# Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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.

## 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 | Nation | Time | Time behind |
| | Jefferson Pérez | Ecuador | 1:20:07 | |
| | Ilya Markov | Russia | 1:20:16 | +0:09 |
| | Bernardo Segura | Mexico | 1:20:23 | +0:16 |
| 4 | Nick A'Hern | Australia | 1:20:31 | +0:24 |
| 5 | Rishat Shafikov | Russia | 1:20:41 | +0:34 |
| 6 | Aigars Fadejevs | Latvia | 1:20:47 | +0:39 |
| 7 | Mikhail Shchennikov | Russia | 1:21:09 | +1:02 |
| 8 | Robert Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:21:13 | +1:06 |
| 9 | Yevgeniy Misyulya | Belarus | 1:21:16 | +1:09 |
| 10 | Thierry Toutain | France | 1:21:56 | +1:49 |
| 11 | Daniel Plaza | Spain | 1:22:05 | +1:58 |
| 12 | Mikhail Khmelnitskiy | Belarus | 1:22:17 | +2:10 |
| 13 | Sándor Urbanik | Hungary | 1:22:18 | +2:11 |
| 14 | Denis Langlois | France | 1:23:08 | +3:01 |
| 15 | Nischan Daimer | Germany | 1:23:23 | +3:16 |
| 16 | Giovanni Perricelli | Italy | 1:23:41 | +3:34 |
| 17 | Robert Ihly | Germany | 1:23:47 | +3:39 |
| 18 | Valeriy Borisov | Kazakhstan | 1:23:52 | +3:44 |
| 19 | Daniel García | Mexico | 1:24:10 | +4:03 |
| 20 | Valentí Massana | Spain | 1:24:14 | +4:07 |
| 21 | Yu Guohui | China | 1:24:30 | +4:23 |
| 22 | Daisuke Ikeshima | Japan | 1:24:54 | +4:47 |
| 23 | David Kimutai | Kenya | 1:25:01 | +4:54 |
| 24 | Andreas Erm | Germany | 1:25:08 | +5:01 |
| 25 | Jiří Malysa | Czech Republic | 1:25:13 | +5:06 |
| 26 | Sérgio Galdino | Brazil | 1:25:14 | +5:07 |
| 27 | Giovanni De Benedictis | Italy | 1:25:22 | +5:15 |
| 28 | Li Zewen | China | 1:25:28 | +5:21 |
| 29 | Claus Jørgensen | Denmark | 1:25:28 | +5:21 |
| 30 | Jan Staaf | Sweden | 1:25:30 | +5:23 |
| 31 | José Urbano | Portugal | 1:25:32 | +5:25 |
| 32 | Scott Nelson | New Zealand | 1:25:50 | +5:43 |
| 33 | Hatem Ghoula | Tunisia | 1:25:52 | +5:45 |
| 34 | Michele Didoni | Italy | 1:26:02 | +5:55 |
| 35 | Jean-Olivier Brosseau | France | 1:26:29 | +6:22 |
| 36 | Martin St. Pierre | Canada | 1:26:37 | +6:30 |
| 37 | Mohieddine Beni Daoud | Tunisia | 1:27:15 | +7:08 |
| 38 | Róbert Valíček | Slovakia | 1:27:27 | +7:20 |
| 39 | Fernando Vázquez | Spain | 1:27:35 | +7:28 |
| 40 | Justus Kavulanya | Kenya | 1:27:49 | +7:42 |
| 41 | Fedosei Ciumacenco | Moldova | 1:27:57 | +7:50 |
| 42 | Arturo Huerta | Canada | 1:28:23 | +8:16 |
| 43 | Luis Fernando García | Guatemala | 1:28:28 | +8:21 |
| 44 | Valdas Kazlauskas | Lithuania | 1:28:33 | +8:26 |
| 45 | Costică Bălan | Romania | 1:28:36 | +8:29 |
| 46 | Pavol Blažek | Slovakia | 1:29:41 | +9:34 |
| 47 | Dion Russell | Australia | 1:30:04 | +9:07 |
| 48 | Tomáš Kratochvíl | Czech Republic | 1:30:11 | +10:04 |
| 49 | Cláudio Bertolino | Brazil | 1:31:04 | +10:57 |
| 50 | Curt Clausen | United States | 1:31:30 | +11:23 |
| 51 | Jimmy McDonald | Ireland | 1:32:11 | +12:04 |
| 52 | Hubert Sonnek | Czech Republic | 1:32:42 | +12:35 |
| 53 | Htay Myint | Myanmar | 1:42:28 | +22:21 |
| — | Héctor Moreno | Colombia | DNF | – |
| — | Igor Kollár | Slovakia | DSQ | – |
| — | Li Mingcai | China | DSQ | – |
| — | Julio René Martínez | Guatemala | DSQ | – |
| — | Roberto Oscal | Guatemala | DSQ | – |
| — | Miguel Rodríguez | Mexico | DSQ | – |
| — | Julius Sawe | Kenya | DSQ | – |
| — | Moussa Aouanouk | Algeria | DNS | – |