Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on July 21 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Italian athlete Giuseppe Dordoni earned the gold medal and set a new Olympic Record.

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 21
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:28:07.8 OR
Medalists
Giuseppe Dordoni  Italy Josef Doležal  Czechoslovakia Antal Róka  Hungary

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy	4:28:07.8	OR
	Josef Doležal	Czechoslovakia	4:30:17.8
	Antal Róka	Hungary	4:31:27.2
4	Rex Whitlock	Great Britain	4:32:21.0
5	Sergey Lobastov	Soviet Union	4:32:34.2
6	Vladimir Ukhov	Soviet Union	4:32:51.6
7	Dumitru Paraschivescu	Romania	4:41:05.2
8	Ion Baboie	Romania	4:41:52.8
9	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:43:45.2
10	Giuseppe Kressevich	Italy	4:44:30.2
11	Harold Whitlock	Great Britain	4:45:12.6
12	Sándor László	Hungary	4:45:55.8
13	Rudi Lüttge	Germany	4:47:28.6
14	Pekka Viljanen	Finland	4:49:16.4
15	Donald Tunbridge	Great Britain	4:50:40.4
16	Raymond Lesage	France	4:52:37.8
17	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:52:48.4
18	Claude Hubert	France	4:55:28.2
19	Salvatore Cascino	Italy	4:56:46.0
20	Harry Kristensen	Denmark	4:57:35.8
21	Jean Strunc	France	4:59:08.2
22	Adolf Weinacker	United States	5:01:00.4
23	Pavel Kazankov	Soviet Union	5:02:37.8
24	Gilbert Marquis	Switzerland	5:02:56.2
25	Ferd Hayward	Canada	5:04:40.4
26	René Charrière	Switzerland	5:08:59.0
27	Gerhard Winther	Norway	5:11:40.2
28	Åke Söderlund	Sweden	5:30:56.6
	Guillermo Weller	Argentina	DNF
	John Deni	United States	DNF
	Leo Sjogren	United States	DNF

External links

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.