Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7. The event was held in a final only format.[1]

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 7
Competitors39 from 20 nations
Winning time4:25:30.0 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Don Thompson
 Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) John Ljunggren
 Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Abdon Pamich
 Italy
← 1956
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Results

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Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Don Thompson   Great Britain 4:25:30.0 OR
  John Ljunggren   Sweden 4:25:47.0
  Abdon Pamich   Italy 4:27:55.4
4 Oleksandr Shcherbyna   Soviet Union 4:31:44.0
5 Tom Misson   Great Britain 4:33:03.0
6 Alex Oakley   Canada 4:33:08.6
7 Pino Dordoni   Italy 4:33:27.2
8 Zora Singh   India 4:37:44.6
9 Anatoly Vedyakov   Soviet Union 4:39:57.6
10 Antonio De Gaetano   Italy 4:41:01.6
11 Ladislav Moc   Czechoslovakia 4:42:33.6
12 George Hazle   South Africa 4:43:18.8
13 Max Weber   United Team of Germany 4:44:47.0
14 Svätopluk Sýkora   Czechoslovakia 4:46:14.6
15 Ajit Singh   India 4: 47:28.4
16 Horst Astroth   United Team of Germany 4:50:57.0
17 Josef Doležal   Czechoslovakia 4:51:18.6
18 José Ribas   Spain 4:51:20.0
19 Ron Laird   United States 4:53:21.6
20 Frank O'Reilly   Ireland 4:54:40.0
21 Charles Sowa   Luxembourg 4:57:00.4
22 Louis Marquis   Switzerland 5:00:13.0
23 Bruce MacDonald   United States 5:00:47.6
24 John Allen   United States 5:03:15.2
25 Alfred Leiser   Switzerland 5:06:55.0
26 Mohamed Ben Lazhar   Tunisia 5:07:57.4
27 René Charrière   Switzerland 5:09:00.8
28 Jacques Arnoux   France 5:10:22.0
- Albert Johnson   Great Britain DQ
- Grigory Klimov   Soviet Union DQ
- Guillermo Weller   Argentina DQ
- Kurt Sakowski   United Team of Germany DQ
- Noel Freeman   Australia DQ
- Ronald Crawford   Australia DQ
- Erik Söderlund   Sweden DNF
- Åke Söderlund   Sweden DNF
- Norman Read   New Zealand DNF
- Naoui Zlassi   Tunisia DNF
- Béla Dinesz   Hungary DNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2017.