The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Athletics - 20 KM Walk

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

CHINA - 12 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 Mixed Marathon Walk Relay

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris 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
2024
Brian Pintado - Ecuador
Caio Bonfim - Brazil
Álvaro Martín - Spain

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris 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
2024
Jiayu Yang - China
Maria Pérez - Spain
Jemima Montag - Australia

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China
6
2
4
12
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
Australia 0
1
5
6
7
Russia 2
2
1
5
8
Spain
1
2
2
5
9
Ecuador
2
1
0
3
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
Brazil
0
1
0
1
17
United Team of Germany
0
1
0
1
18
Canada
0
1
0
1
19
Guatemala
0
1
0
1
20
Colombia
0
1
0
1