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

1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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	Kenya

Results[]

Final[]

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Metaferia Zeleke	Ethiopia	59:27
	Thomas Osano	Kenya	1:00:14
		Kenya	1:00:36
4	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	1:00:54
5		Ethiopia	1:00:54
6		Soviet Union	1:02:03
7	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	1:02:33
8	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	1:02:55
9		Hungary	1:03:06
10		Czechoslovakia	1:03:42
11		Canada	1:03:45
12	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:57
13		Italy	1:04:00
14		Malawi	1:04:26
15		Tanzania	1:04:32
16		Japan	1:04:54
17		United States	1:05:03
18		West Germany	1:05:34
19		Italy	1:05:52
20		Spain	1:06:06
21		Bulgaria	1:06:28
22		Poland	1:06:41
23		Zimbabwe	1:07:03
24	Jim Kaiser	United States	1:07:04
25		New Zealand	1:07:27
26		Cuba	1:07:49
27		Canada	1:08:08
28		New Zealand	1:09:38
29	Hussein Haleem	Maldives	1:11:34
30		Nepal	1:11:35
31	Richard Rodriguez	Aruba	1:12:02
32		Netherlands Antilles	1:17:05
		Djibouti	DNF
	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	DNF

Participation[]

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

References[]