Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
The men's 20 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 2. The event was held in a final only format.Results
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Vladimir Golubnichy | | 1:34:07.2 | |
| Noel Freeman | | 1:34:16.4 | |
| Stan Vickers | | 1:34:56.4 | |
| 4 | Dieter Lindner | | 1:35:33.8 | |
| 5 | Norman Read | | 1:36:59.0 | |
| 6 | Lennart Back | | 1:37:17.0 | |
| 7 | John Ljunggren | | 1:37:59.0 | |
| 8 | Ladislav Moc | | 1:38:32.4 | |
| 9 | Alex Oakley | | 1:38:46.0 | |
| 10 | Eric Hall | | 1:38:54.0 | |
| 11 | Ronald Crawford | | 1:39:16.2 | |
| 12 | Henri Delerue | | 1:39:37.6 | |
| 13 | George Hazle | | 1:40:16.2 | |
| 14 | Lennart Carlsson | | 1:40:25.0 | |
| 15 | Tommy Kristensen | | 1:41:07.6 | |
| 16 | Hannes Koch | | 1:41:53.4 | |
| 17 | Louis Marquis | | 1:41:59.6 | |
| 18 | Charles Sowa | | 1:42:43.8 | |
| 19 | Ron Zinn | | 1:42:47.0 | |
| 20 | Zora Singh | | 1:43:19.8 | |
| 21 | Stefano Serchinich | | 1:43:58.6 | |
| 22 | Luigi De Rosso | | 1:45:04.2 | |
| 23 | Bob Mimm | | 1:45:09.0 | |
| 24 | Rudy Haluza | | 1:45:11.0 | |
| 25 | Leo Rosschou | | 1:46:35.8 | |
| 26 | Gianni Corsaro | | 1:46:47.2 | |
| 27 | Khalifa Bahrouni | | 1:47:09.6 | |
| 28 | Naoui Zlassi | | 1:55:21.0 | |
| - | Ajit Singh | | | DQ |
| - | Anatoly Vedyakov | | | DQ |
| - | Mohamed Ben Lazhar | | | DQ |
| - | Gabriel Reymond | | | DQ |
| - | Gennady Solodov | | | DQ |
| - | Siegfried Lefanczik | | | DQ |
| - | Tibor Balajcza | | | DQ |
| - | Ken Matthews | | | DNF |
Key: DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
