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

Events at the 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 road run		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

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	Zeleke Metaferia  Ethiopia
Silver	Thomas Osano  Kenya
Bronze	Abel Gisemba  Kenya

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Zeleke Metaferia	Ethiopia	59:27
02 !	Thomas Osano	Kenya	1:00:14
03 !	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
33	Said Lai	Djibouti	DNF
34	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	DNF

Participation

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

References