Juraj Benčík (TCH)	DSQ

See also※

• 1982 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)

References※

External links※

• (in English) Results