The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Athletics - 20 KM Walk

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 11 Medals
SOVIET UNION - 9 Medals
ITALY - 8 Medals

Medal Table
20 KM Walk 100 Meters
 200 Meters
400 Meters
 800 Meters
 1500 Meters
5000 Meters
 10000 Meters
 100 Meter Hurdles
110 Meter Hurdles 400 Meter Hurdles 3000 Meter Steeplechase
4X100 Relay 4X400 Relay Marathon
50 KM Walk High Jump Pole Vault
Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put
Discus Hammer Throw Javelin
Decathlon Heptathlon

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1956
 Leonid Spirin - Soviet Union
 Antanas Mikenas - Soviet Union
 Bruno Junk - Soviet Union
1960
 Vladimir Golubnichy - Soviet Union
 Noel Freeman - Australia
 Stan Vickers - Great Britain
1964
 Ken Matthews - Great Britain
 Dieter Lindner - United Team of Germany
 Volodymyr Holubnychy - Soviet Union
1968
 Volodymyr Holubnychy - Soviet Union
 Jose Pedraza - Mexico
 Nikolay Smaga - Soviet Union
1972
 Peter Frenkel - East Germany
 Volodymyr Holubnychy - Soviet Union
 Hans Reimann - East Germany
1976
 Daniel Bautista - Mexico
 Hans-Georg Reimann - East Germany
 Peter Frenkel - East Germany
1980
 Maurizio Damilano - Italy
 Piotr Pochinchuk - Soviet Union
 Roland Wieser - East Germany
1984
 Ernesto Canto - Mexico
 Raul Gonzalez - Mexico
 Maurizio Damilano - Italy
1988
 Jozef Pribilinec - Czechoslovakia
 Ronald Weigel - East Germany
 Maurizio Damilano - Italy
1992
 Daniel Plaza - Spain
 Guillaume LeBlanc - Canada
 Giovanni De Benedictis - Italy
1996
 Jefferson Perez - Ecuador
 Ilya Markov - Russia
 Benardo Segura - Mexico
2000
 Robert Korzeniowski - Poland
 Noe Hernandez - Mexico
 Vladimir Andreyev - Russia
2004
 Ivano Brugnetti - Italy
 Francisco Javier Fernandez - Spain
 Nathan Deakes - Australia
2008
 Valeriy Borchin - Russia
 Jefferson Perez - Ecuador
 Jared Tallent - Australia
2012
 Chen Ding - China
 Erick Barrondo - Guatemala
 Wang Zhen - China
2016
 Wang Zhen - China
 Cai Zelin - China
 Dane Bird-Smith - Australia
2020
 Massimo Stano - Italy Koki Ikeda - Japan Toshikazu Yamanishi - Japan

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2000
 Liping Wang - China
 Kjersti Platzer - Norway
 Maria Vasco - Spain
2004
 Athanasia Tsoumeleka - Greece
 Olimpiada Ivanova - Russia
 Jane Seville - Australia
2008
 Olga Kaniskina - Russia
 Kjersti Tysse Platzer - Norway
 Elisa Rigaudo - Italy
2012
 Qieyang Shenjie - China Liu Hong - China Lü Xiuzhi - China
2016
 Liu Hong - China
 María Guadeloupe González - Mexico
 Lü Xiuzhi - China
2020
 Antonella Palmisano - Italy Sandra Arenas - Colombia Liu Hong - China

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 China
 5
 2
 4
 11
2
 Soviet Union
 3
 3
 3
 9
3
 Italy 4
 0
 4
 8
4
 Mexico
 2
 5
 1
 8
5
 East Germany
 1
 2
 3
 6
6
 Russia 2
 2
 1
 5
7
 Australia
 0
 1
 4
 5
8
 Spain
 1
 1
 1
 3
9
 Ecuador
 1
 1
 0
 2
10
 Great Britain
 1
 0
 1
 2
11
 Norway
 0
 2
 0
 2
12
 Japan
 0
 1
 1
 2
13
 Poland
 1
 0
 0
 1
14
 Greece
 1
 0
 0
 1
15
 Czechoslovakia
 1
 0
 0
 1
16
 United Team of Germany
 0
 1
 0
 1
17
 Canada
 0
 1
 0
 1
18
 Guatemala
 0
 1
 0
 1
19
 Colombia
 0
 1
 0
 1