| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Olympic 2020 Men_20km Walk | Massimo Stano |  ITA | 1:21:05 | Koki Ikeda |  JPN | 1:21:14 | Toshikazu Yamanishi | JPN | 1:21:28 |
| 2019 Men 20km Walk | Toshikazu Yamanishi | JPN | 1:26:34 | Vasiliy Mizinov |  ANA | 1:26:49 | Perseus Karlström |  SWE | 1:27:00 |
| 2017 Men 20km Walk | Eider Arévalo |  COL | 1:18:54 | Sergei Shirobokov | ANA | 1:88:55 | Caio Bonfim |  BRA | 1:19:04 |
| Olympic 2016 Men_20km Walk | Zhen Wang |  CHN | 1:19:14 | Zelin Cai | CHN | 1:19:26 | Dane Bird-Smith |  AUS | 1:19:37 |
| 2015 Men 20km Walk | Miguel Angel López |  ESP | 1:19:14 | Zhen Wang | CHN | 1:19:29 | Benjamin Thorne |  CAN | 1:19:57 |
| 2013 Men 20km Walk | Aleksandr Ivanov |  RUS | 1:20:58 | Ding Chen | CHN | 1:21:09 | Miguel Ángel López | ESP | 1:21:21 |
| Olympic 2012 Men_20km Walk | Ding Chen | CHN | 1:18:46 | Erick Barrondo |  GUA | 1:18:57 | Zhen Wang | CHN | 1:19:25 |
| 2011 Men 20km Walk | Valeriy Borchin | RUS | 1:19:56 | Vladimir Kanaykin | RUS | 1:20:27 | Luis Fernando Lopez | COL | 1:20:38 |
| 2009 Men 20km Walk | Valeriy Borchin | RUS | 1:18:41 | Hao Wang | CHN | 1:19:06 | Eder Sánchez |  MEX | 1:19:22 |
| Olympic 2008 Men_20km Walk | Valeriy Borchin | RUS | 1:19:01 | Jefferson Perez |  ECU | 1:19:15 | Jared Tallent | AUS | 1:19:42 |
| 2007 Men 20km Walk | Jefferson Perez | ECU | 1:22:20 | Francisco Javier Fernandez | ESP | 1:22:40 | Hatem Ghoula |  TUN | 1:22:40 |
| 2005 Men 20km Walk | Jefferson Perez | ECU | 1:18:35 | Francisco Javier Fernandez | ESP | 1:19:36 | Juan Manuel Molina | ESP | 1:19:44 |
| Olympic 2004 Men_20km Walk | Ivano Brugnetti | ITA | 1:19:40 | Francisco Javier Fernandez | ESP | 1:19:45 | Nathan Deakes | AUS | 1:20:02 |
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| 2001 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 2000 Men_20km Walk | Robert Korzeniowski |  POL | 1:18:59 | Noe Hernandez | MEX | 1:19:03 | Vladimir Andreyev | RUS | 1:19:27 |
| 1999 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| 1997 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1996 Men_20km Walk | Jefferson Perez Quezada | ECU | 1:20:07 | Ilya Markov | RUS | 1:20:16 | Bernardo Segura | MEX | 1:20:23 |
| 1995 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| 1993 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1992 Men_20km Walk | Daniel Plaza | ESP | 1:21:45 | Guillaume LeBlanc | CAN | 1:22:25 | Giovanni De Benedictis | ITA | 1:23:11 |
| 1991 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1988 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| 1987 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1984 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| 1983 Men 20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1980 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1976 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1972 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1968 Men_20km Walk | |||||||||
| Olympic 1964 Men_20km Walk | Kenneth Joseph Matthews |  GBR | 1:29:34.0 | Dieter Lindner |  GER | 1:31:13.2 | Vladimir Golubnichiy |  URS | 1:31:59.4 |
| Olympic 1960 Men_20km Walk | Vladimir Golubnichiy | URS | 1:34.07.2 | Noel Freeman | AUS | 1:34.16.4 | Stanley Vickers | GBR | 1:34.56.4 |
| Olympic 1956 Men_20km Walk | Leonid Spirine | URS | 1:31:27.4 | Antanas Mikenas | URS | 1:32:03.0 | Bruno Iounk | URS | 1:32:12.0 |
