- Men's 20 kilometres walk world record progression
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The following table shows the World Record Progression in the Men's 20 kilometres walk, as recognised by the IAAF.
World Record Progression
TIME NAME ATHLETE DATE PLACE 1:38:43 Hermann Müller (GER)
1911-10-04 Berlin, Germany 1:37:57 Emile Anthoine (FRA)
1913-07-13 Paris, France 1:34:15 Václav Balšán (TCH)
1933-08-13 Český Brod, Czechoslovakia 1:33:25 Fritz Bleiweiss (GER)
1936-06-07 Fürstenwalde, Germany 1:32:12 John Mikaelsson (SWE)
1937-05-30 Malmö, Sweden 1:31:44 John Mikaelsson (SWE)
1946-06-10 Stockholm, Sweden 1:31:21 Josef Doležal (TCH)
1955-06-05 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1:30:36 Vladimir Golubnichy (URS)
1955-09-23 Kiev, Soviet Union 1:30:00 Josef Doležal (TCH)
1956-07-25 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1:28:39 Vladimir Guk (URS)
1957-04-13 Kiev, Soviet Union 1:27:29 Leonid Spirin (URS)
1959-07-07 Moscow, Soviet Union 1:27:04 Vladimir Golubnichy (URS)
1959-07-15 Moscow, Soviet Union 1:25:58 Anatoliy Vedyakov (URS)
1959-09-06 Moscow, Soviet Union 1:25:22 Gennadiy Agapov (URS)
1968-07-21 Leningrad, Soviet Union 1:25:19 Gennadiy Agapov (URS)
1972-05-07 Berlin, Germany 1:24:50 Paul Nihill (GBR)
1972-07-30 Munich, Germany 1:23:40 Daniel Bautista (MEX)
1976-05-30 Bydgoszcz, Poland 1:23:30 Anatoliy Solomin (URS)
1978-07-19 Vilnius, Soviet Union 1:23:12 Roland Wieser (GDR)
1978-08-30 Prague, Czechoslovakia 1:22:19 Vadim Tsvetkov (URS)
1979-05-13 Klaipėda, Soviet Union 1:22:16 Daniel Bautista (MEX)
1979-05-19 Valencia, Spain 1:21:04 Daniel Bautista (MEX)
1979-06-09 Vretstorp, Sweden 1:21:01 Reima Salonen (FIN)
1979-06-09 Raisio, Finland 1:21:00 Daniel Bautista (MEX)
1980-03-30 Xalapa, Mexico 1:19:35 Domingo Colin (MEX)
1980-04-27 Cherkasy, Soviet Union 1:19:30 Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)
1983-09-24 Bergen, Norway 1:19:24 Carlos Mercenario (MEX)
1987-05-03 New York City, USA 1:19:12 Axel Noack (GDR)
1987-06-21 Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR 1:19:08 Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)
1988-07-30 Kiev, Soviet Union 1:18:20 Andrey Perlov (URS)
1990-05-26 Moscow, Soviet Union 1:18:13 Pavol Blažek (TCH)
1990-09-16 Hildesheim, Germany 1:18:04 Bu Lingtang (CHN)
1994-04-07 Beijing, PR China 1:17:25 Bernardo Segura (MEX)
1994-05-07 Bergen, Norway 1:17:22 Francisco Javier Fernández (ESP)
2002-04-28 Turku, Finland 1:17:21 Jefferson Pérez (ECU)
2003-08-23 Paris, France 1:17:16 Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS)
2007-09-29 Saransk, Russia 1:16:43 Sergey Morozov (RUS)
2008-06-08 Saransk, Russia See also
References
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