Men's 20 kilometres walk world record progression

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

• World record progression 50km walk men
• World record progression 20km walk women

References

• Athletix