50-kilometer Walk
Updated September 27, 2017 |
Infoplease Staff
50-kilometer Walk
Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's 50km walking race from 1932 to the present.
| Year | Time | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Thomas Green, GBR | 4:50:10 | |
| 1936 | Harold Whitlock, GBR | 4:30:41.4 | OR |
| 1948 | John Ljunggren, SWE | 4:41:52 | |
| 1952 | Giuseppe Dordoni, ITA | 4:28:07.8 | OR |
| 1956 | Norman Read, NZE | 4:30:42.8 | |
| 1960 | Don Thompson, GBR | 4:25:30.0 | OR |
| 1964 | Abdon Pamich, ITA | 4:11:12.4 | OR |
| 1968 | Christoph Höhne, E. Ger | 4:20:13.6 | |
| 1972 | Bernd Kannenberg, W. Ger | 3:56:11.6 | OR |
| 1976 | Not held | ||
| 1980 | Hartwig Gauder, E. Ger | 3:49:24.0 | OR |
| 1984 | Raul Gonzalez, MEX | 3:47:26 | OR |
| 1988 | Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR | 3:38:29 | OR |
| 1992 | Andrei Perlov, UT | 3:50:13 | |
| 1996 | Robert Korzeniowski, POL | 3:43:30 | |
| 2000 | Robert Korzeniowski, POL | 3:42.22 | |
| 2004 | Robert Korzeniowski, POL | 3:38:46 | |
| 2008 | Alex Shwazer, ITA | 3:37:09 | OR |
| 2012 | Sergey Kirdyapkin, RUS | 3:35:59 | OR |
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