| Games: | 1984 Summer |
| Event: | Men's 20 kilometres walk |
| Date: | August 3 |
| Venue: | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum |
| Competitors: | 38 |
| Nations: | 21 |
| Win Value: | 1:23:13 |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Gold: | Ernesto Canto |
| Goldnoc: | MEX |
| Silver: | Raúl González |
| Silvernoc: | MEX |
| Bronze: | Maurizio Damilano |
| Bronzenoc: | ITA |
| Prev: | 1980 |
| Next: | 1988 |
The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entry list of 42 competitors. Four athletes did not start in the final, held on August 3, 1984.[1]
| Standing records prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:19:30 | September 23, 1983 |  Bergen, Norway | |||
| 1:23:35.5 | July 24, 1980 | Moscow, Soviet Union | |||
| Broken records during the 1984 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1:23:13 | August 3, 1984 |  Los Angeles, United States | |||
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Time behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernesto Canto | 1:23:13 | ||||
| Raúl González | 1:23:20 | ||||
| Maurizio Damilano | 1:23:26 | ||||
| 4 | Guillaume LeBlanc | 1:24:29 | |||
| 5 | Carlo Mattioli | 1:25:07 | |||
| 6 | Josep Marín | 1:25:32 | |||
| 7 | Marco Evoniuk | 1:25:42 | |||
| 8 | Erling Andersen | 1:25:54 | |||
| 9 | Querubín Moreno | 1:26:04 | |||
| 10 | David Smith | 1:26:48 | |||
| 11 | François Lapointe | 1:27:06 | |||
| 12 | Héctor Moreno | 1:27:12 | |||
| 13 | Philip Vesty | 1:27:28 | |||
| 14 | Simon Baker | 1:27:43 | |||
| 15 | Gérard Lelièvre | 1:27:50 | |||
| 16 | Willi Sawall | 1:28:24 | |||
| 17 | Marcelino Colín | 1:28:26 | |||
| 18 | Francisco Vargas | 1:28:46 | |||
| 19 | Ian McCombie | 1:28:53 | |||
| 20 | Martial Fesselier | 1:29:46 | |||
| 21 | Marcel Jobin | 1:29:49 | |||
| 22 | Chand Ram | 1:30:06 | |||
| 23 | Jim Heiring | 1:30:20 | |||
| 24 | Steve Barry | 1:30:46 | |||
| 25 | José Pinto | 1:30:54 | |||
| 26 | Abdelouahab Ferguene | 1:31:24 | |||
| 27 | Zhang Fuxin | 1:32:10 | |||
| 28 | Alessandro Pezzatini | 1:32:27 | |||
| 29 | Martin Toporek | 1:33:58 | |||
| 30 | Benamar Kechkouche | 1:34:12 | |||
| 31 | Santiago Folseca | 1:34:47 | |||
| 32 | Pius Munyasia | 1:34:53 | |||
| 33 | Daniel O'Connor | 1:35:12 | |||
| 34 | José Víctor Alonzo | 1:35:32 | |||
| 35 | Stefano Casali | 1:35:48 | |||
| 36 | Oswaldo Morejón | 1:44:42 | |||
| 37 | Luis Campos | 1:48:45 | |||
| 38 | Amjad Tawalbeh | 1:49:35 | |||
| — | Reima Salonen | ||||
| Dominique Guebey | |||||
| Dieter Hoffmann | |||||
| Lars Ove Moen |