1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres road run

The men's 20 kilometres road run event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, on 31 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Metaferia Zeleke  Ethiopia
Silver	Thomas Osano  Kenya
Bronze	Abel Gisemba  Kenya

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Metaferia Zeleke	Ethiopia	59:27
	Thomas Osano	Kenya	1:00:14
	Abel Gisemba	Kenya	1:00:36
4	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	1:00:54
5	Tesfayi Dadi	Ethiopia	1:00:54
6	Valery Chesak	Soviet Union	1:02:03
7	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	1:02:33
8	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	1:02:55
9	Ferenc Sági	Hungary	1:03:06
10	Milan Pešava	Czechoslovakia	1:03:42
11	Nick Tsioros	Canada	1:03:45
12	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:57
13	David De Luchi	Italy	1:04:00
14	Patrick Chikwatu	Malawi	1:04:26
15	Norbert Kilimiali	Tanzania	1:04:32
16	Masaki Yamamoto	Japan	1:04:54
17	David Angell	United States	1:05:03
18	Carsten Arndt	West Germany	1:05:34
19	Rocco Cantatore	Italy	1:05:52
20	Ricardo Castaño	Spain	1:06:06
21	Ventislav Chavdarov	Bulgaria	1:06:28
22	Robert Lopatka	Poland	1:06:41
23	Jonah Sixpence	Zimbabwe	1:07:03
24	Jim Kaiser	United States	1:07:04
25	Ross Wilson	New Zealand	1:07:27
26	Julian Pérez	Cuba	1:07:49
27	Paddy McCluskey	Canada	1:08:08
28	Douglas Rountree	New Zealand	1:09:38
29	Hussein Haleem	Maldives	1:11:34
30	Rajan Khatri	Nepal	1:11:35
31	Richard Rodriguez	Aruba	1:12:02
32	Byron Salome	Netherlands Antilles	1:17:05
	Said Lai	Djibouti	DNF
	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 25 countries participated in the event.

References