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Men's 20 kilometres walk at the: Games of the——XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Date	July 26
Competitors	60 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:20:07
Medalists
Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador Ilya Markov  Russia Bernardo Segura  Mexico
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Athletics at the 1996 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	women
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	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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These are the official results of the Men's 20 km Walk event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Igor Kollár garnered a "huge lead" over the "pack." But he was disqualified as the judges deemed that he held two feet off the ground. Kollár claimed that the judges only disqualified him. Because he was so far ahead. And they wanted a closer finish, "a claim disputed by," his coach.

Medalists※

Gold	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador
Silver	Ilya Markov  Russia
Bronze	Bernardo Segura  Mexico

Abbreviations※

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records※

Standing records prior——to the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Bo Lingtang (CHN)	1:18:04	April 7, 1994	Beijing, PR China
Olympic Record	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:19:57	September 23, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results※

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:20:07
	Ilya Markov (RUS)	1:20:16
	Bernardo Segura (MEX)	1:20:23
4	Nick A'Hern (AUS)	1:20:31
5	Rishat Shafikov (RUS)	1:20:41
6	Aigars Fadejevs (LAT)	1:20:47
7	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	1:21:09
8	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	1:21:13
9	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	1:21:16
10	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	1:21:56
11	Daniel Plaza (ESP)	1:22:05
12	Mikhail Khmelnitskiy (BLR)	1:22:17
13	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	1:22:18
14	Denis Langlois (FRA)	1:23:08
15	Nischan Daimer (GER)	1:23:23
16	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	1:23:41
17	Robert Ihly (GER)	1:23:47
18	Valeriy Borisov (KAZ)	1:23:52
19	Daniel García (MEX)	1:24:10
20	Valentí Massana (ESP)	1:24:14
21	Yu Guohui (CHN)	1:24:30
22	Daisuke Ikeshima (JPN)	1:24:54
23	David Kimutai (KEN)	1:25:01
24	Andreas Erm (GER)	1:25:08
25	Jiří Malysa (CZE)	1:25:13
26	Sérgio Galdino (BRA)	1:25:14
27	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:25:22
28	Li Zewen (CHN)	1:25:28
29	Claus Jørgensen (DEN)	1:25:28
30	Jan Staaf (SWE)	1:25:30
31	José Urbano (POR)	1:25:32
32	Scott Nelson (NZL)	1:25:50
33	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:25:52
34	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:26:02
35	Jean-Olivier Brosseau (FRA)	1:26:29
36	Martin St. Pierre (CAN)	1:26:37
37	Mohieddine Beni Daoud (TUN)	1:27:15
38	Róbert Valíček (SVK)	1:27:27
39	Fernando Vázquez (ESP)	1:27:35
40	Justus Kavulanya (KEN)	1:27:49
41	Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA)	1:27:57
42	Arturo Huerta (CAN)	1:28:23
43	Luis Fernando García (GUA)	1:28:28
44	Valdas Kazlauskas (LTU)	1:28:33
45	Costică Bălan (ROU)	1:28:36
46	Pavol Blažek (SVK)	1:29:41
47	Dion Russell (AUS)	1:30:04
48	Tomáš Kratochvíl (CZE)	1:30:11
49	Cláudio Bertolino (BRA)	1:31:04
50	Curt Clausen (USA)	1:31:30
51	Jimmy McDonald (IRL)	1:32:11
52	Hubert Sonnek (CZE)	1:32:42
53	Htay Myint (MYA)	1:42:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Héctor Moreno (COL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Igor Kollár (SVK)	DSQ
—	Li Mingcai (CHN)	DSQ
—	Julio René Martínez (GUA)	DSQ
—	Roberto Oscal (GUA)	DSQ
—	Miguel Rodríguez (MEX)	DSQ
—	Julius Sawe (KEN)	DSQ
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Moussa Aouanouk (ALG)	DNS

See also※

• 1993 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1995 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Gothenburg)
• 1996 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1997 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Athens)
• 1998 Men's European Championships 20 km Walk (Budapest)
• 1999 Men's World Championships 20 km Walk (Seville)

References※

External links※

• Official Report
• Results