title: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
text: # Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
  
  The Men's 20 kilometer Race Walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 22 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Robert Korzeniowski Poland |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Noé Hernández Mexico |
  | Bronze | Vladimir Andreyev Russia |
  
  ## Abbreviations
  
  * All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
  
  | DNS | did not start |
  | - | - |
  | NM | no mark |
  | OR | olympic record |
  | WR | world record |
  | AR | area record |
  | NR | national record |
  | PB | personal best |
  | SB | season best |
  
  ## Records
  
  Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics :
  
  | World Record | Julio René Martínez (GUA) | 1:17.46 | 5 August 1999 | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Olympic Record | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 1:19.57 | 23 September 1988 | Seoul, South Korea |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Robert Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:18:59 | OR |
  | | Noé Hernández | Mexico | 1:19:03 | PB |
  | | Vladimir Andreyev | Russia | 1:19:27 | |
  | 4 | Jefferson Pérez | Ecuador | 1:20:18 | |
  | 5 | Andreas Erm | Germany | 1:20:25 | |
  | 6 | Roman Rasskazov | Russia | 1:20:57 | |
  | 7 | Paquillo Fernández | Spain | 1:21:01 | |
  | 8 | Nathan Deakes | Australia | 1:21:03 | SB |
  | 9 | Alessandro Gandellini | Italy | 1:21:14 | |
  | 10 | Nicholas A'Hern | Australia | 1:21:34 | |
  | 11 | Michele Didoni | Italy | 1:21:43 | SB |
  | 12 | Daniel Garcia | Mexico | 1:22:05 | SB |
  | 13 | Yu Guohui | China | 1:22:32 | SB |
  | 14 | Aigars Fadejevs | Latvia | 1:22:43 | |
  | 15 | Ilya Markov | Russia | 1:23:03 | |
  | 16 | Giovanni de Benedictis | Italy | 1:23:14 | SB |
  | 17 | Andrey Makarov | Belarus | 1:23:33 | |
  | 18 | Costică Bălan | Romania | 1:23:42 | |
  | 19 | Jiří Malysa | Czech Republic | 1:24:08 | |
  | 20 | David Márquez | Spain | 1:24:36 | |
  | 21 | Artur Meleshkevich | Belarus | 1:24:50 | |
  | 22 | Satoshi Yanagisawa | Japan | 1:25:03 | |
  | 23 | Moussa Aouanouk | Algeria | 1:25:04 | |
  | 24 | Arturo Huerta | Canada | 1:25:24 | |
  | 25 | Dion Russell | Australia | 1:25:26 | |
  | 26 | Tim Berrett | Canada | 1:25:29 | |
  | 27 | Daisuke Ikeshima | Japan | 1:25:34 | |
  | 28 | Robert Heffernan | Ireland | 1:26:04 | |
  | 29 | Sándor Urbanik | Hungary | 1:26:16 | |
  | 30 | Shin Il-Yong | South Korea | 1:26:22 | |
  | 31 | Igor Kollár | Slovakia | 1:26:31 | |
  | 32 | Luis Fernando García | Guatemala | 1:27:16 | |
  | 33 | Anthony Gillet | France | 1:27:36 | |
  | 34 | Mikhail Khmelnitskiy | Belarus | 1:28:02 | |
  | 35 | José David Dominguez | Spain | 1:28:16 | |
  | 36 | Hatem Ghoula | Tunisia | 1:28:16 | |
  | 37 | Gyula Dudás | Hungary | 1:28:34 | |
  | 38 | Valeriy Borisov | Kazakhstan | 1:28:36 | |
  | 39 | David Kimutai | Kenya | 1:28:45 | |
  | 40 | Timothy Seaman | United States | 1:30:32 | |
  | 41 | Róbert Valíček | Slovakia | 1:30:46 | |
  | 42 | Julius Sawe | Kenya | 1:30:55 | |
  | 43 | Julio René Martínez | Guatemala | 1:31:47 | |
  | 44 | Ramy Deeb | Palestine | 1:32:32 | NR |
  | — | Efim Motpan | Moldova | DNF | |
  | — | Māris Putenis | Latvia | DSQ | |
  | — | Bernardo Segura | Mexico | DSQ | |
  | — | João Vieira | Portugal | DNS | |
  